African Regional Preparatory Committee Formed

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- An African regional preparatory committee for a "meeting praising the great persons of Mt. Paektu" was inaugurated with due ceremony in Kampala on April 1 under the sponsorship of the African Regional Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People in the run-up to the Day of the Sun. At the ceremony N.T. Mawema, chairman of the Zimbabwe-Korea Solidarity and Friendship Association, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee and Hessou Kohowi, chairman of the Benin-Korea Amicable Association "Long Live Comrade Kim Jong Il, Supreme Leader", and Marwan Sudah, chairman of the Arab Committee for Solidarity with the Korean People and Supporting the Reunification of Korea in Jordan, its vice-chairmen.
    An appeal to organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in different parts of the world was adopted there.
    It called on them to accelerate preparations for significantly holding the meeting in Mt. Paektu on the occasion of the 60th anniversaries of the Workers' Party of Korea and the liberation of Korea from the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and, at the same time, extend support and solidarity to the Korean people in their efforts to carry forward the cause of the great persons of Mt. Paektu and glorify the exploits performed by them.

S. Korean Political Camp Greatly Angered by Japan's Distortion of History

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology held a meeting to screen textbooks at which it decided to describe Tok Islet as part of Japan's territory and publish history textbooks beautifying its past colonial rule, according to reports of the south Korean KBS and MBC. The textbooks did not mention at all the crimes related to the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army and the forcible conscription enforced by the Japanese imperialists, they added. What is more serious is that the ministry instructed the publishers of history textbooks to describe Tok Islet as part of the Japanese territory.
    This has lashed different circles in south Korea into great fury.
    A spokesman for the Uri Party of south Korea in a commentary charged that the "claim" to Tok Islet raised by Japan in its history textbooks is a move to call back the departed soul of the militarist ghost and its distortion of history in the textbooks is not only an issue between south Korea and Japan but a grave challenge to the peace of Asia. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the south Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in a statement said that the "claim" to Tok Islet made by Japan in its history textbooks is little short of justifying its colonial plunder in the past and denying history of the Korean nation.
    The government will take responsibility for the issue of Tok Islet and strongly react to it in the future, the statement noted, demanding the Japanese government fundamentally correct its distorted history.

National Cooperation against U.S. and Japan Called for

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils reportedly issued a statement titled "Let's Keep Nation Alive through National Cooperation against the U.S. and Japan" on Mar. 30. The diplomatic and military authorities of the U.S. and Japan at a recent "security consultative meeting" issued a "joint statement" in which they set a "strategic goal" of intensifying the military actions centering on the Asia-Pacific region, the statement noted, and said:
    The U.S. laid it down as a policy to stifle the north by force of arms after designating it as part of an "axis of evil" and an "outpost of tyranny" and is contemplating using Japan as a shock force in implementing the policy. The U.S. and Japan are chiefly to blame for the moves to drive our nation into disasters of a war.
    "South Korea-U.S. cooperation" is not practical diplomacy but diplomacy inviting national ruin.
    In order to protect the life and dignity of the nation we should not cooperate with the U.S. but with our compatriots.
    National cooperation alone is a practical way of checking Japan's moves to revive militarism and removing the threat of a war.

Anti-Government General Strike Staged in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- At least 160,000 unionists under the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reportedly staged a general strike on April 1 to warn against the government's move to railroad a motion for the retrogressive revision of the labor law on part-time jobs through the National Assembly. At a press conference the organization declared that if the government and the National Assembly pass the motion at any cost, all the workers will turn out in an overall struggle.
    After the press conference, 231 trade unions under the KCTU such as the Federation of Metal Industrial Workers Unions and the Women's Federation simultaneously staged strikes at their work sites.
    On the same day rallies took place all at once in 22 areas including Seoul, Taejon, Kwangju, Taegu, Ulsan, Pusan and Jeju Island.
    Participants in the rallies strongly demanded the government immediately abolish the evil law which makes all workers part-timers and drives them to destitution.

Hearing Held at UN Secretariat Building

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- A hearing demanding the national right to education of Koreans in Japan and its settlement of crimes related to the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army was held at the building of the UN Secretariat in Geneva on April 1. It was cosponsored by the Human Rights Association of Koreans in Japan, the Federation of Young Korean Traders and Industrialists in Japan, the Union of Korean Students in Japan, the Group for Probing the Truth behind the Forcible Drafting of Koreans and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Present there were delegates of international organizations attending the meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights and members of the south Korean human rights committee. Delegates from each organization of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) expressed indignation at Japan's deep-rooted policy of discrimination against national education and its obstructions, violence against Korean students and Japan's insincere attitude on redeeming its past wrongs.
    Accusing the Japanese government of its unjust attitude to evade a legal responsibility for Japan's crimes far from making a sincere apology and compensation to victims of the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army, they called upon the international community to exercise its influence upon Japan to change its policy.
    A delegate of an international organization drew attention to the fact that the issue of those crimes was seriously discussed and a resolution demanding compensation for them was adopted at the meeting of the commission, but it is still left unimplemented due to the wrong attitude of the Japanese government.
    He urged all governmental and non-governmental organizations to demand the Japanese government admit its legal responsibility and make an apology and compensation for the crimes.
    At the end of the hearing its participants watched a video tape titled "Bring My Youth Back" dealing with the crimes related to the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army.

New Society Free from Foreign Forces Called for

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity of Youth and Students for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in south Korea reportedly issued a statement on April 3, the 57th anniversary of the popular uprising on Jeju Island. It called on the youth and students to build a new society free from foreign forces without fail under the uplifted banner of three forms of cooperation--cooperation for national independence, cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for reunification and patriotism--aware that a way out for the nation is to drive the U.S. forces out of south Korea and achieve the reunification of the country.
    The statement went on:
    Unless the U.S. troops are forced to quit south Korea, it is impossible to realize the desire for national reunification nor is it possible to give vent to the bitter grudge of the participants in the popular uprising on the island. There is neither justification nor pretext for the U.S. troops to stay in south Korea any longer in the era after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
    Calling on the youth and students to intensify in different areas the struggle to force the U.S. troops to withdraw from south Korea and dismantle its military bases so as not to give them any room to stay, the statement noted that they would make this the year of driving the U.S. troops out of it and the year of achieving the independent reunification of the country.

U.S. Troops Warned against Complaining about Their Upkeep

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The Headquarters of the People's Movement for the Withdrawal of the U.S. Troops in south Korea reportedly released a commentary titled "We strongly warn the U.S. troops against complaining about their upkeep" on April 2. The chief of staff of the U.S. command in south Korea at an urgent press conference on April 1 complained about the share of the upkeep of the U.S. forces agreed upon between south Korea and the U.S., openly threatening to fire more than 1,000 south Korean employees in its units, the commentary notes, adding that this reminds one of a thief crying "Stop thief!"
    The money spent in the name of "upkeep" of the U.S. troops every year reached about three trillion won together with indirect expenses, it said, stressing that the U.S. forces should stop complaining about their upkeep at once and get out of south Korea.

Cuban Diplomats Commemorate Day of Sun

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Ruben Perez Valdes, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, hosted a reception at his embassy on Thursday evening to mark the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. Present there on invitation were Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign Trade Rim Kyong Man, Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin, acting Chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Mun Jae Chol, Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Sang Ik, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon and officials concerned.
    Staff members of the Cuban embassy were also on hand.
    The Cuban ambassador said that President Kim Il Sung achieved the liberation of Korea, built a socialist country in Korea and performed great feats in the revolution and construction.
    The President, who devoted his all to accomplishing the sacred cause for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people, always lives in the hearts of the Korean people and the progressive people of the world, he said, adding:
    His revolutionary cause is being successfully carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
    Paek Nam Sun in his speech recalled that the Cuban people have significantly commemorated the Day of the Sun every year together with the Korean people. This is a manifestation of deep respect of the Cuban leadership and people for the President.
    The friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Cuba provided by Kim Il Sung and Fidel Castro Ruz, he said, have been steadily consolidated and developed under the deep concern of the leaders of the two countries.
    The DPRK will make all efforts to boost these relations, true to the behests of the President and the intention of Kim Jong Il, and extend full support and solidarity to the Cuban people in their cause of justice in the future, too.

U.S. Military Drills Denounced

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The Federation of Koreans in Australia released a statement on March 25 denouncing the U.S. for rendering the situation of the Korean Peninsula strained. The statement condemned all sorts of U.S. military drills contrary to the desire of the Korean nation for peace and reunification of the country as war provocation moves against the north of Korea. The U.S. is giving a lip-service to a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue and the six-party talks, which clearly shows once again that there is no change in the U.S. wild ambition for invasion of the north, the statement said, and stressed:
    The U.S. should withdraw its hostile policy toward the north, stop the war exercises threatening the peace of the Korean Peninsula and come out to dialogue and negotiations with the stand of peaceful coexistence.

Chief of KPA General Staff on DPRK's Intention to Bolster Its Nuclear Deterrent

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will bolster its self-defensive nuclear deterrent in face of the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK. Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army Kim Yong Chun, who is also member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, reclarified this position in a report made at a national meeting held at the April 25 House of Culture here Friday to mark the 12th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the NDC.
    He said:
    The U.S. has become evermore desperate in its efforts to stifle the DPRK and consequently a grave situation is prevailing in the Korean Peninsula.
    The United States chiefly to blame for the present deadlock of the six-party talks is working hard to bring down the system in the DPRK, while frantically staging large-scale war exercises under various codenames meant for invading the DPRK.
    The U.S. persistent hostile policy toward the DPRK will only prompt Pyongyang to further consolidate the single-minded unity of its revolutionary ranks and bolster its self-defensive nuclear deterrent under the banner of Songun. If the U.S. imperialists defy our repeated warnings and dare launch a war of aggression on the peninsula, the army and people of the DPRK under the great Songun commander will turn out as one in a just war and mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and win a final victory in the stand-off with the U.S.
    He also underlined the need for the servicepersons and people to equip themselves with the Juche-based view on war and always keep themselves fully ready to go into action to resolutely frustrate the U.S. moves for a new war.

Russian Presidential Orchestra Concludes Its Korea Visit

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The Presidential Orchestra of the Russian Federation led by Maj. General Oleg Galkin, commander of the Bodyguard Regiment for the president, left here Friday after successfully winding up its seven-day visit to Korea. During its stay the orchestra visited Mangyongdae, the International Friendship Exhibition and the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace and laid a wreath before the Liberation Tower.
    Prior to their departure members of the orchestra were interviewed by reporters at Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang on April 8.
    In the interview members of the orchestra said they deem it a great honour to have been received by leader Kim Jong Il and to have shown him their performance.
    Senior conductor Anton Orlov, head of the orchestra, said that when they were received by Kim Jong Il they keenly realized what a great man he is and that they would not forget the happy moment.
    He stressed that they could feel the warm friendly feelings of the Korean people toward the Russian people everywhere they went and that Korea-Russia friendship would grow stronger under the deep concern of the leaders of the two countries.
    Prof. and Merited Artiste and conductor Lev Kontorovich sincerely wished the Korean people great successes in their efforts for the prosperity of the country.

World Health Day Observed in DPRK

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- A meeting for discussing issues related to the health of mothers and children was held at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on April 7, the World Health Day. The meeting fully showed that the mothers and children have enjoyed a good medicare system in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    At the meeting, Vice-director of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital Pak Song Suk said their health has been well protected under the free medicare system established by the DPRK government, and continued:
    More than 500,000 mothers die of pregnancy-related diseases and 10.6 million children, 40 percent of them being babies, lose their lives in the world every year.
    But in the DPRK, where the women have rights equal to men, women delivered of children enjoy special benefits.
    Besides regular and supplementary vacations they have a maternity leave at state expense. During the leave they receive food, stable living conditions and maternity allowance equivalent to their monthly wages irrespective of the length of service.
    The maternity hospitals in Pyongyang and provinces and the people's hospitals at all levels provide women with full medical service such as consultations on 22 occasions and delivery.
    Since the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital was opened, leader Kim Jong Il has sent to it more than 90 installments of modern medical equipment, medicines and tonics needed for babies and their mothers.
    Ri Hyon Ju, head of Kim Jong Suk Weekly Creche, spoke of the advantage of the socialist upbringing and education system of children established in the DPRK, saying that there are medical workers responsible for children's health at all nurseries, kindergartens and schools in all areas of the country including even remote mountainous and island villages.
    She added that there are children's wards at all hospitals ranging from state hospitals to the ri people's hospitals and a nutrition supply system including children's nutritive foodstuff institutes and factories.
    The government has paid a primary attention to providing children with food good for their growth.
    The participants in the meeting vowed to make the popular policies of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government further pay off and underscored the need to strengthen cooperation with the WHO in the efforts to finally solve the issue of mothers and children.

Preventive Work against Bird Flu

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Efforts to prevent bird flu are going on in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Ro Tu Chol, chairman of the State Emergency Veterinary and Anti-Epizootic Committee, told KCNA that about 200 emergency committees have been formed and emergency vaccinations against bird flu applied to all poultry farms.
    Chicken plants where bird flu broke out incinerated and buried affected chickens to suit the rules of the OIE, the France-based epizootic disease office.
    Traffic around the plants is blocked up and outsiders are forbidden to enter the areas. And all flocks of henhouses proved positive by elizakit are incinerated and buried. Fowls and processed fowls are quarantined thoroughly in the border areas and at harbors and airports.
    Marketing of poultry and eggs is not allowed.
    Posts have been installed to observe migrants coming into and staying in the country and excrements of birds examined in a veterinary way.
    Veterinaries under the Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with experts dispatched to the country by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have reexamined the chicken plants from April 4 on the basis of the standard serum, antigen and elizakit.

Commemorative Stamps Issued

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued four kinds of stamps (two souvenir sheets and two separate stamps) to commemorate the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, and the 40th anniversary of the naming of Kimilsungia. Seen in the souvenir sheet with the words "Commemoration of the Birth Anniversary of President Kim Il Sung", "Juche 1 (1912)-Juche 94 (2005)" and "The Day of the Sun" is a picture of Kim Il Sung standing in front of his old home with a smile on his face. And a separate stamp portrays Kimilsungia and Mangyong Hill against the background of the rising sun.
    Their face value is 112 won and 3 won respectively.
    Centered on the souvenir sheet with the words "Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Naming of Kimilsungia, the Flower of the Sun" and "Juche 54 (1965)-Juche 94 (2005)" is a photograph of the President receiving newly-bred Kimilsungia from Sukarno, ex-president of Indonesia, on April 13, 1965.
    Seen in the sheet and a separate stamp are pictures of Kimilsungia, the Kimilsungia festival mark and the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition.
    Their face value is 120 won and 3 won respectively.

Greetings to Moldovan President

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Vladimir Woronin on April 7 upon his re-election as president of Moldova. Expressing the conviction that the relations of friendship between the two countries would develop in good terms in the interests of the two peoples, the message sincerely wished the president a greater success in his responsible work for the economic stability of the country and the well-being of the people.

Kim Jong Il Inspects Command of KPA Combined Unit

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, inspected KPA combined unit 837. The unit honored with several visits paid by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for field guidance has many revolutionary sites related to it.
    Going round a room dedicated to the education in the revolutionary history of the leaders and another room dedicated to the history of the unit, Kim Jong Il said that the unit was able to cover a road of shining victory and emerge a combined unit having a-match-for-a-hundred fighters under the wise guidance and meticulous care of the President.
    He underlined the need to preserve historical relics and materials associated with the giant footprints of the President, intensify the education in them to encourage all servicepersons to eternally glorify the great idea and cause of the President and his immortal feats with noble morality.
    Kim Jong Il acquainted himself with the unit's performance of its duty. He highly praised the commanding officers of the unit for their achievements, greatly pleased to learn that they have equipped themselves with the party's Juche-oriented military tactics, acquired admirable commanding ability and converted the defence theater into an impregnable fortress and performed remarkable feats in building socialism for the prosperity of the country.
    Highlighting the importance of the unit's duty, he advanced tasks that would serve as guidelines in increasing the unit's combat capacity. Then he watched soldiers under the combined unit in training.
    He spared time to meet Han Hye Ryon and other soldiers who distinguished themselves in the training and gave a warm pep-talk to them before congratulating them on their success in the drill.
    Drills produce a-match-for-a-hundred soldiers and combat and political training helps them become one-beats-a-hundred fighters, he said, calling on every soldier to become a hero in the Songun era through intensive training.
    He was very pleased to see an excellent applied art work vividly representing the whole course of the unit and praised servicepersons as all-round soldiers equipped with great combat capability and creative ingenuity.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' service and living, going round a servicepersons' hall, an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a wash-cum-bath house and subsidiary food store and a food processing room and other entertainment and service facilities.
    He gave servicepersons of the combined unit an automatic rifle as a gift before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.

Congratulatory Letter to Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a congratulatory letter from the military attaches corps in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission. The letter was conveyed to an official concerned today by Iranian Military Attache Abdullah Hamidi Benam who is doyen of the corps.

Foreign Athletes Here

     Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Athletes of China, Guinea, South Africa, Norway, Botswana and Zimbabwe arrived here to participate in the 18th International Marathon Race for Mangyongdae Cup to be held on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.

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Kim Jong Il presencia funcion de orquesta del presidente de Rusia

     Pyongyang, 8 de abril (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, presencio el dia 7 la funcion de la orquesta del presidente de la Federacion Rusa de visita en Corea. Le acogieron en el teatro el mayor general Oleg Galkin, quien es jefe del regimiento de escolta del presidente y preside la mision artistica, y Andrei Karlov, embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de Rusia en Corea.
    El Dirigente dio calurosa bienvenida a la banda musical y sostuvo cordiales conversaciones con los huespedes rusos.
    Cuando el Dirigente hizo su aparicion en el salon, todos los espectadores le aclamaron con una estruendosa ovacion.
    Artistas de la banda presidencial le entregaron un ramo de flores y le rindieron saludo de votos.
    Disfrutaron de la funcion junto con el Dirigente el premier Pak Pong Ju, el jefe del Estado Mayor General del EPC Kim Yong Chun, el ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Populares Kim Il Chol, el vicepresidente del CDN de la RPDC Yon Hyong Muk, el secretario del Comite Central del PTC Kim Ki Nam, el primer vicecanciller Kang Sok Ju y otros cuadros del partido y el ejercito y los funcionarios de la diplomacia, la literatura, el arte y la prensa asi como militares del EPC.
    Tambien estuvieron presentes Oleg Galkin, Andrei Karlov y otros miembros de la sede diplomatica rusa.
    Integran el conjunto musical los premiados en concursos internacionales, actores del pueblo y benemeritos de Rusia, prestigiosos y talentosos cantantes, ejecutantes y directores.
    Los visitantes descorrieron el telon con el coro de la "Cancion al camarada Kim Jong Il" y coronaron la escena con el solo femenino "Ruisenor" y otras canciones rusas, aparte de las coreanas como el coro "Cielo azul de mi pais", el solo femenino "Que prospere, patria" y "Llegue a saber", la musica orquestal "Loma Mungyong", etc.
    Con su gran don artistico, los ejecutantes describieron fielmente el gran patriotismo, las costumbres tradicionales y el sentimiento nacional del pueblo ruso.
    El Dirigente hizo llegar un cesto de flores a los artistas rusos para felicitarlos por la exitosa funcion.
    Terminada la funcion, el Dirigente se fotografio junto a los integrantes de la banda presidencial.
    El mismo dia, Oleg Galkin entrego presente al Dirigente.

Kim Jong Il recibe carta del Cuerpo de Agregados Militares

     Pyongyang, 8 de abril (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio una carta de felicitacion que le dirigiera el Cuerpo de Agregados Militares en Corea con motivo del 12 aniversario de su eleccion como Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea. Abdullah Hamidi Benam, agregado militar de la Embajada de la Republica Islamica de Iran, quien preside el Cuerpo, la entrego el dia 8 a un funcionario coreano.

Embajador cubano ofrece banquete por Dia del Sol

     Pyongyang, 8 de abril (ATCC) -- El embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la Republica de Cuba en Corea, Ruben Perez Valdes, ofrecio el dia 7 por la noche en su sede diplomatica un banquete en ocasion del Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung). Fueron invitados el canciller Paek Nam Sun, el ministro de Comercio Exterior Rim Kyong Man, el ministro de Educacion Kim Yong Jin, el presidente interino del Comite de Relaciones Culturales con el Extranjero Mun Jae Chol, el viceministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Populares Kim Sang Ik, el vicecanciller Choe Su Hon y otros funcionarios coreanos.
    Estuvieron presentes miembros de la embajada cubana.
    El diplomatico cubano, al hacer uso de la palabra, se refirio a que el Presidente Kim Il Sung restauro Corea, levanto sobre esta tierra un pais socialista y acumulo grandes hazanas en el proceso de la revolucion y la construccion.
    Apunto que el Presidente, quien dedico todo lo suyo al cumplimiento de la causa sagrada para la prosperidad del pais y la felicidad del pueblo, estara para siempre en el alma del pueblo coreano y los demas progresistas del mundo y anadio que la causa revolucionaria del Presidente la lleva adelante el Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea.
    El canciller coreano, en su discurso, senalo que el pueblo cubano junto con el coreano conmemora cada ano significativamente el Dia del Sol, lo cual es una manifestacion de infinita veneracion de la Direccion y el pueblo de Cuba hacia el Presidente.
    Subrayo que las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion entre Corea y Cuba, preparadas por el Presidente Kim Il Sung y el estimado camarada Fidel Castro Ruz, siguen consolidandose y desarrollandose bajo la gran atencion de los dirigentes de los dos paises.
    La RPDC -concluyo- hara todos los esfuerzos por ampliarlas aun mas conforme al legado del Presidente y el proposito del Dirigente y expresara en lo adelante tambien entero apoyo y solidaridad con la justa causa del pueblo cubano.