Birthday of Kim Jong Il Celebrated in Russia

     Moscow, January 31 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Moscow on Jan. 28 under the sponsorship of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia on the occasion of the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il. Sazhi Zaindinova Umalatova, chairwoman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, in a report said that the Songun policy set out by Kim Jong Il is an all-powerful treasured sword for firmly protecting the sovereignty and security of the country and the nation in the world today when the imperialists are getting more undisguised in their military ambition.
    Hailing the Songun policy as a patriotic policy leading the Korean nation to prosperity, she expressed belief that the Korean people led by Kim Jong Il would achieve greater success in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation under the uplifted banner of the Juche idea.
    The vice-chairman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia in a speech said that all the successes made by the DPRK in the relations with other countries would have been unthinkable without the iron will and extraordinary diplomatic strategy of Kim Jong Il, adding that it is by no means fortuitous that many Russians unanimously praise him as the most informal, dearest and greatest man.
    A representative of the youth organization of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia in a speech said that the reverence for Kim Jong Il is growing deeper among the Russian youth day by day, extending to him warm congratulations and best wishes for his good health on his birthday on the behalf of the Russian youth.
    A congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

Research Room Opened in Internet Homepage of U.S. Study Group

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- "The Research Room on the Red Sun of Militant Socialism of Juche" was opened on Jan. 1 by the U.S. Group for the Study of Songun Politics in its internet homepage. Seen in the room are photographs of President Kim Il Sung with leader Kim Jong Il. Edited there are at least 30 propositions and wise sayings of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il which the group has excerpted while deeply studying their famous works.

NDFSK Issues Declaration on Situation

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a declaration on the situation on Jan. 29, representing the unshakable will of the south Korean people of all social strata to hurl themselves more vehemently into the anti-U.S. struggle for independence by national cooperation under the banner of the Korean nation-first spirit. Pointing to the U.S. moves to pursue persistently north-south confrontation and nuclear war policy on the Korean peninsula, going against reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south, the declaration warns that if this grave situation went unchecked, a nuclear war would break out on the Korean peninsula to reduce the land of three thousand ri to ruins and impose terrible disaster upon the entire nation in both parts of Korea.
    All the fellow countrymen should resolutely turn out in a nationwide anti-U.S. resistance, upholding the banner of Korean nation-first spirit, today when the destiny of the nation is at stake, urges the declaration.
    It calls for a general turn-out in the nationwide anti-U.S. patriotic resistance and touch off a storm of an anti-U.S. struggle for independence, giving vent to resentment and anger pent up through centuries, and thus put an end to the U.S. domination and interference.
    Let us decisively shatter the U.S. gangster-like scheme to start a nuclear war against the north and, should the U.S. dare ignite a war of aggression, bring a sledge hammer blow on the the U.S. imperialists, the century-old sworn enemy of the nation, by joining hands with the compatriots in the north, and accomplish the cause of national liberation, it says.
    It calls for opening a decisive phase of the independent reunification of the nation through the acceleration of the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and meting out merciless punishment to the forces against the declaration, the ultra-right conservatives including the Grand National Party, which block reconciliation, cooperation and reunification, dead set against the declaration.
    Saying that Songun politics is the great foundation of all blessings for defending the well-being of the whole nation in both the north and the south and leading to reunification and prosperity, it calls for fully supporting the Songun politics of the north.

All-Out Anti-U.S. Struggle Called for

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- Yun Ki Jin, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon), reportedly released an appeal titled " Let's begin the struggle for 2004 with an all-out offensive and all-out charge to emerge victorious in the confrontation with the U.S." on Jan. 29. Noting that the U.S. is rendering the situation on the Korean peninsula extremely tense, the appeal stressed if all Koreans fight against the U.S. imperialists, they can win a victory.
    The Korean nation has inexhaustible strength as it has the effective Songun policy pursued in the north which redoubles the national pride and self-confidence and the June 15 joint declaration instilling the confidence in the independent reunification into them, it said.
    The appeal called upon the youth and students to turn out as one in the struggle against the U.S., and war and for the dissolution of the "Grand National Party" in the spirit that if the Koreans struggle in unity, they can achieve anything.

More Relics Unearthed in Pyongyang

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- More relics were discovered in the area of Mt. Ryongak, Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang. They bear witness to the time-honored history and brilliant culture of the Korean nation whose history spans 5,000 years. A group of researchers of the Faculty of History of Kim Il Sung University conducted a survey of the area which resulted in discovering 112 dolmens dating back to the period of Ancient Korea and 19 earthen stone tombs dating back to Koguryo and one mural painting tomb belonging to Koguryo and 3 brick tombs. They also unearthed the site of "Ryongak Temple", a temple believed to have existed in the period of Koryo.
    Tile pieces belonging to the period of Koguryo were also found on Popun Rock.
    Discovered inside the dolmens were stone daggers, stone arrowheads, stone axes and pieces of earthen jars and human bones and many other relics.
    The recent discovery of many dolmens in the area of Mt. Ryongak in the wake of the finding of dolmens in Pyongyang including Kangdong, Sangwon and Taedong Counties proves once again that Pyongyang was the center of the ancient civilization of the Korean nation, according to researchers.
    Excavated in the earthen stone tombs which belong to the period of Koguryo were iron axes, iron arrowheads, earthenware, a metal scale on a piece of armor and other relics that had been used by the people in that period. The ancient mural painting clearly shows a high level of cultural development at that time.
    The discovery of the site of "Ryongak Temple" that has so far been recorded only in an ancient document materially proves that the temple had actually existed in the area of Mt. Ryongak in the period of Koryo.
    The new discoveries of ancient relics dating back to different historical periods ranging from Ancient Korea, Koguryo to Koryo in the area of Mt. Ryongak in Pyongyang bring national pride and joy to the Koreans.

Warning to U.S.

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon) in its "Warning to the U.S." on Jan. 30 reportedly demanded that the U.S. keep pace with the global trend towards independence and peace and withdraw a large number of weapons and military forces from south Korea. Noting that the U.S. was these days creating tension on the Korean peninsula and getting its hand on the inter-Korean relations, it said: Such a folly is an outrageous interference and intolerable encroachment upon the sovereignty and internal affairs of the Korean nation and a grave challenge to the Korean nation struggling for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.
    Our nation will never yield to the imperialists who are trying to trample upon its sovereignty, the organization said, and stated:
    We have the June 15 joint declaration and the fighting capacity and pluck to fight the dominationists who are seeking domination and confrontation.

Kim Jong Il Sends New Year's Cards to Party State Leaders of Various Countries

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent New Year's cards to political party and state leaders of many countries on the occasion of the New Year, Juche 93 (2004). Addressees included President of the Russian Federation V. Putin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor Xanana Gusmao, Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Khamtay Siphandone, President of the Republic of Lebanon Emile Lahoud, President of the Republic of Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Mongolian President Natsagiin Bagabandi, President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh Iajuddin Ahmed, President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar Al Assad, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, President of the State of Palestine, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Head of the Palestine National Authority Yasser Arafat, President of the Republic of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Turkmenistan Saparmurad Niyazov, President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, President of the Republic of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of the Republic of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Tran Duc Luong, Queen of Denmark Margrethe II, President of the Republic of Macedonia Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Moldova Vladimir Woronin, President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Croatia Stipe Mesic, President of the Polish Republic Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Guinea Lansana Conte, President of the Republic of Namibia Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic of South Africa Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Robert G. Mugabe, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila, President of the Republic of Togo Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of the Republic of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the Algerian Democratic and People's Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the Republic of Angola Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Girma Woldegiorgis, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago George Maxwell Richard, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia Hun Sen, Prince of the Kingdom of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta Eddie Fenech Adami, President of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Spain Jose Maria Aznar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius Paul Raymond Berenger and Prime Minister of Grenada Keith Mitchell.
    Kim Jong Il also sent New Year's cards to Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far East K. Pulikovski, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Raul Castro Ruz, Chairman of the Central Committee of the People's Party of Cambodia Chea Sim, Chairman of the Communist Party of Tajikistan Sh Shabdolov, Chairman of the Golkar Party of Indonesia Akbar Tandjung, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) H. S. Surjeet, General Secretary of the National Council of the Communist Party of India A. B. Bardhan, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-India Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennadi Zhuganov, Chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia Sazhi Umalatova, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Miroslav Grevenicek, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party Pyotr Simonenko, Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, Director-General of the World Health Organization Jong-Wook Lee, Secretary General of the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council and Director General of the International Institute of the Juche Idea (IIJI) Vishwanath, Secretary General of the IIJI Kenichi Ogami and Secretary General of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea Guy Dupre.

Picture Album about Tangun Printed

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- The Council for the Reunification of Tangun's Nation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has brought out a picture album "Tangun, Ancestral Father of Our Nation". Seen in the album are pictures, explanations and illustrations proving that the Korean nation has registered a 5,000-year-long brilliant history with the same blood, language and culture.
    Highlighted in the album are photos of President Kim Il Sung seeing the Tangun Mausoleum before its reconstruction and remains of Tangun on September 27 1993, and a photo of leader Kim Jong Il looking round the reconstructed mausoleum on October 29, 1994.
    Also printed in the album are a photo of Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of the nation, and a prologue against the background of the reconstructed Tangun Mausoleum.
    The prologue highly eulogizes the exploits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, who proved King Tangun, who had long been believed to be a fabled being, as real and added luster to the nation.
    The album carries old records, relics, remains and materials concerning Tangun, confirmed by renowned professors and doctors of history including Pro. and Dr. Ho Jong Ho, an academician.
    It also shows pictures of the splendid completion ceremony of the reconstruction of the Tangun Mausoleum and the general view of the reconstructed mausoleum, Pyongyang citizens visiting it on the Foundation Day of Korea and a memorial service for Tangun, and the north-south joint ceremony marking the Foundation Day of Korea held in October 2002.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Japan's Abduction of Its Citizens

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- The abduction of Korean citizens by "the Fund for Relief of North Korean Refugees," a Japanese right-wing organization, in recent years is a crime against humanity as it violates international law and the law of the DPRK. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said this in an answer given to a question put by KCNA Monday. It goes on:
    The fund is now letting loose a string of sophism describing this crime as "humanitarian support".
    The abduction may be painted as such in Japan, a country whose moral vulgarity and shamelessness have reached their height. But the international community will never tolerate this ruse.
    The DPRK provided groups or individuals with every possible condition for humanitarian support through the settlement of bank accounts or postal remittance or shipping service despite the Japanese government's pursuance of its invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    However, the fund, prompted by its sinister political purpose, ignored such legal channels and secretly took Korean citizens to Japan, thus separating happy families from each other overnight and preventing them from hearing from each other.
    Recalling that the Japanese authorities have talked much year after year about the cases of several Japanese abducted, an issue that had already been settled, the spokesman pointed to the ulterior aim they sought in defending this organization, turning a blind eye to its abduction of DPRK citizens He continued:
    Japan, which had brought an unspeakable misfortune and pain to the Koreans in the past, is now violating the sovereignty of the DPRK and adding to their bitter pain in the new century, too, instead of redeeming its past crimes. The DPRK will certainly force Japan to pay for this.
    The Japanese authorities should ponder over the consequences to be entailed by the abduction. They should ferret out those responsible for it and investigate the case, sternly punish the criminals and return victims to their families without delay.
    The DPRK will closely follow the future attitude of the Japanese authorities.

Japan Has Nothing to Expect

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) --Recently, the House of Representatives of Japan finally passed the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" through Diet, angering the Korean people. Kim Kwang Rin, chairman of the State Planning Commission, in an interview with KCNA on February 1, said:
    On January 29, Japan's House of Representatives railroaded through Diet the amendment stipulating that remittance to and trade with the DPRK shall be stopped, when necessary, and Japan shall impose sanctions upon the DPRK single-handedly even without a UN resolution or international agreement for the "peace and security of Japan".
    The move, prompted by the U.S. policy of stifling the DPRK economically and isolating it, is inviting all the Korean people's denunciation.
    Japan's adoption of the bill is driving the DPRK-Japan relations to an unpredictable phase. What is ridiculous is that Japan hopes for the DPRK's concession through the adoption of the bill.
    But Japan has made a big mistake. The DPRK Government and people, who consider the sovereignty of the country as their life and soul, will never be frightened by pressure and sanctions of such a war criminal state as Japan.
    Japan should be held entirely responsible for all the consequences to be entailed by its wanton violation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    Japan has nothing to expect.
    In another interview with KCNA Vice-Minister of Agriculture Hong Myong Ryol said:
    The history of humankind has never known such a brazen-faced and untrustworthy nation as Japan.
    It is only little more than a year ago that Japan's chief executive came to Pyongyang and admitted, in a spirit of humility, facts of history that Japan caused tremendous damage and sufferings to the Korean people through its colonial rule in the past, and expressed deep remorse and heartfelt apology.
    But Japan is now threatening sanctions, far from making an apology. This reveals the craftiness and vulgarity of the Japanese-style ethics.
    The Korean people will never remain a passive onlooker to Japan's acts of infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.
    I would like to remind the Japanese authorities of the fate of a tiger moth.

DPRK Foreign Minister Meets Delegation of Australian Foreign Ministry

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister of the DPRK Paek Nam Sun met and conversed with a delegation of the Foreign Ministry of Australia headed by A. Murray Mclean, who is special envoy of the foreign minister of Australia, which paid a courtesy call on him on Feb.2. Earlier, talks were held between Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Australian delegation.
    Views were exchanged on the nuclear issue and the bilateral relations at the conversation and talks.

Friendly Gathering at Chinese Embassy

     Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe hosted a friendly gathering at his embassy on Monday evening on the occasion of the New Year Juche 93 (2004). Present on invitation were Choe Ryong Su, minister of People's Security, Kang Yong Ho, vice-minister of People's Security, and other generals and officers.
    Staff members of the Chinese embassy were present.
    Speeches were made there.
    The participants deepened friendship talking about the need to boost the friendly relations between the two countries.

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Kim Jong Il envia mensajes a jefes de Estado de varios paises

     Pyongyang, 2 de febrero (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il envio, con motivo del Ano Nuevo 93 (2004) de la Era Juche, mensajes de felicitacion al jeque del Estado de Kuwait Jaber Al-Ahmed Al- Jaber Al-Sabah, el rey de Tailandia Bhumibol Adulyadej, el rey del Reino Hachemita de Jordania Abdullah II, el presidente de la Republica Federal de Nigeria y comandante en jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas Olusegun Obasanjo, el rey de Marruecos Mohamed VI, el presidente y jefe de Estado de la Republica de Mali Amadou Toumani Toure, el presidente de la Republica del Sudan Omar Hassan Ali-Bashir, el Presidente de la Republica de Jibuti Ismail Omar Guelleh, el presidente de la Republica del Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso, el presidente de la Republica Arabe de Egipto Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, el premier de Malasia Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmed Badawi y el premier de San Vicente y Granadinas Ralph Gonsalves. En los mensajes el Dirigente les envio sus calurosas salutaciones con motivo del Ano Nuevo y, convencido de que las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion entre la RPDC y susodichos paises se fortaleceran y se desarrollaran aun mas, les formulo votos por exitos en sus labores para el desarrollo del pais.

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     Pyongyang, 2 de febrero (ATCC) -- Los jovenes coreanos, encargadores mas vivarachos de la construccion de una gran potencia prospera, dan pruebas de su inteligencia y espiritu de la vanguardia juvenil de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar). Durante las vacaciones invernales, los jovenes estudiantes desplegaron dinamicas actividades socio-politicas en las principales fabricas, empresas, granjas cooperativas y lugares de construccion donde se libra una ofensiva revolucionaria para conquistar las metas mas altas de la construccion de una gran potencia prospera en los tres frentes.
    Mas de 100 mil jovenes estudiantes y funcionarios de la Union de la Juventud de los centros de ensenanza superior y las escuelas especializadas de todo el pais desarrollaron actividades socio-politicas en mas de mil 500 unidades estimulando asi grandemente a los funcionarios, obreros, trabajadores agricolas y constructores.
    Los funcionarios de la Union de la Juventud y los jovenes estudiantes de mas de 10 establecimientos de ensenanza superior y escuelas especializadas en la capital hicieron en mas de 90 ocasiones actividades de ejecucion de instrumentos de viento y de agitacion movil en el Complejo Termoelectrico de Pyongyang.
    Y los de la Universidad Kim Il Sung, en varias fabricas, empresas y granjas cooperativas de la capital, libraron diversas actividades politicas como la agitacion movil y la labor de apoyo laboral y material.
    Los miembros de la Union de la Juventud de mas de 30 institutos superiores y escuelas especializadas de la provincia de Kangwon desplegaron variadas actividades en el Complejo Carbonifero de la Region de Chonnae para llamar a los carboneros a la materializacion de las tareas presentadas en el editorial conjunto publicado con motivo del Ano Nuevo.
    Los estudiantes del Instituto Superior de Geologia de Sariwon, el Instituto Superior Pedagico No.1 de Kanggye y de otros planteles docentes, llevando estiercoles a las parcelas, apoyaron a los granjeros enfrascados en la preparacion del cultivo de este ano.
    A traves de las actividades socio-politicas y la labor de ayuda laboral y material, los jovenes estudiantes exaltaron su honor del peloton suicida de defensa a ultranza al lider, brigada de choque en la materializacion de la politica del Partido.