19th National Scientific and Technological Festival Opens

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The 19th national scientific and technological festival opened. On display are more than 400 papers, diagrams and CDs on the valuable successes in scientific researches and technological innovation drive highly appreciated at the festivals in different provinces in the wake of similar festivals that took place at institutions, enterprises and in cities and counties from early January to the end of February.
    The festival will be divided into basic science, metal, electrical, information, building material, hydraulic engineering, light industry, agricultural production and animal husbandry and veterinary work and seven other fields. It will involve public presentation and exhibition of graphic boards.
    An opening ceremony was held at the Three Revolution Exhibition on May 4.
    Present were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, officials concerned, scientists, technicians and working people.
    Pyon Yong Rip, president of the Academy of Sciences, in an opening address called upon the scientists, technicians and working people to earnestly participate in the national scientific and technological festival of great significance in widely exchanging and disseminating and generalizing the scientific and technological achievements to make a substantial contribution to fully demonstrating the justness and vitality of the Party's line of attaching importance to science and technology and making a leap forward on the front of economy and science.
    The opening ceremony was followed by panel public presentations.

KCTU Issues Declaration on Emergency Situation

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reportedly made public a declaration on emergency situation titled "We should not participate in the unjust war of aggression" on May 1. Noting that the number of the countries withdrawing troops from Iraq is increasing one year since the United States invaded it, the declaration warned that if south Korea sends troops to Iraq under the pressure, it will bring a calamity to all the people.
    The declaration said:
    The U.S. is going to ignite a war on the Korean peninsula after Iraq. If the U.S. provokes a war against the north it will be an unimaginable tragedy.
    The "government" should immediately withdraw the unjustifiable decision on the troop dispatch to Iraq in order to achieve peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula.
    The declaration said that the KCTU would start a people's petition campaign for the withdrawal of the decision on troop dispatch to Iraq to be participated in by 600,000 unionists from May 17 and seek the National Assembly's passage of a resolution on the withdrawal of the decision on troops dispatch with the support of legislators from the Democratic Workers' Party and many other 17th -term National Assemblymen of good will and conscience and thus frustrate the dirty war policy of the U.S. without fail.

S. Korean Public Organizations Call for Helping Compatriots in Ryongchon

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Public organizations of south Korea called for active assistance to help recover from the damage in Ryongchon of the north. The Women Committee of the Headquarters of the Movement for Making Our Fellow Countrymen One and the Women Committee of the Reunification Solidarity made public a joint appeal on April 26, calling upon all the south Korean people to share the sufferings of compatriots and help them without any political calculation or condition.
    The appeal said that if the south Korean people share sufferings with compatriots in the afflicted area now that the nation has been bisected for more than 50 years, they would keenly feel the fact that the people in the north and the south are of the same blood.
    Recalling that when the north sustained flood damage a few years ago, children offered saving boxes and mothers sold gold finger rings and gold necklaces to conduct a campaign for helping compatriots, the appeal called for making all efforts in the movement for helping the people in Ryongchon in the spirit of loving the nation and compatriots at factories, countryside, schools, villages and streets irrespective of status and conditions.
    The Seoul Distdrict Federation of University Student Councils in an appeal to Seoul citizens on April 25 called upon them to take an active part in the fund-raising campaign for sending medicines, which the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils and other organizations are conducting till May 18, to surmount the difficulties of compatriots in the affected area with the concerted efforts of the nation.
    The Korean nation has the good trait of mutual help, the appeal said, and went on:
    At the time when there was big flood damage in south Korea in 1984, the north sent food and relief goods, which proves that although the country was divided and ideologies and systems are different, we are one nation that is destined to help each other to live.
    For our people to help the north overcome its difficulties may be the expression of the will to make preparations for reunification and tide over the difficulties of the nation with the joint efforts of the nation, not mere assistance from the humanitarian viewpoint.
    Anyone who wants reunification should make all possible efforts so that the people in Ryongchon may overcome the damage and stabilize their living at an early date.

Rodong Sinmun Marks Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Wednesday dedicates an article to the 30th anniversary of the historic work of leader Kim Jong Il published on May 7, Juche 63 (1974). Comprehensively clarified in the work are principled tasks to be fulfilled by the media of the Workers' Party of Korea to carry out its duty and discharge its role as a mighty ideological weapon greatly instrumental in modeling the whole society on the Juche idea, the article says, and goes on:
    The media of the WPK firmly ensured the succession to the leadership of the WPK and the Korean revolution in the 1970s, thus making a great contribution to laying an organizational and ideological foundation of the WPK on which it can successfully accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by President Kim Il Sung generation after generation.
    They have also played the role of a pace-setter in transforming man, nature and society as required by the Juche idea under the banner of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea and making the loud beating of the drum of the revolution resound on all fronts of socialist construction for the last scores of years.
    They have demonstrated their tremendous might as a powerful ideological weapon of the WPK in carrying out the revolutionary cause of Songun for the last decade.
    It was thanks to the contingent of loyal journalists and mediapersons who have shared their destiny with the WPK that the Korean people could have overcome manifold difficulties in those days of ordeal with the help of an ideological and mental pabulum, which even millions of tons of rice can never substitute for, and could have emerged victorious in the Songun revolution closely rallied around the headquarters of the revolution.
    The media of the WPK serve as the strongest weapon in the confrontation with the enemies today when a war without gunfire is fought against the U.S. imperialists, the article says, calling on all the mediapersons to arm all the servicepersons and people with the anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. class consciousness and decisively foil the enemies' crafty ideological and cultural poisoning, pressure and psychological warfare.

Organization for Assisting Ryongchon Formed in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A headquarters of the movement for assisting the victims of the explosion at Ryongchon Railway Station was inaugurated on April 27 against the backdrop of a brisk campaign launched by non-governmental and civic organizations of south Korea to help the north recover from the damage. At an inaugural ceremony, Kang Mun Gyu, permanent representative of the Movement of Koreans for Helping Each Other, said that it was time for the non-governmental organizations to demonstrate their force, underscoring the need to send medicines and goods for medical treatment to the afflicted area in a prompt and convenient way.
    Pak Won Sun, permanent director of the Beautiful Foundation, noted that "this aid campaign may offer a good chance for the south Korean society to demonstrate the unity of the Korean nation in the future irrespective of conservatives and progressives," referring to the fact that the headquarters of the movement was made up of representatives of not only charity relief organizations but civic and social organizations and both ruling and opposition camps were of the same view on the accident despite their ideological differences.
    A future action plan was made public and an appeal read out at the ceremony to call on the south Koreans to actively participate in the movement.
    The headquarters groups 47 organizations including the organizations that specialize in assisting the north belonging to the Council of Non-governmental Organizations for Assisting the North, the Environmental Movement Association and the Citizens' Joint Action.

Plan for Cultural Exchange between DPRK and Cuba Signed

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A 2004-2006 plan for cultural exchange between governments of the DPRK and Cuba was signed in Havana on April 29. Present at the signing ceremony from the DPRK side were members of the DPRK government cultural delegation led by Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the DPRK ambassador to Cuba and from the Cuban side Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and officials concerned.

May Day Marked in Seoul

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A meeting marking the 114th May Day was reportedly held in Seoul on May 1 with at least 15,000 people attending. It demanded the withdrawal of the decision on troop dispatch, the abolition of discrimination against part-time workers, provision of full-time jobs, the guarantee of the three rights to labor and the right to health and an end to neo-liberalism. Ri Su Ho, chairman of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, addressing the meeting, declared that there was no reason for south Koreans to participate in the Iraqi war as it was a dirty war of aggression, charging that "the state interests claimed to be met through the dispatch of south Koreans to the battlefield are just for power upkeep".
    Noting that the primary task facing the labor movement in the latter half of the year is to get the decision on troop dispatch withdrawn, he called upon the people from all walks of life to turn out in the struggle with fresh determination.
    He also declared that the KCTU would launch an all-people struggle, putting up such demands as the repeal of the discrimination against part-time workers and an immediate halt to the agreement on free trade.
    Kwon Yong Gil, representative of the Democratic Workers' Party, vowed to continue the struggle for the abolition of the part-time jobs, saying that the 17th National Assembly should scrap a law producing part-time jobs before anything else.
    The participants held a "meeting to mark the first year of workers' policy" under the theme "The participation of workers in the National Assembly is our strength. Let's defend our candidates with our strength and open up a history of progressive policy."
    Prior to the meeting, a function opposing the occupation of Iraq and troop dispatch was held under the sponsorship of the Joint Action for Peace against War grouping at least 70 civic and public organizations.

Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Wednesday dedicates a signed article to the 13th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish." The work, published on May 5, Juche 80 (1991), clarifies that Korean style socialism is people-centred socialism based on the Juche idea and invincible socialism whose advantages and vitality are fully proven in all fabrics of social life and under which the leader, the party and people are singleheartedly united.
    Recalling that Kim Jong Il has glorified Korean-style socialism, the article says that his wise guidance finds its manifestation in that he provided guidelines for triumphantly advancing the cause of socialism despite any difficulties under the banner of Songun.
    The article goes on:
    The Songun idea set out by Kim Jong Il on the basis of a scientific analysis of the requirements of the developing era is an idea of protecting the country and pushing forward the overall socialist construction, regarding the military affair as the most important state affair and the army as a mainstay and core force. The Songun idea helps give priority to the work of increasing the military capability as required by the changed conditions and circumstances and effect a new surge in the development of revolution with the might of the idea and spirit of the revolutionary army.
    It, therefore, serves as precious guidelines indicating a true way of winning a victory in the cause of independence in the 21st century.
    His wise guidance also finds its expression in that he built up a powerful driving force for the accomplishment of the socialist cause with the People's Army as a model and provided a sure guarantee for the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation despite the most rigorous trial of the revolution.
    The army and people of the DPRK will remain true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il with loyalty and eternally glorify people-centred socialism of Korean style built by President Kim Il Sung.

Anniv. of Int'l Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Observed

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today dedicates a signed article to the 85th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The federation has conducted positive work with the national Red Cross organizations, the article says, and continues:
    The federation together with different national Red Cross organizations has conducted diverse activities to help different parts of the DPRK in health service, water sanitation and management of properties and the work to develop the federation.
    The DPRK Red Cross Society has consistently carried out all its activities on the main principle of the Red Cross movement in close touch with the federation. It has rendered international humanitarian aid to other countries scores of times.
    It will further strengthen the cooperation with the federation and thus give fuller play to the advantages of the man-centered socialist system of Korean style and make a positive contribution to global peace.

S. Korean Judicial Authorities' Anachronistic Remarks Flailed

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued information bulletin No.868 Tuesday in which it branded the heavy penalty imposed upon Kang Thae Hun, former advisor to the Democratic Workers' Party, on the strength of the draconic Security Law at the Seoul High Court in south Korea as an intolerable challenge to the unanimous desire and wish of the south Koreans and the world public demanding the repeal of the law and an act inciting confrontation diametrically running counter to the basic spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. It is self-evident that there is no room for the SL, a legal mechanism of confrontation and division and filth of history that can never be compatible with national unity and reunification, to stay today when the north and the south are going for independent reunification, reconciled and united, in the wake of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, the bulletin said, and went on:
    The south Korean judicial authorities made free with the anachronistic jargon that there is a need to keep such law as the "Security Law". This was prompted by their sinister political intention to crack down upon south Koreans' patriotic movement for reunification by invoking the outdated and corrupt SL.
    They even went to the lengths of asserting that the north would be regarded as an anti-state organization, irrespective of the atmosphere of reconciliation between the south and the north. This can never be tolerated as it reveals their intention to regard the north where fellow countrymen live as an enemy, in disregard of the desire and the trend of the times.
    The south Korean judicial authorities had better drop the old mode of thinking for keeping the SL in force, a law throwing fatal hurdles in the way of achieving national reconciliation, unity and the reunification cause.

National Symposium Marks Anniversary of Koguryo

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A national symposium was held at the Grand People's Study House Tuesday to mark the 2280th anniversary of the founding of Koguryo. Kim Jong Yong, vice-president of the Academy of Social Sciences, made a report titled "Koguryo was strong country that had existed for a thousand years in Korea in middle ages" to be followed by speeches.
    The reporter and speakers referred to the fact that the history of Koguryo, a sovereign state that occupies an important place in the history of Korea, was seriously distorted by hack historians of the Japanese imperialists in the past.
    They cited concrete historical facts to prove that Koguryo brilliantly adorned the medieval history of Korea.
    They continued:
    The people of Koguryo had strong martial trait and staunch stamina. It instituted its own year and dealt heavy blows at the aggressors when they infringed upon its dignity. As a strong country in Asia with a vast territory, large population, powerful state power and strict principle of independence, Koguryo exerted a strong influence not only on Paekje, Silla and Kaya, the countries where people of the same blood lived, but on a series of Japanese islands and several other countries and nations in the continent.
    Koguryo could demonstrate its might as a powerful state because it had had the status of an emperor state ever since its appearance on the historical arena as an independent country and successfully beat back foreign invasions throughout its history and firmly maintained independence in relations with other countries.
    The truth that Koguryo was a successor to Ancient Korea and other states that existed in Korea can be proved by the fact that King Tongmyong, a descendent of the population of Ancient Korea, and his supporters independently built Koguryo on the land where ancestral state Kuryo stood and its population were also descendents of Ancient Korea. And many historic relics and their customs suffice to prove the fact.
    The despicable scramble for power among the ruling quarters and traitorous acts of rulers of Silla who cooperated with the outsiders led the country to a ruin but its people turned out in a courageous struggle to repel aggression and rebuild the country to get rid of the shame as a stateless people and give vent to their grudge. This culminated in the rebuilding of Koguryo and the appearance of Palhae, a successor to Koguryo, in 698.
    Koryo was a successor to Koguryo, they said, adding that this can be proved by the fact that Wang Gon, founder of Koryo, nurtured the intention to revive the whole territory of Koguryo as a descendent of the population of Koguryo, Koryo people declared themselves as successors to Koguryo and its descendents and felt highly proud of this and this was internationally recognized.
    The symposium was attended by Thae Hyong Chol, president of the academy, officials concerned and officials in the fields of social science, education and the preservation of cultural relics.

Tradition of Great National Unity

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Nearly seven decades have passed since the historical tradition of great national unity originated in Korea. President Kim Il Sung founded in Donggang the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland on May 5, Juche 25 (1936) in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle out of the patriotic desire to achieve the liberation of the country by the efforts of the Korean people themselves. It was the first organization of anti-Japanese national united front involving workers, peasants, intellectuals, youth and students and even national capitalists and believers of conscience.
    After its foundation, it expanded its organizations across the country and took deep roots in broad areas of Manchuria including East Manchuria where many Koreans lived as well as in different parts of Japan.
    With a membership of at least two hundred thousand it rallied masses in its ranks under the leadership of Kim Il Sung to greatly contribute to winning national liberation by defeating the Japanese imperialists.
    The founding of the association which united the masses of all walks of life differing in social and class status, ism and idea and religion under the banner of patriotism was a significant event that established the tradition of unity of the whole nation.
    This proud tradition of great national unity established by Kim Il Sung is being successfully carried forward today with leader Kim Jong Il at the top post of the revolution. Kim Jong Il is wisely guiding the work for accomplishing the cause of national reunification with the united strength of the nation, fully inheriting Kim Il Sung's idea of great national unity and his feats in achieving it and precious experience and tradition of struggle.
    Great national unity is the great foundation of the reunification of the country.
    By putting forward the five-point policy of great national unity Kim Jong Il provided a programmatic guideline of reunification. And he, with the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration that is throwing its rays in the history of the nation's reunification movement, made the whole nation turn out in the struggle for independent reunification, guided by the idea of "By Our Nation Itself".
    Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il to accomplish the cause of reunification with the might of great national unity, a new phase previously unknown in the inter-Korean relations and the history of the national reunification movement opened and unprecedented achievements and changes have been recorded.
    The Korean people will achieve without fail the cause of national reunification, the greatest desire of the nation, with the powerful weapon of great national unity which has all along registered victories and glory in the history of the revolutionary struggle.

Koryo Medicine Develops in DPRK

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Medical scientists of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have formulated theories of Koryo medicine as required by the present time and proved the correlation between Koryo medicine and modern medicine in a scientific way, thus paving a new phase of the development of modern medicine. Particularly, they testified to the scientific accuracy of Um-Yang five processes. Based on it, they have theoretically proved the similarity between the principle of the solar system and human body's physiological function and structure. And they have confirmed the advantages of the treatment method of giving primary attention to spleen and stomach over the neurohumoralism of modern medicine in a scientific, theoretical and practical way.
    They have also renewed the theory of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment, proving in a scientific way that the efficacy of the therapy differs according to seasons and times. They have developed various methods of curing many kinds of diseases with acupuncture.
    Therefore, they have capped the 150-year-long discussions on what effect metal needles produce on human body.
    Their scientific exposition of stomach tenseness makes it possible to treat such diseases caused by stomach tension as irregular pulsation, angina pectoris, high blood-pressure, thrombopenia, hepatitis, allergic diseases and paropsis.
    Books have been published in the country to accumulate and prove in a theoretical, scientific and practical way the advantages of classical theories contained in many old books including "Hyangyakjipsongbang" (85 volumes) introducing some 10,700 acupuncture prescriptions and folk remedies, "Uibangryuchi" (a medical encyclopaedia dealing with 95 diseases) and "Tonguibogam" (25 volumes) which were published in the period from the 15th century to the 17th century.

14th Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks Open

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The 14th north-south ministerial talks were opened here today. At the talks Kwon Ho Ung, chief councilor of the DPRK Cabinet, who is the head of the north side's delegation and Jong Se Hyon, minister of Unification, who is chief delegate of the south side made keynote speeches.
    Kwon Ho Ung elaborated that the joint military exercises the south side stages with the U.S. are a main factor of straining the overall situation on the Korean peninsula and jeopardizing the inter-Korean relations.
    The era after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration requires the Koreans to solve all issues by their concerted efforts, he said, adding that it is something beyond imagination that the south side, which has a commitment to national cooperation, is militarily cooperating with the outsiders against the fellow countrymen.
    If the south side has a true willingness to have dialogue with the north side and seek a negotiated settlement of the issues of exchange, cooperation and military talks, it should strictly abide by the principle of national cooperation in the idea of "By our nation itself," he contended.
    Accusing an official concerned of the Ministry of Unification of the south side of pulling up the north when the 9th reunion of separated families and relatives was underway, he dismissed this as a negation to the June 15 joint declaration provided by the heads of the north and the south and a blatant challenge to the points agreed upon by both sides to recognize and respect idea and system of the other side.
    Reiterating the unshakable stand of the north not to compromise with such attitude of the south side, Kwon strongly demanded the south side take a corresponding measure to prevent the recurrence of what happened.
    Recalling that the south side has not yet stopped the broadcasting hurling mud at its dialogue partner and even started recently new broadcasting which specializes in malignantly slandering the north, he urged the south side to clearly express its will to stop those smear broadcasting services.
    The talks continue.

S. Korean Ultra-Right Conservatives' Anti-North Vituperation Assailed

     Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Members of the "group of National Assemblymen who proposed the motion on the impeachment" in their final pleading for impeachment held at the Constitutional Court in south Korea on April 30 did not bother to let loose a string of unsavory remarks malignantly slandering the dignified political system in the DPRK. They argued that "an impeachment trial is the only way of containing the president" and even pulled up the north over the accident at Ryongchon Railway Station in North Phyongan Province.
    A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement issued to the press Wednesday dismissed this as an unpardonable and deliberate act intended to incite confrontation as it is a serious political provocation against the north.
    As well known to the world, the accident at Ryongchon was a big disaster that occurred all of a sudden and it, therefore, should be treated as a humanitarian issue that needs an urgent relief.
    Riff-raffs of the group hurled a spate of vituperation at the north, deliberately linking the accident to the political system in the north, far from expressing sympathy with the victims of the disaster. This can be done only by those immoral politicians who do not have an iota of morality but crazy for power only.
    If the accident at Ryongchon Railway Station was attributable to the political system in the north, how can they explain a chain of big accidents in south Korea which stunned the world? It is highly illogical to deliberately attribute the accident in the north to its system. This rubbish can be talked only by those fanatics hell-bent on inciting confrontation bereft of reason.
    The south Korean ultra-right conservative forces' malarkey fully discloses their true intention to "impeach the president" at any cost at the instigation of the U.S., usurp power and bring the inter-Korean relations back to those in the era of confrontation.
    Given that members of the above-said group seriously got on the nerves of the north, we make it clear that we would not deal in the future with the political parties to which they belong unless they make a formal apology to the north.

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Tradicion de gran unidad nacional en Corea

     Pyongyang, 5 de mayo (ATCC) -- Han transcurrido casi 70 anos desde cuando se preparo la historica tradicion de gran unidad nacional en Corea. El Presidente Kim Il Sung, con el unico deseo patriotico de lograr la restauracion del pais con las fuerzas unidas de los coreanos en la epoca de lucha revolucionaria antijaponesa, fundo el 5 de mayo del 25 (1936) de la Era Juche en Donggang la Asociacion para la Restauracion de la Patria (ARP), primera organizacion del frente unido nacional antijapones que incluia a obreros, campesinos, intelectuales, jovenes, estudiantes y hasta concienzudos capitalistas nacionales y religiosos.
    Despues de la fundacion, la ARP se extendio por todas las localidades del pais y echo a profundidad sus raices en la amplia region de Manchuria donde vivian muchos coreanos incluyendo la region oriental de esta y hasta en varias zonas de Japon.
    Bajo la direccion del Presidente, la entidad, que contaba con mas de 200 mil afiliados, hizo un gran aporte a agrupar a amplias masas en sus filas, a derrotar a los imperialistas japoneses y restaurar la patria.
    La fundacion de la ARP, que agrupo bajo la bandera del patriotismo a las masas de distintas capas y sectores tanto en la posicion socio-clasista como en la insistencia en ismos y la creencia religiosa, fue un acontecimiento de gran significado que preparo la tradicion de la unidad pannacional.
    Esta tradicion orgullosa, preparada por el Presidente, se lleva adelante tambien hoy en que tenemos al Dirigente Kim Jong Il en el supremo cargo de la revolucion.
    El Dirigente, quien heredo completamente la idea y proeza de gran unidad nacional, la preciosa experiencia de lucha y tradicion del Presidente, dirige sabiamente la labor para realizar la causa de la reunificacion de la patria con las fuerzas unidas de la nacion.
    La gran unidad nacional es lo mas importante en la realizacion de la reunificacion de la patria.
    El Dirigente, al presentar la orientacion de 5 puntos para la gran unidad nacional, preparo una guia programatica para esa magna causa. Ademas, hizo que se publicara la historica Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio que brilla en la historia del movimiento por la reunificacion de la nacion para que toda la nacion se movilice para la reunificacion pacifica bajo el ideal de "Con las fuerzas unidas de la nacion coreana".
    Bajo la sabia direccion del Dirigente tendente a lograr la causa de reunificacion con el poderio de la gran unidad nacional, se abrio una nueva coyuntura sin precedente en la historia de las relaciones Norte-Sur y en el movimiento por la reunificacion de la patria y se registran exitos y cambios nunca vistos.
    El pueblo coreano, con el arma poderosa de gran unidad nacional que registro solo la victoria y gloria en la historia de lucha revolucionaria, realizara sin falta la causa de reunificacion de la patria, maximo anhelo nacional.

Simposio cientifico nacional por aniversario de fundacion de Coguryo

     Pyongyang, 5 de mayo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 4 en el capitalino Palacio de Estudio del Pueblo un simposio cientifico nacional en conmemoracion del 2280 aniversario de la fundacion del Estado de Coguryo. El vicepresidente de la Academia de Ciencias Sociales Kim Jong Yong presento el informe intitulado "Coguryo fue una potencia poderosa en la historia de la Edad Media de Corea" e intervinieron varias personalidades.
    Los oradores se refirieron al hecho de que la historia del Coguryo, un Estado soberano que tiene un lugar importante en la historia de Corea, se habia tergiversado en el tiempo pasado por los historiadores oficiosos de Japon y argumentaron con suficientes datos historicos que Coguryo adorno con brillantez la historia de la Edad Media de Corea.
    Apuntaron que Coguryo no solo habia tenido su Era propia y castigado severamente a los agresores que danaban su soberania, sino tambien, siendo una potencia poderosa de Asia con el extenso territorio, mucha poblacion, fuerte poderio y firme independencia, habia ejercido una gran influencia a los paises de connacionales como Paekje, Silla y Kaya, al archipielago japones y a otros paises y naciones del continente.
    Todo esto -destacaron- se debe a que desde principios de su fundacion aparecio en la escena de la historia como un pais independiente y tomo la posicion invariable de un Estado soberano y a que en todo el proceso de su existencia rechazo triunfalmente las agresiones extranjeras y mantuvo firmemente la soberania en las relaciones exteriores.
    Senalaron que Coguryo fue un pais heredero de los estados antiguos de la nacion coreana incluido el Kojoson porque fue fundado en el territorio del antiguo Estado Kuryo por el rey Tongmyong y sus partidarios que todos fueron descendientes de los coreanos antiguos, y anadieron que varias reliquias descubiertas y las costumbres de vida prueban que tambien la poblacion de este pais fue descendiente de los aborigenes coreanos.
    Indicaron que Coguryo se derrumbo debido a las pugnas malignas por el poder en el interior de las capas dominantes y a los actos traidores a la nacion de los gobernantes de Silla conspirados con las fuerzas extranjeras, pero, los habitantes se levantaron con audacia en la lucha contra la agresion y por reconstruir el Estado de Coguryo y en el ano 698 establecieron Palhae, Estado heredado de lo anterior.
    Destacaron que este Estado fue heredado por Coryo cuyo fundador fue Wanggon.
    Dijeron que Wanggon, descendiente de Coguryo derrotado, tenia la voluntad de rescatar todo el territorio de este pais y los pobladores de Coryo se consideraban por si mismos como continuadores y descendientes de Coguryo y lo tomaban por gran orgullo. Apuntaron que este hecho ya era reconocido internacionalmente.
    En el simposio estuvieron presentes Thae Hyong Chol, presidente de la Academia de Ciencias Sociales y otros funcionarios de los sectores de ciencias sociales, educacion y conservacion de la cultura.

XIX Festival Central de Ciencia y Tecnica

     Pyongyang, 5 de mayo (ATCC) -- El XIX Festival Central de Ciencia y Tecnica quedo inaugurado el dia 4 en la Exposicion Permanente de las Tres Revoluciones. En este certamen fueron presentados en forma de monografia, explicacion por medio de diagrama y CD mas de 400 materiales valiosos de exitos de investigacion cientifica e innovacion tecnica, seleccionados en los festivales locales de ciencia y tecnica, que tuvieron lugar desde principios de enero hasta finales de febrero por unidades de organismos, empresas, ciudades, distritos y provincias.
    El festival se efectuara en forma de cenaculo de presentacion y de exposicion de esquemas dividido en 16 ramas, entre otras, la ciencia basica, la metalurgia, la electricidad e informatica, la construccion y materiales de construccion e ingenieria hidraulica, la industria ligera, la produccion agricola, la veterinaria y ganaderia.
    En el acto de apertura participaron el secretario del CC del Partido del Trabajo de Corea Choe Thae Bok, el viceprimer ministro del Consejo de Ministros Ro Tu Chol, el ministro de Educacion Kim Yong Jin y otros funcionarios, cientificos, tecnicos y trabajadores.
    El presidente de la Academia de Ciencias, Pyon Yong Rip, en su discurso de apertura, dijo que los cientificos, tecnicos y trabajadores deben participar activamente en este certamen que tiene suma importancia en la labor de intercambiar y generalizar ampliamente los logros cientificos y tecnicos para ostentar energicamente la justeza y vitalidad de la linea del Partido del Trabajo de Corea en materia de dar importancia a la ciencia y tecnica y contribuir realmente a abrir una brecha del frente de la economia y la ciencia.
    Terminado el acto inaugural, se iniciaron los cenaculos de presentacion por unidad de ramas.