KCNA urges U.S. to approach DPRK-U.S. talks from sincere stand

     Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) - The DPRK-U.S. talks for the solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula began in Beijing on April 23. The countries around DPRK and the international community, to say nothing of the DPRK, are following the talks with great concern.
    The U.S. should show its political will to make a bold switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK and prove it in practice. This is the master key to making the talks fruitful to satisfy the expectation and concern on the international community.
    It is universally known that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and, therefore, an end to the hostile relations is the most important conditions for the settlement of the issue.
    The DPRK-U.S. joint statement and the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework were published and certain progress could be made in the bilateral relations in the past because the Clinton administration officially clarified its political will to terminate the hostile relations between the two countries and put it into practice.
    The bilateral relations reached rock-bottom as the Bush administration singled out the DPRK as a part of "an axis of evil" and the target of its preemptive attack after its emergence.
    In actuality, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is so tense that a war may break out any moment due to the U.S. moves.
    The Iraqi war launched by the U.S. despite the international community's unanimous opposition teaches all the sovereign states the lesson that there should be only a strong physical deterrent force to protect the sovereignty of the country and the nation. The inspection and disarmament forced by the U.S. upon an independent state in violation of its sovereignty and its right to existence without any proper reason and ground are only aimed to justify and legalize aggression and war.
    If the existence of any "weapons of mass destruction" and capability to develop them and other military capabilities should be considered as preconditions for a war and terrorism and the proliferation of weapons harassing the global peace and posing threat to other countries as far as state relations are concerned, it goes without saying that such military capability of the U.S. should be verifiably inspected before any other country.
    The DPRK-U.S. talks should, therefore, discuss and settle the issue of the U.S. renunciation of its hostile intention and policy toward the DPRK before talking about the "verification" and the dismantlement of physical deterrent force.
    The past DPRK-U.S. dialogue failed to settle fundamental issues as detente gave way to escalated tensions in the bilateral relations due to the U.S. hostile policy.
    Clear and consistent is the principled stand of the DPRK to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. should approach the talks from a sincere stand and strive to settle the essential issue.
    The DPRK will closely follow the talks and confirm the U.S. real intention at them and choose the way to go.

Korean book, photo and handiwork exhibition in China

     Beijing, April 21 (KCNA) -- A Korean book, photo and handiwork exhibition was opened in Beijing on April 18 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. On display at the exhibition hall were "Kim Il Sung's Works", "Kim Jong Il's Selected Works" and other Korean books, photos showing immortal revolutionary exploits of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il, handicrafts, Korean paintings, oil paintings and jewel paintings.
    Present at the opening ceremony were the chief librarian of Beijing, officials concerned, people from all walks of life and staff members of the DPRK embassy in china.
    Speeches were made at the opening ceremony.

Japan urged to opt for peace

    Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Japan is busy creating the impression that its security is exposed to a threat from someone and calling for establishing a security posture to cope with it. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article says that the Japanese reactionaries' oft-touted "military threat" from the DPRK is a pretext for their arms buildup and a prelude to reinvasion.
    It continues:
    The chief of the Asia and Oceania bureau of the Foreign Ministry of Japan at a budgetary committee of the house of councillors cried out for examining the issue of applying economic sanctions against North Korea in case it launches a ballistic missile and deputy chief cabinet secretary Abe blustered that missile launching sites in North Korea should be struck to keep it from launching missiles.
    The Japanese reactionaries have gone to the lengths of asserting that Japan should take revenge upon North Korea and it is not in violation of Japan's constitution to mount preemptive attacks on missile launching sites in North Korea.
    Japan is frantically stepping up arms buildup under the pretext of a "military threat" from the DPRK.
    The Japanese reactionaries singled out the Korean Peninsula as the first target of their overseas invasion. They are hyping the "threat" from the DPRK in every way in a bid to encourage the U.S. in its moves to escalate the situation on the Korean Peninsula and start a war against the DPRK.
    The army and people of the DPRK who have a bitter grudge against Japan will mercilessly wipe out the Japanese militarist forces if they dare launch a military attack against the DPRK.
    Japan's intensified hostile policy toward the DPRK will only result in harassing its security and bringing disasters to it.
    The Japanese reactionaries are well advised to stop inviting misfortune and make a proper option for peace.

Syrian embassy officials visit Jonsung Revolutionary Museum

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Charge d'affaires ad interim of the Syrian embassy Muhammad Adib Alhani and embassy officials here visited the Jonsung Revolutionary Museum on April 22 on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the Independence of Syria. Being briefed on the fact that President Kim Il Sung defeated the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world with his Juche-oriented military strategy and war methods to win the fatherland liberation war and unfolded a grand plan for post-war rehabilitation and construction while looking forward to the future of the country which would emerge victorious with his clairvoyant farsightedness, they went round mementos and relics with deep emotion.
    The also saw an office room, an assembly hall, pits, etc. used by the president.
    The charge d'affaires ad interim wrote in a visitor's book that the visit to the Jonsung Revolutionary Museum helped them understand the heroic struggle waged by the Korean people under the wise guidance of Kim Il Sung. He hoped that the traditional relations between the Syrian Arab Republic and the DPRK would grow stronger.

Oratorical meeting of agricultural workers held

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- An oratorical meeting of agricultural workers took place in Wonhwa-ri, Phyongwon county, South Phyongan Province, on April 22 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the heroic Korean people's army. Present there were Sung Sang Sop, chairman of the c.c., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, and other officials concerned and agricultural workers in the county.
    Orators made speeches entitled "Long Live the Great Songun Sun," "Charming," "Flower Loved By the Leader," "the Greatest Patriotism," "the General and the Earth" and "Our Life and Soul," referring to the proud history of our revolutionary armed forces shining as the army of the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
    Under the experienced and tested leadership of President Kim Il Sung and supreme commander Kim Jong Il, the Korean People's Army has been strengthened and developed into the main force that accomplishes the revolutionary cause of Juche and an invincible army capable of defeating any formidable enemy, they noted.
    It is the duty of the agricultural workers to increase the agricultural production, the mainstay for the building of a great prosperous power, as soon as possible under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, they said, laying stress on devoting themselves to the country through a heroic struggle.

National seminar held

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- A national seminar on the idea that the headquarters of the revolution, single-hearted unity and socialism represent one community united by the destiny took place at the People's Palace of Culture on April 22. It heard several papers titled "'the idea that the headquarters of the revolution, single-hearted unity and socialism represent one community united by the destiny' is a revolutionary principle that clarifies a fundamental problem arising in the accomplishment of the socialist cause" and "the single-hearted unity of the party, the army and the people around the leader is an eternal source of vitality of socialism," etc.
    Speakers cited a lot of facts to clearly prove the originality, justness and tremendous vitality of the idea and theory that the headquarters of the revolution, single-hearted unity and socialism represent one community united by the destiny expounded by Kim Jong Il from a new angle and referred to the theoretical and practical issues in applying them.
    Kim Jong Il, basing himself on the theory of the leader being a center and the original idea of socio-political organism, set out the idea that the headquarters of the revolution is the core of the single-hearted unity, they noted, and went on:
    The headquarters of the revolution is the core of the single-hearted unity because the leader plays a decisive role in uniting the army and people as an integral whole and unbreakable single-hearted unity can be achieved only when the party, the army and the people unite close around the leader as pure organism worshipping and devotedly defending the leader.
    Present at the seminar were Choe Thae Bok and Jong Ha Chol, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, officials of central and Pyongyang city party and power organs and working people's organizations, in the fields of science, education, culture and art and the press and officials in the domain of preserving revolutionary sites and the party cadre-training institutions.

Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son registered as honorary students

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- A meeting took place to register Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, two schoolgirls of South Korea, as honorary students of Moranbong Middle School no.1 in Pyongyang on April 22. The U.S. imperialist aggressor troops drove an armored car over the two schoolgirls on the road to death in broad daylight in June last year.
    Reporter and speakers at the meeting said that though the two schoolgirls were killed, their soul is kept alive. Our people and schoolchildren will vent the inveterate grudge of the South Korean people and students without fail, they stressed.
    The meeting was attended by Jon Kuk Man, vice-Minister of Education, Rim Jong Dok, secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, and others.

Chinese President meets Jo Myong Rok

     Beijing, April 22 (KCNA) -- Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, received Jo Myong Rok, first-vice chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on a visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 22. Referring to the traditional friendship between the two parties and the two peoples of china and the DPRK, the president said that the Sino-Korean friendship, forged and developed by Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and President Kim Il Sung, has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the two peoples.
    He went on:
    General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited China twice in recent years and President Jiang Zemin, too, visited the DPRK.
    The two supreme leaders reached unanimity of views on further developing Sino-Korean good neighborly and friendly cooperative relations and confirmed the orientation of developing the bilateral relations in the new century.
    We are happy that the both sides have maintained the tradition of high-level visit exchanges and negotiated and exchanged views on major issues.
    It coincides with the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is beneficial to regional peace, stability and development to further the traditional friendship under the present international situation.
    The CPC and Chinese government treasure the traditional friendship with the DPRK. We are willing to further the friendly relations with the DPRK comrades.
    The Korean people have overcome numerous difficulties in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude and achieved great successes in the economic construction, the cause of national reunification and the field of external affairs under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by Kim Jong Il.
    We are rejoiced over this and sincerely wish the Korean people greater success in socialist construction under the leadership of Kim Jong Il and the WPK.
    On hand were general of the Korean People's Army Pak Jae Gyong and KPA col. general Pak Sung Won, DPRK Ambassador to China Choe Jin Su and other suite members.
    Present there were col. general Guo Boxiong, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC and the Central Military Commission of the PRC, col. general Xu Caihou, member of the Central Military Commissions of the CPC and the PRC and director of the general political department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, col. general Xiong Guangkai, deputy chief of the general staff of the CPLA, Wong Yi, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials concerned.
    The talks proceeded in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

Floral basket and congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il from diplomatic corps

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a floral basket and a congratulatory letter from the diplomatic corps here on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. They were handed to DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun today by Palestinian Ambassador to DPRK Shaher Mohammed Abdlah who is doyen of the corps.

Youth and students in Pyongyang meet with DPRK heroes

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Youth and students in Pyongyang met with DPRK heroes on April 22 on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. The meeting was addressed by Kim Song Jin, lecturer of the victorious fatherland liberation war museum, and Kim Jung Jong, former unconverted long-term prisoner, who are DPRK heroes.
    They said that during the last fatherland liberation war deciding on the destiny of the country the army and people of Korea rushed to the front in response to the order of President Kim Il Sung and performed heroic feats in every battle, humbling the pride of the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being "the strongest" in the world.
    There is no force on earth to match the heroic Korean People's Army which has been strengthened as an invincible army under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, the illustrious commander of Mt. Paektu, they stressed.
    Young people spoke of their determination.

Nation urged to implement WPK's calls

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- "Let us achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, upholding the three charters for national reunification", a call made by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea is a realistic and just one as it represents the requirements of the times and the nation's strong desire and wish for independent reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It goes on:
    The three charters for national reunification serve as a bright beacon indicating the way of achieving the country's reunification most fairly at the earliest possible date as required by the Korean nation and in its interests and a powerful weapon that fully guarantees its victory.
    The charters represent a Juche-oriented programme for reunification as they are consistent with the spirit of national independence which regards the sovereignty and the dignity of the nation as its life and soul and are based on noble patriotism.
    The charters serve as a Korean-style programme for reunification as they indicate the way of solving the issue of national reunification most smoothly and reasonably on the basis of the Juche idea.
    The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration held aloft by the Korean nation is an embodiment of the three charters and its shining fruition. "by our nation itself", the main spirit of the declaration, is an embodiment of the three principles of national reunification which call for reunifying the country on the principle of national independence. All the articles of the declaration are consistent with the idea of the charters.
    All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad will certainly bring about a decisive turn in accomplishing the cause of national reunification this year by upholding the call representing the nation's patriotic stand and will and waging a vigorous struggle to implement it, the article concludes.

Jo Myong Rok returns home

     Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Jo Myong Rok, first vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, left Beijing and returned home today after his visit to China. Returning together with him were general of the Korean People's Army Pak Jae Gyong, KPA col. gen. Pak Sung Won and other suite members.
    They were greeted at the airport by Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Il Chol, KPA general Ryo Chun Sok, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and the military attache of the Chinese embassy here.
    Jo Myong Rok and his party laid a wreath before the monument of the people's heroes in Beijing on April 22. And they were invited to a banquet hosted by col. gen. Xu Caihou, director of the general political department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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kim jong il recibe cesto de flores y carta de cuerpo diplomatico en corea

     pyongyang, 23 de abril (atcc) -- al dirigente kim jong il le dirigio un cesto de flores y una carta de felicitacion el cuerpo diplomatico en corea con motivo del 71 aniversario de la fundacion del heroico ejercito popular de corea. el embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario del estado de palestina shaher mohammed abdulah, quien preside el cuerpo los entrego hoy al canciller paek nam sun.

jo myong rok regresa a pyongyang

     pyongyang, 23 de abril (atcc) -- jo myong rok, primer vicepresidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea regreso hoy de beijing a esta capital luego de terminar su visita a china, junto con el general de ejercito pak jae gyong, el coronel general pak sung won, del ejercito popular de corea y otros acompanantes. en el aeropuerto fueron acogidos por el ministro de las fuerzas armadas populares kim il chol, el general de ejercito ryo chun sok, el vicecanciller kim yong il, el embajador de china en corea wu donghua y el agregado militar de la sede diplomatica.
    jo myong rok y su comitiva depositaron el dia 22 una ofrenda floral ante el monumento a los heroes del pueblo en beijing y fueron invitados al banquete ofrecido por el coronel general xu caihou, jefe del departamento politico general del ejercito popular de liberacion de china.

consigna realista que conviene a aspiracion de nacion y demanda de epoca

     pyongyang, 23 de abril (atcc) -- la consigna recien publicada por el cc del partido del trabajo de corea "logremos cuanto antes la reunificacion independiente y pacifica del pais tomando las riendas de las tres cartas de la reintegracion de la patria" es la realista y justa que refleja la demanda de la epoca y la fervorosa aspiracion de la nacion a la reunificacion independiente. asi senala el periodico "rodong sinmun" en un articulo individual de hoy y continua:
    estas tres cartas son el faro que ilumina el camino para lograr mas rapida y mas equitativamente la reintegracion del pais conforme a la voluntad y los intereses de la nacion coreana y el arma poderosa que asegura con firmeza el triunfo de esta causa suprema nacional.
    constituyen un programa de reunificacion autoctono compenetrado del espiritu de independencia nacional y del noble patriotismo.
    este programa indica el verdadero camino para solucionar mas satisfactoria y racionalmente la reunificacion de la patria a base de la idea juche.
    la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio que enarbola la nacion coreana es la encarnacion y el valioso fruto de estas tres cartas. el espiritu fundamental de esta declaracion conjunta "con las fuerzas propias de la nacion coreana" es precisamente la encarnacion de los tres principios tendentes a lograr la reunificacion de la patria en el principio de la independencia nacional y todos los articulos de esa declaracion estan penetrados de la idea de esas tres cartas.
    todos los coreanos en el norte, el sur y ultramar deben desplegar la energica lucha por ejecutar la consigna "logremos cuanto antes la reunificacion independiente y pacifica del pais tomando las riendas de las tres cartas de la reunificacion de la patria" en que estan materializadas la posicion y la voluntad patrioticas y asi operar un viraje decisivo este ano en el cumplimiento de la causa de reunificacion de la patria.

simposio nacional sobre nueva idea de kim jong il

     pyongyang, 23 de abril (atcc) -- tuvo lugar el dia 22 en el palacio cultural del pueblo el simposio nacional sobre la nueva idea del dirigente kim jong il segun la cual la direccion de la revolucion, la unidad monolitica y el socialismo son la comunidad del destino. se publicaron varias disertaciones entre otras "la idea 'la direccion de la revolucion, la unidad monolitica y el socialismo son la comunidad del destino' es el principio de la revolucion que dilucido el problema principal que se presenta en el cumplimiento de la causa del socialismo", "la unidad monolitica del partido, el ejercito y el pueblo en torno al lider es la fuente de la eterna vitalidad del socialismo".
    los oradores argumentaron amplia y profundamente la originalidad, la justedad y la inagotable vitalidad de la nueva idea y teoria presentadas por el dirigente kim jong il segun las cuales la direccion de la revolucion, la unidad monolitica y el socialismo son la comunidad del destino y los problemas teoricos y practicos que se presentan para materializarlas.
    el comandante supremo kim jong il, a base de la idea de poner al lider en el centro y la original idea sobre el cuerpo organico socio-politico presento la idea de que la direccion de la revolucion es el nucleo de la unidad monolitica, senalaron y subrayaron.
    la direccion de la revolucion constituye el nucleo de la unidad monolitica porque el lider desempena un papel decisivo en la unidad entre el partido, el ejercito y el pueblo y que cuando estos tres se unan compactamente en torno al lider con el espiritu de absoluta adoracion y de defensa decisiva a este, sera posible lograr la invencible unidad monolitica.
    en el simposio participaron los secretarios del comite central del partido del trabajo de corea choe thae bok y jong ha chol y otros cuadros, funcionarios de los organismos del partido, el poder y las organizaciones de masas en el centro y la ciudad de pyongyang y de los organos de la ciencia, educacion, cultura y arte, prensa e informacion y de ramas de la historia revolucionaria y organismos de formacion de cuadros del partido.