WPK Birthday to Be Marked in Italy

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- An Italian preparatory committee for celebrating the 60th birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea was formed with due ceremony in Rome on September 16. Roberto Gabriele, general secretary of the Movement for Peace and Socialism of Italy, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
    The committee decided to hold colorful events such as lecture, photo exhibition and round-table talks on the occasion of the 60th WPK birthday.

U.S. Troops Pullback from S. Korea Urged

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization issued a statement on September 14 60 years since the U.S. forces landed in south Korea. Recalling that 60 years have passed since the southern half of the Korean Peninsula was occupied by foreign troops, the statement said that the U.S. forces present in south Korea are the stumbling block lying in the way of the reunification of the peninsula. It expressed support for the Korean people in their cause of reunifying the country and defending peace on the Korean Peninsula and urged the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea.
    Abdul Wahab Rashwani, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Syria (Bagdash), said in a statement on September 15 that the U.S. should withdraw its aggression forces from south Korea without delay, stop its shameless interference in Korea's internal affairs and make a switchover in its hostile policy towards the DPRK. It is entirely thanks to the DPRK's strong military strength built pursuant to the Songun politics and its peace-loving policy that peace has been preserved on the Korean Peninsula and in the region around it, the statement said.
    The present international situation evidently proves the validity of the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. strategy advanced by President Kim Il Sung long ago, it said, affirming full support and solidarity with the Korean people's anti-imperialist struggle and cause of national reunification.

National Industrial Art Exhibition Opens

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- A national industrial art exhibition opened with due ceremony at the Three-Revolution Exhibition Thursday in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. It drew at least 800 art studios such as the Industrial Art Studio of the Ministry of Machine-Building, the Light-Industrial Art Studio of the Ministry of Light Industry, the Mansudae Art Studio, Pyongyang University of Fine Art and the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory, educational institutions and factories and enterprises. On display there are at least 1,200 designs of different kinds of heavy and light industrial products, architectural and environmental decorations, packing goods, advertisements of goods and others and more than 520 manufactured goods and "February 2 products".
    Also displayed there are designs of brands examined by leader Kim Jong Il and designs of different varieties and types of machines including those of "Naenara" 24 h.p. tractor and "June 15" electric locomotive.
    Attracting the interest of visitors are designs of modern light industrial goods such as those of Korean dresses for different ages and seasons, those of graceful and peculiar silk with diverse patterns and colors, those of materials for dresses and those of silk for quilt and their products.
    Also on display there are designs for decorating the inside and outside of Pyongyang Conservatory, a blueprint of the monument to the Youth Hero Motorway, designs of theaters and cultural halls, those of different kinds of fountains and those of street decorations.
    Also drawing the attention of visitors are attractive packing designs such as those of plastic packing of processed potato and processed goat milk and other designs of brands. Among those present at the opening ceremony were Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Choe Thae Bok, Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Ro Tu Chol and officials concerned.

GNP Ultra-Right Conservatives' Reckless Remarks under Fire

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The ultra-right conservatives of the Grand National Party of south Korea including its floor leader dared pull up the north over south Korea's progressive forces' call for the removal of the statue of MacArthur in Inchon. As regards the north's claim to the legitimate right to the use of nuclear energy for a peaceful purpose at the six-party talks they even let loose a string of balderdash describing it as a far-fetched assertion. A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement on Sept. 22 noted that the GNP's outcries pleasing the U.S. and inciting confrontation with the north are intended to egg the pro-U.S. ultra-right conservative forces on to dampen the spirit of alliance with the north and independence rapidly mounting in south Korea, turn the trend of the times favorable for toeing the U.S. line and pursuing confrontation with the north and save its foundation from its collapse. The statement went on:
    The GNP is no more than a group of philistines who have already lost the worth of its existence. The ridiculous remarks made by the floor leader of the GNP are no more than rubbish of the guy breathing his last, washed away by a violent trend. The June 15 era of reunification does not allow any political force going against national reconciliation and reunification to stay in this land.
    If the south Korean politicians truly want to live as righteous politicians for national independence and reunification, they should throw away the signboard of the GNP, a symbol of shame and disgrace, and resolutely break with pro-U.S., ultra-right forces.

Taean Friendship Glass Factory Builders and Members of Chinese Del. Meet

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Builders of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory had a meeting with members of the visiting delegation of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions headed by Vice-Chairman Wang Ruixiang at the construction site of the factory on Sept. 22. Ryang Jang Gyun, vice-minister of Construction and Building-Materials Industries, and Kim Myong Gi, chairman of the Trade Union Committee of the factory, in their speeches said that leader Kim Jong Il is directing meticulous concern to the glass factory aided by the Chinese government so that it would be built successfully as a symbol of the DPRK-China friendship, expressing their will to make positive efforts to successfully complete the construction of the factory.
    Noting that cooperation between the two countries has tradition, Wang Ruixiang hoped that the factory, a symbol of the Sino-DPRK friendship, would be completed to contribute to the living of the Korean people.
    Before the meeting, the Chinese guests went round the melting workshop, the moulding workshop and other production processes.

Greetings to President of Guinea-Bissau

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Joao Bernardo Vieira, president of Guinea-Bissau, on September 20 on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms, the message sincerely wished the president and the people of Guinea-Bissau successes in their work for peace, stability and prosperity of the country.

Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Marked

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture Friday to mark the 40th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "To Give Full Play to the Great Vitality of the Unified and Detailed Planning of the National Economy." The President put forth in the work a unique idea and policy on the planning of the socialist economy. Principled issues arising in stepping up the planning are expounded in the work.
    Kim Kwang Rin, chairman of the State Planning Commission, in a report said that the idea and theory on the unified and detailed planning of national economy has made it possible to thoroughly establish Juche in planning the national economy, materialize the monolithic leadership of the party and the leader over the economic development, decisively intensify the state planned guidance, fully tap the creative ingenuity of broad producer masses and thus pave the way for giving full play to the advantages of the socialist economy.
    Saying that the planning of the national economy has been steadily improved under the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il, he went on:
    Kim Jong Il has clarified the seed of improving the economic management as required by the Songun era and wisely led the officials of economic guidance to thoroughly implement the party's policy of the unified and detailed planning and successfully apply the principles of planned management and operation based on collectivism. The policy of the unified and detailed planning has been successfully implemented in the past, big changes have been made in the socialist economic construction, state centralized guidance over the socialist economy and the mass line have been properly applied and the work of planning the national economy has been converted into that of the producer masses themselves.
    He called on all the officials of economic guidance and planning to solve the economic management problems our own way with the firm confidence in the advantages of the socialist planned economy, steadily improve the planning of the national economy and give fuller play to the might and invincible vitality of the socialist planned economy. The meeting was attended by Pak Pong Ju, Choe Yong Rim, Kwak Pom Gi, Ro Tu Chol and other officials concerned.

Measure Committee for Retaking Monument to Victory Inaugurated

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The Measure Committee for Retaking the Monument to the Victory in the Battles in the Northern Area of Korea was formed with Kim Sok Hwan, director of the Bureau for Direction of Cultural Preservation, as its chairman. A meeting was held by authorities and public organizations concerned in the DPRK including the Bureau for Direction of Cultural Preservation, the Korean Buddhist Federation, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in Pyongyang on Sept. 21 to recover the monument.
    The meeting decided to form the committee to actively push forward the work. The monument has a record of the historical facts that the Korean volunteer army defeated the Japanese intruders into the area of Hamgyong Province of Korea in the period of the Imjin Patriotic War (1592-1598).
    When the Japanese aggression army invaded Korea in 1904 under the pretext of Russo-Japanese war, Ikeda, commanding officer of the army, saw the monument standing in Rimmyongyok (now Kim Chaek City) of North Hamgyong Province in 1905. At that time he grumbled that such monument standing there would touch off strong anti-Japanese sentiment among Koreans and this would not be in favor of Japan's enforcement of the rule of colonial enslavement over Korea. Then it was shipped to Tokyo in secrecy in 1906.
    The Japanese aggressors considered the monument too wonderful and excellent in its stone material and sculptural art to destroy it. It has thus been preserved up to this date as "a trophy" from their colony.
    What is more serious is that it is now left in a corner of the "Yasukuni Shrine." The monument taken away by the Japanese imperialists from the northern area of Korea at that time is the Korean nation's precious artifact of great historical value.

UN Secretary General Meets Head of DPRK Delegation

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Sept. 21 met Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon who is leading the DPRK delegation to the 60th Session of the UN General Assembly. The adoption of a joint statement at the recent six-party talks has been very encouraging, he said, adding that this provided a breakthrough in the settlement of the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula.
    On hand were some members of the DPRK delegation, the permanent representative of the DPRK in the UN, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and the political director of the Executive Office of the secretary general.

Ullim Falls of "Arirang"

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The Scene 1 of the Act 3 of the ongoing mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" represents the Ullim Falls, one of the eight scenic spots which have come into being in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the Songun era. The eight fairies of a legend, that they descended to Mt. Kumgang once upon a time, dance down from the heaven to the Ullim Falls to enjoy its beauty under the eyes of a cowboy on a specially made stage while beautiful mountains and streams are drawn on the background by the effect of laser rays.
    The scenery of the falls sending up clouds of spray and making loud sound echo and the landscape of surrounding mountains are depicted by the stage setting (84m~25m) and the background (180m~35m) with the help of colorful illumination. On the ground dancers in flower-like clothes form a sea of flower while the fairies joyously dance on the special stage, representing the Korean people enjoying a happy life.
    When Hyangbal Dance reflecting the joy of the fairies is at its zenith, pictures and words gRest homes for people are found everywhereh and gSanatoria for people are found everywhereh appear on the background, making the audience feel great happiness of living in the beautiful land.
    The fairies, who do not want to leave the falls, send only their flying clothes to the sky and live a happy life along with the people in this land.
    Each scene of the work well reflects the beautiful country, a people's paradise good to live in where eight sceneries have been created in the Songun era.

Gastropod Shell Pictures Famous in Korea

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Gastropod shell pictures created in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are drawing special attention of experts and working people for their unique method of depiction and creative skill. The pictures delicately representing the original ones with the natural color of gastropod shells give people graceful and comfortable feelings. Their colors remain unchanged even after many years.
    It is a kind of art pieces which has developed in its own inherent form since the first gastropod shell picture was created in Haeju, South Hwanghae Province more than 30 years ago.
    The Saegori Producer's Co-operative in Haeju City, South Hwanghae Province, is specialized in creating gastropod shell pictures. It, keeping the features of the pictures alive, is producing various themes of gastropod shell art pieces including landscape and figure pictures to suit the taste of people.
    Meanwhile, the cooperative also creates flower-vases, crocodile, turtle and other handiworks decorated with gastropod shell.
    Sin Son Bi, a competent creator of the co-operative, told KCNA world-famous pictures including Mona Lisa that were reproduced with natural gastropod shells are popular in Asia, Europe and other regions.

National Solo Contest of Schoolchildren Held

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The 22nd national vocal solo, solo performance and solo dance contest of schoolchildren was held here in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. It drew members of art groups of schoolchildren's palaces (halls) in different parts of the country and talented pupils of primary and middle schools selected from provincial contests.
    Contesters displayed high artistic skills in such songs as "Our Country Is the Country of the General", "Hopeful Is the Future of Us under the Care of the General", "Our Best Country" "May the Playing of My Accordion Resound Forth" and "My Photograph" and dances such as "Drum Dance," "On the Way to School" and "Dance with Tops". Instrumental music pieces including "A Series of Revolutionary Songs" and "A Post in Spring" played by schoolchildren with national and western musical instruments such as Kayagum, Jangsaenap and flute were highly appreciated for their high skills. The jury of the contest announced those from Pyongyang, North Hwanghae, South Hamgyong and North Phyongan provinces as successful participants. Coming first in the contest were Jon Jin Song of the Schoolchildren's Palace of "250 Mile-Journey for National Liberation", Pak Kum Song of Wolbong Middle School of Songrim City, Ko Pom Hyang of Kwangmyong Primary School of Hamhung City, Kwon Hyok of the Pongnam Primary School of Pyongyang, Ko Yun Song of Paeksa Primary School of Sinuiju City, Ri Mok Ran of the Schoolchildren's Hall of Haeju City, Jon Ok Gyong of the Schoolchildren's Hall of Kumya County and Han Yun Mi of Soryong Middle School of Pyongyang and 43 others.

Gift to Kim Jong Il from Russian Official

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by Governor of the Ivanovo Regional Administration of Russia Vladimir Iliich Tikhonov. It was handed to an official concerned Friday by Vice-Governor Vera Gennadyevna Dobrolyubova, director of the Cultural and Art Department of the administration, who is Russia's People's Artiste, now on a visit to the DPRK as a member of the State Academy Ensemble of the Ministry of Interior of Russia.

Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance

     Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, together with KPA servicepersons, enjoyed an art performance given by the art squads of KPA Units 966 and 337. Among the audience were KPA Vice Marshal Kim Il Chol, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, and Choe Thae Bok, Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Ri Yong Chol and Ri Jae Il, first vice department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK, and KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong. The art squads put on the stage colorful numbers of various genres including chorus "Glory to the General", female solo "Soldiers Live Near the General", female chorus "A Magpie Chirps at the Post", mixed chorus "Arirang for Army-People Unity", agitation at soldiers' oath-taking ceremonies "Don't Forget even a Moment What a Soldier Swore ", and singing with oungum "Blue Sky over My Country", mixed chorus and singing "A Soldier Hears Rice Ears to Rustle", chorus and story-telling "Kitchen Cart Runs" and chorus "Song of Comradeship".
    Expressing great satisfaction over the splendid performance given by the members of art squads as artistes of the revolutionary army, Kim Jong Il extended high appreciation and thanks to them for having created art pieces of diverse genres with strong militancy and appeal, influence and great attraction and made mobile performance tours to dynamically present them before servicepersons and thereby powerfully encouraging those reliably standing guard over the defence line of the country to implement the military line of the WPK.
    Noting that art activities are very important for educating soldiers, he set forth tasks which would serve as guidelines in conducting dynamic performance tours to present revolutionary and militant art pieces encouraging servicepersons to wage a heroic struggle and perform feats.

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Vocero de FDRP denuncia palabras proyanquis de "Partido Hannara"

    @Pyongyang, 23 de septiembre (ATCC) -- Recientemente, el delegado del "Partido Hannara" del Sur de Corea en la Asamblea Nacional y otros elementos conservadores ultraderechistas de este "partido", al desafiar a la demanda de las fuerzas progresistas de retirar la estatua de bronce de MacArthur del suelo surcoreano, se atrevieron a acusar a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y calificaron de "absurda" a la justa demanda que formulo esta en las conversaciones a 6 partes para ejercer su derecho al uso de energia nuclear con fines pacificos. Tales maquinaciones virulentas del "Partido Hannara" parten de su objetivo de impedir la creciente tendencia de independencia y alianza con el Norte en el Sur de Corea por medio de azuzar a las fuerzas conservadoras ultraderechistas proyanquis y crear una atmosfera proyanqui y de confrontacion con la RPDC para mantener de esta manera su tambaleante terreno politico.
    Asi senala el vocero del Comite Central del Frente Democratico para la Reunificacion de la Patria (FDRP) en su declaracion fechada 22 y continua:
    El "Partido Hannara" no es mas que un grupo de politiqueros que perdio su razon de existir y el disparate de su delegado en la AN no pasa de ser un grito lastimero de quien es incapaz de resistir por mas tiempo la tendencia general de la epoca. En esta epoca de reunificacion del 15 de Junio no hay sitio para las fuerzas politicas que se opongan a la reconciliacion y la reunificacion de la nacion. Si los politicos surcoreanos desean de veras la independencia nacional y la reunificacion, deben romper el rotulo del "Partido Hannara" manchado de oprobios e ignominias y separarse audazmente de las fuerzas ultraderechistas proyanquis.

Descienden hadas al Estadio Primero de Mayo

    @Pyongyang, 23 de septiembre (ATCC) -- La primera escena del tercer acto de la funcion gimnastico-artistica masiva "Arirang", que se ofrece en estos dias en el capitalino Estadio Primero de Mayo, se nombra la "Cascada Ulim", uno de los 8 paisajes originales nuevamente descubiertos en la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar). Los rayos laser se encargan de incrustar en la pizarra humana un hermosisimo paraje de la naturaleza y desde el cielo comienzan a descender bailando las 8 hadas -las mismas que segun una leyenda antigua de Corea, habian advenido al monte Kumgang- a la cascada Ulim donde las espera un pastor.
    Junto con la pizarra humana de 180 metros de largo y 35 metros de alto, un aparato escenografico (84m x 25m) logra montar la Ulim en el estadio al describir casi identicamente, con la ayuda de esplendidas luces multicolores, las aguas de esta cascada que caen dejando grandes repercusiones y esparciendose en rocios y las majestuosas colinas perifericas.
    Al mismo tiempo, comienza en la cancha el baile de las gimnastas elegantemente vestidas como si fueran ninfas de flores.
    En consonancia con el mundo sentimental de las 8 hadas bailando sobre una escena flotante, esas ninfas demuestran la vida feliz del pueblo coreano con sus hermosas y suaves movidas coreograficas tradicionales.
    En medio de las melodias de fuerte matiz nacional y ritmos excitantes, las hadas se sumen cada vez mas en el pintoresco paraje que llega al tope de su hermosura con las mas variadas configuraciones y la iluminacion de mil maravillas. Cuando llega a su climax la dicha de ellas, en la pizarra humana se dibujan casas de reposo y sanatorios junto con las inscripciones de "Estan enclavados por doquier del pais".
    En este momento, los espectadores sienten una vez mas la gran felicidad de vivir en el paraiso bajo las estrellas.
    Por fin, las hadas deciden quedarse definitivamente en la pintoresca cascada Ulim y dejan esfumarse por el aire sus ropas de alas para llevar una vida feliz junto con los moradores locales.
    Estos episodios, que describen la belleza de un paisaje real con la presencia de esas hadas legendarias, muestran la realidad de Corea que con los 8 paisajes del Songun, se ha convertido en el paraiso del pueblo y en el Estado socialista mas ideal del mundo.