Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Praised

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Round-table talks were held at the head office of the Czech Newspaper Dialog and in Byalystok City of Poland on Mar. 17 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and the 12th anniversary of the election of leader Kim Jong Il as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and the 73rd founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army. Zdenek Novotny, consultant chief editor of Dialog, said President Kim Il Sung was a great revolutionary who hewed the path of the Korean revolution and led the Korean people to victory and a great leader of the world revolution who made a distinguished contribution to the cause of socialism and independence in the world and set a brilliant example in the anti-imperialist struggle.
    Jiri Jarka, chairman of the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association, noted that Kim Jong Il put forward the unique Songun political mode, reliably defending socialism and the sovereignty of the country with the might of Songun.
    Meanwhile, Slaboy January Guzowski, representative of the Central Committee of the Poland-Korea Association, said that if one analyzes the current international situation one can realize that the justice and vitality of the Juche idea fathered by Kim Il Sung and the Songun politics pursuing by Kim Jong Il have been proved. The Korean people are happy to hold the two great leaders in high esteem, he added.
    The participants in the round-table talks praised the Songun politics of the DPRK as the most just political mode which should be applied without fail to defend and strengthen socialism. The DPRK's access to nuclear weapons is an entirely just self-defensive measure to cope with the U.S. escalating moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK, they noted.

Photo Exhibitions Held in Democratic Congo and Peru

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Photo exhibitions were held in various countries on March 22 on the occasions of the Day of the Sun and the 12th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Displayed at a photo exhibition in Democratic Congo were photographs showing immortal leadership exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, advantages of the socialist system in the DPRK and achievements made by it in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.
    Speakers there referred to the immortal exploits, the preeminent strategy and tactics and wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, adding that they are saviors of the Korean people. The Internet homepage of the Peru Group for the Study of Kimilsungism inaugurated the first photo exhibition "Socialism of Juche" and "The Great Prosperous Powerful Socialist Nation of Juche."
    The photo exhibition will be arranged on important holidays and occasions of the DPRK till the end of December.

Demonstration Staged in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Heads and at least 700 members of fishery cooperatives across south Korea staged a demonstration in Seoul on March 23 in denunciation of the passage of "The Takeshima (Tok Islet) Day" ordinance by the Shimane Prefectural Assembly, Japan, according to south Korean KBS. They demanded Japan to retract the ordinance and the south Korean government authorities ensure their stable activities in the waters around Tok Islet.

Many Inventors Produced

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang IT College has produced more than 120 inventors and at least 220 persons of ingenuity at a time. They are teachers, researchers and students of the college. They have advanced lots of valuable invention and innovation proposals conducive to the technological updating of the national economy and the modernization of educational and experimental equipment.
    Among them are a digital control system at a spark-erosion metal working machine, Gregorian escalating digital alternating current voltage regulator, an analyzer of 16 channels logic time chart and state and support system for teaching how to set a homepage.
    These draw attention of officials and technicians of the relevant field for their unique idea, feasibility to put them into practice and economic profitability.

DPRK's Cause of National Reunification Supported

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Ismail Omar Guelleh, president of Djibouti, supported the reunification of Korea when receiving credentials from DPRK Ambassador to Djibouti O Ul Rok on March 21. He said that leader Kim Jong Il has conducted energetic activities to achieve the reunification of Korea as early as possible.
    He went on to say: The people of Djibouti know well that the reunification of Korea has been obstructed by foreign forces' interference and outsiders do not want to see Korea reunified to emerge a political, military and economic power.
    We are confident that the Korean people will remove all obstacles lying in the way of reunification and achieve it. It is the sincere and strong hope of Djibouti to boost the relations of friendship and cooperation with the DPRK.

Educational HQ, of S. Prep.Com. for Joint Functions Inaugurated in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of the Educational Headquarters of the South Preparatory Committee for Joint Functions of Koreans in the South and the North and Overseas to implement the June 15 joint declaration was reportedly held in Seoul on March 25. Present at the ceremony were members of the south Korean Teachers Union (Jongyojo) and the south Korean General Association of Teachers Organizations (Kyochong) and personages of other circles.
    Chairman of Jongyojo Ri Su Il and Chairman of Kyochong Yun Jong Gon were elected co-representatives of the educational headquarters and Chairwoman of the Unification Committee of Jongyojo Pak Mi Ja and Chairman of the South-North Educational Exchange Committee of Kyochong Han Yong Man executive co-chairpersons.
    At the ceremony speeches were made and an inaugural declaration was read out.

Preparatory Com. for Eliminating Leftover of Japan's Rule Formed in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- A preparatory committee was reportedly inaugurated at Seoul National University on March 23 to eliminate the leftover of the Japanese imperialists' rule. A press conference on its inauguration was held at the Students' Hall of the university on the same day.
    Speakers there said that the truth has been refuted as the issue of pro-Japanese acts has been justified at the university. They resolved to conduct a full-scale movement to liquidate pro-Japanese elements.
    An action program of the organization was made public there.

Egyptian Party Supports DPRK's Counter-Measure

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's counter-measure based on its peculiar and traditional principle of reacting to dialogue with dialogue and countering force with force startled the world once again. We hail this counter-measure as a just one reflecting the strong will of the Korean people who consider its sovereignty and dignity as something dearer than their life and highly appreciate it. The Liberal Party of Egypt said this in a statement issued on Mar. 22 in support of the February 10 statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry in which it solemnly declared it would suspend its participation in the six-party talks for an indefinite period and bolster its nuclear arsenal for self-defence in order to cope with the U.S. imperialists' moves to stifle the DPRK. The statement continued:
    If the U.S. truly wants a peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue and peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, it should meet the just demand of people's Korea that the U.S. roll back its hostile policy towards the DPRK. This is the only way of protecting world peace and security.

Bangladeshi Independence Day Observed

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here on Mar. 26 on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the independence of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The meeting heard a congratulatory speech by the chairman of the Korea-Bangladesh Friendship Association and adopted a message of greetings to the Bangladeshi president.
    At the end of the meeting the participants enjoyed an art performance given by students of Korea-Bangladesh Friendship Pyongyang Puksu Middle School.

Japanese Right-wing Forces Urged to Halt Their Moves to Grab Tok Islet

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed commentary strongly denounces the dangerous moves of the Japanese ultra-right conservative forces to grab Tok Islet. The commentary says:
    These days the Japanese ultra-right conservative forces are insisting that Tok Islet "belongs to the territory" of Japan. This once again proves that they are greedy robbers who stoop to any infamy to realize their territorial expansion.
    This move assumes graver nature as it is stepped up, timed to coincide with their distortion of history.
    History will never change and disappear no matter how hard they work to tamper with and cover up it. History remains as it is despite the change of the era and the flow of the time.
    The Japanese ultra-right conservative forces' moves to seize Tok Islet and distort history are hardening the resolution and will of the army and people of the DPRK to settle accounts with Japan to the last.
    The Korean people reserve the legitimate right to get an apology and compensation from Japan for its forcible drafting of Koreans, massacre of them, the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army, the policy of forcing Koreans to change their names to Japanese and other crimes.
    It is foolish of the ultra-right conservative forces of Japan to go wild to distort history and grab Tok Islet.
    They had better stop behaving so.

Japan Hit for Obliterating Korean Language

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday carries a signed article disclosing that the policy of obliterating the Korean language enforced by the Japanese imperialists during their 40-odd-year-long colonial rule over Korea was a grave state-sponsored crime committed by Japan's state ruling machinery on the strength of ordinances. The Japanese imperialists persistently talked about "the Korean and Japanese nations forming a harmonious whole," chanting the slogans for the "conversion of Koreans into imperial subjects" and "Japanization of Koreans" with a view to reducing Koreans to their slaves, the article says, and goes on:
    During their occupation of Korea they formed a strong state ruling system to obliterate the Korean language. To this end, they set in motion even gendarmes, to say nothing of the administrative and police organs including the "Korean Government-General", provincial, county and sub-county offices, police stations, sub-stations and police boxes. They officially declared that Japanese would be used as an official language at all government and public offices, courts and others. They unhesitatingly proclaimed that Japanese was the "mother tongue" to be compulsorily used by Koreans.
    They promulgated the "law on editing newspapers" in 1907, the "press law" in 1909 and the "press regulations" in 1910, thus tightening the measures to obliterate the national identity of the Korean people and the Korean language.
    They fabricated the "ordinance on Korean education" and retrogressively revised it four times in a bid to step up their policy of obliterating the Korean language.
    This policy was harshly pursued in all fabrics of social life including family life, not to speak of education, press, radio broadcasting, drama, film, music, linguistics and other fields.
    They forced the "Korean Association of Literary Men" to rename it the "Korean Society of Literary Men for Protecting the Country" in 1942, pressurized Korean men of literature to join it and write every work in the "mother tongue." They made sure that its organ Kukmin Munhak, too, was published in Japanese.
    They promulgated the "ordinance" related to "the change of Korean names into Japanese" in 1939 before intensifying their suppression of Koreans. All the ruling machines from the "Korean Government-General" to provincial, county and sub-county offices and police stations and sub-stations and pro-Japanese organizations did their utmost to thoroughly execute the ordinance in those days.
    Such acts perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists to obliterate the Korean language and national identity during their unheard-of colonial fascist rule were the most brutal and horrible mental tortures and hideous crimes committed against the Korean people.

Kim Jong Il Sends Wreath

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent a wreath to the bier of the late Song Se Chang, former counselor of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party and a son of Song Si Baek, a pro-reunification revolutionary martyr, on Monday to express deep condolences over his death on March 28.

U.S. Plan Falcon Assailed

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Some days ago the commander of the Space Command of the U.S. Air Force, addressing the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, opened to the public the U.S. plan codenamed Falcon to have the capacity to strike any part of the world. The plan Falcon is part of the U.S. adventurous moves to establish the sphere of its military domination over the whole world and this is very dangerous as it will spark a new arms race and Cold War, says Minju Joson Tuesday in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    The Bush administration is now busy developing nukes and modernizing them and establishing the missile defense system despite the opposition and rebuff of the broad international community. Not content with this, it is contemplating developing means to strike any part of the world.
    The U.S. unilateral, high-handed and arbitrary military actions in the international arena are heightening the vigilance of many countries. It is, therefore, as clear as noonday that the U.S. moves for military supremacy would spark a new arms race worldwide and foster confrontation due to military conflicts and frictions and this would lead to a new Cold War.
    The U.S. reckless moves for military supremacy are seriously upsetting military balance, disturbing stability and aggravating the military confrontation in various countries and regions of the world.
    World public is unanimous in observing that the U.S. policy for military supremacy over the whole world is an anachronistic dream based on its outdated way of thinking. The U.S. would be well advised to face up to the reality and drop at once its foolish dream to dominate the world by force.

Chinese and German Delegations Here

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- A friendship delegation of the Communist Party of China led by Ma Wen, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, and a delegation of the German-Korean Parliamentary Group headed by Hartmut Koschyk, member of the Bundestag (Federal Assembly) of Germany and chairman of the group, arrived here Tuesday.

Bumper Kelp Crop in DPRK

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Kelp harvest is in full swing on the offshore farms on the west coast of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. As of the end of March the farms under the Fishery Complex of South Hwanghae Province have reaped kelp 3.7 times that in the corresponding period of last year.
    The Pupho Offshore Farm has overfulfilled its kelp production plan for March by properly thinning out kelp and increasing output per kelp-growing rope.
    The Phyonghwa Offshore Farm is carrying out the daily kelp production quota at 104 percent by raising the operation rate of boats to suit the sea weather conditions.
    Similar achievements have also been made by the Ongjin and Kumipho Offshore Farms and Monggumpho Fishery Station.

New Vibrating Tamper Made in DPRK

     Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Technicians and workers of the Hamhung Building Machine Plant in South Hamgyong Province, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, have manufactured a new vibrating tamper suitable for the actual conditions of the country with the help of the April 15 Technical Innovation Shock Brigade dispatched there. The tamper is made with an electric motor and vibrating apparatus instead of compressor, pipes and other auxiliary equipment. Its production cost is low and it is easy to operate.
    It also makes it possible to save a great deal of manpower and raise the speed and quality of projects remarkably.
    The tamper enjoys popularity among users.

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Kim Jong Il envia ofrenda floral al feretro del difunto Song Se Chang

     Pyongyang, 29 de marzo (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il envio el dia 28 una ofrenda floral ante el feretro del difunto Song Se Chang, ex consejero del CC del Partido Social-Democrata de Corea e hijo del martir revolucionario pro-reunificacion Song Si Baek en senal de profundo pesame por su fallecimiento.

Cosecha de laminaria en Corea

     Pyongyang, 29 de marzo (ATCC) -- Esta en su plenitud la cosecha de laminaria en zonas litorales del Mar Oeste de Corea. Las empresas de cria maritima adscritas al Complejo Pesquero de la provincia de Hwanghae del Sur la recogieron 3,7 veces mas hasta marzo en comparacion con el mismo periodo del ano pasado.
    La Empresa de Pupho cumplio sobremanera su plan mensual de produccion al aumentar la cantidad por hileras de la laminaria recogida y la entresacada mientras la de Phyonghwa cumple en 104 % o mas su plan diario al mejorar la operacion de las canoas movilizadas en la cosecha conforme a las condiciones meteorologicas del mar.
    Sucede lo mismo en la Empresa de Ongjin que elevo el numero de los dias de trabajo de sus embarcaciones para aumentar la cosecha de laminaria.
    Se destacan en esta labor tambien los criaderos de la Empresa de Cria Maritima de Kumipho y la Empresa Pesquera de Monggumpho.

XV reunion de copresidencia de la APJERP

     Pyongyang, 29 de marzo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 28 por facsimile en Pyongyang, Seul y Tokio la XV reunion de la Copresidencia de la Alianza Pannacional de Jovenes y Estudiantes por la Reunificacion de la Patria (APJERP). La reunion hizo balance del movimiento del ano pasado de la APJERP y discutio el rumbo de actividades de esta organizacion para 2005.
    La reunion senalo que el ano pasado la APJERP bajo la bandera de dar prioridad a la nacion coreana desempeno el papel de vanguardia en el movimiento por la reunificacion para poner en practica la estructura de confrontacion de la nacion coreana vs. EE.UU. y para salvaguardar y ejecutar hasta el fin la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio. En lo adelante las direcciones del Norte, Sur y ultramar de la APJERP en firme cooperacion con las entidades de apoyo y solidaridad con la Alianza Pannacional por la Reunificacion de la Patria (APRP) y la APJERP seguiran fortaleciendo las fuerzas subjetivas del movimiento por la reunificacion creando el ejemplo practico de la unidad y la solidaridad, dijo la cita y subrayo:
    Este ano en que se cumplen los 5 anos desde la publicacion de la historica Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio y los 60 anos de la restauracion de la Patria, la APJERP bajo el ideal de "Con las fuerzas propias de la nacion coreana" debe enfocar la fuerza general en la realizacion de la cooperacion mediante la independencia nacional, la paz antibelica y el patriotismo por la reunificacion.
    La reunion aprobo una resolucion conjunta.