Italian Organization on U.S. Defeat in Last Korean War

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The Group of Dialectical Materialists of Italy published the September issue of its organ La Voce as a special issue. It said that it is disgraceful for the United States to have painted itself as a "liberator that brought democracy" while distorting the Korean war till now. In an article titled "July 27, 1953 in which the U.S. was defeated for the first time in history, Armistice Agreement was signed at Panmunjom" the special issue noted that the Korean war was a premeditated war ignited by the U.S. to realize its ambition to dominate Asia and the rest of the world after occupying south Korea under the pretext of "disarming" the Japanese troops after the liberation of Korea.
    The U.S. mobilized many latest weapons including biological and chemical weapons in the Korean war but suffered only setbacks in battles as it failed to judge the ideological and moral strength of the heroic Korean people, it said.
    The Korean war clearly proved that the people struggling for the freedom and liberation of their country against colonialism can never be brought to their knees, it stressed.

Kim Il Sung Lauded by Foreign Figures

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Political figures of Romania and India issued statements on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea. Niculae Pavelescu, vice-chairman of the Left United Party of Romania, in a statement on August 12 referred to the fact that President Kim Il Sung put forward the line of armed struggle in his early years and aroused the broad masses to the anti-Japanese struggle to liberate the country.
    The Korean people are now working hard to accelerate the independent and peaceful reunification of the country while energetically pushing forward socialist construction under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il, he noted.
    It is our hope that the north and the south of Korea would achieve the reunification as early as possible through their concerted efforts true to the behests of the President and thus Korea would throw its rays as a strong and prospering country, he added. G. Debarajan, secretary of the Central Committee of the All-India Forward Bloc, in a statement on August 15 highly praised the undying feats of the President who, after embarking upon the road of revolution at his early age, struggled for the freedom and liberation of the people for 20 years and finally freed Korea from the yoke of the Japanese imperialists.
    The liberation of Korea was a historic event which enabled the Korean people to emerge a dignified people hewing out their destiny under the leadership of Kim Il Sung whom they acclaimed for the first time in the history spanning thousands of years.

UFL-05 Joint Military Exercises Flailed

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The Association for Friendship with the Korean People having its branches in different countries issued a statement on August 29, in which it denounced the "Ulji Focus Lens-05" joint military exercises started by the United States in south Korea as a grave challenge and provocation to the aspiration of the Korean people for reunification and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and a wanton violation of the desire of the progressives for peace and security of the world. The brigandish aim of the war game is to round off preparations for a preemptive attack on the DPRK, drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the extreme pitch of strain and thus check the process of favorably developing reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south and force the unreasonable demand of the U.S. through the six-party talks, the statement noted.
    The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should promptly stop their moves for a war against the north and withdraw the U.S. troops from south Korea without delay, clearly seeing the will of the Korean nation to accelerate the reunification of the country through the three forms of cooperation--national independence, peace against war and reunification and patriotism--under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration, it said.
    It expressed firm solidarity with the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front and the south Korean people from all walks of life in the vigorous anti-U.S. patriotic struggle to check and frustrate the moves of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities for unleashing a war against the north and put an end to the U.S. colonial domination over south Korea.

Malaysian Ambassador Hosts Reception

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Malaysian Ambassador to the DPRK MD. Yusoff Bin MD. Zain hosted a reception on Wednesday evening on the national day of Malaysia. Present on invitation were Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Myong San, vice-minister of Foreign Trade, Han Kwang Bok, vice-minister of Machine-Building Industry, officials concerned and diplomatic envoys of different countries and representatives of international organizations here. Speeches were made at the reception.

16th Asian Track and Field Championships Open

     Inchon, August 31 (KCNA-Correspondent) -- The 16th Asian Track and Field Championships opened in Inchon, south Korea. It has brought together at least 1,160 men and women athletes and officials from 45 countries and region of Asia including the DPRK.
    The opening ceremony took place at the Munhak Stadium Wednesday. Attending there were political and public figures of south Korea, leading officials of the IAAF and the AAAA and sports teams from various countries. Also present were the members of the youth and student cooperation team from the north, Inchon citizens and foreign guests.
    Sports teams from different countries marched into the stadium before the ceremony. Athletes of the north and the south of Korea entered the stadium together with a fluttering Korean Peninsula flag amid the cheers of large crowds. Speeches were made at the ceremony.
    Then the 16th Asian Track and Field Championships were declared open and the championship flag was hoisted.
    Athletes of the north and the south together kindled the flame holder, drawing the attention of all the participants.
    The opening ceremony was followed by an art performance.
    The athletes will compete in 43 events of the championships.

Korean Artistes Envied for Having Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Mira Koltsova, head of the Russian State Academy Beryozka Dancing Troupe Named after N. S. Nadezhdina, was interviewed by KCNA at the airport Wednesday before leaving for home after a visit to the DPRK. She said the dancing troupe had the great honor of giving a performance in the presence of leader Kim Jong Il.
    This time, she went on, the troupe put the immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Jong Il" on the stage as the first number with deepest reverence for him who performed great feats for the development of Russia-DPRK friendship and the cause of global independence. It came with the women's group dance "The Volga," a special piece created for him.
    We are really envious of the Korean artistes for having him, she said.

Day of Non-alignment Observed

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Today is Day of Non-alignment. Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to it, which reads in part: The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has invariably adhered to the noble idea of independence against imperialism and waged an unceasing struggle against the imperialists' domination and subjugation, aggression and war moves and for independence and peace and given a powerful stimulus to the advance of the era since it declared its birth to the world.
    NAM is faced with heavy and important tasks in accelerating the historical development in the new century.
    The non-aligned countries should hold aloft the banner of unity in the struggle to implement the idea of independence against imperialism. Unity based on respect for independence is the fundamental guarantee for the continued progress of the movement and the ultimate realization of the noble idea of independence against imperialism. Close economic cooperation among those countries is an important way of cementing the unity and solidarity of the movement and solving difficult and complicated problems arising in the building of a new society. South-South cooperation based on collective self-reliance is the only way for them to achieve independent development and socio-economic progress, free from the economic pressure and exploitation and pillage by the imperialists.
    The non-aligned countries must never be involved in any bloc nor allow such abnormal acts as causing antagonism and distrust in the movement and spoiling its purity. The movement will pick up momentum and its might grow when all the non-aligned countries act in accordance with its basic idea and principle of activities and make positive efforts to assure its purity and unity.
    The most important task facing the movement at present is to frustrate the moves for aggression and war committed by the U.S. imperialists under the pretext of "combating terrorism".
    Over the past years the DPRK has remained faithful to the idea and principle of NAM and made energetic efforts for its development. A dignified member of NAM, the DPRK will uphold the purity and principle of the movement and fulfill its obligation and role for its development and triumphant advance.
    The non-aligned countries should bend joint efforts to increase the action capacity of the movement and enhance its position and role. NAM will be invulnerable and its idea will become a living reality.

Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from S. Korea Urged

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Had the United States not occupied south Korea, Korea would not have been divided into two and had the U.S. not stood in the way of Korea's reunification, the Korean nation would have already achieved it long ago. Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes this in a signed article. It goes on: The Korean nation achieved the historic cause of national liberation from the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists on August 15 60 years ago. But for the U.S. occupation of Korea, the Koreans would have already built a unified independent sovereign state and established national sovereignty throughout Korea.
    The U.S. occupied the south of Korea, not a defeated country, by force of arms, interfering in its affairs, though it made no contribution to the cause of Korean liberation. This brought the tragic partition of Korea into the north and the south and this disgraceful history has lasted for 60 years.
    The U.S. is a cancer-like entity as it has stood in the way of the uniform development of the Korean nation, pursuing a policy of colonial subjugation in south Korea for 60 years. The 60-year-long history and the present reality clearly prove that the U.S. policy of domination over south Korea is one of evil as it has savagely trampled down upon the destiny of the Korean nation.
    The U.S. is the chieftain of aggression and war as it has obstructed the reunification of Korea and threatened the security of the Korean nation.
    It has staged ceaseless large-scale war exercises for aggression on the DPRK while making the outbreak of the second Korean war an established fact and steadily modifying and supplementing its scenarios for a war of aggression, far from drawing a lesson from a bitter defeat it sustained in the last Korean war. The Koreans should not allow the U.S. to perpetrate any more high-handed and arbitrary practices.
    The 70 million Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should unite as one under the banner of "By our nation itself" to drive the U.S. imperialists out of south Korea and bring about the second August 15 liberation as early as possible.

Greetings to Slovak President

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Thursday sent a message of greetings to Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on the occasion of the constitution day of Slovakia. The message expressed the belief that the friendly relations between the DPRK and Slovakia would favorably grow stronger in the common interests of the two peoples and wished the Slovak president greater success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country.

Kim Yong Nam Greets Vietnamese President

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Tran Duc Luong, president of Vietnam, today on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Vietnamese people registered great successes in their efforts to defend national independence and sovereignty and build socialism for the last six decades under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, said the message. Expressing the belief that the long-standing bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation would continue to develop on good terms in the future, too, in the interests of socialism and the two peoples, the message wished the Vietnamese president a success in his responsible work.

Greetings to Slovak Prime Minister

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Pak Pong Ju sent a message of greetings to Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda on the occasion of the constitution day of Slovakia. The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would favorably develop in conformity with aspiration of the two peoples.
    Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a similar message to his Slovak counterpart Eduard Kukan.

Pak Pong Ju Sends Greetings to Vietnamese Counterpart

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to his Vietnamese counterpart Phan Van Khai on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Vietnamese people have achieved great successes in their struggle for defending the sovereignty of the nation and building a prosperous socialist country for 60 years under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, said the message. Expressing the belief that the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation would continue to develop favorably in the interests of socialism and the two peoples in the future, too, it wished him a success in his responsible work.
    Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a similar message to his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Dy Nien.

Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun Meets U.S. Congress Delegation

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met and had a talk with a delegation of U.S. Congress headed by Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and the Pacific Affairs of the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives James Leach at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.

Ardent Patriotism Shown by Great Men

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Forty-five years have elapsed since leader Kim Jong Il entered Kim Il Sung University in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. On September 1, Juche 49 (1960), his first day in the university, he climbed Ryongnam Hill where he wrote and recited an immortal poem "Korea, I Will Glorify Thee" with an unswerving will to bring the Juche revolutionary cause started by President Kim Il Sung to completion.
    He, in the poem, manifested his will to fully grasp the profound revolutionary ideas of the President in Korea and fulfill his responsibility for the Korean revolution. He had already made up his mind to study at Kim Il Sung University. He visited Moscow University of the former USSR in January 1959. At that time, a diplomat of that country recommended him to study at the university after his graduation from the senior middle school. But Kim Jong Il told him he wanted to study at Kim Il Sung University in Korea.
    The answer fully reflected his boundless loyalty to the President and ardent love for the fatherland and the people.
    Many years ago, Kim Il Sung, too, refused to study in a foreign country. When he was engaged in energetic revolutionary activities after the release from the Jilin prison, Comintern advised him to go to Moscow for study. But he took the choice of finding himself among people, not going to Moscow, saying that he could study Marxism-Leninism through books but could not become a revolutionary for the Korean revolution apart from his people.
    Thanks to this ardent patriotism shown by the peerlessly great men, the Korean revolution has advanced successfully along the orbit of Juche even under the ever-changing international context.

New Stamps on Korean Costume Issued

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued new stamps (a souvenir sheet and a sheetlet) showing gorgeous Korean costume. Reflected in the souvenir sheet is a stamp showing a pretty boy and girl in coats with rainbow-striped sleeves, which is edged with pictures of ornaments and people in various kinds of national dresses.
    Its face value is 140 won.
    The sheetlet contains stamps showing women in colorful national dresses. There are various patterns and ornaments of the dresses below the stamps. The face value of each stamp is 3, 80, 100 and 120 won.

National Angling Contest Held

     Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The 4th National Angling Contest took place in the River Taedong flowing through Pyongyang, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 1 with the approach of the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The beautiful bank of the river between the Okryo and Rungna Bridges was crowded with anglers, members of the Angling Association and spectators in the city. The contest was participated in by more than 40 anglers selected from provinces, ministries and national institutions.
    The standing was decided according to the number of fishes (each being over 8 cm long) and their weight. Each angler was allowed to use four fishing tackles at most. The contest started at 8 a.m.
    Kim Mun Chol from Pyongyang was the first to catch a fish.
    The spectators raised a shout of joy, watching contestants angling for one fish after another.
    Though exposed to rain, hundreds of spectators cheered the anglers. Kim Mun Chol residing in Ryonghung-dong No. 1, Taesong District, Pyongyang, placed the first at the contest which continued until 11:30 a.m. by catching 51 fishes. The contest was followed by a ceremony of awarding certificates and prizes to the winners.
    During the contest, there was a show of invented fishing tackles. Automatic fishing line jerking apparatus, angler's vest and rain and sun-sheltering hat which were made by Kim Yong Chol, member of the Phyongwon County Angling Association of South Phyongan Province were appreciated at the show.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona Granja No. 1116 de la Unidad No.534

     Pyongyang, 1 de septiembre (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 (EPC) inspecciono la Granja No. 1116 perteneciente a la Unidad No. 534 del EPC. Le acompanaron el primer ministro del Consejo de Ministros de la RPDC Pak Pong Ju, el ministro de Agricultura Ri Kyong Sik, los generales de ejercito del EPC Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong.
    El Dirigente, al recorrer las parcelas de varias plantas agricolas de la granja, se entero de los detalles de la cientificacion e intensificacion de la agricultura y del cultivo del presente ano y presento las tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para el desarrollo agricola del pais.
    Dio la tarea de materializar cabalmente la orientacion de revolucion de semillas. Enfatizo que hay que prestar especial atencion al estudio y desarrollo de buenas variedades de alto rendimiento que convengan al clima y suelo de nuestro pais. Senalo que deben establecer un ordinario sistema de seleccion de semillas para asegurar satisfactoriamente la demanda de cada region y cada granja sobre las semillas de buenas variedades y aplicar a tiempo las variedades nuevamente creadas en la produccion agricola.
    Presento la tarea de materializar estrictamente el principio del cultivo adecuado en el terreno y tiempo apropiados.
    Senalo que cada region y cada granja deben hacer un calculo concreto para introducir las plantas y variedades de mayor rendimiento y mas eficientes y mas convenientes a las caracteristicas zonales y condiciones de suelo.
    Acoto que cada ano los trabajadores del dominio de la economia rural deben hacer perfectos y a tiempo los preparativos de cultivo agricola y cumplir cualitativamente a su debido tiempo todas las faenas agricolas.
    El Comandante Supremo indico la tarea para impulsar consecuentemente la orientacion de producir la revolucion en el cultivo de patatas.
    Senalo la necesidad de construir mas granjas modernas de patatas que esten a la altura de la exigencia del nuevo siglo en el distrito de Paek-am y otros lugares adecuados e indico la direccion y los medios por este fin.
    Presento la tarea de hacer bien el cultivo de doble cosecha. Subrayo que todos los trabajadores agricolas deben hacer intensos esfuerzos por materializar la orientacion del partido en materia de cultivo de doble cosecha para convertir firmemente el cultivo de doble cosecha en el sistema jucheano de nuestra agricultura, en el metodo agricola.
    Dio la tarea de mejorar incesantemente los metodos de cultivo. Dijo que hay que cultivar de manera cientifica y tecnica conforme a las exigencias biotecnologicas para ahorrar los materiales y mano de obra y elevar el rendimiento de cereales y continuo que deben perfeccionar el sistema de cultivo a nuestro estilo y aplicar activamente los metodos de cultivo avanzados.
    Agrego que todas las granjas deben tomar la rienda de la labor de hacer altamente cientifica e intensiva la produccion agricola y crear interrumpidamente nuevos metodos de cultivo correspondientes al principio de la ganancia real.
    Dio la tarea de realizar la mecanizacion combinada de la economia rural. Subrayo que deben realizar lo mas pronto posible la mecanizacion combinada de la economia nacional para superar la escasez de la mano de obra en el campo y liberar definitivamente a los campesinos de todos los trabajos duros, y realizar la industrializacion y modernizacion de la agricultura mediante la introduccion de los ultimos logros de la ciencia y tecnica.
    Apunto que deben terminar lo mas pronto posible la reconstruccion tecnica de la fabrica de tractores y otras plantas de maquinas agricolas para producir y suministrar mayor cantidad de maquinas agricolas modernas y eficientes. Presento la tarea de incrementar la produccion de frutas y aceite. Para suministrar con suficiencia frutas y aceite de distintas clases al pueblo, senalo, es necesario impulsar activamente la labor de sustituir los arboles viejos por los tiernos de alta productividad y buscar la reserva de la tierra cultivable con el metodo de elevar el rendimiento por unidad de plantas gramineas para plantar mas arboles frutales y plantas oleaginosas.
    Dijo que todos los funcionarios directivos deben organizar con esmero esta labor e impulsarla hasta el fin con el estilo de lucha revolucionario como los miembros directivos del Ejercito Popular para hacer abundante cuanto antes la vida de nuestro pueblo.

Vocero de ACVAFF exige a Japon liquidacion del pasado criminal

    @ Pyongyang, 1 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El portavoz de la Asociacion Coreana de Victimas de Arresto Forzoso y sus Familiares (ACVAFF), en su declaracion fechada 31 de agosto, denuncio la matanza de los reaccionarios japoneses contra los coreanos en Japon perpetrada durante el gran terremoto de Kanto de hace ahora mas de 80 anos y continuo: Las autoridades japonesas deben tener presente que no pueden justificar ni borrar la historia del pasado manchada de sangre y liquidar cuanto antes su pasado criminal. Cada septiembre nuestro pueblo no contiene la indignacion al recordar la horrorosa matanza de las bestias japonesas contra los coreanos perpetrada durante el terremoto de Kanto.
    Hasta la fecha las autoridades japonesas no aclaran los verdaderos aspectos de la matanza sino evaden la reflexion, disculpa e indemnizacion.
    La campana desatada contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon) por los gangsteres derechistas japoneses hace recordar el gran terremoto de Kanto. La denunciamos categoricamente a nombre de todos los coreanos danados en el pasado y sus familiares.

Terminado XI encuentro de familiares y parientes separados

    @ Monte Kumgang, 31 de agosto (ATCC) -- Quedo cerrado el XI encuentro de familiares y parientes separados del Norte y el Sur de Corea iniciado en este monte famoso de Corea. El dia 29, los separados del Norte se encontraron colectivamente con sus familiares y parientes en el Sur.
    Ellos les hablaron de que en el regazo de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, donde todo el pueblo forma una gran familia y se ayuda mutuamente, viven felices no solamente ellos mismos sino tambien todos los demas familiares. Ese dia, la Sociedad de la Cruz Roja del Sur de Corea ofrecio un banquete en honor de los familiares y parientes separados de ambas partes.
    El dia 30, los nortenos se reunieron por unidad familiar con sus consanguineos surenos.
    Los familiares y parientes de ambas partes se alegraron mucho, se fotografiaron e intercambiaron articulos de recuerdo. Y recorrieron el lago Samilpho, lugar famoso. El dia 31 tuvo lugar en el mismo lugar una ceremonia de inicio de construccion del centro de visitas de Kumgangsan.
    Estuvieron presentes el presidente Jang Jae On y otros funcionarios, del Comite Central de la Asociacion de la Cruz Roja de la RPDC, el presidente Han Wan Sang y otros interesados, de la Sociedad de la Cruz Roja del Sur de Corea. Figuraban alli los participantes en el 11o encuentro.