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Kim Jong Il Pays Unofficial Visit to China

    Pyongyang, January 18 (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, paid an unofficial visit to the People's Republic of China from January 10 to 18 at the invitation of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China. He was accompanied by Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong Ju, First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Sok Ju, Department Directors of the WPK Central Committee Pak Nam Gi and Ri Kwang Ho and Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Ro Tu Chol. The party and state leaders of China warmly welcomed Kim Jong Il who came to it again at the outset of the new year, carrying with him the profound friendly feelings towards the fraternal Chinese people and accorded him cordial hospitality with utmost sincerity.
    A meeting and talks between Kim Jong Il and Hu Jintao were held in Beijing.
    Present there from the Chinese side were Zeng Qinghong, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-president of the PRC, Tang Jiaxuan, member of the State Council, and Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee.
    At the talks Kim Jong Il expressed impressions of his visit to the central and southern parts of China where the cause of modernization is being successfully carried out.
    The top leaders of the two parties and countries informed each other of the situation in their countries and had an in-depth exchange of views on the issue of boosting the relations between the two parties and countries and other important international and regional issues of mutual concern and reached a consensus of views in a comradely, sincere and friendly atmosphere.
    Hu Jintao warmly welcomed the visit of Kim Jong Il to China and extended New Year's greetings to him and all the Korean people on the lunar New Year on behalf of the CPC Central Committee.
    Noting that it is one of the great features of the relations of good neighborliness and friendship for the top leaders of the two parties and countries to maintain close relationship, have interaction and exchange visits, Hu stressed that leaders of both sides have visited one another several times and made each visit very successful.
    He continued:
    It is in the common interests of the two countries and favorable for peace, stability and development of Northeast Asia to promote and develop in depth the relations between the two parties and countries now that deep-going and complicated changes are taking place in the present international and regional situation.
    New progress has been made in the relations between the two parties and countries and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries in the field of economy and trade has registered fresh success in recent years thanks to their joint efforts. It is the steadfast strategic policy of the party and government of China to consolidate and strengthen the Sino-DPRK good-neighborly, friendly and cooperative relations, a precious common boon. Hu Jintao highlighted the Chinese side's willingness to inject fresh vigor and energy into the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship, promote the bilateral good-neighborly, friendly and cooperative relations and develop them in depth, bring bigger happiness to the peoples of the two countries and thus make a greater contribution to peace, stability, prosperity and development in Northeast Asia and in other parts of the world through common efforts with the DPRK side.
    Kim Jong Il expressed thanks for Hu's warm invitation and cordial hospitality, manifesting his pleasure of meeting Hu again after their meeting in Pyongyang last October.
    It is the common desire of the two parties and two peoples to boost the long-standing DPRK-China friendship, he said.
    Noting that the bilateral friendship was provided and fostered by the leaders of the old generation of the two countries and it is making more shining progress under the present situation, he said that the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government would as ever exert fresh efforts to carry forward the tradition of close cooperation between the two parties and countries and boost the bilateral relations of friendship together with the Chinese side. It was estimated at the talks that the good-neighborly, friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries have grown stronger after several historic meetings of the top leaders of the two countries in recent years and mutual support and solidarity were expressed to the parties and peoples in their efforts to build socialism and reunify their countries.
    Hu Jintao said that the WPK and the Korean people have made big achievements in building a great prosperous powerful nation, overcoming manifold difficulties in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the leadership of Kim Jong Il in recent years and made steady fresh success in the aspect of improving external environment, adding that he is sincerely rejoiced over this.
    Hu Jintao supported the Party and the people of the DPRK in maintaining the orientation of socialist development and Korean comrades in seeking a path of development suited to the actual conditions of their country. He expressed conviction that under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the whole Party and country would unite close and work hard to achieve new successes in the cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Kim Jong Il said that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China the PRC has achieved great successes in the socialist modernization drive with Chinese characteristics and that the progress made by China was ascribable to the line and policies suited to the actual conditions of China including the important thought of the "three represents" set out by the CPC, the view on scientific development and harmonious socialist construction. He expressed the belief that the Chinese people would attain the goals of the 11th 5-year plan under the leadership of the CPC with Hu Jintao as its general secretary to build a comprehensively well-off socialist society and achieve fresh success in the efforts to accomplish the cause of complete reunification of the country.
    Both sides had an in-depth exchange of views on international and regional issues of common concern.
    Both sides fully appreciated the positive results made in several rounds of the six-party talks in Beijing and unanimously agreed to consistently maintain the stand of seeking a negotiated peaceful solution to the issue and push forward through sustained joint efforts the process of the six-party talks so as to contribute to the eventual and peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
    Kim Jong Il spoke of the difficulties lying in the process of the six-party talks, noting that there is no change in the DPRK's basic stand of maintaining the goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, implementing the joint statement issued at the fourth round of the six-party talks and pursuing a negotiated peaceful settlement.
    He pointed out that the DPRK would join Chinese comrades in the efforts to seek a way of overcoming the difficulties lying in the way of the six-party talks and steadily advance the talks.
    As regards the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, Hu Jintao reclarified the stand of the Chinese side, saying that the six-party talks serve as an effective mechanism for settling the nuclear issue and it is the right option to properly deal with the relevant issue in a peaceful way through dialogue. He pointed out that the Chinese side is ready to make joint efforts with the parties concerned including the DPRK in the future, too as in the past and put spurs to the six-party talks so that they may make steady progress.
    Kim Jong Il had a cordial conversation with Hu Jintao who visited the state guest house and visited the Crop Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in company with him.
    After making the round of the institute, Kim Jong Il highly praised its research group for having made many successes in the research into the crops helpful to the agricultural development of the country.
    Hu Jintao hosted a grand banquet at the Great Hall of the People that evening in honor of Kim Jong Il on visit to China.
    Present there on invitation were Kim Jong Il, Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Choe Jin Su, DPRK ambassador to China, and staff members of the DPRK embassy.
    Present there were Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Zeng Qinghong, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-president of the PRC; Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC; Wu Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-premier of the State Council; Guo Boxiong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission; Wang Gang, alternate member of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee; Tang Jiaxuan, member of the State Council; Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee;
    and other senior officials of the party and state of China and Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.
    Hu Jintao and Kim Jong Il made speeches at the banquet.
    It proceeded in an amicable atmosphere overflowing with the feelings of friendship.
    Kim Jong Il met with Wu Bangguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wen Jiabao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and premier of the State Council, and Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and had cordial conversations with them. Wu Bangguo warmly welcomed Kim Jong Il on visit to China at the outset of the new year and hoped that his visit would provide an important occasion of boosting the Sino-DPRK ties of friendship.
    Noting that frequent visits of high-ranking officials have taken place between the two parties and the two countries and exchanges have become brisk in various fields and at different levels, he stressed that the collective leadership of China with Hu Jintao as general secretary is attaching great importance to the Sino-DPRK friendship.
    He said that China is ready to continue putting into practice the common understanding expressed by the general secretaries of the two parties in October last year, pursuant to the policy of inheriting the tradition, facing up to the future, building good neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation and enrich the contents of the Sino-DPRK good neighborliness, friendship and cooperation to put the ties between the two parties and the two countries on a new high stage in all fields.
    Wen Jiabao warmly welcomed Kim Jong Il on visit to China and praised his devoted efforts and important contribution made to preserve and develop the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and two countries and achieve the prosperity of his country.
    The Sino-DPRK friendship that stood the test of history is unbreakable, he said, noting with pleasure that the traditional friendship provided and cultivated by leaders of the old generation of the two countries has been successfully carried forward and developed thanks to the common efforts of the two sides.
    He exchanged with Kim Jong Il views on the issue of boosting the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries, the cooperation in economy and trade, in particular, and introduced to him the present economic situation in China and the relevant content of the 11th five-year plan. Kim Jong Il said that the DPRK feels grateful to the party and government of China for rendering disinterested assistance to it each time it faced difficulties, and expressed thanks to Wen who has supervised this work.
    Noting that the DPRK and China should learn from each other and exchange experience in many aspects, he sincerely hoped that China would make fresh and greater success in carrying out the cause of building a comprehensively well-off society in the spirit of the 16th Congress of the CPC. Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, warmly welcomed Kim Jong Il on China visit on behalf of the party, government, and people of China upon the authorization of General Secretary Hu Jintao.
    Recalling the days of his visit to the DPRK in 2002 with emotion, he expressed deep gratitude to Kim Jong Il for having accorded him warm hospitality, and offered him New Year's greetings.
    Wen Jiabao hosted a luncheon in honor of Kim Jong Il.
    Present at the luncheon were Wu Guanzheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPC and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, Luo Gan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPC, and Zeng Peiyan, vice-premier of the State Council who is member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPC.
    Hu Jintao bade farewell to Kim Jong Il leaving Beijing after wrapping up his China visit.
    Kim Jong Il was seen off at Beijing Railway Station by Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPC and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC, and other leading officials of China.
    The unofficial visit to China paid by him at the outset of the new year for the purpose of steadily boosting the DPRK-China friendship achieved success thanks to the particular care and warm hospitality of Hu Jintao, the party and government of China.
    Kim Jong Il expressed satisfaction over his fruitful visit and sincere thanks for the cordial hospitality accorded to him by leading officials of the party and government of China.
    Kim Jong Il's historic visit to China will help boost the traditional DPRK- China friendship and record a brilliant page in its history.

Speech of by Kim Jong Il at Banquet

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, hosted a grand banquet at the Great Hall of the People in honor of Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, on visit to China. Kim Jong Il said in his speech:
    We have visited the southern part of the People's Republic of China as our first political itinerary in the new year at the kind invitation of you esteemed Comrade General Secretary Hu Jintao.
    First of all, I would like to express my great pleasure of meeting you here in Beijing today in the wake of our meeting in Pyongyang last October. Our long-cherished hope to visit the southern part of the Chinese land has come true at last thanks to your proposal and particular care. Allow me to express my thanks to you Comrade General Secretary Hu Jintao for having meticulously organized the specific course of our trip to different places of the southern part of China.
    Our profound thanks also goes to several leading cadres in Beijing and in the localities for having warmly received us and accorded us cordial hospitality despite the pressure of their work in the run-up to the lunar New Year's Day. I would like to express, at the same time, my thanks to you Comrade General Secretary Hu Jintao for having hosted this grand banquet and made such enthusiastic speech.
    Our visit provided us with an opportunity to get familiar with peculiar and diverse aspects of the Chinese nation in natural, social, cultural and various other fields in the vast land of China. We were deeply impressed by the shining achievements made in the high-tech field, in particular. Warm hospitality accorded to us by Chinese comrades in Wuhan, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and every other place we went and the warm southern climate pleased us away from intense cold of mid-winter though for a short time.
    The progress made in the southern part of China which has undergone a rapid change and the stirring reality of China, in particular, deeply impressed us.
    Still fresh in my memory is my visit to Shanghai five years ago that has changed beyond recognition. Touring various special economic zones making a great contribution to the socialist modernization drive with Chinese characteristics, we were more deeply moved by the Chinese people's enterprising and persevering efforts and fruits born by them.
    In a word, our visit to the southern part of China convinced us once again that China has a rosier future thanks to the correct line and policies advanced by the Communist Party of China.
    The astonishing changes that have taken place in the vast land of China have been possible because the CPC laid down a new line and policies to suit the specific conditions of the country such as the thought of "three represents", the " view on scientific development" and "construction of a harmonious socialist society" and powerfully encouraged the people in their efforts to materialize them.
    It is our firm belief that the hard-working Chinese people will successfully attain the far-reaching targets of the new 11th five-year plan and thus build a comprehensively well-off socialist society before long and accomplish the cause of complete reunification of the country without fail. We are rejoiced as over our own over the fact that everything goes on well in China, our neighbor, and satisfied over the steady vigorous development of the DPRK-China friendly relations despite the present complicated situation.
    The DPRK-China relations provided and cultivated by revolutionary forerunners of the two countries go a long way towards giving a strong impetus to our socialist construction and ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and, furthermore, in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world. We feel sincerely thankful to the Chinese party, government and people for invariably setting store by the DPRK-China friendship on a strategic level and rendering disinterested support and assistance to the Korean people in their struggle to defend socialism.
    The Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government will as ever exert every effort to consolidate the ties of fraternal friendship deeply rooted in the minds of the two peoples and inject more fresh energy into this friendship, common boon, in various fields.

Speech of Hu Jintao at Banquet

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, gave a grand banquet at the Great Hall of the People in welcome of the China visit of 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. Hu Jintao said in his speech:
    You Comrade Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, have visited China again with the deep feelings of the Party, the government and the people of Korea toward the Party, the government and the people of China with the approaching of the lunar New Year's Day, a traditional holiday of the two peoples.
    In this place I warmly welcome you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il on behalf of the Chinese party, government and people and sincerely wish you sufficient successes in your visit.
    I extend New Year's greetings to you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il and the Korean people.
    During my visit to Korea in October last year, I witnessed new noteworthy successes gained by the Korean people in shaping out a road of development suited to the specific conditions of Korea, rallied close around the Workers' Party of Korea headed by you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il. We, as your close neighbor, friends and comrades, sincerely hope that Korea will steadily develop and grow strong and prosperous and wholeheartedly wish the Korean people an affluent and happy life.
    The Chinese party, government and people will as ever support the Korean party, government and people in maintaining the orientation of socialist development and the Korean comrades in shaping out the road of development suited to the specific conditions of their country, in raising and maintaining their demand for independent and peaceful reunification and in striving to improve international environment.
    We are convinced that the Korean people will certainly achieve consistently new greater successes in the cause of building a powerful state under the firm leadership of the WPK headed by you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il.
    We should value the traditional Sino-Korean friendship as it is a precious treasure the leaders of the old generation of the two countries handed down to us.
    It is our sacred mission given by the era to consolidate and develop the Sino-Korean relations of friendship and cooperation. I reached an important agreement with you General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong Il on developing the friendly and cooperative relations in a deep-going way during my visit to Korea in October last year and reaffirmed the important agreement a little while ago.
    The Chinese Party and government set it as their firm strategic policy to attach great importance to the Sino-Korean relations and steadily consolidate and develop the Sino-Korean relations of friendship and cooperation.
    We will further expand and deepen bilateral exchange and cooperation in different fields in the spirit of inheriting the traditions, facing up to the future, building good-neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation together with the Korean Party, government and people so as to vitalize and invigorate the traditional Sino-Korean friendship, bring more blessings to the two countries and the two peoples and make a greater contribution to achieving the peace, stability and development of Northeast Asia.

More Information about Death of Korean Draftees Discovered

Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- More information about the death of Koreans who were forcibly drafted by the Japanese imperialists in the past, has been discovered, according to the south Korean MBC on Jan. 14. The south Korean Committee for Probing the Truth about Damage Done to the Korean Draftees under the Japanese Imperialists' Occupation said that it obtained boxes of remains of those Koreans who died after being drafted to an airport project in Hokkaido, Japan, and photos showing a joint memorial service held for them, etc.
The committee also found out documents of a Japanese government office dealing with the fact that 68 dead Koreans were buried or cremated and a site of a cemetery for them, the report added.

March on Snowy Road to Jong Il Peak and Mt. Jangja

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Members of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League in the city of Pyongyang made a "march on a snowy road to Jong Il Peak" on Jan. 17, the 60th founding anniversary of the youth league. The march group, consisting of officials of the youth league and its members of middle schools from at least 10 districts of the city, laid bunches of flowers before the statue of President Kim Il Sung at Changdok School on the morning of Tuesday and made bows to him in humble reverence before marching toward Mt. Ryongak associated with the immortal revolutionary history of the peerlessly great persons.
    After arriving in the mountain, the marchers conducted contests of songs "Song of Anti-Japanese War", an immortal masterpiece, "The Patriotic Song", "The Country I Am Defending" and "For the Only One Country", and poems "Mt. Paektu", "Mother" and "My Country", vowing to prepare themselves to be reliable successors to the Songun revolution, single-mindedly rallied around leader Kim Jong Il.
    On Jan. 15, officials and members of primary organizations of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea in Jagang Province made a march on a snowy road to Mt. Jangja on the occasion of the 60th founding anniversary of the union.
    During their march they conducted colorful political and cultural activities including a public presentation of stories about virtues and a recitation of poems.
    After arriving at the Jangjasan Revolutionary Site, they went round mementoes.

Seminars on DPRK Joint New Year Editorial Held in Bangladesh and India

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Seminars on "Make a higher leap full of great ambition and confidence", the joint New Year editorial of the newspapers of the Party, the army and the youth league of the DPRK, were held in Dhaka on Jan. 5 and New Delhi on Jan. 8. Garib Newaz, president of the Bangladesh People's League, and other speakers stressed that the joint editorial of the DPRK serves as a militant banner for all the progressive people of the world.
    They said the world progressives should positively follow the revolutionary fighting spirit of the Korean people who are more thoroughly applying the Juche idea to all fields of socialist construction, holding aloft the banner of independence against imperialism.
    Wipin Gupta, chairman of the Juche Philosophy Study Committee of India, noted that it is the great victory of the single-minded unity of the Korean people that they splendidly celebrated the 60th anniversaries of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea and the liberation of Korea and fully demonstrated the might of the DPRK by dynamically pushing forward the socialist economic construction last year.
    He wished the Korean people displaying the might of Songun fresh successes in their efforts to carry out the tasks set forth in the joint New Year editorial under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il this year, too.

Concert of Youth and Students for Pledging Loyalty Held

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- "The Sun and Youth", a concert of youth and students for pledging loyalty, was held at the Central Youth Hall on Jan. 17 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League. The performers put on the stage poem and chorus "Glory to the General", tale and chorus "On the Road of Fight to Follow the General", chorus and dance "We Are Successors to the Revolution", chorus "Dear General, Where Are You" which is an immortal masterpiece, male quintet and chorus "Let Us Become the Army of the General", chorus and dance "The Song of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League" and other numbers.
    The performers and audiences hardened their determination to fully demonstrate the revolutionary stamina and valor of the Songun young vanguard in the general march to implement the tasks set forth in the joint New Year editorial and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, remaining loyal to the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the Songun brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu.
    Appreciating the concert were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, the participants in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the youth league and members of the delegation of Korean youths and students in Japan and the delegation of the Youth Federation of Korean Nationals in China.

Japanese Reactionaries' Anti-DPRK Moves Assailed

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- The Korean people will certainly settle not only the past crimes of the Japanese imperialists but also the anti-DPRK hostile moves Japan has systematically, overall and viciously pursued after the liberation of Korea. Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article.
    The Japanese reactionaries have pursued hideous hostile policy toward the DPRK in political, economic, military, diplomatic and all other fields since the liberation of Korea and the establishment of the genuine people's government in the northern half of Korea, the article says, and goes on: In the third article of the "agreement" signed between Japan and south Korea in 1965 the Japanese reactionaries specified that the south Korean "government" is a "legitimate one" in the Korean Peninsula.
    In view of the obtaining situation of the Korean Peninsula and the urgency of reunification, the DPRK government offered a proposal to hold the three-party talks between the DPRK, the U.S. and south Korea to discuss the issues of concluding a peace agreement between the DPRK and U.S., withdrawing the U.S. forces from south Korea and adopting a declaration of nonaggression between the north and south of Korea. However, the Japanese reactionaries took issue with the proposal to block it.
    The viciousness of the Japanese reactionaries' hostile policy toward the DPRK finds its manifestation at the 9th Asian Table-tennis Championships held in Japan in May 1988, the 24th Olympic Games in 1988 and other sports games.
    In November 1991 the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK made public a statement announcing that it would sign the Safeguards Accord if the U.S. starts withdrawing its nuclear weapons from south Korea. But only Japan linked the "nuclear issue" with the negotiations for normalizing diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan to put unjustifiable pressure upon the DPRK. The Japanese government had raised the "nuclear issue" and the "issue of abduction" in each round of DPRK-Japan talks to lay artificial difficulties in the talks and impudently tried to adopt a "resolution" at the meeting of the Board of Governors of the IAEA to impose international pressure upon the DPRK.
    It is Japan that alleged the launch of artificial earth satellite "Kwangmyongsong No.1" was a "missile launch."
    What is the main point of the Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK hostile policy is economic sanctions upon the DPRK. They have put pressure and sanctions upon the DPRK, chiming in with the U.S. imperialists' economic sanctions.
    Japan's anti-DPRK hostile moves have become more vicious since the publication of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration. Japan's desperate hostile moves against the DPRK and its bid to extremely aggravate the DPRK-Japan relations are aimed to evade the settlement of its past and find a pretext for reinvasion of Korea.

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    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- The chief executive of Japan in his first press interview for this year held on Jan. 4 singled out the boosted Japan-U.S. relations as a priority task, talking about the preservation of Japan's security with the help of the U.S. forces and the closest Japan-U.S. alliance in Asia and the increase of joint efforts with the U.S. for the establishment of the missile defence system and the like. Rodong Sinmun today observes in a signed commentary in this regard: This indicates the stand of Japan to make sustained efforts to strengthen the Japan-U.S military alliance. The moves of Japan to emerge a military power and realize its ambition for military supremacy in Asia have reached a more dangerous phase since the outset of this year.
    It goes on:
    The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan on Jan. 6 decided to request the government to immediately revise the "principle on the peaceful use of space development" which strictly bans the use of space for a military purpose.
    As early as in the middle of the 1970s, Japan was capable of manufacturing a nuclear weapon in a matter of three months. Its nuclear development capacity has dramatically increased in recent years. Japan is now capable of producing nukes on a full scale any moment if it has a will. The Japan Ground "Self-Defence Force" was dispatched to California State of the United States to conduct joint military exercises with the U.S. marines, the first of their kind. These war maneuvers that began on Jan. 9 under the simulated conditions of defending an island far away from the mainland, will last till Jan. 27. Japan is contemplating jointly developing "SM-3 Standard", a naval anti-ballistic missile of the new generation, with the U.S. while seeking to advance the time for the deployment of "SM-3 Standard" missiles of the existing type in a bid to establish the missile defence system ahead of schedule. The Japan Defence Agency newly set up the joint chiefs of staff in the SDF in order to coordinate the system whereby to command the three services of the SDF. These are dangerous moves to emerge a military power and realize its ambition for supremacy in this region, backed by the U.S., its senior ally.
    These moves of Japan to tighten its military alliance with the U.S. and emerge a military power as early as possible are no more than reckless acts as they only strain the situation and spark a new arms race in Asia, the commentary concludes.

New Insecticide Developed

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- The Hamhung Branch of the State Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has developed a new kind of highly efficient insecticide. When it is mixed with the substance for forming membrane on water surface, the insecticide proves more effective.
    The substance mixed with the insecticide forms thin and stable membrane on the water surface of paddy fields to kill the insects climbing up and down rice stalks. It has been applied to various co-op farms in South Hamgyong and South Phyongan Provinces last year. The trial application shows that its proportion of disinsection is 98 percent.
    It is economically profitable. As the insecticide is put in water by drops at certain intervals, 500 g of the insecticide per hectare (50 g in the term of medicinal component) is enough. It makes it possible to save manpower and agricultural chemicals compared with the method of spraying chemicals.

Japan's Moves for Military Supremacy Blasted

Rodong Sinmun Calls for Pushing Forward Three-point Patriotic Movement

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a by-lined article calls on all the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas to conduct a vigorous three-point patriotic movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity in hearty response to the joint New Year editorial issued by the newspapers of the Party, the army and the youth league. It says:
    The three-point patriotic movement set forth in the joint editorial serves as the banner of struggle which helps encourage the burning patriotic zeal of all the Koreans and display it in practice.
    The patriotic movement for independent reunification is a nation-wide patriotic movement to accomplish the cause of national reunification by giving full play to the common idea and feelings of the Korean nation which values its dignity and sovereignty most.
    Only when all the Koreans put the dignity and interests of the nation above anything else to settle all the problems arising in accomplishing the cause of national reunification as required by the idea of "By our nation itself" with the firm consciousness of national independence and keep the nation-first spirit prevalent in all their residential quarters as pointed out in the joint editorial, will the hot wind of independent reunification sweep across the Korean Peninsula.
    The patriotic movement for peace against war is the struggle to give full play to the staunch stamina of the Korean nation rejecting aggression and domination to defend the peace of the country and the security of the nation. The U.S. reckless policy of aggression on Korea is sparking off the burning hatred of all the Koreans for the U.S. The patriotic movement for peace against war is mighty in getting all the Koreans to focus the spearhead of their struggle on the U.S., the root cause of aggression and war, with their will to defend the nation and peace.
    The patriotic movement for great national unity is a movement for pooling all the Koreans' ardent desire for independent reunification and patriotic will. When all the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and abroad continue to boost the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity as required by the June 15 era of reunification and further intensify solidarity in the movement for independent reunification and the struggle for peace against war, they have nothing fearful and insurmountable even if they face grave hardships under any complicated situation.

Congratulatory Message to FM of Tanzania

Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a congratulatory message to Asha-Rose Migiro upon her appointment as Tanzanian minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Expressing the belief that the excellent friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the future, the message sincerely wished her great success in her new job.

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Kim Jong Il realiza una visita extraoficial a China ( 1 )

    Pyongyang, 18 de enero (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 realizo del 10 al 18 de enero una visita extraoficial a la Republica Popular China cumplimentando la invitacion de Hu Jintao, Secretario General del Comite Central del Partido Comunista de China y Presidente de la RPCh. Le acompanaron el primer ministro del Consejo de Ministros de la RPDC Pak Pong Ju, el primer vicecanciller Kang Sok Ju, los jefes de departamento del CC del PTC Pak Nam Gi y Ri Kwang Ho y el vicepremier Ro Tu CHol.
    Los dirigentes del partido y del estado de China dieron calurosa bienvenida al Dirigente quien con el sentimiento de profunda amistad al hermano pueblo chino, realiza de nuevo a principios de ano nuevo una visita a China y lo recibieron con maxima hospitalidad.
    Tuvieron lugar en Beijing un encuentro y conversaciones entre el Dirigente Kim Jong Il y el Presidente Hu Jintao. En las ocasiones participaron por la parte china Zeng Qinghong, miembro del Comite Permanente del Buro Politico del CC del PCCh y vicepresidente de la RPCh, Tang Jiaxuan, miembro del Consejo del Estado y Wang Jiarui, jefe del Departamento de Enlace Internacional del CC del PCCh. En las conversaciones, el Dirigente expreso su impresion recibida durante la visita a las zonas central y surena de China donde se realiza con brillantez la causa de modernizacion.
    Los maximos Dirigentes de ambos partidos y paises informaron de la situacion de sus respectivos paises en un ambiente camaraderil, sincero y amistoso, intercambiaron con sinceridad los criterios sobre el mayor desarrollo de las relaciones entre los dos partidos y paises y otros importantes problemas internacionales y regionales de interes comun.
    El mandatario chino dio calurosa bienvenida a la visita a su pais del Dirigente coreano y, con motivo del ano nuevo lunar, rindio al Dirigente y a todo el pueblo coreano su saludo de ano nuevo en representacion del CC del PCCh.
    �@Es una gran particularidad el que los maximos dirigentes de ambos partidos y paises tienen una relacion estrecha y mantienen intercambios y viajes, dijo Hu Jintao y anadio que los dirigentes de ambas partes ya hicieron visitas mutuas en varias ocasiones en las cuales lograron grandes exitos. �@Apunto que en las actuales circunstancias en que se ven cambios serios y complejos en la situacion internacional y regional, promover y desarrollar con profundidad las relaciones de los dos partidos y los dos paises conviene a los intereses comunes de ambos paises y al logro de la paz, la estabilidad y el desarrollo del Noreste Asiatico.
    �@Asevero que por los esfuerzos comunes de ambas partes, en los ultimos anos las relaciones entre los dos partidos y los dos paises obtuvieron un gran progreso y la cooperacion reciproca bilateral logro nuevos exitos en las esferas economica y comercial y destaco que consolidar las relaciones de buena vecindad, de amistad y de cooperacion China-Corea, precioso tesoro comun, es la invariable orientacion estrategica del partido y el gobierno de China. �@Senalo que la parte china se esforzara en comun con la parte coreana por inculcar un nuevo animo y vigor a la tradicional amistad China-Corea e impulsar las relaciones de buena vecindad, amistad y cooperacion entre ambos paises para asi garantizar mayor felicidad a los dos paises y dos pueblos y hacer gran contribucion a la paz, la estabilidad, la prosperidad y el desarrollo del Noreste Asiatico y el resto del mundo.
    �@El Dirigente Kim Jong Il expreso agradecimiento por la invitacion cordial y acogida amable del mandatario Hu Jintao y manifesto su alegria por la presente visita despues del encuentro en Pyongyang en octubre del ano expirado.
    �@El Dirigente dijo que fortalecer mas la amistad Corea-China de larga tradicion es un anhelo comun de los partidos y los pueblos de los dos paises. �@La amistad Corea-China, establecida y cultivada por los dirigentes veteranos de ambos paises, se desarrolla mas en la nueva situacion de hoy, senalo y destaco que tambien en el futuro al igual que en el pasado, el PTC y el gobierno de la RPDC aportaran nuevos esfuerzos junto con la parte china por heredar la tradicion de cooperacion estrecha entre los dos partidos y dos paises y continuar consolidando y desarrollando las relaciones de amistad Corea-China.
    �@En la ocasion se aprecio que despues de las historicas visitas de los maximos dirigentes de los dos paises realizadas en varias oportunidades, se han fomentado la buena vecindad, la amistad y la cooperacion entre los dos paises, y se manifestaron el apoyo y la solidaridad mutuos con la lucha de los dos partidos y los dos pueblos por la construccion del socialismo y la reintegracion territorial.
    �@El presidente chino indico que bajo la direccion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il, el partido y el pueblo de Corea, con el espiritu de apoyarse en sus propias fuerzas y de lucha tenaz, superaron multiples dificultades y lograron grandes exitos en el proceso de la construccion de una gran potencia prospera y en la mejora de la circunstancia exterior y expreso su complacencia sincera por el respecto.
    �@Hu Jintao apoyo que el partido y el pueblo de la RPDC mantienen la orientacion de desarrollo al socialismo y los camaradas coreanos se reflexionan del rumbo de desarrollo conveniente a la circunstancia de su pais y expreso su conviccion de que bajo la direccion del camarada Kim Jong Il todo el partido y todo el pais se unan intimamente y luchen tenazmente para lograr sin falta nuevos exitos en la causa para la construccion de una gran potencia prospera. El Dirigente Kim Jong Il dijo que bajo la direccion de su Partido Comunista, China ha logrado muchos exitos en la construccion tipica para la modernizacion del socialismo y senalo que este desarrollo logrado se debe a la idea importante de "tres representantes" presentada por el PCCh y la concepcion del desarrollo cientifico, la construccion socialista armonizada y otras lineas, orientaciones y politicas que avienen a la situacion de China. Expreso su conviccion de que bajo la direccion del PCCh encabezado por el secretario general Hu Jintao cumpliran la meta del decimoprimer plan quinquenal y asi construiran generalmente la sociedad socialista elementalmente rica y armonizada y lograran nuevos exitos en la ejecucion de la causa para realizar la reintegracion total de la patria.
    Ademas ambas partes intercambiaron opiniones profundas sobre los problemas internacionales y regionales de interes comun. Y afirmaron suficientemente los exitos activos logrados en la cita 6 partita de Beijing realizada en varias veces y expresaron consentimiento unanime en seguir manteniendo la posicion de resolver el problema de manera pacifica mediante el dialogo y seguir promoviendo en comun el proceso de la cita a 6 bandas para contribuir a la solucion pacifica final del problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana.
    El Dirigente Kim Jong Il dijo que es invariable la posicion principal de la RPDC de mantener la meta de desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana, ejecutar la Declaracion Conjunta lograda en la cuarta ronda de conversaciones a 6 bandas y promover la solucion pacifica por via dialogada y hablo de la dificultad creada en el proceso de la cita a 6 bandas.
    Indico la necesidad de mancomunar la fuerza con los camaradas chinos para superar las dificultades de las conversaciones a 6 bandas y buscar el medio para seguir desarrollando las conversaciones.
    En relacion con el problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana Hu Jintao reafirmo la posicion de la parte china y senalo que la cita a 6 bandas es el medio eficaz para solucionar el problema nuclear y resolver racionalmente el problema pendiente por via pacifica es la correcta opcion. Hu Jintao dijo que la parte china, tambien en lo adelante al igual que en el pasado, tiene la voluntad de seguir promoviendo el proceso de la cita a 6 bandas al esforzarse en comun con las partes interesadas incluyendo la RPDC.
    El Dirigente Kim Jong Il departio cordialmente con el secretario general Hu Jintao quien visito el albergue y en su compania visito el Instituto de Agronomia de la Academia de Ciencias Agricolas de China.

Discurso de Kim Jong Il en el banquete

   �@Pyongyang, 18 de enero (ATCC) -- Hu Jintao, Secretario General del Comite Central del Partido Comunista de China y Presidente de la Republica Popular China, ofrecioen el Gran Palacio del Pueblo un solemne banquete en honor del 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, de visita en China. Hizo uso de la palabra el Dirigente quien dijo:
    Por la invitacion amable del camarada Hu Jintao, estimado secretario general, visitamos por primer programa politico de ano nuevo la zona surena de la RPCh.
    Ante todo, me alegro mucho de este encuentro en Beijing despues de habernos encontrado en octubre del ano pasado en Pyongyang. Deseabamos ya visitar la zona surena del continente chino y pudimos realizarlo esta vez por la propuesta y atencion especial del camarada Secretario General Hu Jintao.
    Expreso agradecimiento al camarada Secretario General Hu Jintao por habernos ofrecido un programa concreto de visita a varios lugares de la parte Sur de China.
    Y tambien manifiesto profundo agradecimiento a varios cuadros directivos del centro y localidades quienes nos acogieron y trataron con amabilidad y sinceridad, pese a que estan atareados por la cercania del Dia del Ano Nuevo Lunar.
    Al mismo tiempo, le agradezco al camarada Secretario General Hu Jintao por este banquete tan lujoso y por su discurso entusiasta. Durante la presente visita, pudimos enterarnos en el territorio extenso chino de diversos aspectos singulares de la nacion china en las esferas de la naturaleza, la sociedad, la cultura, etc., y en particular, recibimos una profunda impresion de los exitos brillantes logrados en la tecnica de punta. Por la acogidd calurosa de los camaradas chinos en Wuhan, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Censen y otras varias localidades y por el clima meridional, pasamos alegres aunque fuera por un rato olvidandonos del frio muy intenso.
    Sobre todo, el estado en desarrollo de la zona meridional cuya fisonomia se cambio con rapidez y la realidad palpitante de China nos dejaron una profunda impresion inolvidable.
    Me queda vividamente en la memoria el que recorria hace ahora 5 anos la ciudad de Shanghai transformada. Y esta vez al visitar varias zonas economicas especiales que hacen una gran contribucion a la realizacion de la causa de construccion por la modernizacion del socialismo particular chino, recibimos una emocion nueva y grande en el resultado merecido de los esfuerzos emprendedores y tenaces del pueblo chino. En una palabra, a traves de la presente visita a la zona meridional, pudimos asegurar de nuevo que el porvenir de China es muy radiante por las lineas y las politicas correctas del PCCh.
    El desarrollo extraordinario de hoy en el extenso territorio chino es la consecuencia de que el PCCh presento la idea de "tres representantes", "la concepcion de desarrollo cientifico", "la construccion de la sociedad socialista armoniosa" y otras nuevas lineas y politicas adecuadas a su realidad y llamo energicamente a todo el pueblo para la realizacion del respecto.
    Estamos seguros que el diligente pueblo chino realizara exitosamente la magna meta del XI Plan Quinquenal y asi construira en un futuro no lejano una sociedad socialista elementalmente rica y armoniosamente desarrollada y lograra la causa de reintegracion total de todo el pais.
    Consideramos como nuestra alegria el que en China, pais vecino, marchan bien todas las cosas y estamos satisfechos de que las relaciones de amistad Corea-China se desarrollan ininterrumpidamente con vigor aun en medio de la situacion tan compleja como hoy.
    Las relaciones Corea-China preparadas y desarrolladas por los veteranos revolucionarios de los dos paises impulsan energicamente nuestra construccion socialista y hacen una gran contribucion al aseguramiento de la paz y la estabilidad del Noreste Asiatico y el resto del mundo. Nos agradecemos sinceramente de que el partido, el gobierno y el pueblo de China aprecien siempre en una altura estrategica la amistad Corea-China y brinden apoyo y asistencia sinceros a la lucha del pueblo coreano por la defensa del socialismo.
    El PTC y el gobierno de Corea, tambien en lo adelante al igual que en el pasado, haran todos los esfuerzos por consolidar mas el lazo de amistad fraternal enraizada en el alma de los pueblos de los dos paises, fortalecer y desarrollar con mas vigor en todas las esferas la amistad Corea-China, que es un tesoro comun.

Discurso de Hu Jintao en banquete

   �@Pyongyang, 18 de enero (ATCC) -- Hu Jintao, Secretario General del Comite Central del Partido Comunista de China y Presidente de la Republica Popular China, ofrecio un solemne banquete en el Gran Palacio del Pueblo En honor del 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 de visita en China. Hu Jintao pronuncio un discurso que va como sigue:
    En visperas del Dia de Ano Nuevo Lunar que es la fiesta tradicional de los pueblos de los dos paises, China y Corea, el camarada Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del PTC y Presidente del CDN de la RPDC visito otra vez China con el profundo sentimiento del partido, el gobierno y el pueblo de Corea hacia los de China.
    Aprovechando esta oportunidad, doy la calurosa bienvenida al camaradfa Secretario General Kim Jong Il en representacion del partido, el gobierno y el pueblo de China y deseo de todo corazon que la presente visita logre un exito satisfactorio.
    Tambien doy el saludo de ano nuevo al camarada Secretario General Kim Jong Il y a todo el pueblo coreano.
    Durante la visita a Corea en octubre del ano pasado pude ver nuevos exitos que merecen la atencion que el pueblo coreano, unido firmemente en torno al PTC encabezado por el camarada Secretario General Kim Jong Il, logro en la busqueda de la via de desarrollo conforme a la situacion de Corea. Como intimos vecinos, amigos y camaradas de ustedes, deseamos de todo corazon que Corea se desarrolle y se fortalezca incesantemente y que el pueblo coreano goce de una vida abundante y feliz.
    El partido, el gobierno y el pueblo de China, tambien en lo adelante al igual que en el pasado, apoya que el partido, el gobierno y el pueblo de Corea mantienen la direccion de desarrollo del socialismo, que los camaradas coreanos buscan activamente la via de desarrollo conforme a la situacion de su pais, brindan apoyo a la opinion de la reunificacion independiente y pacifica que continuan manteniendo los camaradas coreanos y sus esfuerzos para mejorar el ambiente internacional.
    Expresamos conviccion de que bajo la firme direccion del PTC encabezado por el camarada Secretario General Kim Jong Il, el pueblo coreano seguira logrando sin falta mayores exitos en la realizacion de la causa de construccion de una gran potencia prospera. La tradicional amistad China-Corea es el precioso tesoro que los dirigentes de la vieja generacion de China y Corea nos dieron, por lo cual debemos apreciarla infinitamente.
    Consolidar y desarrollar las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion China-Corea es la sagrada mision que nos encarga la epoca.
    Durante la visita a Corea en octubre del ano pasado logre un importante acuerdo con el camarada Secretario General Kim Jong Il sobre el ulterior desarrollo de las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion China-Corea y hace poco tiempo nosotros reafirmamos este importante acuerdo. El partido y el gobierno de China toman por invariable orientacion estrategica dar la maxima importancia a las relaciones China-Corea, consolidar y desarrollar ininterrumpidamente las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion China-Corea.
    Junto con el partido, el gobierno y el pueblo de Corea ampliaremos y profundizaremos aun mas el intercambio y la cooperacion bilaterales en varios sectores segun el espiritu de heredar la tradicion, aspirar al futuro y fortalecer la buena vecindad, amistad y cooperacion y de esta manera seguiremos infundiendo nuevo animo y vigor a la tradicional amistad China-Corea, traeremos mayor felicidad a los dos paises y pueblos y haremos mayor aporte al logro de la paz, la estabilidad y el desarrollo del Nordeste Asiatico.