Kim Jong Il Sends Congratulations to Syrian President

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il Monday sent a congratulatory message to Bashar Al-Assad, regional secretary of the Arab Baath Socialist Party and president of Syria. The message said:
    I extend warm congratulations to you on your 41st birthday.
    Today the Syrian Arab people have made positive efforts to firmly defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country and seek a just and comprehensive solution to the Mideast issue despite difficulties under the guidance of you and your leadership and achieved great successes.
    Expressing satisfaction over the fact that the friendly and cooperative relations between our two countries have invariably developed on good terms even under the complicated international situation, I sincerely wish you good health and happiness and fresh success in your noble work.

Floral Basket to DPRK Embassy from Fidel Castro Ruz

    Havana, September 9 (KCNA) -- Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, sent a floral basket to the DPRK embassy in Havana on the occasion of the 58th founding anniversary of the DPRK. The floral basket was laid before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il in the embassy.

Joint Seminar of Juche Idea Study Groups in India Held

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- A joint seminar on "Juche idea and Songun idea and their vitality" was held by Juche idea study organizations of India in Ghaziabad on Sept. 4 on the occasion of the 58th founding anniversary of the DPRK. Present there were Vishwanath, director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, Harish Gupta, secretary general of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, heads of Juche idea study organizations and adherents to the Juche idea of Delhi, Meerut and Shambhu Dayal universities.
    Present there on invitation were the DPRK ambassador to India and embassy officials.
    The director general of the IIJI in his keynote report said that the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung is one based on the philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything.
    He went on to say:
    The Juche idea serves as a guiding idea in the era of independence as it shows the people the way of carving out their destiny and indicates the way of accomplishing the human cause of independence.
    Truth, scientific accuracy and vitality of the Juche idea have been proven in the long-drawn struggle of the Korean people to achieve independence.
    The Songun idea and Songun politics of the DPRK are based on the Juche idea.
    The reality of the DPRK clearly proves the justice and vitality of the Juche idea and the Songun idea.
    It is thanks to the Songun politics that the DPRK, though not a big country, has always emerged victorious in the stand-off with the U.S. styling itself "only superpower."
    Heads of various Juche idea study organizations in their speeches explained and proved the philosophical principle and scientific accuracy of the Juche idea and the justice and great vitality of the Songun idea and Songun politics and evinced their resolution to intensify the study and dissemination of the Juche idea and Songun idea and boost international solidarity with the Korean people in their just cause.

Meeting Held in India to Hear Report from Scholars Delegation on Its DPRK Visit

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Ghaziabad, India, on Sept. 2 to hear a report from the Indian delegation of scholars studying the Juche idea on its visit to the DPRK. Present there were Vishwanath, director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, Harish Gupta, secretary general of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, members of the delegation, teachers, employees and students of Delhi, Meerut and Shambu Dayal universities.
    Present there on invitation were the DPRK ambassador to India and an embassy official.
    Speakers at the meeting said that they got an unforgettable impression of the DPRK, adding that the DPRK, though not a big country, is a great country as its people are inspired by the great persons.
    The Korean people have profound reverence for President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il, they stressed, adding:
    Wherever we went we were deeply impressed to see the Korean people devotedly working to eternally glorify the leadership feats of the great persons.
    During our visit we keenly realized the justice and invincible vitality of the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il and the might of the single-mindedly united Korean people. The U.S. and other allied forces of imperialism are desperately working to isolate and stifle socialist Korea but they can never bring the Korean people to their knees. This is because they are wisely led by Kim Jong Il and good enough to be fully confident of the justice of the Juche cause, the cause of socialism.
    It is one of the great successes made by us in our recent Korean visit that we got a more profound understanding of the Juche idea, the Songun idea and the Songun politics.
    The DPRK is a developed beautiful country and Pyongyang, in particular, is a capital city kept in perfect order. All the monumental edifices were built on a high level. In a word, the DPRK is a great country where the Juche idea has been fully embodied.

Emergency Appeal Released in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The All-People Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek, south Korea reportedly made public an emergency appeal on Sept. 7 denouncing the moves of the "government" and the "defense ministry" to remove dwelling houses from the zone designated for the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek. The "government" and the "defense ministry" are stepping up preparations for forcing the evacuation of houses, turning a deaf ear to the voices of various social strata demanding a stop to the evacuation scheme, the appeal said, and went on:
    Nothing can justify the scheme of the "government" and the "defense ministry" to expand the U.S. war base in Phyongthaek by expelling its inhabitants who have engaged in farming all their life.
    It is the way of defending human rights, lives and peace to frustrate their moves to destroy villages and remove houses.
    Only unity of the people can curb the evacuation scheme, the appeal noted, calling upon the people to gather in Phyongthaek so as to defend Taechu-ri and Todu-ri with their united strength.

Conclusion of "Free Trade Agreement" Flailed in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The Agriculture, Stock-Breeding and Fishery Emergency Measure Committee for Opposing South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement reportedly held a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 5 to promulgate the 3rd all-people meeting against the negotiation on concluding the agreement. At the conference speakers said that the meeting scheduled in November would be an all-people resistance against the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement", stressing that peasants would take the lead in the struggle for the successful opening of the meeting.
    A press release was read out at the conference. The release called for staging a million-man resistance across south Korea in November as great unity, a general uprising to check the conclusion of the agreement.
    On Sept. 6 a candlelight cultural event for urging a stop to the 3rd negotiation on the conclusion of the agreement took place in areas around Kwanghwamun, Seoul, under the co-sponsorship of the Seoul Headquarters of the Movement for Checking the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, etc.
    At the event speakers bitterly denounced the "government" for unilaterally holding the negotiation, disregarding the will of the people, calling upon all the people including workers and youth and students to rise up as one to frustrate the negotiation.
    Prior to the event the headquarters of the movement called a press conference in connection with its inauguration.

10th Executive Committee Meeting of IIJI Board of Directors Held

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The 10th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the Juche Idea took place here on Sept. 10. Present there were Director General Vishwanath and Secretary General Kenichi Ogami of the IIJI, Director General of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea Reggie Ranatunge, Secretary General of the Latin-American Institute of the Juche Idea Alva Chavez, Director General of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea Edmond Jouve, who are members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the IIJI.
    Some directors were present as observers.
    After reviewing the work carried out by the IIJI in the past period, the meeting discussed the orientation of the work for 2007 and questions concerning the amendment of rules of the IIJI.
    It was noted at the meeting that the IIJI had contributed to the cause of global independence by energetically conducting study and dissemination of the Juche idea with fervent zeal while boosting relations and cooperation with Juche idea study organizations of different levels.
    Comprehensively discussed at the meeting were the issues of vigorously carrying on the work for expanding and strengthening the Juche idea study organizations and inducing followers of the Juche idea and world people of broad strata to make planned visits to the DPRK, the homeland of Juche, invigorating exchanges, contacts and experience swapping among organizations and guiding all the Juche idea study organizations to bring a new turn in the study and dissemination of the Juche idea on the occasion of the significant Day of the Sun and the birthday of Kim Jong Il in 2007.

Kim Yong Nam Receives Credentials from Chinese Ambassador

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, was presented with credentials by Chinese Ambassador e. p. to the DPRK Liu Xiaoming at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Monday. On hand were Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, and Wu Shumin and Guan Huabing, minister-councilors of the Chinese embassy here, and other embassy officials.
    After receiving credentials, Kim Yong Nam had a talk with the Chinese ambassador.

Veterinary, Anti-epizootic Campaign Brisk in DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The veterinary and anti-epizootic campaign is gathering momentum in the DPRK in September and October, months of veterinary and anti-epizootic campaign. The Veterinary and Epizootic Prevention Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has notified a working plan to be done in the period to each provincial rural economy committee and veterinary and epizootic prevention center and officials of relevant institutions are properly carrying on it.
    The Central Veterinary and Epizootic Prevention Center is channeling efforts into producing preventive medicines for bird flu and other epizootic diseases.
    The center had already organized a short technical course for increasing the production of preventive medicines. And it is organizing the work of gathering medicinal herbs so as to manufacture various kinds of Koryo veterinary medicines in the winter period while supplying raw materials in time.
    It is also taking a through-going step to prevent various common diseases of domestic animals. And it is intensifying control over providing preventive medicines to the relevant units in time and vaccinating all the domestic animals.
    A work for checking epizootics and parasite of animals is being done throughout the country to take relevant treatment steps.
    Veterinary and epizootic prevention officials find themselves on the spot to conduct explanatory and propaganda activities.
    Meanwhile, a system of surveying the actual conditions of habitats of migrant birds including ponds, lakes, rivers, tidelands, paddy and non-paddy fields and grass fields and of informing the result has been established in every province, city and county to thoroughly prevent bird flue.

Unbreakable Faith of Korean People in Socialism

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The imperialists are committing the ideological and cultural infiltration in a more vicious way as the days go by in an attempt to impair the Korean people's faith in socialism. Since their start of the "Radio Free Asia" with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as an object in the early of March 1997, the U.S. imperialists have squandered more than ten million US dollars only for Korean language broadcasting every year. Meanwhile, they have brought bourgeoisie publications and video and audio recordings into the DPRK through trade and foreign travelers to the country.
    The U.S.-led imperialists, however, miscalculate.
    The Korean people’s faith in socialism is invariable as they have keenly experienced the validity of the socialist system.
    Korea’s is the people-centered socialism under which they are the master of everything and everything serves them and that develops by the united strength of the popular masses.
    Contrary to the capitalist society which meets the individualist greed of a handful of ruling quarters, the socialist system of the DPRK embodying the Juche idea is defending the demand of the working class in a most thorough-going way and realizing the demand of the popular masses of all walks of life.
    It provides the independent and creative life to the popular masses in all fields, political, economic and cultural.
    Having been the master of the political power, the Korean people enjoy a genuine political right and freedom and take a free part in the political life, glorifying their socio-political integrity.
    In the DPRK where the social ownership over the means of production prevails, the working people are provided with the creative working life. They have long been freed from taxation and live a happy life thanks to the government's popular policies including free education and free medical service. They are not only the creator of the revolutionary culture but also enjoyer of it.
    It is inconceivable in the deformed material life, poor emotional and cultural life and reactionary political climate of the capitalist society where the jungle law governs and such social evils as immorality, corruption, murder and robbery are rampant.
    The reality of the countries where socialism was collapsed and capitalism restored clearly shows that there is no ideal society more superior to socialism.
    The more viciously the imperialists perpetrate their moves, the firmer the iron will of the Korean people to achieve the ultimate victory of the socialist cause becomes.

Indonesian Parliamentary Delegation Arrives

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The Indonesian parliamentary delegation headed by Yoseph Umarhadi, chairman of the Indonesia-DPRK Friendship Parliamentary Group, arrived here Monday. The delegation was greeted at the airport by Kim Wan Su, chairman of the DPRK-Indonesia Friendship Parliamentary Group, and Bambang Irawan K., charge d' affaires ad interim of the Indonesian embassy here.
    The DPRK Supreme People's Assembly hosted a reception for the delegation in the evening.

Greetings to Nigerian Foreign Minister

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a congratulatory message to Joy Ogwu on her appointment as foreign minister of Nigeria. Expressing the belief that the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would expand through mutual contacts and close cooperation between the foreign ministries of the two countries, the message wholeheartedly wished her success in carrying out her new work.

Kim Jong Il’s Field Guidance to Construction of Kumya River Power Station

    Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-the-spot guidance to the construction of the Kumya River Power Station. He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the unit of the Korean People's Army participating in the construction and leading officials of the Kumya River Hydro-Power Station Construction Office and the South Hamgyong Provincial Construction Corps.
    The builders of the power station are now stepping up the dam construction in real earnest after finishing the dam groundwork project through vigorous endeavors to implement the tasks given by Kim Jong Il when he was visiting the construction site in April of 2003.
    After being briefed on the construction before a huge painting showing a panoramic view of the power station, he looked round the construction site. He acquainted himself in detail with the progress made in the project and said that the power station is under construction in a good place after being successfully designed to ensure its profitability. He was greatly satisfied to see the power station now under construction as one more asset of eternal value and a great structure.
    He highly appreciated the successes made by the KPA unit, noting that it is a unit of merits as it has performed proud feats in the socialist construction.
    He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for completing the construction earlier than scheduled, saying that the large Kumya River Hydro-Power Station is of weighty importance in realizing the country's electrification.
    Underscoring the need to concentrate state efforts on the construction of the power station as it is a gigantic project, he called on the Cabinet and central institutions and the province to minutely organize the work for winding up the construction of the power station as planned and take thorough measures to supply materials and equipment needed for the project on a preferential basis.
    It is quite possible to complete the construction of the power station ahead of schedule if those involved in the project work hard with the same vim and vigor with which the servicepersons built the West Sea Barrage, which was very difficult and vast project for transforming nature, in a matter of a few years, thus working a world startling miracle, he noted, urging all the fields related to the construction to render positive support to those engaged in the project and the builders to continue displaying to the full the revolutionary soldier spirit, the revolutionary spirit of fortitude.
    Stressing the need to build the power station in such a manner as to win the admiration of posterity as it is a precious structure of eternal value to be handed down to the generations to come, he called for paying particular attention to ensuring the best quality in construction.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and Ri Je Gang and Ri Jae Il, first vice department directors of the C.C., the WPK.

Koreans Killed in Kanto Quake Mourned

    Tokyo, September 9 (KNS-KCNA) -- A mourning service was held in front of the Memorial Monument to Dead Koreans in Tokyo was held on Sept. 1, upon the lapse of 83 years since the mass killings of Koreans by Japanese at the time of the great earthquake of 1923 in Kanto district. The participants observed a moment's silent tribute to the memory of the victims.
    Pak Chang Gil, chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, in his memorial address recalled that the Japanese government let loose "vigilant corps" and rightist gangsters in brutally killing more than 6,600 Koreans in Kanto district alone.
    But the Japanese government, he said, has even failed to clarify the truth behind the massacre, far from apologizing and compensating for it. Now hostile feelings against the DPRK and chauvinism against the Korean nation are fostered and a gruesome atmosphere of suppression is being created in Japan that reminds us of the Kanto quake massacre of Koreans.
    He strongly demanded the Japanese government radically rectify its unwarrantable policy against the Koreans in Japan.
    Then followed speeches of Japanese figures.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona Unidad No. 1824 del EPC

    Pyongyang, 11 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, inspecciono la Unidad no. 1824 del EPC. Ante todo felicito a los militares de la unidad quienes acogen el Dia de la fundacion de la RPDC con grandes exitos en ejercicios politico-militares.
    Tras enterarse del estado de cumplimiento del deber de la unidad, vio un entrenamiento de los militares.
    Expreso gran satisfaccion de que todos los militares de la unidad se han preparado como combatientes listos a pelear a solas contra cien enemigos e indico tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para hacer del EPC las invencibles fuerzas armadas revolucionarias.
    Subrayo que todos los oficiales y soldados del EPC sienten fervoroso amor al partido, el Lider, la patria y el pueblo y abrigan vehemente odio a los enemigos y recalco que gracias a contar con este invencible ejercito preparado a la perfeccion en lo ideo-politico y tecnico-militar nuestra patria lanzara su brillo como inexpugnable baluarte del socialismo y la revolucion jucheana saldra siempre victoriosa.
    Acto seguido, el Comandante Supremo recorrio varios lugares de la unidad para prodigar profunda atencion a la labor y vida de los soldados.
    Muy contento de todas las instalaciones de cultura, educacion e intendencia bien acondicionadas y del recinto del cuartel y su periferia bien arreglados, aprecio altamente el estilo de vida hacendosa de los militares quienes se destacan en el mantenimiento de su unidad al seguir el estilo de vida de la Guerrilla Antijaponesa.
    El Comandante Supremo dio como recuerdo binoculos y fusil automatico a los militares y se fotografio junto a ellos.
    Le acompanaron Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong, generales de ejercito del EPC, Ri Yong Chol y Ri Jae Il, primeros subjefes de departamento del CC del PTC.

Banquete para el 58o aniversario de la fundacion de la RPDC

    Pyongyang, 11 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El gobierno de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea (RPDC) ofrecio el dia 9 por la noche en el Palacio Cultural del Pueblo un banquete por el 58o aniversario de su fundacion. A la comida asistieron cuadros del partido, el ejercito y el Estado, presidentes de los partidos amigos, miembros del Consejo de Ministros, diputados a la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la RPDC en esta capital, funcionarios directivos de los organismos del partido, las fuerzas armadas y el Poder, organizaciones de masas, ministerios y organos centrales, ex combatientes revolucionarios antijaponeses, ex presos de larga condena no abjurados quienes son combatientes patriotas por la reunificacion, funcionarios de los dominios de ciencia, educacion, cultura y arte, salud publica, prensa e informacion, heroes y benemeritos.
    Estuvieron presentes las futbolistas que ocuparon el primer lugar en el III Campeonato Mundial de Futbol Sub-20.
    Tomaron parte ademas los miembros de grupo de felicitacion de coreanos residentes en Japon y otros coreanos residentes en ultramar quienes vinieron aqui para celebrar esa efemeride.
    Fueron invitados los representantes diplomaticos de varios paises, miembros del Cuerpo de Agregados Militares y representantes de las organizaciones internacionales en Corea y otros huespedes extranjeros.
    Al hacer uso de la palabra Yang Hyong Sop, vicepresidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la RPDC, dijo en particular:
    La fundacion de la RPDC por el Presidente Kim Il Sung fue el primer nacimiento del autentico Estado soberano del pueblo en la larga historia de la nacion coreana, y un gran evento historico que trajo un cambio radical en la forja del destino del pueblo coreano.
    Hoy, bajo la veterana y probada orientacion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il, genio de la politica y asuntos militares, la RPDC exalta de siglo a siglo la dignidad y el poderio de Corea del Juche y acoge el periodo de gran prosperidad nacional.
    Al tener al gran Lider y al gran Dirigente en la delantera de la revolucion, la RPDC ha recorrido el unico camino de la victoria y gloria y tambien en el futuro avanzara con la bandera del Songun (priorizacion militar) para lograr incesante prosperidad nacional.
    El poder de la RPDC, al cumplir estrictamente la Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio que es la materializacion del ideal de "entre nosotros, los connacionales" lograra sin falta la historica causa de la reunificacion de la patria al frustrar las maniobras de los divisionistas internos y externos, y se esforzara activamente por construir un nuevo mundo libre y pacifico donde no haya la agresion y la guerra.
    La RPDC, al contar con el poderio de la unidad monolitica del ejercito y el pueblo en torno al Dirigente y la invencible fuerza autodefensiva para detener la guerra, frustrara despiadadamente cualquier ofensiva politica, militar y economica de los enemigos y creara la historia invencible en la realizacion de su justa causa.

Kim Jong Il envia mensaje al presidente siriaco

    Pyongyang, 11 de septiembre (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, envio el dia 11 un mensaje de felicitacion a Bashar al-Assad, secretario regional del Partido Socialista del Resurgimiento Arabe y presidente de la Republica Arabe de Siria. 　La misiva senala:
    　Hago llegar a usted mi calurosa felicitacion con motivo del 41 aniversario de su cumpleanos.
    　Hoy en dia, el pueblo arabe siriaco, bajo la direccion de Vd. y de vuestra Direccion, defiende con firmeza la soberania y la dignidad del pais aun en circunstancias tan dificiles, se esfuerza activamente por solucionar de manera imparcial y comprensiva el problema del Medio Oriente y logra grandes exitos.
    　Estoy satisfecho de que las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion entre nuestros dos paises se desarrollan siempre favorablemente aun en medio de la situacion internacional tan compleja y le deseo de todo corazon a Vd. buena salud, felicidad y nuevos exitos en su noble labor.

Kim Jong Il recibe presente de Vishwanath

    Pyongyang, 11 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio presente que le dirigiera el director general del Instituto Internacional de la Idea Juche, Vishwanath, de visita en Corea. 　El visitante lo entrego el dia 9 a un funcionario coreano.