Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from Vladimir Tolstikov, chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK, on the occasion of his birthday.
The gift was handed to the DPRK ambassador to Russia by the chairman of the Association on Jan. 24.
The chairman said: Kim Jong Il is a great man whom I most deeply respect and look up to with profound reverence.
I have prepared a humble gift for him with my sincerity.
I wholeheartedly wish Kim Jong Il who will greet his birthday soon good health and greater success in his work.
Preparatory Committee Formed by Friendship Organization
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Association for Friendship with the Korean People having its branches in various countries of the world formed a preparatory committee for the gmeeting praising the great persons of Mt. Paektuh on Jan. 19.
Alejandro Cao de Benos, chairman of the association, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
Friendly Gathering with Russian Embassy Official
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering of officials of the DPRK Foreign Ministry and members of the Russian embassy here took place on Thursday on the occasion of the New Year Juche 94 (2005).
Speeches were made by DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun and Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov.
They reviewed the achievements made in the development of friendly relations between the two countries last year.
They stressed the need to further expand and develop the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations in various fields in this significant year.
The participants talked about boosting the bilateral ties, deepening friendly feelings.
Friendly Gathering with Chinese Embassy Officials
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The International Department of the Central Committee of the Workersf Party of Korea arranged a friendly gathering with members of the Chinese embassy here at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel Thursday evening on the occasion of the New Year Juche 94 (2005).
Speeches were made there.
The speakers stressed the need to further expand and strengthen in the new year the friendly relations between the two parties and the two countries which are developing with vigor under the deep care of leader Kim Jong Il and General Secretary HU Jintao.
The participants talked about the cooperative relations between the two parties and the two peoples, deepening the feelings of friendship.
Present on invitation at the gathering were Chinese Ambassador Wu Donghe and embassy officials.
Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, and officials of its International Department , were on hand.
U.S. gHuman Rightsh Offensive Flailed
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in an article today says the U.S. ghuman rightsh offensive is a dastardly violation of human rights infringing upon the sovereignty of other countries and nations and a criminal act of harassing world peace and stability and curbing and throttling their independent development.
Noting that U.S., under the motto of gdefense of human rightsh, cows the independent countries with nuclear threats while wielding the ghuman rightsh club at them, the author of the article says:
Those countries which refuse to meekly obey the U.S. and which take an anti-U.S. stand are without exception made the targets of its ghuman rightsh offensive.
The U.S. resorts to political and economic pressure against other countries and maneuvers to isolate them under the pretext of the human rights issue.
When it does not work, it chooses the military means. Notably, its ghuman rightsh offensive toward the DPRK is going into a very grave stage. Suffice it to note that it is planning to appoint ga special envoy in charge of north Korean human rightsh after cooking up gthe north Korean human rights acth in its hectic human rights offensive against the DPRK.
What the U.S. imperialists seek in it is to impair the international prestige of the DPRK, internationalize the moves to isolate and stifle it and find an excuse for military
aggression under the pretext of ghuman rights issue.h The U.S. human rights offensive is a dangerous challenge against the DPRK aimed at the g overthrow of the political systemh of the latter.
The U.S. is tenaciously pursuing the purpose of isolating and stifling the DPRK.
It is hell bent on inventing a pretext for a war against the DPRK, while staging feverish large-scale war games, having amassed huge aggression forces in and around south Korea. One of the examples is that it is getting overheated in the ghuman rightsh
Offensive against the DPRK, persistently taking issue with the ghuman rights issueh
of the latter. But such a tricky offensive will not work with the DPRK.
All Koreans Called Upon to Turn out in Anti-U.S. Struggle
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Korean nation should not allow the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces' presence in south Korea to go beyond 60 years but terminate the U.S. hostile policy towards Korea, Rodong Sinmun Friday says in a signed article.
The 60 years of their presence in south Korea are a history of aggression and crimes as they have ruthlessly infringed upon the Korean nationfs dignity and independence and savagely violated democracy and rights of the south Korean people, the article observes, and goes on:
After occupying south Korea the U.S. imperialist aggressors enforced a harsh military rule over it and installed a pro-U.S. regime there, placing it under their system of colonial domination. Through this they completely subordinated all fabrics of south Korean society including politics, military affairs, economy and culture to the U.S.
Keeping south Korea under its militarily occupation for the last six decades, the U.S. has lorded it over as a suzerain state. It has dealt with all the issues such as the change of south Korean regimes and policy-making to meet its own aggression and domination interests as it pleased.
U.S. massacre of Koreans has never ceased. It suppressed at the point of the bayonet the September general strike and the October popular uprising of south Korean people and the April 3 popular uprising that broke out on Jeju Island against the national division. The U.S. killed in cold blood more than a million patriotic south Koreans in just five years from its occupation of south Korea to the period before the Korean War. After the war the U.S. imperialists put down the April 19 popular uprising in south Korea by engineering a coup dfetat and wire-pulled the armed crackdown upon the Kwangju popular uprising in 1980. This barbarism baffled human imagination.
Documents favorable for national independence and great unity and peaceful reunification including the July 4 joint statement were adopted between the north and south in the past. However, the U.S. has barred all of them from being implemented in practice. It is still today desperately working to militarily stifle the DPRK after raising " the nuclear issue" on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to hamstring the implementation of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The U.S. has been hell bent on its moves for a war against the DPRK since it unreasonably listed the DPRK as part of "an axis of evil" and a target of its preemptive nuclear attack.
All countries and nations of the world aspire after independence, stable and lasting peace and security as it greeted the 21st century after the demise of the Cold War in the international arena. The Koreans are the only nation in the world that has suffered a tragedy, disgrace, misfortune and pain resulting from the national division for the last six decades.
All the fellow countrymen in the north, the south and overseas should dynamically turn out in the struggle to drive the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces out of south Korea and put an end to the U.S. policy for domination over Korea under the uplifted banner of cooperation for national independence, cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for reunification and patriotism.
Opera "Sea of Love" on Stage
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The revolutionary opera "Sea of Love" which was recently reproduced by the Phibada Opera Troupe is put on the stage at the Pyongyang Grand Theater.
The opera is based on a story about old furnaceman Kang Thae Gwan's family and workers of the Kangson Steel Works. According to Kang's "philosophy of molten iron", as any kind of scrap iron turns into steel in the electric furnace, those who join the family will certainly follow the pattern of the family.
A large number of people who had left their native towns during the Korean war come to Kangson after the war. Among them are characters with different careers and family backgrounds who become members of Kang's family.
Through the efforts for rehabilitating the destroyed works and producing iron, Kang remolds Jin Ung San, who had been worried about his unsavory past, and those with similar careers on the pattern of the working class and encourage them to be good at the works.
The opera shows on a high ideological and artistic level that, under the benevolent politics of President Kim Il Sung, any Korean is a member of his family.
The Phibada Opera Troupe, with a history of nearly 60 years, created the revolutionary opera "Sea of Blood" under the energetic guidance of Kim Jong Il in the early 1970s.
The troupe was named after the revolutionary opera "Sea of Blood" (Phibada).
More Steps to Prevent Tsunami Damage Taken in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- More steps to prevent tsunami damage are being taken in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
As Korea is surrounded by seas on three sides, the Seismological Observation Bureau has intensified the scientific research to cope with possible tsunami damage.
It is employing all observation means and methods to survey the level and radon content of underground water, terrestrial magnetism and electricity, geological structure, etc. in a scientific way so as to find out even minute changes of earthquakes.
It is establishing a thorough forecasting system along with the work of taking earthquakes into consideration in construction in conformity with the already worked out division of seismic intensity.
The provincial, town and county seismological observation centers set up throughout the country according to the step taken by the government are scrupulously working to ensure promptitude of forecasting and alarming system while encouraging people to inform them in time of such abnormal natural phenomena as sudden unrest movement of animals and changes in wells, springs and mineral water content.
O Yong Gi, a section chief of the Seismological Observation Bureau, said in an interview with KCNA that many earthquakes and tidal waves have occurred in Korea according to historical records.
There were more than 1,800 earthquakes whose tremor people could feel in the period from the Three Kingdoms to the end of the Ri Dynasty according to "The Chronicles of Three Kingdoms", "The History of Koryo" and "The True Records of the Ri Dynasty", he said, and added:
In the light of the records that 30-odd tsunamis have occurred in the East Sea of Korea from the year 701 and the tsunamis off the eastern coast of China and the western coast of Japan in 1964, 1983 and 1993, there may be frequent tsunamis in these areas.
Earthquakes measuring 5.6 on Richter scale hit Taegwan County, North Phyongan Province, in January 1980 and Anak County, South Hwanghae Province in February 1982, destroying some buildings.
The DPRK is also intensifying exchange of seismic materials and scientific and technological information with China and Russia.
Kim Yong Nam Congratulates President of Croatia
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on Jan. 25 sent a congratulatory message to Stipe Mesic upon his reelection as president of Croatia.
In the belief that the bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation would continue to develop on good terms in the future, too, the message wished the president of Croatia fresh success in his responsible work for the stability and prosperity of the country.
Kim Jong Il Inspects Pig Farm of KPA Unit
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean Peoplefs Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workersf Party of Korea and
chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, inspected the pig farm of KPA Unit 966.
After being briefed on the farm before its panoramic map, he went round production processes including a fattening pen and a processing shop to acquaint himself with the pork production and the pig raising.
He praised the unit for its efforts, noting with high appreciation that it supplied a large quantity of pork to its soldiers by ceaselessly producing it in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance even in the hard period of the gArduous Marchh the forced march when it was hard pressed for everything.
He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled by the farm.
Recalling that the modern chicken, duck and goat farms and catfish farms built by the army in recent years are profusely paying off, he noted that a new turn will be effected in the diet of the soldiers when the existing pig farms are modernized.
In order to make pig farms fully display their capacities, it is important to settle the feed problem, first of all, he said, stressing the need to steadily increase the fertility of soil in the fields under feed crops and decisively boost the grain production.
In order to increase the production of pork it is necessary to fully meet the requirements of the WPKfs policy of bringing about a radical turn in raising pig breeds, put the breeding on a scientific and technological basis and positively introduce advanced technology, he noted.
Then he paid deep attention to the living of workers of the farm, going round their hostel.
He highly appreciated the unitfs successes, saying that it has done a lot of work not only to increase its combat capability but to build logistic bases including the construction of a power station in recent years.
He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae
Gyong.
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Kim Jong Il subraya necesidad de intensificar ejercicio de combate
Pyongyang, 28 de enero (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa
Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, inspecciono una subunidad de la Unidad No. 347 del EPC que ostenta el titulo de Septimo Regimiento de O Jung Hup.
El Dirigente fue recibido en el mismo lugar por los jefes de la Unidad y subunidad, se entero del estado de cumplimiento del deber de la unidad y vio un entrenamiento de los militares.
El Comandante Supremo se mostro satisfecho de que los oficiales y soldados de la unidad, al tomar parte activa en el entrenamiento, crecen como combatientes capaces de pelear a solas contra cien enemigos, e indico las tareas que sirven de guia para fortalecer la combatividad de la unidad.
Al prestar atencion primordial al entrenamiento, la unidad pudo servir de ejemplar de todo el ejercito en el tiro, senalo el y subrayo que el fortalecimiento de los ejercicios de combate es la garantia fundamental para la elevacion de la combatividad de la unidad.
Luego de hacer conocimiento del estado de mantenimiento de armas de los militares, destaco que el destino de la causa del socialismo y de la Revolucion mediante el Songun depende de las armas en que estan impregnadas la sangre y el alma de los precursores antijaponeses y que son valiosa herencia de la revolucion que continua de generacion en
generacion y anadio que los militares deben cuidar de ellas como las ninas de sus ojos.
El Comandante Supremo se entero del estado de plantacion de arboles al dirigir mirada a las cadenzas de montanas cerca del cuartel cubiertas de arboles frondosos y evaluo de altos el patriotismo de los militares de la unidad quienes en los ultimos anos
formaron de nuevo decenas de hectareas de arboleda.
Acto seguido, recorrio la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor, la cocina, el bano, el deposito de alimentos subsidiarios y otras instalaciones de cultura, educacion e intendencia para prodigar esmerada atencion a la labor y la vida de los militares.
Muy complacido de que todas las instalaciones de intendencia estan bien ordenadas y en particular, los soldados disfrutan de abundante vida alimenticia gracias a la buena organizacion productiva para el autoconsumo, remarco que este exito orgulloso es un fruto de los tenaces esfuerzos comunes de los oficiales y soldados.
El Dirigente apunto que los militares del ejercito popular cobran calibre revolucionario fisico y espiritual soldadesco y aprenden todo lo necesario para la vida y despues de desmovilizados, cumplen excelentemente las tareas asumidas e hizo hincapie en que se puede decir que la epoca soldadesca es un curso universitario de la revolucion.
El Comandante Supremo dio binoculos, ametralladora y fusil automatico a los militares y se fotografio junto a ellos.
Le acompanaron los generales de ejercito del EPC Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong.
Kim Jong Il recibe presente del presidente argelino
Beijing, 26 de enero (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio presente que le dirigiera, con motivo del nuevo ano, el presidente de la Republica Argelina Democratica y Popular, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Un funcionario de la embajada argelina en China lo entrego el dia 26 al embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de Corea.
En la ocasion, el diplomatico africano dijo que el presente es una expresion del sentimiento de amistad del mandatario argelino a su Excelencia Kim Jong Il y deseo que las relaciones de amistad entre los dos paises se desarrollen mas excelentemente en el futuro.
RPDC: medidas preventivas de terremotos
Pyongyang, 28 de enero (ATCC) -- La Republica Popular Democratica de Corea desarrolla intensas labores para prevenir las perdidas a causa de
terremotos y los consiguientes tsunamis (olas gigantes).
Como ya trascendidos, a finales del ano expirado, mas de una decena de paises costeros en el Mar Indico sufrieron grandes perdidas humanas y materiales por un violento terremoto que origino olas gigantes.
Alarmado por tal desastre, nuestro pais, rodeado de mar por tres lados, profundiza la investigacion cientifico-tecnica para hacer frente a los terremotos y tsunamis que pueden ocurrir en momentos menos pensados.
El departamento de terremotos realiza de manera cientifica la prevision hasta de los sintomas minimos de cataclismos con los medios y metodos de observacion, en particular, la investigacion del nivel de aguas subterraneas, la cantidad de radon en estas, el geomagnetismo, la corriente electrica terrestre, la estructura geologica, etc.
Ademas, la construccion se lleva adelante tomando en cuenta los impactos de terremotos de acuerdo con el ya preparado plano de las areas divididas segun escalas de terremotos.
A tenor de una medida estatal, aparte de sus trabajos para agilizar el sistema de pronosticos y alarma, los puestos de observacion de terremotos de todas las provincias, ciudades y distritos intensifican la propaganda interpretativa para orientar a los trabajadores a avisar a tiempo, aun en dias normales, los cambios anormales en el movimiento de los animales y en los pozos, manantiales, aguas minerales y otros fenomenos naturales.
En sus declaraciones a un reportero de la Agencia Telegrafica Central de Corea, O Oyong Gi, jefe de seccion del departamento de terremotos recordo que historicamente en Corea se registraron no pocos terremotos y maremotos y continuo:
Segun libros historicos como "Samguksagi", "Koryosa" y "Cronicas de la dinastia de los Ri", a partir del periodo de los 3 reinos a finales de la dinastia de los Ri se reportaron mas de mil 800 temblores sensibles.
En particular, en el Mar Este de Corea desde el ano 701 hasta la fecha ocurrieron mas de 30 terremotos y olas gigantes. Si vinculamos este dato con los maremotos que azotaron en 1964, 1983 y 1993 las costas orientales de China y las occidentales de Japon, es facil vaticinar frecuentes maremotos a causa de cataclismos en esta region.
En enero de 1980 en el distrito de Taegwan de la provincia de Phyong-an del Norte y en febrero de 1982 en el distrito de An-ak de la provincia de Hwanghae del Sur, se reportaron terremotos de 5,6 grados en la escala abierta de Richter respectivamente, desastres que destruyeron algunos edificios.
Actualmente, la RPDC desarrolla activamente el intercambio de datos sobre el terremoto y otras cooperaciones cientifico-tecnicas con China y Rusia a la par de la labor para prevenir las perdidas por estas catastrofes naturales.