Important Anniversaries of DPRK Commemorated

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- An opening ceremony of a Korean book, photo and handicraft exhibition was held at a Mexican centre, meetings took place in New Delhi and Vienna, on Dec. 7 and 8 to mark the 14th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army and the 88th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk. On display in the venues of the functions were famous works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, photos showing their immortal exploits and Korean books, photos and handicrafts. Speeches were made at the functions.
    The chairman of the Indian Youth Group for the Study of Works of Comrade Kim Il Sung said that Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the KPA marked a historic event in hewing out the destiny of the Korean people and guaranteeing the victory of the cause of global independence, adding that the KPA and Korean people would always emerge victorious in the confrontation with the U.S.
    The general secretary of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and the DPRK stressed that the KPA has entered a new path of its development and demonstrated its invincible might thanks to the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il.
    He praised Kim Jong Il as a peerless political elder who has strengthened the DPRK into an ideological and military power. He highly lauded the brilliant life and undying feats of Kim Jong Suk who dedicated her all to the struggle for the liberation of the country and victory of the revolution.

Annual Meeting of Organizations for Study of Juche Idea in Nepal Held

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- An annual general meeting of organizations for the study of the Juche idea in Nepal took place in Katmandu on Dec. 9. On display in the venue of the general meeting were photos of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il giving field guidance to the work in various sectors of the national economy.
    Present there were leading figures and members of the Nepal Institute for the Juche Studies, the Nepalese Institute for Self-Reliance Studies, the Youth Institute for Self-Reliance Studies of Nepal and the Nepalese National Joint Study Centre. The meeting reviewed the work done by the organizations this year and discussed the orientation of their activities for the next year.

Chinese Ambassador Hosts Reception

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe Tuesday evening hosted a reception at the Chinese embassy in honor of officials of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on the threshold of New Year Juche 95 (2006). Present on invitation were Vice-Director Kim Thae Jong and other officials of the International Department.
    On hand were staff members of the Chinese embassy.
    Speeches were made at the reception.

Police Authorities Assailed in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Members of the "all-people measure committee for radically restoring agriculture and denouncing the murder of farmer Jon Yong Chol" and other civic and public organizations of south Korea reportedly held a press conference in Seoul on Dec. 15 and condemned the police authorities for scheming to hide the murder case of farmer Jon Yong Chol. Mun Kyong Sik, chairman of the south Korean Federation of Peasants Associations, Kwon O Hyon, chairman of the Society for Supporting Prisoners of Conscience under the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy, Kim Un Jin, member of the Emergency Measure Committee of the Democratic Workers' Party, and other speakers held that it is a deceptive behavior lack of truthfulness that the police authorities punished the chief of the first riot squad of the Seoul District Police Office only though they admitted their responsibility for the violent action.
    A press release was read out at the press conference.
    It said it is not understandable that the police authorities expressed "regret" more than 20 days after policemen beat the farmer to death in broad daylight and concealed and fabricated the truth behind the incident.
    It stressed that the present "government" should directly apologize for the murder case, dismiss the chief of the police office and arrest and punish the person responsible for the murder.

Withdrawal of U.S. Hostile Policy toward DPRK Demanded

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Voices condemning the reckless remarks made by the U.S. ambassador in Seoul are reportedly heard from various circles in south Korea. The Reunification Solidarity, the People's Solidarity and the Buddhists' Solidarity for Peace held a press conference in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Dec. 16 at which the organizations accused the U.S. ambassador of openly uttering from the moment he arrived at this land that his experience would help bring about a change in north Korea, a clear indication that his job was to mastermind a political operation aimed at "bringing down the system in the north."
    His reckless remarks were prompted by the U.S. stratagem to scrap the joint statement adopted at the 4th round of the six-party talks and provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula, they charged, demanding the U.S. recall its ambassador home and immediately roll back its hostile policy towards the DPRK. That day, the Anti-U.S. Women's Society in its statement titled "We denounce the reckless remarks of Bush and the U.S. ambassador" noted that the endless string of reckless remarks made by Bush and the U.S. ambassador cannot be construed otherwise than the present attitude of the U.S. administration pursuing a one-sided high-handed policy towards the north.
    The Buddhists' Solidarity for Peace in a statement branded the U.S. as a real criminal state, calling for launching an all-people movement to expel the U.S. ambassador from south Korea.

Seminar Held to Mark Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Famous Work

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- A seminar in the field of social sciences was held on Dec. 20 to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work." The President in his work published on December 28, Juche 44 (1955), clarified that Juche in the ideological work means the Korean revolution and, therefore, the ideological work of the Workers' Party of Korea should be oriented to meet the interests of the Korean revolution and put forward the important tasks to be implemented to establish Juche.
    Song Kuk Nam, vice-president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Dr. and Associate Prof. Kim Chun Gun, a dean of Kim Il Sung University, and other speakers said that the work serves as an immortal one as it put the struggle for establishing Juche on a new higher stage by bringing about a new turning point in the struggle to eliminate flunkeyism and dogmatism and establish Juche and clarifying with lucidity Juche in the ideological work. They noted that the President made a bold decision to eradicate the flunkeyism, dogmatism and formalism which had a serious harmful impact on the struggle of the Korean people and the ideological work of the Party for building foundations of socialism at that time in view of the historical background and conditions of the Korean revolution.
    The work is an important document as it declared breaking with the factionalists and modern revisionists, who advocated flunkeyism, dogmatism and formalism, and proclaimed the start of the Party's struggle to establish Juche in all spheres, they noted, and went on:
    The President's idea of eliminating dogmatism and formalism and establishing Juche in the ideological work has been successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il to demonstrate its ever greater validity and vitality.
    Present at the seminar were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, officials concerned and officials, teachers, researchers and lecturers in the field of science, education and the fields for the preservation of revolutionary sites and cultural relics.

Japan's Black-hearted Intention Assailed

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- A working group of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan recently decided to push ahead with the examination of the issue of working out a "bill on speedy application of economic sanctions" against the DPRK and a "bill on the human rights issue in north Korea". Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
    Ultra-right conservatives of Japan already made desperate efforts to impose sanctions upon the DPRK, clamoring for "restrictions against north Korea in import and export" and the "prohibition of port calls by north Korean ships". This, however, proved futile. By nature, Japan's subservience to the U.S. is well known to the world. The LDP ultra-right conservatives' much touted economic sanctions against the DPRK and "human rights issue" are prompted by their black-hearted intention to please the U.S. conservative hardliners and draw water to their mill, backed by them.
    The six-party talks are now deadlocked due to the obstructive moves of the U.S. conservative hardliners. The U.S. is imposing financial sanctions upon the DPRK on the one hand and working hard to build up international public opinion through its "human rights" racket on the other in a bid to pressurize and stifle the DPRK.
    The Japanese ultra-right conservative forces are dancing to the tune of the U.S., their master, bent on its anti-DPRK campaign, as if they had been waiting for the opportunity.
    It is the height of folly for the Japanese reactionaries to seek to isolate and stifle the DPRK and dodge the liquidation of Japan's past through the economic sanctions and the "human rights" row.
    These moves are nothing but a base attempt to scuttle the DPRK-Japan talks which began to go ahead with much effort and stoke the atmosphere of confrontation with the DPRK.
    The ultra-right conservatives of Japan had better bear in mind that the confrontation with the DPRK is by no means a simple game.

Rodong Sinmun on Defending Independence

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- When all the countries and nations defend independence and respect it with each other in international relations, the relations of equality, cooperation, reciprocity and non-interference in internal affairs will be formed and developed among the countries and the nations, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The principle of defending and respecting independence is the basic foundation of the development of fair international relations, the article says, and goes on:
    The principle makes it possible to realize the essential demand of the countries and the nations.
    In order to establish and develop fair international relations, it is imperative to have the common and fundamental principle of helping defend and realize the interests and demands of all the countries and the nations. This is the principle of defending and respecting independence.
    This principle is an important guarantee for fairly settling international issues in keeping with the interests and demands of all the countries and the nations.
    An attempt to reject and stamp out the idea, way of life and system of other countries and nations as they go against the grain is a wanton violation of independence. The U.S.-led imperialists should never be allowed to plunge the order of international relations into a big chaos while reversing them as they please in disregard of the norms and order which should be observed between countries.
    All the countries and nations should participate in the settlement of international issues with equal qualification and rights and refrain from forcing their unjust will upon others or blindly following others' wrong isms. All the countries and the nations should establish and develop friendly and cooperative relations on the principle of equality and mutual respect.
    To defend and respect independence is the right and duty of all the countries and the nations and a common task to establish and develop fair international relations.

Congratulatory Letter to Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a congratulatory letter from the economic and commercial councilors corps here on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of his assumption of office as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army. The letter was handed to an official concerned by Evelio Duenas Ponce, commercial councilor of the Cuban embassy here, who is doyen of the corps, on Wednesday.

Basis to Identify Bird Flu Viruses Established in DPRK

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Scientists of the Branch Academy of Cell and Gene Engineering under the State Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have found out the basis to rapidly and correctly identify any types of bird flu viruses. When bird influenza broke out in some chicken farms in the spring this year, they confirmed in a matter of ten days that the type of the virus was A (H7N7). They, basing themselves on this research success, have deepened the research work to put the nation-wide bird flu prevention campaign on a scientific basis.
    Ho Kwang Chun, director of the branch academy, told KCNA that scientists designed primer for analyzing genes of M, HA and NA and solved scientific and technical problems arising in correctly identifying types of sub-species from H1 to H15 and from N1 to N9 in reliance upon the biology engineering technology (RT-PCR).

First Literary Works Depicting Leader in Korea

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The works depicting the leader, which constitutes the main current of the modern literary and art works of Korea, has a long tradition. They originated from hymn literature and legends of Mt. Paektu.
    The first song eulogizing President Kim Il Sung is the revolutionary paean "Star of Korea" written and composed by revolutionary poet Kim Hyok in Juche 17 (1928), the early days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
    The song reflects the unanimous will of the young revolutionaries of new generation and people to have Kim Il Sung in his teens as the center of the unity and cohesion and the leader of the nation.
    The song also mirrors the ardent reverence of the Korean people for the President brightly illuminating the road of the Korean revolution like the morning star in the dark sky over Korea and their will to invariably remain true to his leadership and to lead a happy life in liberated country. The Korean people created and handed down a lot of oral stories on President Kim Il Sung who stroke terror into the aggressors and instilled the confidence in victory in the minds of the people with his protean tactics and lofty virtues during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. The legends of Mt. Paektu, based on the oral stories, show how ardent the respect of the people for him was.
    The literature portraying the leader entered a new phase of development with the creation of the immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and the long epic "Mt. Paektu" after national liberation as an occasion.
    The drama "Thunder" (1946) and feature film "Flames Spreading over the Land" (1977) are the first artistic works depicting the leader. They impressively show the great personality of the President, who is the peerless patriot, national hero and invincible and iron-willed commander. The first art works depicting the leader are his statue at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School (1948), the oil painting Torch of Pochonbo (1948) and the grand monumental edifice Monument to the Victorious Pochonbo Battle (1967).
    The immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Jong Il" is typical of works carrying the high praise and boundless reverence of the Korean people and world progressives for leader Kim Jong Il.

Yang Hyong Sop Meets Palestinian Ambassador

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and conversed with Palestinian Ambassador to the DPRK Shaher Mohammed Abdlah, who paid a farewell call on him, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Wednesday.

Letter to Kim Jong Il from Lecturer of KPA Unit 153

     Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a letter on Dec. 19 from Kim Yong Ok, a lecturer of the room for the education of servicepersons through trees bearing slogans at the navy unit 153 of the Korean People's Army, who got burnt while sacrificingly protecting slogan-bearing trees on Mujae Hill a few years ago. She returned home after being given medical treatment in a foreign country thanks to the benevolent solicitude of Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il personally met Kim Yong Ok during his field inspection on Dec. 10, 2004. Seeing the scar of a burn on her face and hands, he took a benevolent step for restoring her face and hands at a best hospital of the world.
    Therefore, lecturers and curators Kim Yong Ok, Kim Kwan Bin and Kim Jung Gol were given medical treatment at an orthopedic hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science for nearly one year.
    Recalling the unforgettable days when she felt the warm loving care of Kim Jong Il, she presented a letter to him who had her restored as a most beautiful flower in the Songun era at the expense of much money.
    She said in the letter:
    Seeing us being hospitalized at the highest class room for nearly one year with payment of a fabulous medical fee under the peculiar expectation and concern of the country, even doctors, who had treated only rich men of different countries at the world's famous orthopedic hospital, repeatedly asked me that they were really a daughter and sons of workers and farmers and families of servicepersons. I loudly answered that I am a daughter of Kim Jong Il. I told doctors and foreigners that I had given up marriage after getting burn as a girl, that the whole country gave me medical treatment and helped me get married to a navy officer and that Kim Jong Il told officials to send me to the most famous hospital in the world to restore my face and hands. Deeply moved to hear me, they said that Kim Jong Il is best in the world, socialism of Korea is best and you are his daughter living in blessings. When I told them that Kim Jong Il is the sun in the sky and the future of Korea under the shining sun is always rosy and bright, they stood up to clap, shouting "Kim Jong Il-Sun!" and "Sun-Kim Jong Il!"
    When I returned home, people were deeply moved to see my beautiful looks. I have been restored and have come to go forth into the world proudly as told by Kim Jong Il.
    It is my genuine feeling to repay his loving care as early as possible.
    In the letter she expressed her firm determination to convey to all the people and servicepersons the legendary story of love shown by Kim Jong Il to her as a wife of an officer and make her debut on the stage of the 9th contest of art groups of families of servicepersons to loudly sing of the infinite happiness of being a member of families of his servicepersons.

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Rodong Sinmun denuncia intencion de fuerzas conservadoras de Japon

    @Pyongyang, 21 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Se dice que un grupo de expertos del Partido Democratico Liberal de Japon (PDLJ) tomo la decision de impulsar la revision sobre la elaboracion de "proyecto de ley para adelantar la aplicacion de la sancion economica" a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y de "proyecto de ley de DDHH del Norte de Corea". Ya hace tiempo que las fuerzas conservadoras ultraderechistas de Japon maniobraron desesperadamente para llevar a la practica las medidas de sancion contra la RPDC como la "restriccion de la importacion y exportacion al Norte de Corea" y la "prohibicion de la entrada de los barcos norcoreanos", pero, no pudieron lograr su proposito.
    Senala asi el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 21 y continua:
    Ya es conocido por todos que Japon es un pais que obedece docilmente a EE.UU. Las fuerzas conservadoras ultraderechistas del PDLJ portan la sancion economica y el "problema de DDHH" para sacar provecho halagando el gusto de los halcones de EE.UU.
    Estos ponen freno a la marcha de las conversaciones a 6 bandas. El imperio americano ejerce la sancion financiera sobre la RPDC, por una parte y por la otra, suscita la opinion internacional por un alboroto de "DDHH" para ejercer presion sobre la RPDC y aplastarla a traves de estos dos garrotes. Las fuerzas conservadoras ultraderechistas de Japon consideran que ha llegado el tiempo para actuar y se adhieren activamente a la conspiracion anti-RPDC de su amo.
    son muy ingenuos si los reaccionarios japoneses pretenden lograr su intencion de aislar y aplastar a la RPDC y eludir de todas maneras la liquidacion del pasado criminal blandiendo dos garrotes arriba mencionados.
    @Los reaccionarios japoneses abrigan la maligna intencion de poner freno al curso de las conversaciones Corea-Japon iniciadas a duras penas y de agravar la confrontacion con la RPDC.
    Las fuerzas conservadoras ultraderechistas de Japon deben darse clara cuenta de que la confrontacion con la RPDC no es una jugada.

Primeras obras de descripcion del lider en Corea

     Pyongyang, 21 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Tiene una larga tradicion historica la descripcion del lider que forma la corriente principal de las obras literarias y artisticas modernas de Corea. Esta tradicion se inicio con la literatura de himnos y las leyendas del monte Paektu.
    En el periodo inicial de la Lucha Revolucionaria Antijaponesa Kim Hyok, poeta revolucionario, creo el himno revolucionario "El lucero de Corea", que elogio por primera vez en Corea al Presidente Kim Il Sung.
    Esta cancion refleja el unanime deseo de los jovenes revolucionarios de nueva generacion y otros habitantes tendentes a enaltecer como centro de la unidad, como lider de la nacion al joven dirigente Kim Il Sung.
    Canta la ardiente adoracion y elogio al Presidente quien iluminaba el camino a seguir por la revolucion coreana como lucero del cielo nocturno de Corea, y la idea y la decision del pueblo coreano de luchar invariablemente bajo su direccion y vivir felizmente en la patria liberada.
    Las leyendas del monte Paektu son las obras que enriquecieron y arreglaron los relatos sobre el Presidente, transmitidos de boca en boca de habitantes en los dias de la lucha revolucionaria antijaponesa.
    Se crearon numerosas leyendas sobre el Presidente quien con la excepcional destreza y la noble virtud atemorizo a los agresores e infundio fe en la victoria al pueblo. Esto demuestra que en aquel tiempo fueron muy ardientes el respeto y la adoracion del pueblo al Presidente.
    Despues de la liberacion del pais, la literatura de este tipo entro en una nueva fase por motivo de la creacion del inmortal himno revolucionario "Cancion del General Kim Il Sung" y la larga epopeya "Monte Paektu".
    El drama "Trueno"(1946) que describe de modo emocionante grandes rasgos del Presidente, patriota sin igual, heroe nacional e invencible y genial comandante de acero, y la pelicula de ficcion "El fuego que azota al mundo" (1977) son primeras obras de descripcion del lider en estas ramas. La estatua de bronce del Presidente erguida en 1948 en la Escuela Revolucionaria de Mangyongdae, la pintura al oleo "Antorcha de Pochombo" (1948) y el "Monumento a la Victoria de la Batalla de Pochombo" (1967) constituyen las primeras obras en la rama de bellas artes.
    El himno revolucionario "Cancion del General Kim Jong Il" es la obra representativa que hoy en dia refleja el elogio y veneracion infinitos de todo el pueblo coreano y la humanidad progresista hacia el.

Establecida base para diagnosticar variedades de virus de gripe aviar

    @Pyongyang, 21 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Ultimamente, los cientificos de la filial de la ingenieria celular y genetica de la Academia Estatal de Ciencias de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea establecieron una nueva base para diagnosticar con prontitud y precision cualesquier variedades de virus de gripe aviar. Cuando en la estacion primaveral del ano en curso ocurrio esta enfermedad en algunas plantas avicolas del pais, certificaron solo dentro de mas de diez dias que la variedad de este virus es A(H?N?). A base de este exito, profundizaron la investigacion para asegurar de manera cientifica la labor profilactica de gripe aviar que se desplegaba en escala nacional.
    Segun el presidente de la filial Ho Kwang Chun, los cientificos disenaron un sistema Primer capaz de analizar los germenes de M, HA, NA y, basandose en la ingenieria biologica (RT-PCR), resolvieron los problemas cientificos y tecnicos para distinguir correctamente las variedades A de H? a H??, y de N?a N?.