Seminars on Kim Jong Il's Works Held Abroad

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- A seminar on leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" was held in Egypt on January 27. Yehia Jakariya Khairallah, chairman of the Egyptian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, at the seminar said that Kim Jong Il is the greatest politician, outstanding strategist and invincible iron-willed commander in the present times as he has wisely led the struggle to achieve Korea's reunification and defend peace and security of the world.
    Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, which President Kim Il Sung set forth, as the three charters for national reunification, thus opening a bright vista for the Korean nation's struggle for the reunification of the country, he said.
    He expressed firm belief that the Korean people would achieve brilliant successes in the struggle for building a great prosperous powerful nation and realizing the national reunification, true to the idea and leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    That day a seminar on Kim Jong Il's work "Socialism Is a Science" was held in Karachi.
    Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Pakistan Association for the Study of Self-Reliance, at the seminar said that Kim Jong Il in his work newly formulated the socialist idea based on the Juche idea, scientifically and theoretically clarified the law that guides socialist construction and the validity and truth of socialism and instilled faith in socialism and optimism into the world people.
    Mohammad Aguil, former secretary general of the Karachi Lawyers' Association, in his speech underscored the need to learn from socialism of Korean-style, saying that it is the beacon of hope for the world oppressed people and socialism is the only way for them to follow.
    He noted that it was under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il that the DPRK has won only victory under the banner of Juche despite the anti-DPRK moves of the imperialist allied forces.

Birthday of Kim Jong Il Celebrated Abroad

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Celebration rallies, photo exhibitions, lecture meetings and other events were held in Romania, the Czech Republic, Britain, India, Austria and Thailand from January 20 to 30 on the occasion of February 16, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il. Speeches were made there.
    Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, in his speech said that the 40-year-long history of Kim Jong Il's leadership over the Workers' Party of Korea is a glorious history during which he together with President Kim Il Sung has led the DPRK and the Korean people to prosperity, a victorious history in which he has developed the WPK into an invincible iron-willed party and the Korean People's Army into an invincible army and an immortal history in which the peculiar socialism centered on the popular masses was deeply rooted in the DPRK and fields of politics, economy and culture have been at their zenith.
    Jiri Jarka, chairman of the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association, said that thanks to the Songun policy of Kim Jong Il, the Korean people are smashing the U.S. nuclear racket and moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and defending socialism with credit.
    The chairman of the Juche Philosophy Study Committee of India in a lecture noted that Kim Jong Il has the greatest outlook on people. His idea of believing in the people as in Heaven, his maxim, has the philosophical principle that if one believes in the people and relies on them at all times he shall always emerge victorious but if he is forsaken by them, he always fails, the chairman said.
    An advisor to the Thai prime minister in his speech said that Kim Jong Il is, indeed, the prominent leader who has devoted his all to the happiness and prosperity of the Korean people and the reunification of the country, successfully carrying forward the noble cause of Kim Il Sung.

Cause of Korean People Supported

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Lebanese President Emile Lahoud when meeting DPRK ambassador to Lebanon Kim Hyong Jun who paid a farewell call on him on Jan. 30 said the Lebanese government and people hope that the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula would be peacefully solved through dialogue and negotiation and Korea's reunification would be achieved at an early date. Saying that the two countries have long-standing friendly relations, he said that the Korean people have always expressed invariable support to the Lebanese people in their struggle to regain the occupied territory and defend their right.

Guinean President Supports Korean People's Cause

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Guinean President Lansana Conte said it is the consistent stand of his country to develop the relations with the DPRK. He expressed full support to all domestic and foreign policies of the DPRK government and its policy and stance on the nuclear issue, in particular, and efforts to settle it and firm belief that such efforts would surely succeed. He said this when meeting the DPRK delegation headed by Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on a visit to Guinea on February 4.
    Noting that both Guinea and the DPRK have long -standing tradition of friendly and cooperative relations, he said that President Kim Il Sung showed deep care for the building of a new society in Guinea and leader Kim Jong Il is paying deep attention to the ties with Guinea, carrying forward the policy of the President.
    Hoping that the Korean people would be able to live in peace after the root cause of all misfortune caused by foreign forces is eliminated at an early date, he urged south Korea not to read the face of the United States but count on the compatriots' strength and work to shape the future of the nation in line with the idea of "By the Korean nation itself."
    He assured the delegation that Guinea would always stand by the Korean people.

South Koreans Fight to Check Passage of Troop Dispatch Motion

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The People's Action against Troop Dispatch on February 2 reportedly went on a sit-down to check with death the passage of the motion on troop dispatch through the "National Assembly" in front of the assembly building in Youido, Seoul. At a news conference before the sit-down it said many "assemblymen" had been arrested or branded as objects to be forced out of the political scene on corruption charges and, under this condition, it is little short of giving the thieves a finger on the trigger to leave to them the disposal of the motion on troop dispatch.
    A resolution released at the conference said the "16th National Assembly" had no right to deal with the motion, warning that the behavior of it marred by corruption scandals would face a stern judgment by the people in the forthcoming elections.
    Recalling that Choe Pyong Ryol, representative of the Grand National Party, told the press on February l his party would carry the motion through the "National Assembly", it said: "Choe, go to Iraq with a rifle on your shoulder!"
    The people are prepared not to allow the members of the "National Defence Committee of the National Assembly" to enter the assembly building in case they pass the "motion on troop dispatch," it declared.
    After the news conference the organization joined the Presidium members of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification in the patriotic anti-U.S. hunger strike.

Preparatory Committee Formed in Venezuela

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- A Venezuela preparatory committee for commemorating the Day of the Sun and February 16, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il, was formed in Palabecino City on January 28. General Secretary of the Venezuela-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association Aura Contreras was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
    The committee decided to hold various functions on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and February holiday.

Preparatory Committee Formed in Barbados

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of a Barbados preparatory committee for celebrating the Day of the Sun and February 16, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il, was held in Bridgetown on January 27. At the ceremony David Denny, chairman of the Barbados Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
    The committee set a period from February 1 to the end of April as a "period for celebrating the Sun of the 21st century." It decided to organize colorful functions including meeting and exhibition and conduct activities for introducing the personalities and exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as great men in the period.

Korean National Heritage Shining with Songun Policy

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Ryu Mi Yong, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party, issued an article titled "5000-year old national heritage shines with Songun policy" on the occasion of the lunar January 15, the Korean folk holiday. She writes:
    Each nation has its cultural heritage created in the course of its long development.
    The national heritage, moral and material wealth which the preceding generations have created and handed down to posterity, is associated with the soul, resourcefulness and talent of the nation.
    The Japanese imperialists claimed that the Yamato nation can not assimilate Koreans to Japanese and dominate them without obliterating the history of Tangun Korea. They confiscated hundreds of thousands of history books related to Tangun in all parts of Korea and burned them. They committed such a hideous distortion of history as painting Tangun as a mythical man. They also forcibly closed Tangun temples handed down to posterity and banned even memorial services for Tangun.
    All fabrics of social life including politics, economy and culture in south Korea have been Americanized and Japanized.
    The Songun policy pursued by leader Kim Jong Il is the best patriotic policy in the world as it makes it possible to protect the independence and dignity of the nation by matchless military muscle. Thanks to this great policy the DPRK is firmly defending the sovereignty of the nation while doing and saying what it likes to do even under the ever-changing situation and the Korean people are defending with pluck and bringing into fuller bloom the cultural heritage which bears witness to advantages of the nation.
    It was not until President Kim Il Sung was acclaimed as the leader of the Korean nation that its cultural heritage which had been buried into oblivion due to the past sycophancy and national ruin has been restored to its former glory and shines as a symbol of the independent nation.
    The tomb of King Tongmyong, the founder king of Koguryo, and the tomb of King Wang Gon, the founder king of Koryo, have been restored to their original state to stand majestically as national treasures clearly proving the orthodoxy of the history of the Korean nation under the meticulous guidance of the President.
    As the DPRK was led by the President, the supreme incarnation of the national identity, the patriotic spirit of Chondoism could be estimated as the strong national religion and its activities be actively encouraged in the DPRK.
    The noble patriotic intention of the President who devoted his all to glorifying the advantages of the nation with ardent love for the country and the nation is becoming a stirring reality thanks to Kim Jong Il.
    He, carrying forward the love of the President for the nation, has invariably trusted and put forward the Chondoists and brought into reality the patriotic idea of Tonghak (a kind of Korean religion) for which Chondoists had longed for more than a hundred years.
    Inspired by his warm patriotism and transparent spirit of national independence, the movement for national reunification is now advancing along the road of independent reunification in the spirit of our nation-first.
    With the advent of the Songun era of prosperity under the rays of the Songun sun the cultural heritage of the Korean nation has attained its highest value and reached the highest watermark of its development.

Orientation of Struggle of South Headquarters of Pomminryon Decided

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) reportedly held a training course for figures concerned with reunification from Jan.31 to Feb. 1 to decide on the orientation of the reunification movement for this year and methods of struggle in the run-up to the "general election". The organization recalled that a joint resolution on the issues of building the structure of the Korean nation's confrontation with the United States through practical actions and national cooperation under the banner of the Korean nation-first spirit, struggling against the U.S and war, strengthening solidarity among the three parties and fighting for the legalization of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon and the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils and other matters was adopted at the meeting of its temporary co-presidium held on Jan. 29.
    Noting that in the era after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration there is the confrontation between those forces supporting it and those forces opposing it, the organization decided to focus on the struggle against the south Korean Grand National Party in order to create a favorable political climate for the implementation of the joint declaration. To this end, it declared to form the solidarity for the 17th general election to bring about an era of reunification and new politics comprising public figures of various strata till Feb. 10 and conduct brisk actions for solidarity with the forces opposed to the GNP.

Folk Games on Lunar January 15

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Working people and school youth and children in different parts of the DPRK Thursday celebrated lunar January 15, the folk holiday of the Korean nation. School youth and children played colorful sports and folk games in various places on this day adding to the festivity.
    Students presented Taekwon-do exercise for health and tug-of-war at Kim Il Sung Square here.
    The participants in the games, encouraged by cheering teams, fully demonstrated the bravery and spirit of the Korean youth and the united strength of their collectives.
    Supporters and spectators presented Pongsan masque dance, fan dance, warriors' dance and other dances spiced with national flavor to the tune of merry folk songs, drawing the keen interests of passers-by.
    Schoolchildren's folk games such as shuttlecock, rope jumping, top-spinning and kite-flying took place in various places including the plazas of the Tower of the Juche Idea, the Arch of Triumph and the Monument to Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
    That day, school youth and children had colorful and joyous folk and sports games in public places of various provinces, cities and counties, at residential quarters and in historic sites.

S. Korea's Moves to Dispatch Troops to Iraq Assailed

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The south Korean authorities are working to railroad the "motion on troop dispatch to Iraq" through the "National Assembly" in a bid to take an active part in the U.S. war against Iraq, says Minju Joson Friday in a signed commentary. The commentary goes on:
    The south Korean Defense Ministry has already set to work for dispatching an advance unit while stepping up in the final stage the formation of units to be dispatched to Iraq.
    The south Korean authorities' scheme to dispatch troops to Iraq, yielding to the U.S. pressure, means cooperating with the U.S. and involving themselves in the unjustifiable war, the war of injustice and the war for aggression. It is preposterous for the south Korean military to assert that it is possible to maintain the security of the Korean peninsula and pep up economy only when south Korean troops are sent to Iraq.
    The U.S. has grown so arrogant through the Iraqi war that it is now carrying on intensive training to apply to the projected Korean war the tactics based on the experience it gained in the Iraqi war after shipping into south Korea lethal weapons it tested in the actual war in Iraq, while openly crying that north Korea is the next target. It is the unanimous view of foreign military experts that the U.S. would start a war in Korea after fully pacifying Iraq.
    The U.S. is interested neither in peace nor in security on the Korean peninsula. Troop dispatch to Iraq would bring dark clouds of war over Korea at added pace.
    The south Korean military's assertion that troop dispatch to Iraq would revive the economy of south Korea does not stand to reason.
    The U.S. has nothing to bring to south Korea. It is its true intention to meet its own interests at the sacrifice of the south Korean economy. It is a gross mistake to think that the U.S. would offer something to south Korea in reward for troop dispatch to Iraq.
    Woefully serious will be the consequences to be entailed by the dispatch of south Korean troops to Iraq, warns the commentary, adding: The south Koreans will never pardon the authorities if they send troops to Iraq to drive them to death.

February, Spring in DPRK

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are greeting February as spring. In Korea with four distinctive seasons, February belongs to winter. A piercing cold persists and mountains and fields are clad with snow in February. However, the Korean people, with deep reverence for leader Kim Jong Il, are celebrating his birthday in February as a holiday in spring when everything comes to life.
    His birth on February 16 inspired the Korean people with a bright future of the country and with optimism about the continuity and great victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche, started on Mt. Paektu.
    The song "February Belongs to Spring" reflects such feelings of the Korean people.
    Now they are bringing Kimjongilia into full bloom at their families and working sites far ahead of the flowering season.

Greetings to Grenadian Prime Minister

     Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its independence. Expressing belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to favorably develop, the message wished him and the Grenadian people greater success in their work for the prosperity of the country.

13th Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks Close

     Seoul, February 6 (KCNA Correspondent) -- The 13th North-South Ministerial Talks which were opened in Seoul on February 3 closed Friday. At the talks both sides had an in-depth discussion of issues raised by them, prompted by the will to actively improve the inter-Korean relations through national cooperation in the basic spirit of the June 15 joint declaration and issued a joint press statement today.
    They agreed on the following issues:
    Firstly, the north and the south agreed to cooperate with each other to make the second round of the six-way talks fruitful for a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue.
    Secondly, they agreed to recommend their military authorities to open the talks between the military authorities of the north and the south at an early date for the relaxation of the military tension on the Korean peninsula.
    Thirdly, they agreed to quickly push ahead with the first-phase development of 1 million phyong in the Kaesong Industrial Zone and cooperate with each other in developing 10,000 phyong of the demonstration industrial zone within the first half of this year.
    Fourthly, they agreed to pursue the discussion of the issues raised by both sides including flood control project in the River Rimjin, the effectuation of an agreement on marine transport and a halt to the broadcasting against each other's side.
    Fifthly, they agreed to hold the 9th reunion of separated families and relatives at Mt. Kumgang resort in late March, 2004.
    Sixthly, they agreed to hold the 14th North-South Ministerial Talks in Pyongyang from May 4 to 7, 2004.

For Spanish-speaking people

     Pyongyang, 6 de febrero (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 16 de febrero, dia de nacimiento del Dirigente Kim Jong Il, tuvieron lugar del 20 al 30 de enero mitines, exhibiciones de fotos, conferencias, etc. en Rumania, Checo, Gran Bretana, India, Austria y Tailandia. En los actos pronunciaron discursos.
    Vasile Orleanu, presidente del Consejo Supremo del Partido Socialista de Rumania, en su discurso, dijo que la historia de la direccion de Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il sobre el partido durante los 40 anos pasados es la gloriosa historia con que junto con el gran Presidente Kim Il Sung condujo a la prosperidad a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y el pueblo coreano, es la historia de victoria con que fortalecio y desarrollo el Partido del Trabajo de Corea como el invencible partido de acero y el Ejercito Popular de Corea como el invencible ejercito y es la inmortal historia con que hizo arraigar profundamente en Corea el especifico socialismo centrado en las masas populares e hizo abrir una epoca de gran prosperidad en todos los sectores de la politica, la economia y la cultura.
    Jiri Jarka, presidente de la Asociacion de Amistad Checo-Corea Paektusan senalo que gracias a la politica de Songun, que practica el Dirigente Kim Jong Il, el pueblo coreano pudo rechazar el alboroto nuclear de EE.UU. y sus maniobras para aislar y aplastar a Corea y defender exitosamente el socialismo.
    El presidente del Comite de Estudio de Filosofia Juche de la India, en su conferencia, dijo que Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il de Corea posee la mas excelente concepcion del pueblo y subrayo que en la idea de "iminwichon", que toma por su maxima, esta reflejada la veracidad de que si confian y se apoyan en el pueblo, llegan a salir siempre victoriosos, pero si son repudiados por el, sufren mil derrotas.
    El asesor del premier de Tailandia, en su discurso, senalo que Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il es, de veras, el destacado Dirigente quien al continuar excelentemente la sublime causa de Su Excelencia el Presidente Kim Il Sung, gran Lider, dedica todo lo suyo para la felicidad y prosperidad del pueblo coreano y la reunificacion del pais.

    Pyongyang, 6 de febrero (ATCC) -- Para el pueblo coreano el mes de febrero esta considerado como primavera. Su razon no se puede explicar con caracteristicas estacionales ni con la logica de la naturaleza. En Corea el limite de las 4 estaciones del ano es muy evidente. Pues el mes de febrero pertenece a la estacion invernal.
    En febrero sigue frio penetrante y las montanas y llanuras estan cubiertas de nieve.
    Sin embargo, el pueblo coreano acoge con el mas fervoroso sentimiento el febrero, en que nacio el Dirigente Kim Jong Il, como esplendidos dias primaverales cuando toda la naturaleza comienza a resucitar.
    Gracias al nacimiento (16 de febrero) del Dirigente, el pueblo coreano pudo convencerse del futuro prometedor y brillante de la patria, ser optimista en la continuacion y la gran victoria de la causa revolucionaria del Juche, iniciada desde el monte Paektu.
    Por esta razon, el pueblo coreano, con el caluroso sentimiento de veneracion, considera febrero como la primavera espiritual cantando la cancion "El mes de febrero es primavera".
    En estos dias, cuando aun sopla con furia la nevasca, los coreanos hacen florecer mas hermosas que en las estaciones de flor de la naturaleza las inmortales Kimjongilias en sus familias y lugares de trabajo