Seminar on Kim Jong Il's Famous Work Held

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A seminar on leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Socialism Is a Science" was held by the Society for Cooperation among Koreans in Germany on April 12. Present there were officials of the society and Koreans in the area of Berlin.
    Speakers referred to the fact that the leader in his work proved in depth that socialism is an idea and a revolutionary banner for the popular masses struggling for independence and Korean socialism is based on the Juche-oriented viewpoint and stand on them.
    Scientific accuracy, truth and advantages of socialism have been proved by the experience gained in the practice of the Korean revolution, they noted, adding that his work was declaration of an ideological campaign against the imperialists and reactionaries who sought the collapse of socialism and a deadly blow dealt by the revolution at the renegades of socialism.

KPA Praised for Helping People

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- It is the traditional traits of the Korean People's Army to take good care of the people and sincerely help them, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed article. Thanks to this reliable revolutionary army fully displaying the traits of assisting the people, the army-people unity has grown stronger, the political and military power of the DPRK further increased and the country is rushing forward like the wind to emerge a great prosperous powerful nation, the article says, and goes on:
    The above-said traits fully displayed by the servicepersons at present are a manifestation of the intense loyalty manifested by them in devotedly putting into practice the intention of the Workers' Party of Korea to make our people the most revolutionary and morally sound people and provide them with a bountiful and highly civilized life.
    These traits in the era of Songun are fully displayed in the course of actively helping the people in politico-ideological and cultural aspects and dynamically pushing ahead with socialist construction.
    Such traits find a vivid manifestation in the fact that servicepersons have always taken good care of the people's living and gone through thick and thin to protect their lives and properties.
    The servicepersons are now accelerating socialist construction. This fact itself means a good example of assisting the people, the paper says, recalling the shining achievements made by the army in socialist construction over the past years.
    It further says:
    They are rendering sincere labour and material and technical assistance to the people in their efforts to build an economic power.
    The Korean People's Army is best in the world as it is heroically working on major fronts of socialist construction to provide the people with a happier life while struggling to protect the country and the people in the fiercest military confrontation with the imperialists.

Korean People's Struggle for Independent Reunification of Country Supported

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO) calls upon all the progressive forces of the world to voice firm solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle for the accomplishment of the cause of the independent and peaceful reunification of the country in a more responsible manner. Guy Dupre, secretary general of CILRECO, said this in a statement on April 8 on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the publication of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country" and the 7th anniversary of the publication of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation".
    He noted that the cause of the independent reunification of Korea to which Kim Il Sung devoted all his life and which is being carried forward and developed by Kim Jong Il with his rare thought and will is now developing to be a patriotic movement for the reunification of the whole Korean nation which can never be turned back by any foreign forces.
    This reality can be proved by the fact that new progress is being made in the process of reconciliation, cooperation and reunification between the north and south of Korea, pursuant to the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration despite all machinations of the ultra-right reactionary and conservative forces of the U.S. and south Korea, he noted.
    The joint declaration and efforts for its implementation clearly testify to the validity and vitality of the ideas set out in the works, he stressed.

RS Calls for Fully Demonstrating Might of Army-People Unity

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries an editorial calling for giving full play to the might of the army-people unity in the general march for the Songun revolution this year. Fully displaying the might of the army-people unity is a sacred work to spread the flames of great upswing for the Songun revolution over the whole country. It is also a worthwhile work to glorify forever the history and tradition of the Korean revolution that has wrought epoch-making miracles by the force of the army-people unity, the editorial says, and goes on:
    With this force, we should carry out the mammoth tasks for this year. The army and the people should pool their efforts to bring an epochal turn in agricultural production, put on a normal basis the production in pilot sections of the national economy and build monumental edifices glorifying the Songun era.
    Our army-people unity is characterized by the spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of revolution and remaining faithful to its idea and leadership. This spirit is the source of the invincible might of the unity.
    All the servicepersons and people should rally closer around the headquarters of revolution in terms of ideology and purpose, upholding the slogan "Let us devotedly defend the headquarters of revolution led by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il!" as the slogan of faith and action.
    The inexhaustible might of the unity should be fully demonstrated in the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Like the army, all the people should set daring and big plans as required by the general march and put them into practice strenuously and energetically in a do-or-die spirit.
    In the general onward movement for this year we should build more edifices symbolizing the army-people unity such as army-people power station and bridge.
    We should continue the brisk drive to improve the ideological viewpoint, style of work and way of life to the level of the army so that the soldier culture, emotion and spirit may prevail over the whole society. It is also important to more thoroughly establish the public traits of giving importance to the military affairs and putting forward the army. The editorial calls for giving fuller play to the might of the army-people unity under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il and thus adorning this significant year as a year of proud victory and glory unprecedented in the history of the country.

Kim Il Sung Lauded

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung always lives in the hearts of all people as the sun as he performed great exploits to shine for all ages, said Vishwanath, director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, staying here to commemorate the Day of the Sun. His birth marked a great event that heralded the dawn of the era of Juche, Vishwanath said, and continued: He led the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory, liberating the country, built a country for the people in Korea and led to victory with his preeminent strategy and superb commandership the Korean people's great Fatherland Liberation War fought to beat back the U.S. imperialists' armed aggression. What is most prominent among the exploits he performed for the times and history is that he founded the immortal Juche idea, the great guiding idea in the era of independence.
    He always placed the interests of the people above anything else in the whole period of his revolutionary struggle and devoted all his life to their happiness.
    He was, indeed, the most outstanding leader representing the 20th century and a political elder of the world revolution.
    His cause is being successfully carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il.
    Kim Jong Il provided the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, opening up a rosy future of Korea's reunification.

U.S. War Plan Denounced in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), in a statement on April 17 reportedly denounced the U.S. "OPLAN 5029-05" as the most dangerous plan of war against the north which is aimed to intentionally create a war climate on the Korean Peninsula and provoke a military conflict. It called for shattering the U.S. moves for a war against the north by cooperation for national independence and for peace against war. The statement said the present situation evidently indicates that the U.S. outcries for the "six-party talks" and "a peaceful solution" are no more than a smokescreen for concealing its war scheme against the north and vividly shows who is to blame for the clouds of war hanging over the Korean Peninsula.
    Still today the U.S. continues shipping lethal weapons into this land and working overtime to intentionally create the ignition point of a war against the north, shouting itself hoarse over fictitious "fast changing situation," noted the statement.

Musan-Nanping Border Bridge Completed

     Chongjin, April 20 (KCNA) -- The Musan-Nanping Bridge that links Musan County, North Hamgyong Province of Korea, to Helong City, Jilin Province of China, has been completed. The building of the bridge which will add shine to the history of DPRK-China friendship will help toward boosting friendship between the two peoples.
    Participating in the ceremony for the completion of the bridge held on April 19 were officials concerned, working people in Musan County, builders and Chinese guests including the mayor of the Helong City People's Government.

True Colors of U.S. as Arch Nuclear Criminal Disclosed

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday carries a lengthy signed article laying bare the true colors of the U.S. imperialist aggressors as the arch nuclear criminal in the world. The article says:
    The real nature of the U.S. as the world's arch nuclear criminal found a vivid expression in the fact that it singled out a preemptive nuclear attack as its basic military strategy for world domination after the Sept. 11 incident and has since contemplated the use of nukes as conventional weapons, regarding all other countries of the world as targets of its nuclear attack.
    The DPRK is the main target of the U.S. strategy of preemptive attack, its strategy of preemptive nuclear attack.
    As the U.S. imperialists had suffered a shameful defeat in the last Korean war, they have worked hard to stifle the DPRK by use of nukes. To this end, they have shipped at least 1,000 nuclear weapons of different types into south Korea, turning it into the biggest nuclear outpost in the Far East and incessantly increasing the nuclear threat to the DPRK. The U.S. is, therefore, chiefly to blame for having spurned the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. imperialists have staged ceaseless nuclear war exercises targeted against the DPRK with huge nuclear strike means involved, openly threatening to use them in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula. This has increased the danger of a nuclear war on the peninsula.
    The U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises, a combination of "RSOI" and "Foal Eagle," staged last March in south Korea, were reckless large-scale nuclear war exercises for a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK.
    It is self-evident that the DPRK can not remain a mere onlooker given the fact that the U.S. is persistently pursuing its policy to stifle the DPRK with nukes. It was the U.S. that compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons and Washington is chiefly to blame for standing in the way of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK's possession of nuclear weapons is an exercise of its legitimate right to self-defence and a measure for just defence as it is aimed to avert a war and protect its ideology and system, freedom and democracy from the U.S. increasing nuclear threat and its attempt at preemptive nuclear attack. It is in full line with the principle of defending national sovereignty and requirements of international law for preventing war and ensuring peace.
    The nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. can find a smooth solution should the U.S. stop uttering such empty words as "it has no intention to invade north Korea" devoid of any guarantee but take such trustworthy measure in practice as rolling back its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK with nukes and making a switchover to a policy of peaceful coexistence with it. Whether the U.S. makes a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK or not is a touchstone showing whether it truly wants the settlement of the nuclear issue between them and the denuclearization of the peninsula or not.
    If the peninsula is to be nuclear-free, it is necessary to clear south Korea and its vicinity of all the U.S. nuclear weapons and its threat of a nuclear war and eliminate all possibilities of south Korea going nuclear.
    This is a focal point and the master key to denuclearizing the peninsula.
    The U.S. is loudmouthed about "non-proliferation of nuclear weapons" but it is, in fact, chiefly accountable for fostering the nuclear proliferation.
    Proceeding from its biased stand, the U.S. has connived at, encouraged and cooperated with those forces toeing its line and its allies in the development and possession of nukes. But it has pulled up those countries that incurred its displeasure over their "nuclear issues" and kicked up a noisy racket of pressure in a bid to internationalize those issues.
    If any alliance with the U.S. is used as standards by which to handle the nuclear issue, then the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty would be invalid. As a matter of fact, the double standards applied by the U.S. in handling the nuclear issue are turning the NPT into an irrelevant dead document.
    What merits a particularly serious attention is that the start of a global thermo-nuclear war by the U.S. is no longer an assumption but may be a reality.
    The internal and external situation of the U.S. is not good. The U.S. economy is in the grip of a crisis due to the increasing burden of military spending and the escalating "anti-terrorism war". Its financial and trade deficits are swelling faster than ever before and the bankruptcy of enterprises and the depression of production are going from bad to worse.
    The American society is threatened with the nightmare of terrorism and horror and pervaded with an atmosphere of internal division. The U.S. stands more isolated internationally for its high-handed practices and unilateralism. It is seeking a way out of this serious crisis in igniting a nuclear war.
    In the past the U.S. nuclear attack was targeted against one or two cities of a country but now the world has, in fact, become the target of the nuclear war to be provoked by the U.S. Herein lies the great danger of its strategy of preemptive nuclear attack.

Japan's Outcries over Abduction Issue Assailed

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries should clarify the truth behind the fabrication of "results of examination" of remains, punish those responsible and return the remains in their original state as soon as possible before exposing themselves to a greater disgrace under the eyes of the world, says an article of Rodong Sinmun Thursday. Noting that the Japanese right-wing conservative politicians are still insisting on the fiction of "false remains," the article goes on:
    The Japanese right-wing reactionaries have so far cried out for a "tough response" and "introduction of sanctions" against the DPRK over the abduction issue, alleging that the DPRK delivered "false remains" according to the "results of examination".
    However, after the DPRK scientifically proved the falsehood of the "results of examination" of the remains of Megumi Yokota, the truth behind the anti-DPRK intrigues has been brought to light in succession, putting Japan to a big shame in the international community.
    Nevertheless, the Japanese right-wingers continue to act foolishly, bereft of the sense of disgrace and shame.
    The Japanese right-wing conservative politicians intend to drive the DPRK to a tight corner and put international pressure upon it and impose sanctions against it by convincing the public of the truth of the fictitious "false remains." So far, eight persons have been identified among those Japanese persons whom the Japanese reactionaries had claimed to have most probably been "abducted," linking them with the DPRK. Some of them proved to be living in Japan or to have been murdered. This well shows what crafty and childish method the Japanese right-wing conservative politicians are using to attain their political purpose.
    The hectic anti-DPRK campaign of the Japanese reactionaries over the abduction issue is designed to escalate confrontation between the DPRK and Japan, scrap the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and create a climate for reinvasion.

U.S. "OPLAN 5029-05" Assailed

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists' attempt to start a war of aggression against the DPRK is becoming extremely dangerous in all aspects. A proof of this is that they have recently worked out "OPLAN 5029-05," a more concrete version of their war scenario to invade the DPRK. In this regard Rodong Sinmun Thursday says in a signed commentary:
    The U.S. imperialist warmongers have gone the lengths of working out this new adventurous "plan" for a war of aggression against the DPRK. This indicates that the U.S. policy for stifling the DPRK is rapidly inching close to the dangerous phase of igniting a war of aggression against the DPRK.
    The U.S. "OPLAN 5029-05" unlike the previous "plans" is chiefly aimed to deliberately create a war state on the Korean Peninsula and spark a military conflict on its own initiative. It calls upon the south Korea-U.S. "Combined Forces Command" to replace the U.S. Pacific Command not only in working out plans but in carrying out operations. Large-scale joint military exercises have been staged with huge aggressor armed forces involved, new type shells with high destructive power are being provided to the U.S. forces present in south Korea, the reorganization of their second division is expected to be completed by this summer, that is, two years earlier than scheduled, and the U.S. is contemplating shipping smaller nuclear bombs capable of destroying underground facilities into south Korea before any other places. These dangerous military moves can be seen only on the eve of war. They are intended to put into practice the scenarios for preemptive attacks on the DPRK such as the new "OPLAN 5029-05".
    Explicitly speaking, the attempt of the Bush warmongers and their allied forces to bring down the system in the DPRK and invade it while talking about a "particular situation" and "the rapidly changed situation" is nothing but daydreams of those suffering from psychosis and megalomania.
    The U.S. would be well advised to heed the DPRK's warnings and cancel its war scenarios and roll back its hostile policy toward the DPRK. Should the warmongers continue running wild, they will be bound to meet wholesale deaths in face of the Songun army of the DPRK.

Day of Sun Commemorated in Switzerland and Britain

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Lausanne on April 9 to commemorate the Day of the Sun, under the co-sponsorship of the Swiss Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification and the Pyongyang Cultural Interchange Centre in Lausanne. Martin Lotscher, chairman of the committee, said in a speech that President Kim Il Sung was a benefactor of the Korean people's rebirth, an iron-willed commander, a genius of ideology and leadership and the lodestar of Korea's reunification. His immortal exploits are successfully being carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il, he said. A message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
    On the same day a meeting and a film show were held at the Marx Memorial Library in Britain. Present at the meeting were representatives of political parties and public organizations in the country including the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and the New Communist Party of Britain.
    Christopher Coleman, spokesman (leader) of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), in a speech expressed his great sympathy with the principled and resolute position of Kim Jong Il valiantly standing without any concession against the undisguised war threat by the U.S. imperialists. And he said that the DPRK has become a model from which the world progressives should learn.
    After the meeting the participants watched a Korean film introducing the invincible might of the heroic Korean People's Army.

Congratulations to Jordanian Foreign Minister

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a congratulatory message to Farouk Kasrawi on his appointment as foreign minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Expressing the belief that the ties of exchange and cooperation between the two countries and foreign ministries will grow stronger, the message wished him success in his new job.

Congratulations to Jordanian Prime Minister

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Adnan Badran on his appointment as prime minister of the Cabinet and minister of Defence of Jordan. Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms, the message wished him success in his responsible work.

Wreaths Laid before Statue and Grave of Kang Pan Sok

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were placed before the statue of Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and an outstanding leader of the women's movement in Korea, at the Chilgol Revolutionary Site and her grave in Mangyongdae today to commemorate the 113th anniversary of her birth. Seen there were wreaths from Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
    Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Kim Il Chol, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and Kim Ki Nam and officials of party and power organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions and KPA men and officers and citizens in Pyongyang.
    Amid the playing of wreath-laying music wreaths were placed before the statue and the grave in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet of the DPRK.
    Also laid were wreaths in the name of working people's organizations, ministries, national institutions and military academies of the KPA and party and power organs, public health organs, farms and schools in Pyongyang.
    The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of her revolutionary feats and brilliant life.

Pictures of Gift Animals and Plants Exhibited

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Electric pictures of animals and plants sent to President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il as gifts by party and state leaders and prominent figures of many countries have been displayed in the International Friendship Exhibition on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, the President's birth anniversary. Over 100 animals and plants of 50-odd kinds, some of the gifts, were pictured with the help of computer.
    The display enables the visitors to the exhibition to see animals and plants growing at the Central Zoo and the Central Botanical Garden.
    There are pictures of Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia, each size being 1.5mx3.5m. The first flower is what former Indonesian President Sukarno named after Kim Il Sung and presented to him during his visit to Indonesia in April Juche 54 (1965) and the latter is what a Japanese horticulturist Mototeru Kamo bred, named after Kim Jong Il and presented to him.
    Among the displayed pictures are those of zebras sent from the central region of Africa and Lemur catta from Madagascar.
    There is also a picture of a pair of white tigers sent to Kim Jong Il by Choe Su Jin, general manager of the Corporation of the National Economic Development located in Heilongjiang Province, China, in June 2004. It shows the intrepid tigers against the background of Mt. Paekdu.

Juche-based Idea on Public Health Proves Successful

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Twenty years have elapsed since leader Kim Jong Il sent his letter "On the Further Improvement of the Health Service" to the participants in the national conference of medical workers on April 21, Juche 74 (1985). In his historic letter, he gives answers to questions of principle arising in the health service of the country in a comprehensive way. They range from the essence, mission and role of the health service to issues of thoroughly implementing the prophylactic line of the Workers' Party of Korea, improving medical service, developing medical science and technology, strengthening the training of medical workers and fully ensuring material supply to the health sector.
    The correctness and great vitality of the Juche-based idea on public health advanced in the letter, which should be taken as guidelines in the socialist health service, have been fully manifested through practice.
    The people of the DPRK have enjoyed the benefits of the socialist health service such as the preventive and free medical service and section doctor system even in difficult years of the "Arduous March" and forced march.
    The government has taken steps to protect the people from various communicable diseases with regular vaccination and anti-epidemic measures and to plug teeth for a million people free of charge every year over the last decade.
    The material and technical foundation of the public health sector has been strengthened, scientific accuracy and efficacy of diagnosis and treatment improved with the introduction of latest scientific and technical achievements and thus qualitative level of medical service raised.
    Many successes have been made in medical science and technology in recent years. Many kinds of good medicine have been developed and their production processes established. And a new kind of cell strain has been found out for diagnosis and production of preventive medicines against viral diseases.
    Meanwhile, modern hospitals, medical institutes and medicine production centers including the Academy of Koryo Medical Science, Children's Nourishment Institute, Endocrine Institute, Taedonggang Injector Factory, Kanggye Koryo Medicine Factory have been built in different parts of the country.

Kang Pan Sok, Pioneer in Assisting Army

     Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- April 21 is the 113th birth anniversary of Kang Pan Sok, an outstanding leader of the movement for women's emancipation in Korea and an indomitable revolutionary fighter. She, who keenly realized that only armed struggle could beat back the Japanese imperialists and achieve the liberation of the country, actively helped President Kim Il Sung, her son, found the guerrilla army in the early period of the Korean revolution. When the President was making preparations for an armed struggle after he formed the Down-with-Imperialism Union in October 1926, she gave him two pistols left over by his father Kim Hyong Jik in the hope that his posterity would fighting generation after generation to liberate the country. She then told him that with the pistols he should accomplish the cause of the country's liberation his father failed to do.
    When the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA), the first Juche-oriented army of the Korean people, was formed in April 1932, she mobilized anti-Japanese women's association members in securing uniforms, provisions and shoes for the army. And she provided lodging and boarding conditions to young people who came to join the army, upon hearing the news of the army foundation.
    Thanks to such army assistance started by her, the KPRA could win a brilliant victory in the anti-Japanese war though it received neither state backing nor support of a regular army. Such army-assisting tradition has been carried forward steadily in the country.
    The whole society is replete with the trait of assisting the army in the Songun era ushered in by leader Kim Jong Il, producing many heroes who distinguished themselves in assisting the army. The Korean people regard assistance to the army as the first token of patriotism and obligation of the citizens.

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Kang Pan Sok fue precursora de apoyo al ejercito

     Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- Hoy se cumple el 113 aniversario del nacimiento de Kang Pan Sok (madre del Presidente Kim Il Sung), indoblegable combatiente revolucionaria y destacada dirigente del movimiento femenino coreano. Con motivo de esta efemeride, el pueblo coreano da una vista retrospectiva a la gran vida revolucionaria de la madre quien con ardiente amor a la patria y la nacion dio el inicio de apoyo al ejercito.
    Ella tenia la inconmovible verdad de que solo con las fuerzas armadas era posible derrotar a los imperialistas japoneses y traer una nueva primavera de la restauracion. Ya en los primeros dias de la Revolucion Coreana dedico todo lo suyo a la realizacion de la causa del Songun (priorizacion militar) del Presidente.
    Un dia cuando el Presidente fundo en octubre de 1926 la Union para Derrotar al Imperialismo y hacia los preparativos de lucha armada, Kang Pan Sok le dio dos pistolas impregnadas del firme credo de Kim Hyong Jik (padre del Presidente) y dijo ansiosamente que debia lograr sin falta la causa de la restauracion de la patria, no alcanzada por su padre.
    Cuando se fundo en abril de 1932 el Ejercito Revolucionario Popular de Corea (ERPC), primera fuerza armada revolucionaria autoctona del pueblo coreano, movilizo a las integrantes de la Asociacion de Mujeres Antijaponesas para preparar uniformes, alimentos y zapatos del citado ejercito y atendio minuciosamente condiciones de hospedaje y comida de los jovenes que venian al enterarse de la noticia de fundacion de la Guerrilla Antijaponesa.
    En visperas de partir a Manchuria del Sur con el grueso del ERPC, el Presidente fue avisado de que el estado de salud de su madre empeoraba y marcho a su casa. Entonces, ella le dio una solemne reprimenda de que antes de inquietarse por la situacion de la familia pensara primero en el pais arrebatado y en el pueblo, y si en adelante se le ocurriera volver a casa por preocupaciones de ella ni se acercara a la puerta. Y lo despidio dandole 20 wones que habia acumulado centavo por centavo.
    Gracias a la tradicion de ayuda al ejercito preparada por la madre Kang Pan Sok, el ERPC logro una brillante victoria en la guerra antijaponesa bajo el activo apoyo y respaldo del pueblo, aun en dificiles condiciones de que no tenia retaguardia estatal ni tampoco gozaba de apoyo del ejercito regular. Hoy tambien tal ambiente de ayuda al ejercito se hereda en los anales de la revolucion.
    En la epoca del Songun iniciada por el Dirigente Kim Jong Il la ayuda al ejercito se ha convertido firmemente en el ambiente de toda la sociedad y salen innumerables familias militares revolucionarias y heroes de ayuda al ejercito. El pueblo coreano, que considera la ayuda al ejercito como maximo patriotismo y deber civico, mantendra invariablemente la tradicion de tal ayuda al ejercito en el camino de apoyar la politica de Songun del Dirigente.

Se exhiben fotos de luz electrica computarizadas

     Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- Con motivo del Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung), la Exposicion Permanente de Amistad Internacional de Corea exhibio en fotos de luz electrica computarizadas mas de cien animales y vegetales de mas de 50 especies, que el Presidente Kim Il Sung y el Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibieron de los jefes de partido y Estado e ilustres personalidades de distintos circulos de varios paises del mundo. La Exposicion Permanente de Amistad Internacional llego a disponer de fisonomia de gran tesoro universal de elogio a los grandes hombres, que permite ver hasta los animales y vegetales que se conservan y crecen en el Parque Zoologico Nacional y en el Jardin Botanico Nacional.
    Entre ellas figuran la foto (1.5m x 3.5m) alusiva a la Kimilsungia que el Presidente recibio durante su visita a Indonesia, realizada en abril del 54 (1965) de la Era Juche, de Sukarno, presidente indonesio de aquel entonces; la foto (1.5m x 3.5m) de Kimjongilia, flor que el floricultor japones Mododeru Kamo cultivo con esmero y obsequio al Dirigente luego de denominarla con su nombre; la de cebra que vive en la zona central de Africa y otros animales; y la de un par de tigre blanco que le dirigio al Dirigente en junio de 2004 Choe Su Jin, director general de la Compania General del Desarrollo de Economia Nacional de la provincia de Heilongjiang de China.
    Las fotos con luz electrica computarizadas, junto con todas las presentes exhibidas en la Exposicion, transmitiran generacion tras generacion las nobles personalidades de los grandes hombres sin pares, el gran orgullo y dignidad de la nacion coreana que goza de siglo en siglo de la fortuna de tener el gran Lider y el gran General.

Rodong Sinmun exhorta a demostrar unidad entre ejercito y pueblo

     Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 21 un editorial exhortando a poner en pleno despliegue el poderio de la unidad entre el ejercito y el pueblo en la marcha general de la revolucion del Songun (priorizacion militar) del presente ano. Demostrar plenamente el poderio de tal unidad constituye una sagrada labor para avivar las llamas del gran auge revolucionario del Songun en todo el pais y una digna empresa para glorificar la historia y tradiciones de nuestra revolucion que vino creando milagros seculares con las fuerzas unidas del ejercito y el pueblo, senala el editorial y prosigue:
    Debemos cumplir tambien con el poderio de la unidad entre el ejercito y el pueblo las inmensas tareas del ano en curso, la labor para registrar un viraje radical en la produccion agricola, normalizar la produccion en las ramas prioritarias de la economia nacional y levantar las creaciones monumentales que glorifican la epoca del Songun La caracteristica e inagotable poderio de la unidad entre nuestro ejercito y pueblo residen en defender a costa de la vida la Direccion de la Revolucion y apoyar con fidelidad la idea y la direccion de esta.
    Todos los oficiales y soldados del Ejercito Popular y habitantes deben tomar la consigna "!Defendamos a costa de la vida la Direccion de la Revolucion encabezada por el gran camarada Kim Jong Il!" como lema de su conviccion, practica y accion y aglutinarse monoliticamente en torno a esta con una sola idea y voluntad.
    Debemos demostrar sin reserva el inagotable poderio de la unidad entre el Ejercito y el pueblo en la lucha por la construccion de una gran potencia prospera.
    Todo el pueblo debe trazar con audacia y gran ambicion las metas como lo hace el ejercito popular conforme a la demanda de la marcha general y llevarlas a la practica con tenacidad, coraje y firme decision.
    En la marcha general de este ano debemos erguir mas creaciones que sirven de simbolos de la unidad entre el ejercito y pueblo como la central electrica y la puente que se llaman Kunmin (ejercito y pueblo).
    Debemos seguir impulsando la labor para situar a la altura del ejercito el punto de vista ideologico, el estilo de lucha y el modo de vida para que en toda la sociedad se reinen la cultura, el sentimiento y el impetu de los militares. Debemos establecer el estricto ambiente social de dar importancia a los asuntos militares y poner en primer plano al ejercito popular.
    Debemos poner en pleno despliegue el poderio de la unidad entre el ejercito y el pueblo bajo la direccion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il sobre la revolucion mediante el Songun para hacer del presente un ano de victoria y gloria sin precedentes en la historia de nuestra patria.