Paek Nam Sun Meets Russian Delegation

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun Sunday met and conversed with a delegation of the Russian Foreign Ministry led by Vice-Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev who paid a courtesy call on him. On hand were officials of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, the Russian ambassador to the DPRK and embassy officials.

National Reunification Called for in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The Kwangju students' struggle was a righteous vanguard struggle which brought to light the aggressive nature of the Japanese imperialists and touched off the consciousness of independence of the Korean nation who was groaning under the colonial yoke. The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification said this in a statement released on Nov. 3 on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the Kwangju Students' Incident.
    We youth and students have a proud tradition of struggle, the statement said, and continued:
    Let us youth and students become protagonists who create a new era, a new history of independent reunification.
    The statement called upon youth and students to remove the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad, force the U.S. troops out of south Korea and abolish the "National Security Law" to open up a new era of independent reunification.
    It also called upon youth and students to carry forward the fighting spirit of the Kwangju students and pave the way for reunification in the June 15 era.

Japan's Dangerous Moves for Nuclear Weaponization Blasted

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Japan is massively stockpiling plutonium under the pretext of "laying in stock nuclear fuel". Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard: These moves of Japan are aimed not at storing fuel for nuclear power plants but at stockpiling the nuclear substance for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Japan's stockpiling of "nuclear substance" is designed to realize its militarists' deep rooted ambition to have access to nukes.
    The Japanese reactionaries' oft-touted "nuclear and missile threat" from the DPRK is nothing but sophism intended to justify their criminal plan to go nuclear. They are set to step up the nuclear weaponization under the pretext of coping with the non-existent "nuclear threat" from the DPRK. Japan developed long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads already long ago. Its huge military spending every year is aimed at emerging a military power and having access to nukes.
    The Japanese militarists have a sinister intention to possess nuclear weapons and use them for realizing their ambition for dominating Asia at any cost. Herein lie the gravity and danger of their moves for nuclear weaponization. The United States brought nuclear disasters to Asia in the last century and this danger is likely to be created by Japan in the present century.
    The Korean and other Asian peoples are following Japan's moves to go nuclear with a high degree of vigilance.
    Should the Japanese reactionaries persistently keep to the road of nuclear weaponization and nuclear war, oblivious of the lesson taught by the past history, they will only meet an irretrievable disaster and destruction.

Rodong Sinmun on U.S. Firing Range

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and the south Korean Ministry of National Defence agreed to use Jik Islet in sea off Kunsan, North Jolla Province as a U.S. troops' firing range instead of the closed firing range in Maehyang-ri and confirmed it at the 37th meeting of the south Korea-U.S. security consultative council held in the previous month. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today denounces it as a deception and intolerable mockery of the south Korean people demanding the closure of the U.S. troops' firing range as it is an action of bringing about the 2nd Maehyang-ri incident.
    The news analyst goes on:
    The issue of closing the U.S. firing range in south Korea is the issue of removing the hotbed of environmental damage and threatening the life and security of the residents and, furthermore, the issue related to the defence of peace in the Korean Peninsula and the dignity of the nation. The struggle of the south Korean people for the closure of the firing range in Maehyang-ri was not to remove it to other place but to remove it out of south Korea as it destroys their living ground and threatens their lives. But the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops answered to this by replacing the previous firing range with another one.
    The removal of the firing range to Jik Islet is allegedly to step up military exercises of aggression with it as a base and force the south Korean people to undergo misfortune and sufferings.
    It is an unpardonable treachery for the south Korean authorities to submit to the U.S. demand and offer a sacred land of the country as a military drill ground of the aggression forces.

DPRK Players Bag More Medals at 4th East Asian Games

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- DPRK players participating in the 4th East Asian Games bagged two gold medals, four silver medals and three copper medals in the wake of their winning of four gold medals, five silver medals and 12 copper medals. Hong Un Gyong won a gold medal in women's single sculls and Ro Kum Suk and Kim Myong Ok also won gold medals in women's double sculls. Silver medals went to the DPRK boy football eleven, Kim Jong Su in men's 25 meter standard pistol firing, Myong Tae Song in the 60 kg category of Ushu Sanshu and Kim Yang Il in the 65 kg category of Karate.
    Bronze medals went to Jong Yong Ok in the women's half-marathon, Kim Song Hak in the 60kg category of men's Karate, and Ha Ryon Bok in the 53 kg category of women's Karate.

Rodong Sinmun on WPK's Cause of Independence against Imperialism

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea has dynamically advanced along the road of socialism under the uplifted banner of independence against imperialism over the last six decades. This history is shining as a noble example in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S struggle in our era. Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article. It goes on:
    The historic source of the WPK and the background against which it was founded are associated with the anti-imperialist struggle and it came into being on the basis of the solution of all issues related to the building of the party including its guiding idea and core in the crucible of the anti-imperialist struggle. Herein lie the might and characteristic feature of the WPK.
    The six decade-long history of the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle waged by the WPK since its foundation is the course of a heroic struggle in which it has stood the most rigorous test of history.
    The WPK experienced the three year-long fierce Fatherland Liberation War fought against the U.S. imperialists, boss of imperialism and chieftain of world reaction, and stood in confrontation without gunfire with the U.S. for decades. It was none other than the WPK that stood on the forefront of the fiercest anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle in the 20th century and it is leading the cause of independence against imperialism in this century, too. The WPK is an iron-willed vanguard contingent which has led the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle to victory with Juche-oriented conviction and will and a seasoned staff which has always emerged victorious in the above-said struggle on the basis of the most scientific and revolutionary strategies and tactics.
    It is a guardian of justice as it has consistently adhered to the revolutionary principle in the whole course of that struggle.
    The above-said history is a history of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who firmly protected the destiny of the country and people in a responsible manner and a history of the outstanding great men who brought about victories with rare wisdom and strategy.
    Reviewing with pride the WPK's 60 year-long history in which it has set an epoch-making example in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle, the army and people of the DPRK renew their unshakable determination to dynamically advance along the path of independence against imperialism under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.

S. Korean Authorities Urged to Join in Movement for Pullout of U.S. Forces

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces side whisked away the GI who drove his truck over a south Korean woman to death in Tongduchon, Kyonggi Province on June 10 this year, letting him go unpunished, asserting that "he did nothing wrong". This was a clear proof that the U.S. forces regard the south Korean people as mere colonial slaves.
    Minju Joson Sunday said this in a signed commentary. It went on:
    It is self-evident that the same killing as the murder of Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son is bound to continue in south Korea as long as the beast-like U.S. imperialists remain there.
    The present reality calls on the south Korean people to intensify the struggle to drive the U.S. troops out of south Korea. South Koreans will no longer fall victim to the atrocities of the U.S. troops only when their anti-U.S. candle-light demonstrations rage throughout south Korea just as they took place three years back.
    As far as the recent case is concerned, the south Korean authorities were also humiliated by the U.S. forces side under the eyes of the world. It was already known that the south Korean authorities asked it to hand the jurisdiction over cases of GI crimes to them against the backdrop of the mounting anti-U.S. actions of the south Korean people. But the U.S. forces side did not let an ear to this request. It was not until late in August nearly three months after the occurrence of the murder that it claimed it would exercise the jurisdiction over the case as it occurred while he was performing his duty. So the U.S. forces side neither tried him nor punished the criminal after turning down the request of the south Korean authorities. This is the real picture of the south Korea-U.S. alliance. One will never dodge such bitter despise and shame as long as one regards the U.S. as one's savior and serves it. Even under this situation, is there any justification to let the U.S. imperialist aggression forces stay in south Korea who have brought such misfortune and pain to the Korean nation?
    The south Korean authorities should join the people in their actions for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops.

Kim Yong Nam Meets Delegation of Prensa Latina News Agency of Cuba

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with President of the Prensa Latina News Agency of Cuba Frank Gonzalez Garcia and his party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Monday. Present there were Kim Ki Ryong, director general of the Korean Central News Agency, and Ruben Perez Valdes, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.

Korean Paintings "Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu" and "Winter of River Nam"

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Korean paintings "Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu" and "Winter in River Nam" were awarded gold prizes, the highest prize at the 8th Beijing International Art Exhibition. These art works evoked lively response among world painters. "Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu" was done by Kim Il Sung Prize Winner and People's Artist Son U Yong of the Korean Painting Creative Group of the Mansudae Art Studio. It truthfully depicts the majestic and spectacular scenery of peaks and the shore of Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu. It is a sacred mountain of the Korean revolution associated with the immortal feats of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Suk, the three generals of Mt. Paektu. It is a truthful portrayal of the scenic beauty of the lake including clear wave on Lake Chon and pumice stone spread on its shore.
    "Winter in River Nam" was done by Kim Il Sung Prize Winner and People's Artist Jong Chang Mo of the Korean Painting Creative Group of the Mansudae Art Studio. It depicts the winter scenery of River Nam against the background of Mt. Kumgang, a famous mountain of Korea. Life-like in its description and profound in the painter's sentiment, the river depicted on the painting seems to flow, conveying the patriotic devotion displayed by servicemen and women of the village during the period of the Fatherland Liberation War.
    The painting looks so truthful that visitors feel as if they were hearing the water of the river to steadily flow though it is covered with snow and its sides still remain frozen and migrating birds to chirp.
    Labour Hero and Merited Artist Kim Tong Hwan, chief of the Group, told KCNA that both paintings are a harmonious combination of traditional drawing methods and colors suited to the modern aesthetic taste as the method of using distinct lines, a traditional method applied to Korean paintings, was skillfully used in the first painting and the second painting was based on single stroke.
    These paintings based on socialist realism are mainly characterized by the fact that ink lines were effectively used and there is a harmonious and striking contrast among different colors.
    They prove the validity and vitality of Kim Jong Il's policy for developing color Korean paintings with main emphasis on coloring.

12th Reunion of Separated Families, Relatives Begins

     Mt. Kumgang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The 12th reunion of separated families and relatives has begun in Mt. Kumgang resort. According to the previous custom, those from the north side had a collective meeting first with their families and relatives from the south on Nov. 5. At the reunion they warmly hugged each other. Those from the north side told the kindred from the south about their happy life, retrospecting their worthwhile career under the loving care of the DPRK. The families and relatives from the south were deeply moved to hear their stories and see their orders, medals, honorary titles and diplomas and academic degrees and titles.
    Following the collective meeting they met each other again in family units on Nov. 6. They spent a pleasant time, talking to each other about their bygone days and taking meals together.
    Those from the north went round the area of Lagoon Samil, a scenic spot, together families and relatives from the south.
    Meanwhile, the South Korean Red Cross arranged a banquet in honor of all the separated families and relatives from the north and the south.

Kim Jong Il Inspects New Power Station

     Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected the Naephyong No. 2 Kunmin Power Station built by servicepersons of Large Combined Unit 549 of the KPA in cooperation with people in the area where they are stationed. They completed the power station, one more creation in the glorious era of Songun, in active cooperation with the people on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the WPK. After being briefed on the power station in front of a large painting showing the panoramic view of the power station, he looked round the huge dam and a large man-made reservoir and a generator room to acquaint himself with its construction and the production of electricity there. Looking at the great edifices associated with the sweat of the servicepersons and people, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that servicepersons of the unit and their helpers successfully completed the difficult and vast project in a matter of a little over two years by their own efforts, thereby building a modern large hydropower station. He highly praised them for their successes made in the efforts to create lasting wealth for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the generations to come.
    The power station represents a great miracle which can be wrought only by the KPA ready to flatten even a high mountain at one go once they are called upon to do so by the Party, he said, adding that the popular heroism and the noble self-sacrificing spirit displayed by the soldier-builders and the feats performed by them for the country and people will be conveyed down through generations along with the history of building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    He set forth tasks which would serve as guidelines in increasing the capacity of the power station and placing the electricity production on a normal footing, noting that the new power station would greatly contribute to the prosperity and development of the country. He underscored the necessity to channel sustained great efforts into the construction of power stations, saying that servicepersons and civilians have built a lot of power stations in different places in recent years in hearty response to the WPK's call for building power stations in a big way and they are now paying off profusely.
    Now that electricity is sufficiently provided to the large combined unit, all units and sub-units under it should dynamically push ahead with the work to place the electrification on a high level with a view to doing everything with the help of electricity including room heating, cooking and the operation of saunas and thus bring about a signal turn in the living of the servicepersons.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, First Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Ri Jae Il and Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Hwang Pyong So.

For Spanish-speaking people

    　Pyongyang, 7 de noviembre (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, inspecciono la planta de patos No. 115 construida por los militares del EPC. La planta con un area arquitectonica de mas de 50 mil metros cuadrados dispone de instalaciones ultramodernas. Fue construida por el gran proposito del Dirigente de suministrar mas carne y huevos a nuestro pueblo.
    En el mirador admiro un panorama de la planta, y, luego, al recorrer el interior y el exterior de esta, se entero de los detalles del estado de construccion y se mostro muy satisfecho de que los militares la edificaron excelentemente en un corto plazo de tiempo.
    Al decir que por los esfuerzos abnegados de los militares del ejercito popular, se ha levantado en la tierra patria repleta de milagros y hazanas esta creacion a ser transmitida eternamente junto con la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar), evaluo de altos los meritos que realizaron los constructores militares para la prosperidad de la patria y la felicidad del pueblo y les dio su agradecimiento.
    La fabrica situada en un lugar muy apropiado corresponde a la demanda del nuevo siglo asegurando el maximo nivel de calidad tanto en el proyecto como en la construccion, de modo que no tenga desperfecciones tampoco en el futuro lejano, dijo y apunto que esta creacion orgullosa es un valioso fruto del noble patriotismo de nuestro ejercito que cumple con su mision de defensor de la patria y servidor fiel del pueblo.
    El Dirigente presento las tareas concretas para la gestion y administracion de la planta.
    Senalo que en apoyo al proposito del partido de suministrar con suficiencia carne y huevos al pueblo, en varios lugares del pais se han construido o se construyen modernas plantas de gallinas, patos y las bovinas y anadio que en las bases ganaderas ya creadas deben aumentar constantemente la produccion mediante la cria y cuidado cientificos y tecnicos y las plantas en construccion las deben completar magnificamente como creaciones de eterna duracion para legarlas a las generaciones venideras como riquezas de la patria socialista prospera.
    Hay que cientifizar y modernizar los procesos de produccion de todas las plantas e investigar y desarrollar las mejores variedades de rapido crecimiento y gran peso, indico.
    Para normalizar la produccion de carne y huevos es preciso echar las firmes bases de pienso y aumentar el rendimiento de la cosecha, subrayo el Dirigente y apunto la necesidad de desplegar vigorosamente en todos los sectores y unidades un movimiento masivo por desarrollar la ganaderia y ofrecer al pueblo una vida abundante y culta.
    Le acompanaron los generales de ejercito del EPC Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong, el primer subjefe y el subjefe de departamento del CC del PTC Ri Jae Il y Hwang Pyong So.

Intolerable desafio

    　Pyongyang, 7 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Estados Unidos y el "Ministerio de Defensa Nacional" del Sur de Corea llegaron al acuerdo de utilizar la isla Jik frente a Kunsan de la provincia de Jolla del Norte como campo de tiro de tropas norteamericanas en lugar de ya cerrado campo de tiro de la comuna de Maehyang, y lo confirmaron en la 37a "reunion de consulta de seguridad anual" surcoreano-estadounidense celebrada el mes pasado. Esta segunda edicion del caso de la comuna de Maehyang constituye un engano e intolerable burla a los habitantes surcoreanos que exigen la eliminacion del campo de tiro de tropas norteamericanas. Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario del dia 7 y continua:
    El cierre del campo de tiro de tropas norteamericanas en el Sur de Corea es el problema de eliminar el foco de destruccion ambiental y de amenaza a la seguridad de la vida de los habitantes y de preservar la paz de la Peninsula Coreana y defender la dignidad nacional.
    La demanda de los habitantes surcoreanos sobre el cierre del campo de tiro de la comuna de Maehyang no era trasladarlo a otro lugar. Pero las tropas agresoras yanquis les respondieron con instalarlo en la isla Jik, lo cual es una abierta expresion de la intencion de acelerar el ejercicio de guerra agresiva y seguir acarreando desgracias y penalidades a los habitantes surcoreanos.
    Las autoridades surcoreanas cometen un intolerable acto traidor al satisfacer la demanda de las tropas yanquis sobre el ofrecimiento del campo de ejercicio belico.

Rodong Sinmun denuncia armamento nuclear de Japon

    　Pyongyang, 7 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Japon se provee de gran cantidad de plutonio so pretexto de la "acumulacion de combustible nuclear". Esto no es para las plantas nucleares sino para la elaboracion de armas nucleares.
    　Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 7 y prosigue:
    　La acumulacion de combustible nuclear es para realizar la arraigada ambicion de los militaristas japoneses de producir y poseer las armas nucleares. 　Hoy en dia los reaccionarios japoneses arman alboroto de la "amenaza nuclear y de misiles" de la RPDC para justificar su armamento nuclear en promocion. Intentan acelerar mas el armamento nuclear so pretexto de hacer "frente" a la "amenaza nuclear" de ella.
    Ya hace mucho tiempo que Japon desarrollo misiles de largo alcance capaces de transportar la ojiva nuclear. Cada ano dedica enorme cantidad de fondos para fines militares a fin de realizar la conversion de su pais en una potencia militar y dar espuelas al armamento nuclear.
    　Los militaristas japoneses tienen designio de realizar a toda costa su ambicion de dominar Asia valiendose de las armas nucleares He aqui la peligrosidad y la gravedad de las maniobras de armamento nuclear de los militaristas japoneses. En el siglo pasado ocurrio por EE.UU. el desastre nuclear en Asia y en el nuevo siglo es posible que Japon lo vuelva a producir.
    　El pueblo coreano y los demas pueblos asiaticos agudizan la vigilancia ante las maniobras de armamento nuclear de Japon.
    　Si los reaccionarios japoneses toman el camino del armamento nuclear y la guerra nuclear olvidandose de las lecciones del tiempo pasado, sufriran solo desastre y ruina.