Mexican Nursery and Kindergarten to Go by Name of Kim Jong Suk

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of putting up the signboard bearing the august name of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk was held at the 10th nursery and kindergarten of the center for the development of children in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, on Nov. 25 on the occasion of her 88th birth anniversary. The signboard bears not only the august name of Kim Jong Suk but President Kim Il Sung's words that the children are the kings of the country and the sentence that the educational department of the government in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, and the center for the development of children have decided to call the 10th nursery and kindergarten by the name of Kim Jong Suk on Nov. 25, 2005.
    Coordinator (leader) of the National Executive Committee of the Workers' Party of Mexico Alberto Anaya Gutierrez said that the 10th nursery and kindergarten is the first in Latin America to be called by the name of the great hero of Korea Kim Jong Suk and paid high tribute to Kim Il Sung who built a new society where people lead a happy life and Kim Jong Suk who performed undying exploits while assisting him in his work. She wished the people of the DPRK great success in their efforts to achieve the reunification of the country and build a great prosperous powerful nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at this ceremony.
    The coordinator of its committee and other figures and people from different social standings of the state and city were present there. The DPRK ambassador to Mexico and staff members of its embassy were present on invitation.

Move to Extend Term of Presence of S. Korean Troops in Iraq Assailed

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea on Dec. 3 issued a statement denouncing the south Korean authorities for recently passing a "motion calling for the extension of the term of the presence of the Jaitun unit in Iraq" through the cabinet meeting and referred it to the "National Assembly", according to the Internet site of Kuguk Jonson. The statement termed the above-said behavior a despicable servile act of offering young and middle-aged people to the U.S. troops as bullet shields and sacrificing them, yielding to the U.S. pressure.
    This is an intolerable treacherous act against the parents of those soldiers in Iraq who are eager to see them to return as early as possible and other people and a blatant challenge to the world peace-loving people desirous of peace and stability in Iraq, the statement said, and went on: What is intolerable is that the authorities are working desperately to keep the troops in Iraq in a bid to round off their preparations to invade the north alongside the U.S. forces.
    These war preparations stepped up by them in collusion with the U.S. under the signboard of "the peaceful reconstruction" are an unpardonable treacherous criminal act of diametrically running counter to the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration.
    If the authorities truly wish peace and stability in Iraq, national reconciliation and the reunification of the country, they should not toe the U.S. brigandish policy of occupation of Iraq, the policy unanimously condemned by the international community, but immediately withdraw all south Korean troops from Iraq as demanded by the people, the statement urged.

Women's Action Starts in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of the south Korean women's action for self-governing life and fair politics (women's action) made up of 73 women organizations in south Korea reportedly took place in Seoul on Nov. 29. Speakers at the ceremony said that it is the goal of activities of the women's action to put an end to all sorts of irregularities and corruption perpetrated by local assembly members.
    Urging the women to engage themselves in politics, they declared that they would convince them that they are powerful beings in the local assembly election to be held next year and conduct activities to ensure that a fair election would be conducted. The ceremony adopted an action plan calling for receiving and opening to the public reports about those candidates who commit crimes against women in various areas such as sexual violence, family violence and sexual traffic and conducting information service urging the women to take an active part in politics.
    An art performance was given at the end of the ceremony.

U.S. Anti-DPRK Campaign over "Human Rights Issue" Assailed

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) - The United States is talking a lot about "defence of human rights" though it is infringing upon the inviolable national sovereignty and even the elementary principle of human rights and trampling down upon the worth and safety of precious human lives. We indict the U.S. as the world's greatest terrorist state and the worst human rights abuser. We appeal to all lawyers of the world with conscience, human rights organizations and international organizations that value justice and truth to decisively reject the U.S. anti-DPRK "human rights" campaign and send support and solidarity to the DPRK government and people in their just cause to defend the state sovereignty, a fundamental guarantee for human rights. A spokesman for the Korean Lawyers Committee said this in a statement issued on Dec. 5 in protest against the anti-DPRK "resolution on human rights performance" based on misinformation railroaded by the U.S. and its allies through the third committee of the 60th U.N. General Assembly. Citing the monstrous crimes against humanity committed by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, the statement continued: The U.S. is so brazen-faced as to say this or that about "human rights performance" in other countries, styling itself "a human rights judge" whom nobody recognizes. This is something preposterous which humankind cannot but deplore.
    The ultimate goal of the anti-DPRK "human rights" campaign the U.S. has staged with the mobilization of its followers even on the U.N. forum is to destroy Korean-style socialism.
    Having found it hard to force the DPRK to scrap its nuclear program first in a bid to disarm it, the present U.S. administration steeped in the inveterate rejection of the system in the DPRK puts up a "human rights" signboard and leaves no means untried to label the DPRK a "lawless state." The present disturbing reality that a crime committed by the strong is treated as a good conduct while the week's good conduct is regarded as an evil deed deeply convinces the Korean people of the truth that human rights precisely mean national sovereignty and this sovereignty can be guaranteed only by strong deterrent, the statement concluded.

Japanese Reactionaries' Reckless Campaign against Chongryon under Fire

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries "brought an action" against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). This is intended to do harm to and slander Chongryon so as to tarnish the authority and dignity of the DPRK, incite bitterness toward Chongryon and the DPRK among Japanese and create a social atmosphere favorable for reviving militarism. Rodong Sinmun Monday observes this in a signed commentary in connection with the fact that the Resolution and Collection Corporation of Japan filed a suit in the Tokyo Metropolitan Court against Chongryon over the "issue of bad bond" of the Credit Association of Korean Bank. It goes on: What matters is that the authorities are directly involved in the anti-Chongryon campaign. For example, Chief Cabinet Secretary Abe supported the above-said action as if he had waited for this to happen, asserting that it was a "proper counteraction". This clearly suggests that the recent action was a plot hatched under the direct manipulation of the Japanese authorities and at their instructions.
    What merits a more serious attention is that Abe, spearheading the anti-Chongryon campaign, blared that "it would not directly affect" the inter-governmental talks between Japan and the DPRK.
    Japan has brought the DPRK-Japan relations to an extreme phase while blindly toeing the U.S. line and persistently pursuing the hostile policy toward the DPRK in contravention of the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration. It persistently raised the abduction issue which had already been settled through the declaration in an attempt to politicize and internationalize it and thus tarnish the dignity and image of the DPRK. Not content with this, it has further intensified its anti-DPRK campaign over its "nuclear and missile issues." It is Japan which has taken the lead in laying an "international siege" to the DPRK, pursuant to the U.S. policy.
    Should Japan persist in such acts, it will only bring the DPRK-Japan relations to a dangerous phase.
    The Japanese authorities had better behave themselves with cool heads.

Unionists' Rally and Demonstration Held in South Korea

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The South Kyongsang Provincial Headquarters of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) reportedly held a rally for a general strike for winning legislation on guaranteeing the rights of part-time workers in the central sports park of Changwon in South Kyongsang Province on Dec. 1. Attending there were at least 2,000 workers under KCTU.
    Speeches were made at the rally and a resolution was made public.
    The number of part-timers has been increased by 400,000 this year in the wake of last year, the resolution said, strongly demanding the "government" provide legislation on guaranteeing rights to them as early as possible.
    While the workers are subject to suppression as part-timers, the peasants were deprived of their means of living owing to the unjust agricultural policy of the "government," the resolution said, stressing that the workers will certainly emerge victorious in the struggle to protect their vital rights in solidarity with the peasants.
    Prior to the rally, Ri Hung Sok, chairman of the South Kyongsang Provincial Headquarters of KCTU, and other trade union leaders had their haircut short in protest against the attitude of the "government."
    At the end of the rally its participants marched as far as the building of the South Kyongsang Provincial Committee of the Uri Party. Then the participants in the demonstration held with the peasants under the Pusan-South Kyongsang Provincial Federation of the National Federation of Peasants Associations a rally for an all-out struggle to be participated in by workers and peasants.
    Meanwhile, at least 12,000 union members of the organization entered a general strike at more than 20 work places in the province that day.

Russian State Chorus Enjoys Art Performance

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The Russian State Academic People's Chorus Named after M. E. Pyatnichki enjoyed an art performance "Blue Sky over My Country" at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Dec. 4. Kwon Hyok Bong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Su Jo, president of the Phibada Opera Troupe, officials concerned and working people in the city watched the performance together with the Russian guests.
    The performance was given by the State Merited Chorus of the Korean People's Army, the Korean Peoples' Army Song and Dance Ensemble, the Mansudae Art Troup, the Phibada Opera Troupe and other famous art organizations of the army and the society. The performance started with mixed duet and chorus "Blue Sky over My Country."
    Chorus "Song Devoted to Marshal Kim Il Sung", female duet and chorus "Song Devoted to Comrade Kim Jong Il", female solo and violin performance "O, Mother Party" and other colorful numbers were put on the stage.
    The performance was highly applauded by the audience for its high ideological value and artistry.

Plan Signed between DPRK and China

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- A Juche 95-96 (2006-2007) plan for scientific and technological exchanges between the DPRK Bureau of Earthquake and the Chinese State Seismological Bureau was signed in Beijing on Nov. 25. Present at the signing ceremony were the members of the delegation of the bureau headed by its Director Kang Sin Dong from the DPRK and the director of the bureau and officials concerned from China.

Mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of Russia Here

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- Valentina Matvienko, mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation, and her party arrived here Monday. They were greeted at the airport by Kim Yong Jae, vice-minister of Foreign Trade who is chairman of the Committee for Promotion of International Trade of the DPRK, officials concerned, Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy officials.

Pak Pong Ju Meets Mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of Russia

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, met and had a friendly conversation with Valentina Matvienko, mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation, and her party who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Monday. On hand were Rim Kyong Man, minister of Foreign Trade, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned and Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov.

Talks Held between DPRK Minister of Foreign Trade and Mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of Russia

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- Talks between Rim Kyong Man, minister of Foreign Trade of the DPRK, and Valentina Matvienko, mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation, were held at the People's Palace of Culture on Monday. At the talks both sides discussed the issues of boosting the cooperative relations between the DPRK and Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation in foreign trade and reached a consensus of views on them. Present at the talks from the DPRK side were Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade Kim Yong Jae who is chairman of the Korean Committee for the Promotion of International Trade and officials concerned and from the Russian the party of the mayor and Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov.
    Meanwhile, business talks and inter-sector talks were held between economic and trade officials of the DPRK and businessmen of Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation.

Hyangdam Efficacious for Hepatitis Developed

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The Branch Academy of Biology under the State Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has succeeded in making Hyangdam (tablets) efficacious for hepatitis. According to Choe Yong Il, a doctor of liver department of the hospital attached to Pyongyang University of Medicine, its clinical test to hundreds of hepatitis cases for three years shows that it is far better than existing world-famous anti-hepatitis medicines such as Liv-52 and Phyonjahwan. The tablets also make it possible to keep such digestive system viscera as stomach, gall, pancreas, small intestines in good function. Hyangdam, which is made with pig gall and various kinds of Koryo medicines, is potent for increasing bile acid, detoxicating liver and protecting liver. It won a patent of the DPRK in Juche 93 (2004).
    The demand for it is ever increasing in China, Japan and other countries of Asia.

Evodia Daniellii Benn Widely Cultivated

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The Evodia Daniellii Benn Farm in Sohung County, North Hwanghae Province, the Dmocratic People's Republic of Korea is cultivating a large number of high-yielding Evodia Daniellii Benn trees. Evodia Daniellii Benn, belonging to Xanthoxylum piperitum family, is a deciduous large tree. The tree bears fruits for over 70 years from five years after its plantation.
    Its oil is used not only for food but also for medicine for hyperlipemia, protection of skin and asthma.
    It is good materials of soap and various kinds of paints. And it is utilized in ornamental works and farm tools.
    Leader Kim Jong Il instructed the farm to create Evodia Daniellii Benn forests and produce high-yielding seeds for different units all over the country. And he said all cities and counties should learn from the experience of the farm.
    The farm has planted Evodia Daniellii Benn in hundreds of hectares in the county and produced some ten tons of seeds, hundreds of thousands of saplings and millions of grafts for the last some years to send them to hundreds of units including nurseries, units of the Korean People's Army and co-op farms throughout the country.

Photo Exhibition Introducing Sankt-Petersburg Held

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition introducing Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation was held at the People's Palace of Culture on Monday. The exhibition was attended by Rim Kyong Man, minister of Foreign Trade, Kim Yong Jae, vice-minister of Foreign Trade who is chairman of the Korean Committee for the Promotion of International Trade, officials concerned, Valentina Matvienko, mayor of Sankt-Petersburg of the Russian Federation, and her party and Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK. They went round the photos, being briefed on the city by the mayor.

Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Industrial Establishments

     Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance to the Pukjung Machine Complex and the Pukjung Electrode Factory. The first leg of his guidance was the Pukjung Machine Complex.
    After acquainting himself in detail with the modernization of the complex and its production, he expressed great satisfaction over the many successes made by the workers of the complex this year by waging a widespread technical innovation movement true to the WPK's idea of attaching importance to science.
    He highly appreciated the achievements made by them, noting that they have manufactured various types of engines and compressors and other modern machines and produced and supplied custom-built equipment required by various domains of the national economy in recent years, thereby greatly contributing to the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, and that they have energetically pushed forward the technological reconstruction in recent years, in particular, thus laying a solid material and technical foundation for bringing about a leap forward in production.
    He met those of meritorious services of the complex and had a warm conversation with them. Highly praising them for having performed a pace-setter's role in the production, working at the complex for years, he urged them to implant the revolutionary spirit of devotedly carrying through the party's policies into the minds of the younger generation so that they may steadfastly carry forward the Korean working class's tradition of struggle.
    He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the complex, saying that the complex has a very important duty and role to perform in placing the nation's machine-building industry on a new higher stage.
    He underscored the need to continue to pay deep attention to the development of the heavy industry and channel great efforts into it, noting that only by developing that industry is it possible to develop the light industry and agriculture and bolster up the country's national power. In order to further improve the quality of machine products it is necessary to dynamically conduct the technical innovation movement, while developing the technological reconstruction in depth, he noted, urging the guiding officials of the complex to manage and operate it with a scientific management and business strategy so as to abide by the principle of profitability in production and, at the same time, fully meet the intrinsic demands of the socialist economy based on collectivism.
    He called on the workers of the complex to bring about world-startling leap forward and innovations in the next year, too, with the same vim and vigor with which they resolutely upheld and defended the party's ideas and line in the past and thus contribute to building a rich and powerful country.
    The next leg of his guidance was the Pukjung Electrode Factory.
    Going round the factory, he learned about its technical equipment and production.
    He appreciated the efforts made by the officials, workers and technicians of the factory, expressing satisfaction with the fact that they are producing quality electrode by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm.
    He indicated tasks and ways for putting the production of electrode on a higher level, saying that the country has favorable conditions for rapidly increasing the production of electrode as it abounds in graphite, the principal raw material for its production. He was accompanied by Kim Phyong Hae, chief secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, and Kim Kuk Thae, Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the C.C., WPK, and Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the C.C., WPK.

For Spanish-speaking people

Kim Jong Il dirige sobre terreno taller de fundicion Sin Pho Hyang

    　Pyongyang, 5 de diciembre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, dirigio sobre el terreno el taller de fundicion Sin Pho Hyang del Complejo de Maquinaria de Rakwon, que cuenta con mas de 7 mil 800 metros cuadrados de superficie arquitectonica. Estan computerizados todos los procesos de produccion del citado taller.
    El Dirigente los recorrio para hacer conocimiento del estado de la construccion y de la produccion.
    Al ver los procesos de produccion en cadena dotados de la tecnica sofisticada, los productos fundidos de buena calidad y el area limpia de trabajo, se mostro muy satisfecho de que se haya construido el taller modernizado y evaluo de altos los meritos de los funcionarios, obreros y tecnicos del Complejo.
    El Dirigente dijo que el Complejo de Maquinaria de Rakwon debe mantener y hacer brillar su orgullosa tradicion de lucha de haber defendido en la delantera al partido y al lider en cada periodo y cada etapa de la revolucion e indico las tareas que se presentan ante el taller.
    Para la modernizacion de la fabrica es importante la produccion basica como la fundicion de acero, la colada y la forja, senalo el Dirigente y subrayo la necesidad de elevar constantemente el papel del taller dotado de la ciencia y tecnica de punta. Destaco que para normalizar en un nivel elevado la produccion de la colada y mejorar la calidad de los productos es necesario fortalecer la educacion tecnica sobre los tecnicos y obreros.
    Los funcionarios del complejo y del taller, subrayo, deben elevar mas el nivel de la direccion de la produccion y organizar con escrupulosidad la gestion del taller conforme al principio de utilidad real y cumplir con su mision del taller modelo de modernizacion. Al recorrer la escuela de la juventud, la barberia, el salon de belleza, el bano y otras instalaciones de educacion e intendencia, construidos por el taller, evaluo el acondicionamiento magnifico de los establecimientos culturales y de servicio publico y la normalizacion de su gestion y apunto que los funcionarios deben esforzarse activamente por ofrecer a los obreros condiciones de vida mas abundante y culta.
    El Dirigente expreso la esperanza y conviccion de que los obreros de Rakwon que tienen la tradicion orgullosa de apoyarse en sus propias fuerzas desempenaran magnificamente su papel vanguardista en la marcha general de la revolucion (priorizacion militar) del Songun.

CRPP denuncia al "partido Hannara" del Sur de Corea

    　Pyongyang, 5 de diciembre (ATCC) -- El secretariado del Comite por la Reunificacion Pacifica de la Patria (CRPP) emitio el dia 3 la informacion no. 911 denunciando al "partido Hannara" del Sur de Corea que propuso abrir un pleito contra las autoridades para reclamar la indemnizacion aduciendo que mas de 700 parlamentarios por su partido y otros militantes fueron interceptados ilegalmente por el "Servicio de Inteligencia" durante el "poder" de Kim Tae Jung. 　Esto es un acto tan cinico como si un ladron que gritara primero !ladron!, senala el documento y prosigue: 　Quien tiene que indemnizar es el "partido Hannara" que controlo y apoyo a los sucesivos "poderes" militares fascistas y el "gobierno civil" y los relacionados deben ser castigados.
    　Tal agrupacion politica, que apoya la interceptacion ilegal, se disfraza de una "victima de la interceptacion ilegal" y demanda hasta la compensacion de danos. En el mundo no hay tal horda descarada y arrogante.
    　El presente caso revelo claramente que los compinches del "partido Hannara" son un grupo de criminales que no tiene sentido comun ni toma en consideracion la ley, la opinion interna y externa, la etica y la moralidad.
    　No debe ser continuada por mas tiempo la situacion anormal en que el "partido Hannara" y otras fuerzas en contra del 15 de junio atacan a las fuerzas progresistas reformistas y las del 15 de junio, victimas de la interceptacion ilegal.
    　Los habitantes de distintos sectores del Sur de Corea deben darse clara cuenta de que tales maniobras del "partido Hannara" se encaminan a dividir y debilitar las fuerzas progresistas reformistas y, a la larga, arrebatar el "poder" en las proximas "elecciones presidenciales" y deben levantarse con mas vigor en la lucha por enterrarlo en la tumba de la historia.