Meeting Marks Anniversary of Saenal Children's Union

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the Central Youth Hall on Dec. 14 to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Saenal Children's Union by President Kim Il Sung. It was attended by Kim Yong Nam, Kim Il Chol, Choe Thae Bok and others.
    The union formed on Dec. 15, Juche 15 (1926) was the first revolutionary children's organization of new type guided by the Juche idea. It was a vanguard organization of the Korean children who struggled to crush the Japanese imperialists, achieve the liberation and independence of the country and build a new society which would bring the working people a happy life.
    Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the C.C., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, in a report said that the President's formation of the union made it possible for the children's movement in Korea to advance along the road of fresh development with a revolutionary fighting programme under the leadership of the President and provided the deep and strong historic roots of the Juche-based children's movement.
    He went on:
    The President set forth an original policy on rallying broad sections of children under the democratic flag and energetically led the preparations to do so though he was busy with the work to build new democratic Korea after the country's liberation. On this basis he proclaimed the formation of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) on Jun. 6, Juche 35 (1946).
    The Korean children's movement has been carried forward and made progress on a new higher stage under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Kim Jong Il enriched and developed the Juche-based idea and theory of the children's movement expounded by the President, clearly indicating the way to be followed by the KCU in every period and at each stage of the revolutionary development and leading it to creditably fulfill its honorable mission and duty as reserves of the revolution.
    Kim Jong Il has provided great Songun revolutionary leadership, crossing steep mountain ridges to inspect the forefront, saying that the Songun policy is being enforced by the WPK for the sake of the children. It is thanks to this policy that the members of the union are given ample opportunity of learning, singing happy songs in camps under the blue sky of the country and bring their hopes and talents in full bloom.
    The Juche-based children's movement has gained in scope and strength under the wise leadership and boundless care of Kim Jong Il generation after generation and all members of the nation's rising generation are firmly preparing themselves as dependable heirs to the Songun revolutionary cause.
    The organizations of the KCU should prepare all their members as true successors to the Juche revolution, Songun cause, and reliable reserves for the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation under the uplifted slogan "Ready always for socialist country!"
    The members of the KCU, keenly aware that how dear the socialist motherland is to them, should value and take great care of the native places, even a blade of grass and a tree and bitterly hate the class enemies and struggle to decisively shatter the vicious moves of the enemies to spread the undesirable ideas and life styles of all sorts inside the country.
    The reporter called on the members of the KCU to work hard under the uplifted slogan "Let's learn for Korea!" and deepen the versatile and rich knowledge useful for the revolution and construction and thus become able revolutionary intellectuals who would shoulder upon themselves the future great prosperous powerful socialist nation.

Stop to Projected RSOI Exercises Demanded

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Friday as regards the outcries made by the commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea that the largest-ever south Korea-U.S. RSOI would be staged next year: The U.S. has so far officially announced every DPRK-targeted joint military exercise with the south Korean warhawks in advance but it is the first time that it specified the scale of the military exercises and the strength of the forces to be involved even in the year before staging them, trumpeting that they would be the "largest-ever."
    This is an outright challenge to the desire and wish of all the Koreans and the rest of the world for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and an intolerable provocative act of pushing the situation to the phase of confrontation and war.
    We can not but take a serious note of the fact that such U.S. military brasshats as the commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea did not bother to let loose such outcries in the run-up to the six-party talks arranged with so much effort for the denuclearization, peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula.
    The reality goes to clearly prove that the U.S. loudmouthed "peace" and "end to the war" are nothing but sophism intended to deceive the DPRK and mislead the public opinion and that its ulterior motive is to pursue confrontation and war.
    The DPRK will never remain an on-looker to the U.S. moves for a war against the DPRK but will resolutely react to it with a stronger measure for self-defence.
    The U.S. should unconditionally stop the dangerous saber rattling against the DPRK including RSOI, bearing deep in mind that such reckless war moves would only becloud the prospect of solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and entail serious consequences.

Important Days of DPRK Observed

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A meeting and lecture took place in India on Dec. 9 and a film show and art performance in Mexico on Dec. 10 to mark the 15th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army and the 89th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk. V. K. Chopra, chairman of the Indian Intellectuals' Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, addressing the meeting, said that Kim Jong Il provided a mighty ideological and theoretical weapon for bolstering the military force and put forward the Korean People's Army as a mainstay of the state and a main force for accomplishing the socialist cause. The KPA has grown to be a matchless army and all the people have been prepared fully enough to cope with any unforeseen situation under his Songun leadership, he added.
    Anita Chopra, chairwoman of the Indian Working Women's Society for the Study of the Juche Philosophy, in the lecture entitled "Great Mother of Korea Kim Jong Suk" noted that her glorious life totally dedicated to the liberation of the country and the victory of the revolution and her exploits would be always remembered.
    The participants of the film show watched the Korean film "Korean People's Army, Steel-Strong Ranks."

Korean Nation's Greatest Holidays to Be Commemorated in South Africa

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A preparatory committee to commemorate the Day of the Sun and February 16 in 2007 was inaugurated with due ceremony in Mfumalanga Province on Dec. 10. On display in the venue of the ceremony were works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and photos showing the validity of the Songun politics and the invincibility of the Korean-style socialist system.
    At the ceremony the chairman of the Mfumalanga Provincial Committee of the South African Communist Party who is provincial minister of land and agriculture was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
    The committee decided to organize diverse political and cultural events during the commemoration period.

Conservative Media's Sinister Campaign Denounced in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification reportedly released a statement on Dec. 8 to denounce the mean smear campaign of conservative media. Recalling that Chosun Ilbo and Munhwa Ilbo have of late built up public opinion insulting teachers affiliated to the south Korean Teachers Union (Jongyojo) and youth and children supporting the June 15 joint declaration, the statement said the declaration was a reunification program favored by all the fellow countrymen and fully displaying its vitality.
    Noting that the nasty spate of slanders of the conservative media inciting national confrontation was nothing but an empty talk, the statement said: The teachers under Jongyojo and youth and children will follow justice no matter what the conservative media may say.
    If anyone ventures physical repression of our idea of and faith in reunification, banking on the malicious smear campaign of Chosun Ilbo and Munhwa Ilbo, we will never tolerate it, warned the statement.

DPRK Women's Football Team Wins Gold Medal In 15th Asiad

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK team won the gold medal in the women's football tournament of the 15th Asiad. The DPRK team won all the matches it played in the preliminary round and semi-finals. And it defeated Japan 4:2 on penalties after drawing 0:0 in the first and second halves and even in extra time in the finals on Wednesday.
    The DPRK team won the Asiad title in the wake of its victory in the 14th Asiad in 2002.

Retraction of Special Agreement on Sharing Fund for Upkeep of U.S. Forces in S. Korea Urged

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification, the Reunification Solidarity and the People's Solidarity of south Korea reportedly called a press conference in front of the "government" building in Seoul on Dec. 11 at which they demanded the retraction of the special agreement on sharing the fund for the upkeep of the U.S. forces in south Korea. The speakers there bitterly denounced the U.S. and the south Korean authorities for announcing on Dec. 6 that the above-said special agreement would remain valid for two years to begin from 2007 and agreeing to increase south Korea's share of the fund for the upkeep of the U.S. forces for the next year 6.6 % over this year's. They also vehemently rapped them for making the additional increase of the share for 2008 a fait accompli and legalizing it.
    A written opinion addressed to the south Korean "government" was read out there.
    It is the result of the humiliating negotiations conducted by the south Korean authorities that they are exposed to the threat of the U.S. forces although they are offering to them a huge amount of money collected from the people as taxes, the written opinion deplored.
    The U.S. pressure for south Korea's steady increase in its share of the fund for the upkeep of its forces is intended to perpetuate their presence in south Korea, increase their role and, accordingly, impose a heavier financial burden upon it, it noted, demanding an immediate retraction of the special agreement.
    At the end of the press conference, members of the civic and public organizations submitted the written opinion to Chongwadae.

Maintenance of Revolutionary and Class Principles Urged

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- It is the fundamental requisite to the accomplishment of the cause of socialism to firmly maintain the revolutionary and class principles, declares Rodong Sinmun in an article Friday. Stressing that these principles are the fundamental requisite to smashing the counter-revolutionary offensive of the enemies and firmly defending socialism, the author of the article says:
    The Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea is the highest manifestation of the revolutionary and class principles. It represents indomitable faith in shattering the aggressive moves of the enemies and firmly defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and it is pulsating with the iron will of the Korean people to safeguard the interests of the working masses to the end.
    It is due to the might of Songun that the U.S. imperialists dare not provoke the DPRK while wantonly trampling upon the sovereignty of other countries, preoccupied with the "doctrine of strength."
    To firmly maintain the above-said principles is a major requirement for working constant miracles in socialist construction by giving fullest scope to the creativity of the popular masses.
    The Korean people could defend and glorify Korean-style socialism to the last as they valued these principles more than their own lives even in the ordeals of the "Arduous March" and the forced march. The victory today when the dawn of a great prosperous powerful nation is breaking after difficulties and ordeals were overcome is immediately the victory of the steadfast principle of socialism.
    To firmly adhere to the revolutionary and class principles is a fundamental requirement for strictly upholding socialist character in all aspects of social life.
    These principles are being strictly maintained in our society today and the revolutionary and sound morale of life hold sway everywhere. Neither the moves of enemies for ideological and cultural infiltration nor their psychological warfare can work in our society where everybody donates their blood and flesh and even their lives to the society, collective and comrades without hesitation and performs worthy feats for the prosperity of the country and the development of the socialist system.
    The Korean people will reliably defend the Korean-style socialist system, the cradle of their worthy life and happiness, by firmly maintaining the revolutionary and class principles in all fields in the future, too, the article concludes.

Presentation of Science and Technology of Mushroom Growing Held

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A national presentation of science and technology of mushroom growing was held in Pyongyang Thursday under the sponsorship of the Central Committee of the Korean General Federation of Science and Technology. It brought together scientists, technicians, teachers and cultivators who distinguished themselves in research and cultivation of mushroom. The attendants heard dozens of papers dealing with the achievements and experience gained in the tireless researches into the cultivation of more delicious mushroom of high nutritious value.
    Also presented there were papers dealing with the ways of putting the mushroom growing on a scientific, intensive and popular basis including the measure for preventing damage by physiological diseases, specific features of insects harmful to the mushroom growing and ways of destroying them and experience gained by individual families in mushroom growing.
    Prizes were awarded to those who proved successful at the presentation.

Greetings to Malaysian King

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme Peoplefs Assembly, sent a message to Al-Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah upon his accession to the Malaysian throne on Thursday. The message expressed belief that the good friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in various fields and wished the King and the Malaysian people great success in their work for the prosperity of the country.

Scientists' Large Share in Revitalization of Economy

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Scientists and technicians of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have introduced many scientific and technical achievements to production, contributing to the development of the national economy this year. They have conducted scientific research in close contact with production in the agricultural sector, the main front for the development of the economy, and electricity, coal mining, metal industries, railway transport and other sectors of the national economy.
    Agricultural scientists have applied advanced cultivation methods and new technologies to the agricultural production along with the work for improving the crop structure with high yielding seeds on the principle of right crop on right soil.
    Scientists and technicians in the field of the electric power industry have developed some 20 new technologies including the efficient optical fiber current transformer for the arrangement of the networks of the power transmission and supply and the management of electric power. As a result, they tapped thousands of kilowatts of electricity reserves.
    Those in the coal mining industry have developed a new technology for boosting the transport capacity of tramcars and various technical inventions, thus considerably raising mining rate and coal output.
    Those in the field of the railway transport extended the serviceable life of the wheels while reducing the electric consumption and shortening the heat treatment times. They also successfully developed a new technology so as to meet the growing demand for railway sleepers.
    Scientists and technicians in the field of the light industry, basing themselves on the success made in the research into the sweet potato processing technology, have successfully constructed a sweet potato processing base with an annual capacity of thousands of tons with their own efforts and technology. Meanwhile, scientists of the Microbiological Institute under the State Academy of Sciences have made wastewater disposal equipment with new technology, thus preventing environmental pollution.

"A Red Agitator" Restaged

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) --The performance of the play "A Red Agitator" represented by the Korean Film Studio is going on in the Pyongyang International Cinema House. The drama was created early in the 1960s on the basis of a girl agitator of a rural work-team who took the lead in the drive for remolding men. At that time the play was performed before President Kim Il Sung and filmized later to educate the people in a revolutionary way.
    The Korean Film Studio has been striving to represent the already created dramas in accordance with the requirement of the new century. In this course it gave its premiere on November 17.
    The studio newly made its production and background, keeping the theme and content of the original work.
    The drama gives impressive scenes full of laugh and emotion, touching the audience's hearts.
    The drama performed by film stars is winning popularity among the audience for their talents.

Greetings to Bahraini King

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Friday sent a message of greetings to Bahraini King Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa al|Khalifa on the occasion of the 45th national day of Bahrain. Expressing the belief that the relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the mutual interests, the message wished the friendly Bahraini people greater progress and prosperity.

"Osandok Prize" Sports Contests Open

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The "Osandok Prize" Sports Contests opened with due ceremony at the Ice Rink Friday in the run-up to the birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk. The contests involve ice hockey, figure skating, short track speed skating and bowling.
    Among those present at the opening ceremony was Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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Futbolistas coreanas se coronan campeonas en XV Juegos Asiaticos

    Pyongyang, 15 de diciembre (ATCC) -- El equipo coreano de futbol femenino conquisto la medalla de oro en los XV Juegos Asiaticos. Las muchachas coreanas, que salieron invictas en las eliminatorias por zonas y la semifinal, doblegaron en la final del dia 13 a la seleccion japonesa por 4:2 en la loteria de penalti.
    De esta manera, el equipo coreano consiguio dos victorias consecutivas en el evento de este tipo tras su triunfo en los XIV Juegos Asiaticos de 2002.

Entregado grado academico al secretario general del CIJAM

    Pyongyang, 15 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Fue otorgado a Leong Wai Meng, secretario general del Comite Internacional de Juegos de Arte Marcial (CIJAM) y vicepresidente de la Federacion Internacional de Taekwondo, el grado del doctor en la ciencia de cultura fisica de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea. El dignificado contribuyo mucho al fortalecimiento, desarrollo y divulgacion en el ambito mundial de Taekwondo al redactar cientificamente el contenido didactico para los practicantes principiantes de este arte marcial y aclarar los principios de la fuerza en cada uno de sus movimientos y la pauta de evaluacion de cada nivel.
    En la ceremonia de otorgamiento del titulo academico, que tuvo lugar el dia 14 en el capitalino Palacio de los Congresos Mansudae, estuvieron presentes el vicepremier del Consejo de Ministros Kwak Pom Gi, quien es presidente del Comite Estatal de Otorgamiento de Titulos y Cargos Cientificos de la RPDC, la secretaria general del mismo comite Kang Chun Gum, el presidente del Comite Coreano de Taekwondo Hwang Pong Yong y el presidente del CIJAM Jong Jae Hun.

Comite sudafricano para el Dia del Sol y el 16 de febrero de 2007

    Pyongyang, 15 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Quedo constituido el dia 10 en la provincia de Mfumalanga el Comite Preparatorio de Sudafrica para el Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung) y el 16 de febrero (cumpleanos del Dirigente Kim Jong Il) de 2007. Estaban expuestas alli las obras del Presidente y el Dirigente y las fotos que muestran la justeza de la politica de Songun (priorizacion militar) y lo invencible del regimen socialista al estilo coreano.
    Como presidente de la entidad naciente fue electo el presidente del comite del Partido Comunista de Sudafrica en la misma provincia y ministro de Tierra y Agricultura de esta.
    El comite naciente decidio organizar diversas actividades politico-culturales en ocasion de esas efemerides.

Rodong Sinmun se refiere al principio revolucionario y clasista

    Pyongyang, 15 de diciembre (ATCC) ? Mantener firmemente el principio revolucionario y el clasista es la demanda fundamental para el cumplimiento de la causa socialista. Asi senala el periodico Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual del dia 15 y continua:
    Este problema resulta importantisimo para frustrar la ofensiva contrarrevolucionaria de los enemigos y defender con firmeza el socialismo.
    La politica de Songun (priorizacion militar) del Partido del Trabajo de Corea significa la etapa mas alta de los principios revolucionario y clasista. Ella refleja la indoblegable conviccion y la ferrea voluntad del pueblo coreano de salvaguardar la soberania del pais y la nacion frustrando las maniobras de agresion de los enemigos y de perseguir hasta el final los intereses de las masas trabajadoras.
    Hoy dia, los imperialistas norteamericanos enloquecidos por la "logica de la fuerza" violan flagrantemente la soberania de otros paises, pero no se atreven a tocar a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea por su temor al poderio del Songun.
    El problema en cuestion es la demanda importante para crear incesantes prodigios en la construccion del socialismo movilizando al maximo la creatividad de las masas populares.
    Aun en medio de duras pruebas de los periodos de la "Marcha penosa" y la forzada, el pueblo coreano pudo defender y glorificar el socialismo al estilo coreano porque aprecio mas que su vida los principios referidos.
    El triunfo de hoy, en que se acerca la aurora de una gran potencia prospera despues de vencidas las dificultades y pruebas, es precisamente la victoria de esos principios socialistas.
    Mantener firmemente el principio revolucionario y el clasista es la demanda fundamental para mantener estrictamente el caracter socialista en toda la vida social.
    Hoy, en nuestra sociedad se materializan los principios en cuestion y en todos los lugares reina el clima de vida revolucionaria y sana. Todos dedican sin vacilacion su sangre, carne y hasta la vida a la sociedad, la colectividad y los companeros y realizan proezas por la prosperidad de la patria y el fortalecimiento del regimen socialista. Por lo tanto, en esta sociedad resultan vanas cualesquier maniobras de penetracion ideo-cultural ni la guerra psicologica de los enemigos.
    En el futuro tambien, el pueblo coreano mantendra firmemente el principio revolucionario y el clasista en todos los dominios para defender el regimen socialista al estilo coreano, cuna de su vida y felicidad.