KCNA Blasts U.S. Economic Aggression

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- In the new century the United States revealed its unlimited ambition to put under its control areas rich in oil, gas, diamond and ferrous and nonferrous mineral in the world. This economic aggression sparked ceaseless fratricidal wars in different countries and led to the seizure of territories of other countries and plunder of their people. The U.S. is a country which advocates war as it cannot exist without aggression and plunder. One may say the U.S. made its appearance on this earth to swallow up the whole world. That is why it seeks economic profits in the most avaricious and brigandish manner in history.
    Big American monopolies are exercising a great influence on shaping national policies and implementing them in quest of concessions as all economic arteries including industry, transport, post and telecommunications, finance and trade are under their control.
    The national mechanisms are executing the policies reflecting the interests of these big monopolies, which control both economic arteries and state power, orienting the political situation.
    The U.S. considers war and "aid" as two levers for economic plunder. Whenever these big monopolies find themselves in an unavoidable chronic economic crisis, they seek a way out of it in the militarization of the economy and arms race. U.S. economic "aid" for other countries is another form of aggression under the signboard of "humanitarianism".
    In the past, multinational corporations of the U.S. made their ways into those developing countries which were suffering economic difficulties under the signboard of "aid." But they reaped profits four or five times and even more than 10 times for every U.S. dollar invested.
    At the 6th ministerial meeting of the WTO held in late last year the U.S. announced its plan to raise its annual financial assistance to developing countries in trade to 2.7 billion dollars from 1.3 billion dollars by 2010.
    As the world public put it, this is nothing but "a relief fund with strings attached." The true aim sought by the U.S. is to realize an unlimited overseas expansion of its monopoly capital and put the world economy under its control. The "national security strategy report" formally made public by the U.S. in 2000 called on the U.S. to guide the world and lay groundwork for its security and prosperity in the 21st century.
    At that time the U.S. economy was in the grip of an uncontrollable economic crisis caused by serious economic stagnation, sluggish export and increased unemployment, etc.
    Much upset by this, the U.S. tried hard to find a way out of the socio-political and economic crisis.
    When the September 11 incident broke out just at the right moment in 2001 the U.S. lost no time to put up the signboard of "anti-terrorism."
    It chose Afghanistan and Iraq as the primary targets to implement its scheme. The wars proceeded just as it expected.
    Munitions companies across the U.S. including four big American munitions corporations: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and T.R.W. operated in full capacity thanks to these new wars.
    The U.S. oil companies, in the meantime, were free to extract oil from the war-torn countries and oil markets in Mid-east came to be monopolized by big American oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco.
    The U.S. is stretching out its tentacles of economic aggression to all countries and regions of the world to bring greater benefits to its big monopolies. The U.S. world strategy is now focused on Asia-Pacific.
    The U.S. deems it very important for carrying out its strategy to dominate the world to put Asia-Pacific, especially Northeast Asia, which is of great strategic importance and rich in natural resources, under its control.
    It considers the Korean Peninsula as an important forward strategic strongpoint given the fact that its strategy to dominate the world in the 21st century is to include Northeast Asia in sphere of its influence and put world politics and economy under its control.
    This is the major reason why the U.S. is hyping the "nuclear issue", seeking to internationalize "economic sanctions" against the DPRK and escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. "war on terrorism" helped it expand the sphere of its military domination in Asia and secure launching bases in different areas.
    It built military bases in several union republics of the former Soviet Union and even in areas bordering China.
    The U.S. stoked mistrust among countries of the former Soviet Union and sparked civil wars there in a bid to grab oil and gas resources in the region. The "war against terrorism" fought by the U.S. forces in the Trans-Caucasian areas and the Black Sea littoral countries is also aimed at grabbing oil in Caspian Sea. By intensifying its military inroads into the Black Sea littoral countries the U.S. seeks to draw a line of confrontation from the Black Sea to Central Asia across the Caucasia and thus contain Russia over the issue of strategic resources.
    It has also expanded its military domination and interference in Africa. It has laid springboards from which to perpetrate economic pillage in Asia, Europe, Latin-America, Africa and almost all other areas of the world. What has the U.S. economic aggression brought to the world? All those countries and regions that suffered from the U.S. military intervention and its economic plunder are ridden, without exception, with fratricidal wars, domestic conflicts, murder, arson, plunder and all forms of other crimes and social evils. The world can never be peaceful as long as the U.S. is allowed to pursue its unlimited ambition to establish an "empire" dominated by its own view on value in the world at the sacrifice of world people and seek its own pleasure and prosperity. The world should heighten vigilance against the U.S. economic aggression. The U.S.-imposed war crisis and politico-economic chaos is not what humankind is fated to undergo in the 21st century.
    The U.S. unilateral and arrogant domestic and foreign policies defying the international community are only aggravating its self-contradictions and hastening its self-destruction.
    All the countries and people desirous of peace and progress should take joint actions against the U.S. economic aggression.

More Political Parties Sign Pyongyang Declaration

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- The historic Pyongyang Declaration "Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" was signed by the secretary of the National Leadership of the United Democratic Party of Honduras and the international secretary of the United National Hope of Guatemala on behalf of their organisations on March 18.

S. Korean Men of Culture Protest against FTA

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- The Measure Committee of Moviemen to Check the Cultural Aggression and Defend Screen Quota and the Culture and Art Joint Measure Committee for Checking the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Securing Cultural Variety in south Korea reportedly co-sponsored a candle-light cultural festival at Maroni Park in university street of Seoul on April 1 to defend screen quota without fail and check the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. FTA. Speakers at the festival stressed that the struggle to defend screen quota should be a struggle of all the people on this land opposed to the conclusion of FTA. If they wage this struggle in close unity, it would be possible to check the conclusion of FTA and defend screen quota without fail, they said.
    They declared that the men of culture would take the lead in the struggle. A resolution of struggle was read out at the festival. It called for punishing the U.S., who is seeking to colonize south Korea through the conclusion of FTA and reorganization of the south Korea-U.S. "alliance", and the pro-American flunkeyists obedient to it on behalf of the history and the people.

U.S. Schemes to Sell New-type Missiles to S. Korea

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- The Security Cooperation Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense announced through a congress report that it is pushing forward the sale of 42 new-type air-to-ship Harpoon missiles to south Korea, according to the south Korean KBS. The agency noted that the south Korean "government" has also asked for sale of new ship-to-ship Harpoon missiles, "UGM-841", which is able to be launched from submarine, and its technical support.
    It was reported that the "government" would purchase such missiles to equip destroyers, submarines, cruisers and "F-16" fighter bombers, the KBS said. The situation is very serious as such scheme of the U.S. imperialists is being pushed ahead at the time when they get evermore pronounced in attempt to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK.

Exhibition of Songhwa Art Studio Opens

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of the Songhwa Art Studio was opened at the Pyongyang International Cultural Center on April 5 to commemorate the Day of the Sun. On display at the exhibition are 60 pieces of art works including Korean paintings, oil and acrylic paintings and sculptures created by artists of the studio. Among them are Korean painting "Mangyongdae in Balmy Season," oil paintings "Mangyongdae in Spring" and "Mt. Paektu in April" and acrylic painting "Best Wishes of All People". They superbly represent in refined techniques the warm mind of the peoples of the DPRK and other parts of the world to significantly commemorate the Day of the Sun. Korean paintings "Topic News from Forests of Mt. Paektu" and "The Mind Following the Sun," oil painting "Songun Is Always with the Monument to the Immortality" and sculpture "Yearning for the General" impressively portray the thoughts and sentiment of all the people who remain faithful to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il successfully carrying forward the revolutionary cause of President Kim Il Sung. There are also Korean paintings "We Greet Bumper Harvest in Spring" and "The Village under Apricot Trees" and oil paintings "Falls of Potato in Taehongdan" and "Worthwhile Life in Field", which depict the efforts of the Korean army and people making a greater leap forward towards the peak of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and the appearance of the DPRK which has been turned to the socialist fairyland.

National Seminar on Kim Il Sung's Exploits Held

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A national seminar on the undying feats President Kim Il Sung performed for the revolutionary cause of Juche was held at the People's Palace of Culture on April 5. The seminar heard six papers profoundly explaining and proving the undying feats Kim Il Sung performed on behalf of the country and the revolution. Candidate Acad., Prof. and Dr. Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Acad., Prof. and Dr. Ji Ki Son, president of Kim Il Sung Military University, and other speakers said the greatest historic feat Kim Il Sung performed for the revolutionary cause of Juche is that he founded the immortal Juche idea, providing a perfect guiding idea for accomplishing the human cause of independence. They further said:
    Kim Il Sung performed feats for the socialist cause by setting out the Juche- oriented theory of socialism, the theory of man-centered socialism, for the first time in history and firmly adhering to the Juche-oriented stance and revolutionary principles in the whole course of building socialism and thereby building Korean-style socialism on this land.
    What is important of the immortal feats he performed by providing a military guarantee for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche is that he founded the unique Songun idea, clearly indicating the way of bolstering the army. It is his greatest feat that he put forward Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il as a military genius having personality and qualifications as the brilliant commander of Songun.
    The whole of Korea is now resounding with patriotic shouts "Korea is one." This is the brilliant fruition of Kim Il Sung's unshakable will for reunification, who consistently adhered to the line of "one Korea," the reunification line, despite any changing situation and dealt hard blows to the separatists.
    The speakers declared that the army and people of the DPRK would always hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal leader of the Party and the people and build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation on this land without fail true to the Songun idea and leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Present at the seminar were Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Choe Thae Bok, Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin, officials concerned, officials of the Party and administrative organs and working people's organizations at national levels and in Pyongyang and officials of scientific and educational institutions and Party cadre-training institutions and in the fields of media, literature and arts and the preservation of revolutionary relics.

Celebration Event of Workers and Unionists Held

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A meeting of workers and other members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) was held on the square of the Monument to Party Founding on April 5 to celebrate the 13th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission. The reporter and speakers at the meeting noted that the election of Kim Jong Il to the highest post of the Korean revolution provided a sure guarantee for successfully accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation and significantly exalted the dignity and might of the country.
    They went on to say:
    Kim Jong Il has pursued the Songun policy, a socialist political mode, and thus trained the Korean People's Army to be a standard-bearer of the Songun revolution and an invincible army devotedly defending the Party and the leader, the country and socialism and turned the whole country into a impregnable fortress.
    He has wisely led the Workers' Party of Korea, the army and the people with his extraordinary ideological and theoretical wisdom and distinguished political ability, performing undying feats for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche. These immortal exploits will shine forever in the history of the country along with the Songun era.
    A poem "Song Devoted to the Great Brilliant Commander of Songun" was recited at the meeting.
    Present at the meeting were Secretary of the WPK Central Committee Kim Jung Rin, officials of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, officials and members of the GFTUK and working people in Pyongyang.

Egyptian Ambassador Hosts Reception

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Moustafa Mohamed Ahmed Al Hatter, Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK, gave a reception at the embassy on April 5 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. The ambassador noted that President Kim Il Sung fathered the Juche idea and performed great feats to be always recorded in history in the course of leading the struggle of the Korean people to victory, adding that he is always alive in the hearts not only of the Korean people but of the world progressives.
    Recalling that leader Kim Jong Il has wisely led the Korean people in the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation true to the lofty intention of the President, the ambassador stressed that the government of Egypt positively backs the struggle of the Korean people for national reunification.
    Kim Yong Dae, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in a speech said that it is an expression of the profound reverence for the President for the Egyptian friends to join the Korean people in commemorating the Day of the Sun every year.
    Noting that the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation are the traditional ties provided by President Kim Il Sung and President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, he stressed that the Korean people would make positive efforts to boost the bilateral ties. Present on invitation were Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, and other officials concerned.
    Present there were the staff members of the Egyptian embassy.

Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Observed

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- "10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country", the immortal famous work of President Kim Il Sung published on April 6, Juche 82 (1993) is a great charter of national unity as it fully reflects his idea of great national unity, brilliant wisdom and patriotic will, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The publication of the 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation by the President marked an event which saved the situation that prevailed on the Korean Peninsula at that time from the brink of a nuclear war at one moment and opened up a bright prospect of national unity and reunification, the article says, and goes on: The programme has served as a beacon clearly indicating the way of independent reunification and national unity and the most fair and aboveboard one for reunification. The programme set forth by the President is a great charter of national unity, the most just and fair one for reunification, as it comprehensively and scientifically clarifies the issues in achieving the great national unity.
    This programme, first of all, lays it down as the general goal of the great national unity to set up a pan-national unified state which can represent all the members of the nation from every party and faction and of all social standings with the existing two systems and two governments in the north and the south left in tact.
    It sets out the idea of unity based on love for the nation and the spirit of national independence. This is a scientific clarification of the ideological basis of the great national unity.
    The President in the programme clarifies all the principles and specific ways for achieving the great national unity such as the issue of achieving unity on the principle of promoting co-existence, co-prosperity and common interests and subordinating everything to the cause of national reunification, the need for the north and the south to put an end to all political disputes that foment division and confrontation between fellow countrymen and trust and unite with each other, the issue of setting store by democracy and joining hands on the road of national reunification without rejecting each other because of difference in isms and the issue of protecting the material and mental wealth of individuals and organizations and encouraging their use for promoting the great national unity.
    The programme is the most fair and aboveboard charter of the great national unity, the one of national reunification, acceptable to everyone who loves the country and the nation and desires national reunification.

Greening Work Brisk in DPRK

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A campaign for greening streets, parks and roadsides is being vigorously launched in different provinces, cities and counties across the DPRK when the spring has come. In Pyongyang not only employees of institutions and factories but also residents of neighborhood units have turned out in planting good species of roadside trees and flower plants in areas along main streets, parks, recreation grounds and roadsides, adding beauty to the landscape of the city.
    Those in North Phyongan Province, setting themselves to plant more than 99 million trees this year, are engaged in transplanting trees in areas along the Paekma-Cholsan Waterway and around Thaechon Power Station No.4 and roadsides in Pakchon, Nyongbyon and Hyangsan Counties.
    Tens of thousands of roadside trees have already been planted in Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province.
    Meanwhile, afforestation work is being done in mountains of different areas of the country on the principle of planting right kinds of trees on right soil. In South Phyongan Province, acacia and Evodia Daniellii Benn forests are being created in Phyongsong, Phyongwon, Mundok, Sukchon and Anju areas and larch and pine-nut tree forests in Tokchon, Pukchang, Maengsan and Nyongwon areas. Jagang Province plans to plant pine-nut, larch and Populus Canadensis in over 20,000 hectares of mountains this year. And cities and counties of the province including Kanggye City are planting tens of thousands of trees a day. Efforts are being made to create more than 100 hectares of windbreak forests on the table land of Osu Hill in Junggang County.
    The working people throughout the country are striving hard to plant more trees compared with the last spring when they had transplanted over one billion trees in some 100,000 hectares of land.

24th April Spring Friendship Art Festival under Brisk Preparation

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Preparations for the 24th April Spring Friendship Art Festival (April 10-18) are under way at the final stage. The preparatory work is being done to suit the coming festival which will be held in a new form.
    First of all, the opening ceremony of the festival varies from the past ones. The interior and exterior of the Pyongyang Grand Theater, the venue of the opening ceremony, are bedecked with colorful electric lights.
    Preparations for the art performance to be given by Korean artists at the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony and the friendly gathering are also being made. Nine theaters including the Ponghwa Art Theater, where independent, group and joint performances will be given, have been furnished with new stage settings and lighting fixtures.
    Various kinds of festival posters have been published and festival bulletins will be issued.
    Historical and scenic places and cultural institutions in Pyongyang and local areas are ready to receive festival participants and guests.

Training Course Organized by ISF

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Training course for softball coaches and referees was held in Pyongyang from March 26 to 31 under the auspices of the International Softball Federation. The course was attended by coaches, referees and other experts of softball in the country.
    It dealt with several issues through theoretical and practical lectures. Among them were the issues the umpires should know in taking right positions to suit the varied circumstances under the three-umpire and four-umpire systems to distinguish between right and wrong movements of players, the issues the coaches should not miss in the training for increasing ability of hurlers and batters and the issues arising in the establishment of attack and defence systems in accordance with the game situation. The course served as an occasion for boosting the quality of softball coaches and umpires.

Kim Yong Nam Meets Chinese Defence Minister

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Thursday met Col. General Cao Gangchuan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, state councilor and minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall and had a talk with him in a friendly atmosphere. Kim warmly welcomed Cao on a visit to the DPRK at a time when the relations between the DPRK and China are favorably developing thanks to the exchange of visits by the top leaders of the two countries, saying that his current visit to the DPRK marks an important occasion in boosting the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.
    He underscored the need to consolidate these friendly and cooperative relations, adding that the revolutionary armed forces of the two countries have a great tradition whereby they have long maintained close cooperation and strong ties. Cao said that they were deeply impressed by the enthusiastic and friendly hospitality of the Korean comrades while staying in the DPRK.
    China and the DPRK are the friendly neighbors sharing the same mountain and rivers, he said, noting that the Sino-DPRK friendship provided and developed by the leaders of the elder generation have grown stronger than ever before under the deep care of the top leaders of the two countries.
    Referring to the fact that the Sino-DPRK relations are blood-sealed ones, he underlined the need to strengthen the solidarity between the armed forces of the two countries no matter how the international situation may change. Kim Jong Gak, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, and general officers and officers of the KPA were on hand.
    Present there were Commander of the Shenyang Military Area of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Chang Wanquan, Assistant to the chief of the CPLA General Staff Zhang Qinsheng, Deputy Commander of the Navy of the CPLA Zhang Yongyi, Deputy Political Commissar of the Air Force of the CPLA Liu Yazhou, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission Cao Yumin and other suite members, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and Military Attache of the Chinese embassy Yang Xilian.

Kim Jong Il Receives Floral Basket from Mahmoud Abbas

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a floral basket by Chief of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. It was conveyed by Palestinian Ambassador to the DPRK Mohammad Shahta Zarab to an official concerned on Thursday.

Chinese Defence Minister Leaves

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Col. General Cao Gangchuan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, state councilor and minister of National Defence of the People's Republic of China, left here today after wrapping up his three-day visit to the DPRK. The Chinese defense minister and his party were seen off at the airport by Kim Jong Gak, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, general officers and officers of the Korean People's Army, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, Yang Xilian, military attache of the Chinese embassy, staff members of the embassy, Chinese guests staying here and Chinese students studying here.

DPRK Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Slams Japan's Claim to Tok Islet

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement issued on April 6 accused the Japanese authorities of recently allowing the description of Tok Islet as part of Japan's territory in the history textbooks for high schools after instructing the same thing as regards textbooks for middle schools last year. Branding such behavior as an unpardonable shameless act peculiar to Japan, the statement said:
    It admits of no argument that the islet belongs to Korea's territory from the historical point of view and in the light of international law.
    Nevertheless, the Japanese authorities have obstinately insisted that the islet belongs to Japan's territory. Obviously this is prompted by their wild ambition for aggression and territorial expansion.
    Japan is keen to realize its wild ambition of reinvasion, oblivious of the historical lesson drawn from the bitter defeat it suffered after setting out on overseas aggression under the slogan of "The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" in the past. Japan keeps tampering with its history and its chief executive continues visiting the "Yasukuni Shrine" despite the unanimous curses and denunciations of the international community including its neighboring countries. All this is mainly attributable to the U.S. backing and patronage.
    Japan is now under strong fire by its neighboring countries for its claims that not only Tok Islet but Diaoyu Islands and the Southern Kurils belong to its territory. The historical lesson requires the countries in the region never to allow Japan's wild ambition for territorial expansion but heighten the vigilance against it and jointly react to it.
    The reality today when there exist close to the DPRK the dangerous bellicose forces getting frantic in their wild ambition for territorial expansion clearly proves once again that Pyongyang was entirely just when it took measures to steadily bolster the military capability for self-defence including nuclear deterrent to defend the peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia.
    The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to stop their moves for territorial expansion and racket against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan that may result in their self-destruction, and behave with discretion, drawing a lesson from history.

Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Women's Company

     Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected a three-revolution red flag women's company of KPA Unit 292. He acquainted himself with the company's performance of duty before watching its soldiers' training.
    He learned about how the company is implementing its training program and set forth tasks to be tackled to put the training on a scientific and regular basis. Then he went round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a wash-cum-bath house, a non-staple food store, an outdoor resting place, a barn and other places of the company.
    He highly appreciated the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance displayed by women soldiers, greatly satisfied to learn that they are leading an affluent life by creating good conditions for their living on their own.
    It is a great success that the commanding officers and soldiers of the company have remarkably increased its combat capability and successfully managed it in perfect unity and brought about a signal turn in the sideline farming, in particular, he said, adding that this radical change clearly shows the unlimited mental power and creative trait of the servicepersons who have taken the lead in cheerfully weathering out such stern trials as "the Arduous March", the forced march.
    He noted that their noble fighting spirit and trait serve as an example to be followed by the Korean women who like to make a revolution and wage a struggle. He spared time to watch an art performance given by servicepersons of the company. He gave the servicepersons of the company a pair of binoculars, a machine-gun and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them. He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona compania de artilleria de Unidad No. 821 del EPC

    　Pyongyang, 6 de abril (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, inspecciono una compania de artilleria adscrita a la Unidad No. 821 del EPC, situada en una zona del frente. El Comandante Supremo se entero del estado de cumplimiento del deber de la compania.
    　Al ver un ejercicio de manejo de canones de los militares llenos de la enemistad a los invasores norteamericanos, se mostro muy satisfecho de que todos los militares de la compania se han formado como combatientes listos a pelear a solas contra cien enemigos e indico las tareas que se presentan para fortalecer aun mas la combatividad de la compania.
    　El Comandante Supremo vio un encuentro recreativo al aire libre que en un tiempo de descanso realizaban los artilleros en la posicion de fuego.
    　Todos nuestros militares, llenos del impetu combativo y optimismo revolucionario, son fuertes en la ideologia y en la fe, dijo el Dirigente y anadio que como tales filas de balas y bombas estan en la primera linea del frente militar antiimperialista, nuestra patria brillara eternamente como fortaleza socialista.
    　Acto seguido, el recorrio la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor, la cocina, el deposito de alimentos subsidiarios y otros lugares y evaluo de altos los exitos logrados por ellos en la administracion de la unidad.
    Es loable que la compania haya hecho el cultivo para el autoconsumo conforme a las peculiaridades topograficas para asegurar a los soldados una abundante vida alimenticia, senalo y subrayo la necesidad de mantener tal vida hacendosa. El Comandante Supremo dio como recuerdo binoculos y fusil automatico a los militares de la compania y se fotografio junto a estos.
    Le acompano el subjefe de departamento del CC del PTC Hwang Pyong So.

Cursillo para entrenadores y arbitros de softbol

    　Pyongyang, 6 de abril (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar del 26 al 31 de marzo en esta capital el cursillo para los entrenadores y arbitros de softbol auspiciado por la Federacion Internacional de Softbol. Fueron convocados los entrenadores, arbitros y otros especialistas de Corea en esta disciplina.
    El cursillo, dividido en la leccion teorica y la practica, trato una serie de problemas tales como lo que en el sistema de juego de 3 y 4 arbitros, deben saber estos para juzgar la actuacion de los jugadores al situarse en una posicion correcta segun variadas circunstancias dadas, lo que los entrenadores no deben olvidar en el entrenamiento para elevar la capacidad de los lanzadores y bateadores y otros temas que se presentan para organizar la ofensiva y la defensa de acuerdo con la situacion del partido. El cursillo devino una buena ocasion para la capacitacion de los entrenadores y arbitros de softbol.

Jo Myong Rok se reune con Cao Gangchuan

    　Pyongyang, 6 de abril (ATCC) -- El vicemariscal del Ejercito Popular de Corea Jo Myong Rok, primer vicepresidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y jefe de la Direccion Politica General del EPC se reunio el dia 5 con el coronel general Cao Gangchuan, miembro del Buro Politico del Comite Central y vicepresidente de la Comision Militar Central, del Partido Comunista de China, miembro del Consejo de Estado y ministro de Defensa de la Republica Popular China, quien le hizo una visita de cortesia. 　Jo dio calurosa bienvenida a la visita a Corea de Cao y departio con el en un ambiente camaraderil y amistoso.
    　En la ocasion, estuvieron presentes Kim Jong Gak, viceministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Populares, generales y oficiales del EPC.
    　Participaron tambien el teniente general Chang Wanquan, comandante en jefe de la zona militar de Shenyang del Ejercito Popular de Liberacion de China (EPLCh), el mayor general Zhang Qinsheng, asistente del jefe del Estado Mayor General del EPLCh, el mayor general Zhang Yongyi, subcomandante en jefe de la fuerza naval del EPLCh, el teniente general Liu Yazhou, vicecomisario politico de la fuerza aerea del EPLCh, el mayor general Cao Yumin, subdirector de la Oficina General de la Comision Militar Central y otros acompanantes, el embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de China acreditado en Corea Wu Donghe, el agregado militar de la sede diplomatica Yang Xilian.

Estadia en Corea de Cao Gangchuan

    　Pyongyang, 6 de abril (ATCC) -- El coronel general Cao Gangchuan, miembro del Buro Politico del Comite Central y vicepresidente de la Comision Militar Central, del Partido Comunista de China, miembro del Consejo de Estado y ministro de Defensa de la Republica Popular China y su comitiva, quienes permanecen en Corea, visitaron el dia 5 la casa natal de Mangyongdae donde el Presidente Kim Il Sung nacio, paso la infancia cultivando un gran proposito de la revolucion. Los huespedes vieron con profunda atencion los objetos historicos escuchando explicaciones sobre los inmortales hechos grabados en esta casa historica y recorrieron los lugares historicos de la colina Mangyong.
    Terminada la visita, Cao Gangchuan dejo en el libro de visitas las siguientes letras: "La familia revolucionaria, grandes proezas".
    El mismo dia, el ministro chino de Defensa deposito ofrendas florales ante el Cementerio de Martires Revolucionarios en el Monte Taesong y el Monumento a la Amistad y visito la Academia Militar General Kim Il Sung.
    El dia 4, Cao Gangchuan presencio en el Palacio Cultural del Pueblo una funcion del Coro Estatal Benemerito del Ejercito Popular de Corea.