May Day Celebrated in DPRK

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Working people in the DPRK significantly celebrated the 115th May Day. Put up in streets of Pyongyang and provinces, cities and counties and in the compounds of industrial establishments were "Long live May Day, the international holiday of the workers around the world!", "Let all of us turn out in the building of a prosperous powerful nation!", "Celebration of May Day" and other slogans. And flags of the DPRK and red flags fluttered, adding to the holiday mood.
    Artistes of the Mansudae Art Troupe, the State National Art Troupe, the Pyongyang Circus and other central art organizations performed at the Rungrado Pleasure Park, the Mangyongdae Fun Fair and other parks and recreation resorts in Pyongyang Sunday.
    Working people across the country enjoyed the fete with merry and joyful sports and amusement games at parks, recreation grounds and scenic spots. Conspicuous were the games at the Rakwon Machine Complex, the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the Ryongsong Machine Complex, the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex, the Wonsan Disabled Soldiers' Plastic Daily Necessities Factory and other industrial establishments.
    On the holiday the working people of the country were overflowing with the revolutionary zeal to fulfill their historical mission and duty, true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.

Mexican Party Leader on Friendly Relations with WPK

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Leonel Cota Montano who was elected chairman of the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Mexico at its 9th Congress reiterated its positive efforts to develop the friendly relations with the Workers' Party of Korea. This position was expressed on April 22 when he met with DPRK Ambassador to Mexico So Jae Myong who was a delegate of the WPK to the congress.
    He said that the WPK's dispatch of its delegate to the congress was an expression of deep trust in the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Mexico.
    He hoped that the WPK and the Korean people would register shining achievements under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.

Inside Story about U.S. Arms Buildup Plan Disclosed

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- It has been disclosed that the U.S. arms build-up plan envisaged even the capacity of rapid deployment of the U.S. forces in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula, according to south Korean KBS. The U.S. Forces Command in south Korea said that the plan calls for the capability to rapidly hurl its marines in Okinawa and Striker unit in the U.S. mainland into the Korean Peninsula and promptly deploy military hardware in case of "emergency" there. The U.S. imperialist bellicose elements are now leaving no stone unturned to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK and stifle it, while putting the scenarios of a war against it into more concrete shapes.

DPRK Doctorates Awarded to Officials of Yanbian University of China

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Pak Jong Yang, curator of the library of Yanbian University in China, was awarded a doctorate in literature, Rim Song Ho, principal of the School of Foreign Languages at the university, a doctorate in philology, and On Yom Ryong, head of the Center for the Study of the Development of Tourist Resources in Northeast Asia, a doctorate in geography. Enrolled in the correspondence course of the Doctoral Institute of Kim Il Sung University, they deeply studied the Korean language, the medieval literature of Korea and the tourist resources in the area of Mt. Paektu respectively.
    A ceremony of awarding doctorates of the DPRK to them was held at the People's Palace of Culture Monday.
    Present at the ceremony were Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi who is chairman of the State Commission for Conferring Degrees and Titles, Kang Chun Gum, secretary general of the commission, and officials concerned.

Many Species of Birds Come to DPRK

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Lots of birds have come to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to habit in mountains, fields, rivers and lakes. There are over 110 species of summer migrants. Among them are pied wagtail, hoopoe and grey starting coming in spring from the Southeast Asia including the southern part of China, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand.
    Black-napped oriole, lark, cuckoo, white heron and 60 other species of birds make nests in Mangyong Hill, Moran Hill and other thickly wooded parts of Pyongyang.
    Mandarin duck, broad-billed roller, scops owl, paradise flycatcher, fairy pitta, class of Swinhoe's willow-warbler such as pale-legged willow warbler and crowned willow warbler, and rapacious birds inhabit Mts. Paektu, Kumgang, Myohyang, Chilbo and Kuwol and other scenic spots of the country.
    Winter migratory birds including golden-eye, dabchick, osprey, white-fronted goose, brambling, waxwing and crane come to Korea with rich feed sources. And flocks of birds including various species of snipe and wild goose stay in the country for several days. Turdus merula and goosander which had not been seen have been observed in the country in recent years. White stork, reef heron, blackfaced spoonbill, crested ibis and bustard which are rare in the world are also seen in the country.
    Migratory grosbeak, mallard and coot, which had been known as migratory birds, live in the country all the year round, attracting interest of ornithologists.
    The species of migratory birds coming to the country amount to more than 310.
    According to Dr. Choe Jong Sik, head of the Ecological Chair of the Faculty of Life Science of Kim Il Sung University, the government has set March and July as months for protection of useful animals. During the period, various activities such as planting trees, improving rivers and marsh land, installing artificial nests and protecting nests for breeding are conducted to provide good environment for birds.

Old Well Unearthed in DPRK

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- The History Faculty of Kim Il Sung University recently discovered another brick well inside the Rakrang earthen wall in Rakrang District, Pyongyang, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The wall belongs to the period of the minor Kingdom of Rakrang (B.C 108 -the early 4th century), which was built by people of the ruined Ancient Korea. It is nearly 1.5 kilometers long.
    Sites of government office buildings, dwelling houses, barracks and three wells had already been found within the wall and groups of tombs of variousshapes around it. The recently unearthed well is 0.78 meter in diameter in the mouth and 4.5 meters deep. It is almost vertical down to 3.9 meters from the ground . The 0.6-meter-thick floor was tamped with clay and gravel. Its wall was built of grey bricks of 69 layers. Each brick is 30 centimeters long, 15 centimeters wide and 5 centimeters high. Some of the bricks were made in different patterns.
    The solid bricks show the developed ceramic technology at that time.
    Many relics such as earthenware, roof tiles and ironware were collected in the well.
    More than 70 pieces of earthenware were discovered, 15 of them have their original shapes and 56 can be restored to the original state.
    Most of the earthenware pieces are similar with those found in a well in Kosan-dong belonging to the days of the Kingdom of Koguryo. Their quality and shapes are better than those produced in the period of Ancient Korea.

U.S. Condemned for Describing DPRK as "Terrorism-Supporting State"

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs today gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA in connection with the fact that the U.S. took issue with the DPRK again over the issue of terrorism: The U.S. State Department made public an "annual report on terrorism in 2004" on April 28, which designated the DPRK again as a "terrorism-supporting state".
    It is, indeed, ridiculous that the U.S., the kingpin of state-sponsored terrorism and the biggest terrorism-supporting state, makes public a "report on terrorism" every year and brands anti-U.S., independent countries as "terrorism-supporting ones" .
    Given the fact that, although the Bush administration admitted the DPRK has no record of terrorism, it termed the DPRK a "terrorism-supporting state" again over the "issue of abduction" which had been completely resolved between the DPRK and Japan, we can clearly know how frantic it is getting in its ambition to overturn the system in the DPRK. .
    We have been disgusted with its clumsy moves. .
    The U.S. more undisguised move to stifle the DPRK only hardens its determination to continuously go the way it has already chosen.

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Celebracion del Primero de Mayo en RPDC

     Pyongyang, 2 de mayo (ATCC) -- Los trabajadores de distintas localidades de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea celebraron el 115 aniversario del Primero de Mayo, fiesta de la clase obrera del mundo entero. En ocasion de esta efemeride, en las calles de la capital, provincias, ciudades y distritos y en los recintos de las fabricas y empresas se veian las consignas "!Viva el Primero de Mayo, fiesta internacional de los obreros de todo el mundo!", "Movilicemonos para la construccion de una patria rica y poderosa!", "Celebracion del Primero de Mayo", etc. Y flameaban las banderas de la RPDC y las rojas. .
    El dia primero, los artistas del Conjunto Artistico Mansudae, el Conjunto Artistico Nacional, el Conjunto Circense de Pyongyang y otras entidades artisticas ofrecieron funciones en el jardin de recreo de la isla Rungra, el parque de atracciones de Mangyongdae y otros lugares de la misma indole en la capital. .
    Los trabajadores de varias localidades pasaron la fiesta haciendo juegos deportivos y de diversion en los parques, jardines de recreo y lugares famosos. .
    Tambien tuvieron lugar diversos juegos deportivos y de recreo en el Complejo de Maquinaria de Rakwon, el Complejo Siderurgico Kim Chaek, el Complejo de Maquinaria de Ryongsong, el Complejo de Fertilizantes de Hungnam, la Fabrica de Articulos de Resina de Uso Diario de ex Militares Heridos de Honor de Wonsan y otras fabricas y empresas. .
    Asi los trabajadores estaban llenos de fervor revolucionario de quedar fieles a la direccion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il mediante el Songun (priorizacion militar) para cumplir su mision y obligacion historicas.

Trabajadores del Norte y el Sur de Corea denuncian a Japon

     Pyongyang, 2 de mayo (ATCC) -- El Comite Central de la Federacion General de los Sindicatos de Corea, la Confederacion de Sindicatos Surcoreanos y la Federacion de Sindicatos Surcoreanos publicaron el dia primero a nombre comun la "Declaracion conjunta de obreros del Norte y el Sur de Corea denunciando la insistencia en el y la tergiversacion de la historia de Japon". El acto de usurpacion de la isla Tok y la tergiversacion de los manuales de historia de Japon constituyen una violacion insoportable a la dignidad y la soberania de la nacion coreana y un crimen intolerable que acarrea a esta tierra un nubarron de nueva agresion, senala el documento y prosigue: .
    Los obreros del Norte y el Sur se alzaran audazmente en la lucha por frustrar decididamente las maniobras de usurpacion de la isla Tok de Japon que se tornan mas siniestras con el respaldo de su aliado EE.UU. y salvaguardar hasta el fin esta parte del territorio propio de Corea. .
    Los obreros del Norte y el Sur se opondran con toda energia a los actos de tergiversacion del manual de historia encaminados a embellecer y justificar su historia de agresion y desplegaran con audacia la lucha por cobrar el precio de todos los danos materiales, humanos y espirituales que los imperialistas japoneses causaron a nuestra nacion. .
    Los obreros del Norte y el Sur, en estrecha cooperacion con las entidades de movimiento obrero de todos los paises y las organizaciones internacionales del mundo que se oponen a la agresion y la guerra y aman la justicia y la paz, libraran activamente la lucha conjunta y las actividades solidarias por frustrar las maniobras de resurgimiento del militarismo de Japon. .
    Los obreros del Norte y el Sur y sus entidades del movimiento obrero frustraran decididamente las maniobras de usurpacion de la isla Tok y la tergiversacion de la historia de Japon y libraran mas energicamente la lucha antijaponesa y anti-fuerzas foraneas para cobrar hasta el fin el precio de los danos causados en el pasado a nuestra nacion por los imperialistas japoneses.