DPRK Delegation Leaves for Six-party Talks

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The DPRK delegation led by Kim Kye Gwan, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, left here today to attend the six-party talks to be held in Beijing from Feb. 8. The delegation was seen off at the airport by Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials, Guan Huabing, minister-councillor of the Chinese embassy here, and Vladimir Arkhipenko, councillor of the Russian embassy here.

Mongolian Organization Decides to Award Order to Kim Il Sung

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The Guidance Council of the Federation of Peace and Friendship Organizations of Mongolia decided on Jan. 18 to award "Gold Star of Peace," the highest order of the council, to President Kim Il Sung, on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, reflecting the profound veneration of the Mongolian people for him.

Multifarious Events Held

   Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- A meeting and an art performance took place in the officers' hall of the Defence Ministry of Mongolia, a seminar was held by the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism and a round-table talk was held by the Indian Institute for Foreign Policy Studies from Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 on the occasion of Kim Jong Il's birthday. The chairman of the Federation of Peace and Friendship Organizations of Mongolia in his speech at the meeting highly praised Kim Jong Il for having made an undying contribution to global independence true to the intention of President Kim Il Sung.
    Mongolian artistes gave a performance which began with chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il." It included diverse numbers representing their profound reverence for the peerlessly great men.
    Ramon Jimenez Lopez, chairman of the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, in his speech referred to the great ideological and theoretical exploits performed by Kim Jong Il, achievements made by the DPRK under the banner of Songun and the struggle of the Korean people for glorifying this significant year. He called for conducting widespread activities to study and disseminate the Juche idea.
    J. K. Patel, director of the Indian Institute for Foreign Policy Studies, addressing the round-table talks, said that the DPRK has developed the relations of good neighborliness and friendship with many countries around the world on the principle of mutual respect based on independence. He stressed that the validity and tremendous vitality of the idea of independence, peace and friendship of the DPRK under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il have already been fully proved.
    A message of greetings to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting in Mongolia.

142nd Friday Meeting Held in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Civic and social organizations including the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration reportedly held the 142nd Friday meeting in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Feb. 2 in protest against the U.S. and war and for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea. Speakers at the meeting deplored the fact that culture is being degenerated in south Korea due to the U.S. troops present in south Korea.
    Participants in a resolution adopted at the meeting held that there is no ground for the U.S. to keep its forces and military bases in south Korea any longer as those bases are a source of corrupt culture and a cesspool of crime.

Poster for 11th Kimjongilia Festival Produced

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- A poster has been produced for the 11th Kimjongilia Festival to be held on the occasion of the February holiday. Depicted on the center of the poster are Kimjongilias in full bloom against the background of the sun.
    On its upper part is the mark of the festival and on its lower part the letters reading "Celebration of February 16" and "The 11th Kimjongilia Festival."

Foreign Seamen Mark Birthday of Kim Jong Il

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The crew of the Cambodian-flagged ship held a meeting at Hungnam Port on Feb. 7 to celebrate the birthday of Kim Jong Il. Present there were the captain and crewmen of the ship "Kenyo."
    Speakers at the meeting said Kim Jong Il was carrying on energetic activities, never ceasing his Songun long journey for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche. They noted that the Korean people under his leadership were winning one victory after another in the confrontation with the U.S.
    Noting that the progressives were highly praising Kim Jong Il, they said they would actively support the struggle of the Korean people advancing vigorously under the banner of Songun.
    A congratulatory letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

National Art Festival of Agricultural Workers Held

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The 35th National Art Festival of Agricultural Workers was held here on Feb. 7 to celebrate February 16. Attending it were at least 300 members of art circles from rural villages who were highly estimated in provincial, city and county preliminaries.
    They put on the stage narrative and chorus "Glory to the General," dance and song "February Is Spring" and other numbers praising the undying feats of leader Kim Jong Il who is making a new history of building a prosperous and powerful country under the uplifted banner of Songun.
    Through such numbers as a solo and kayagum ensemble, a poem and story and a narrative and song, the performers vividly represented in an ideological and artistic way the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, who has brought a great change in the socialist rural construction, and the new appearance of changing rural villages.
    There were also colorful numbers that depicted the revolutionary optimism and joy of the agricultural workers greeting the significant February holiday and the revolutionary enthusiasm of them determined to kindle the fierce flames of drive for increased grain production, true to the joint New Year editorial.

Crimes Committed by Successive Traitorous Parties in S. Korea under Fire

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute issued a memorandum a few days ago blasting the crimes committed by the successive traitorous political parties in south Korea 11 years since the formation of the "New Korea Party," the predecessor of the Grand National Party in south Korea. Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes in a signed commentary carried in this connection:
    The memorandum dealing with the crimes perpetrated by the traitorous parties is an indictment accusing the predecessors of the GNP of their crimes committed against the nation and reunification and a stern punishment meted out to the fascist traitorous party, a group of criminals, by the times and nation.
    The past several decades covered by the group of traitors from the "Liberal Party" to the "Democratic Liberal Party" represent a history of crimes they committed against the nation and reunification by dividing the nation, kowtowing and yielding to foreign forces, pursuing confrontation with fellow countrymen and killing people. They are nothing but a history of murder and other crimes.
    This party committed such thrice-cursed acts of sycophancy and treachery as turning south Korea into a colony of the U.S. imperialists, rubbing salt into the wounds of the Koreans suffering from the territorial division by building the cursed concrete wall, a challenge to their desire for reunification, and letting the U.S. convert south Korea into the biggest nuclear arsenal in the Far East and an advance base for aggression against the DPRK.
    This party of traitors should have been eliminated from the arena of history as it is forsaken by the people for having perpetrated such hideous crimes. Nevertheless, these pro-U.S. traitors tried hard to calm down the anger of the south Korean people by changing the name of their party into the "New Korea Party." But it ceased to exist before being two years old as it failed to discard its inveterate sycophantic, fascist and anti-reunification nature. There grew from its roots a new poisonous plant called the GNP whose mission was to pursue acts of treachery with bloodshot eyes.
    The GNP, a group of imbeciles who lack political sense and ignorant of the law governing the development of history, is making desperate efforts to revive the past dark era going against the desire of the nation and the times. This party is now getting so impudent as to become evermore undisguised in sycophancy towards the U.S., fascist suppression and moves against reunification in a bid to come to power.
    The memorandum helps the Korean nation draw one more lesson.
    A mad dog should be knocked down with a stick and the root cause of disaster completely removed, the commentary concludes.

U.S. Double Standards Blasted

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. unjustifiable policy of double standards must never be allowed, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article. Noting that the U.S. applies unwarrantable double standards to the nuclear issue, openly pursuing a policy of nuclear blackmail in disregard of the requirements of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and its commitments under the international law, the article goes on:
    The U.S. is the chief violator of the NPT. It has neither justification to demand other countries to scrap their nuclear programs nor the qualification to "judge" others.
    Japan, with the patronage and connivance of the U.S., has stockpiled plutonium enough to manufacture thousands of nuclear weapons.
    Israel has also produced and stockpiled many nuclear weapons by stepping up its nuclear armament in secrecy with the patronage, connivance and cooperation of the U.S.
    The U.S. should have taken issue with Israel's access to nukes. However, it has not put any pressure on it.
    The U.S. undisguised application of the double standards is evidenced by the fact that it has promised cooperation in nuclear technology to countries remaining outside the NPT and is revealing its intention to conditionally allow peaceful nuclear activities of some countries.
    While shutting eyes to and supporting the development and possession of nuclear weapons by pro-U.S. forces and its allies from the stand of unilateralism and prejudice, it styles itself a "nuclear judge", kicking up a row of pressure on those countries incurring its displeasure by pulling them up over their "nuclear issues". This is really the height of sarcasm.
    The U.S. attitude over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula clearly shows how far the U.S. has gone in its application of the double standards.

Efforts Redoubled to Build Economic Power

   Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Redoubled efforts are being made to build a socialist economic power in the DPRK. The people are turning out in the grand march for perfecting the looks of a great, prosperous and powerful nation, full of confidence in sure victory and optimism.
    The DPRK has consolidated the foundation for building an economic power over the last years.
    The Workers' Party of Korea has developed in depth President Kim Il Sung's idea on economy as required by the developing revolution and thus provided unswerving guidelines for building an economic power.
    While implementing the revolutionary economic policies of the WPK such as the line on economic construction in the Songun era with main emphasis on the development of the munitions industry and the policy of putting the national economy on a modern footing and IT, the Korean people have been firmly convinced that they will certainly build an economic power in this land when they work as indicated by the Party.
    The army-people unity has developed as the oneness of army and people in terms of ideology and fighting spirit in the Songun era. It constitutes a powerful impetus to the construction of the economic power.
    The Kanggye spirit, torchlight of Songgang and the Thaechon stamina have been created while the whole society following the revolutionary soldier spirit. The efforts have brought about a great change in the overall socialist construction.
    Through the heroic endeavors, the people replete with faith in the future of prosperity have put industrial establishments, once stopped, on normalization of production and erected many monumental edifices including the Thaechon Youth Power Station No. 4.
    An importance has been attached to science. A large army of intellectuals are paving the shortcut to the construction of an economic power with an extraordinary revolutionary enthusiasm.
    A solid material and technical foundation for the construction of an economic power has been laid in the country.
    All the sectors of the national economy have pushed ahead with the work of perfecting production structures, renovating technique and putting them on a modern footing, with the result that the number of such model factories in technical renovation and modernization as the Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory is increasing as the days go by.
    Production bases such as foodstuff factory, chicken farm, catfish farm, beer factory and cosmetic factory, which are directly contributing to the improvement of the people's living standard, have mushroomed in different parts of the country.
    The DPRK, with all the conditions for leaping higher and faster, will demonstrate the might of an economic power in the near future.

Bow, Greeting Etiquette of Korean Nation

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Making a bow is a traditional greeting etiquette of the Korean people. There are three kinds of bows, deep, half and slight.
    The deep bow is made to the parents, elders and respectable ones.
    Elders make a half bow in response to the greeting of an inferior. It is also exchanged among intimate friends.
    A slight bow is exchanged among familiars who come across in the street.
    It has been a greeting etiquette in Korea from olden times that people who meet in the street exchange a slight bow and clear the way for the other, especially the junior behaves like this for the senior.
    The Korean greeting etiquette is courteous, the greeting words are warm and the expression is soft and noble.
    The beautiful manner of greeting is being encouraged in Korea in line with the contemporary aesthetic sense.

Credentials of Russian Ambassador Accepted

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Valery E. Sukhinin at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday. On hand were Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kung Sok Ung and staff members of the Russian embassy.
    After receiving the credentials, Kim had a talk with the ambassador.

Floral Basket to Kim Jong Il from Palestine

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a floral basket from Mahmoud Abbas, chief of the Palestinian National Authority, on the occasion of his birthday. The floral basket was handed to an official concerned by Mohammad Shahta Zarab, Palestinian ambassador to the DPRK, on Thursday.

South Korean People's Actions against FTA Supported

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea issued a statement on Thursday in support of the struggle of the south Korean people against the conclusion of the unreasonable “Free Trade Agreement.” The statement extended full support and encouragement to them, regarding it as a sacred patriotic struggle to protect the dignity and interests of the nation and their right to existence. The United States has brought unbearable misfortune and pain to the south Korean people for more than six decades since its occupation of south Korea and, not content with this, it is keen to put them under such double and treble yoke of domination and subjugation as FTA in a bid to trample down upon their elementary right to existence, the statement noted, and continued:
    It is ridiculous of the pro-U.S. conservative forces including the Grand National Party (GNP) of south Korea to be keen on abusing the above-said struggle of the people for realizing their plot to come to power while talking about “people’s living” and the like.
    The statement urged the people from all walks of life in south Korea to categorically reject and bitterly denounce the negotiations between the U.S. chiefly responsible for their misfortune and sufferings and the south Korean authorities subservient to it and throw overboard the pro-U.S. group of traitors including the GNP as quickly as possible.

Secretary General of "International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council Arrives

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Vishwanath, secretary general of the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council, arrived here Thursday to celebrate the birthday of Kim Jong Il.

Ten-day Film Show Opens

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- A ten-day film show was opened with due ceremony at the Pyongyang International Cinema House Thursday to celebrate February 16, the birthday of Kim Jong Il. Screened during the period will be such documentary films as "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Provides On-site Guidance to Work in Different Fields" (serials), "Bringing About a Great Turn by Songun Revolutionary Leadership" and "Care Shown to Make Their Lives Shine" (serials).
    "Young Brigade Commander", "Taehongdan County's Chief Party Secretary", "Diary of a Girl Student" and other feature films will also be shown.
    Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su said in an opening address at the ceremony that during the period films truthfully showing the immortal revolutionary exploits of Kim Jong Il and the noble ideological and moral traits of the Korean people would be screened at cinemas and cultural houses in Pyongyang and provinces, cities and counties.
    At the end of the ceremony the participants watched newly-released documentary "Father of Soldiers" (Part 1).
    Similar ceremonies were held in provinces on the same day.

Foreign Diplomats Visit Int'l Friendship Exhibition

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The military attaches corps here visited the International Friendship Exhibition Thursday on the threshold of the auspicious February holiday. The members of the corps went round with deep emotion the gifts to Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il by party and state leaders, eminent figures of political and public circles, people of different strata in various countries and south Korean people representing their profound respect and best wishes.

Congratulations to President of African Union

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Feb.7 sent a congratulatory message to Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor on the latter's election as President of the African Union at the 8th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union. The message said that his assumption of heavy responsibility as the president of the union is an expression of its member countries' trust and expectation for him and the Republic of Ghana that have made a positive contribution to peace and progress on the African continent and in the sub-region of Western Africa.
    Expressing the belief that the AU would achieve signal progress in its efforts to attain the integration and prosperity of the continent and solidarity and cooperation among its member countries, the message wished the President of Ghana success in his responsible work to strengthen and develop the union as well as good health.

Japanese Authorities' Suppression of Chongryon under Fire

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The Socialist Party and the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization of Pakistan, the Lahore Committee for Study of Kimilsungism, the Pakistan Trade Unions Federation, the Pakistan Peasants Committee, the Lahore Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association and the Pakistan Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification issued a joint statement denouncing the Japanese authorities' suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on Feb. 3. Recalling that there occur in Japan the disturbing cases in which rights of the Korean residents in Japan are violated and their safety seriously threatened by the Japanese authorities, the statement noted this reminds one of the crime-woven history of Japan in which it was censured by the international community for drenching Asia with blood and cruelly violating human rights.
    The statement continued:
    We demand the Japanese authorities halt at once their crackdown upon the Korean residents in Japan and respect their rights and guarantee the activities of Chongryon.
    We send firm solidarity to the Korean residents in Japan in their struggle to protect the human rights and realize their free visits to their homeland.

Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Power Station and Fish Farm

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the newly built Orangchon Power Station No. 1 and the Jangyonho Fish Farm. The first leg of his guidance was the power station.
    Going round a generator room and a power distribution room, he acquainted himself in detail with the construction of the power station and electricity production there.
    The power station producing a lot of electricity by use of water of Orangchon was designed rationally and high quality has been ensured in its construction, he said, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that the people of the province have built a modern power station.
    It is, indeed, something to be proud of that the builders have constructed such modern power station at a time when they were hard pressed for everything, he noted, adding it is a very good method of abiding by the principle of profitability that they have ensured the commissioning of the power station ahead of schedule in order to boost the effectiveness in the investment made in its construction.
    He set forth the tasks to be tackled to operate the power station and make an effective use of the electricity produced by it.
    Then he went round the construction site of the Orangchon Dam.
    Feasting his eyes on the giant dam rising from across a ravine, he learned about the progress made in the project.
    He called upon the members of the youth shock brigade and other builders to speed up the construction of the dam with the same vim and vigor with which they built the power station No. 1 in a brief span of time and thus complete the remaining project ahead of schedule.
    In recent years we have built many power stations with large capacities in different parts of the country despite hard conditions, thus bringing about a rapid boost in the electricity production, he said, and went on: This signal turn is a striking proof of the validity and vitality of the WPK's policy of building minor hydraulic power stations on a large scale while constructing large ones.
    In order to satisfactorily meet the rapidly growing need for electricity in North Hamgyong Province, it should give fullest play to the capacities of the already built power stations and, at the same time, build more new power stations by harnessing all the available hydraulic power resources, he emphasized. The next leg of his guidance was the Jangyonho Fish Farm.
    He learned in detail how fishes are bred on the farm, going round fish ponds, spawning rooms and various other places of the farm.
    He set forth highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines for conducting fish breeding as a widespread mass movement.
    While providing field guidance to North Hamgyong Province, he advanced tasks to be undertaken by the province to put its economic work on a new higher stage.
    North Hamgyong Province occupies an important position in ensuring the nation's economic development as it has lots of enterprises in the fields of metal industry and extractive industry and other pilot domains of the national economy, he said, calling on it to play a pioneer's role in the building of an economic power.
    He was accompanied by Hong Sok Hyong, chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the C.C., WPK, and Pak Nam Gi, department director of the same.

Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Primary Seasoning Factory and Power Station

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the Chongjin Primary Seasoning Factory and the newly built Army-People Power Station. The first leg of his visit was the Chongjin Primary Seasoning Factory.
    Going round its production processes, he acquainted himself with its reconstruction and production there.
    Seeing a variety of primary seasonings palatable to the people's taste streaming out, he was greatly satisfied with the successful completion of a modern foodstuff factory to be greatly conducive to the people's diet.
    He underlined the need to keep the production going at a high rate and thus make a substantial contribution to improving the standard of the people's living.
    Many modern primary seasoning factories have sprung up in different parts of the country in recent years and the people have greatly benefited from them, he said, adding that a radical turn will take place in the diet of the people when the already built factories are operated in full capacity and, at the same time, the construction of similar factories are completed as scheduled.
    The master key to keeping the production of primary seasonings going at a high rate is to satisfactorily settle the issue of raw materials, he said, stressing the need to scrupulously organize the work for laying solid raw material bases at cooperative farms and powerfully arouse the enthusiasm of farmers and thus produce and supply larger quantities of raw materials to the factories in good time.
    It is important to raise the quality of primary seasonings as they are most essential for the people's diet, he said, stressing: To this end it is necessary to deepen researches into this field to ensure the uniform technical index and realize the automation of production processes on a high level.
    The next leg of his guidance was the power station.
    After being briefed on the construction of the power station before a huge painting showing its panoramic view, he made the rounds of a generator room, a power distribution room and other places of the power station to learn in detail about its construction and electricity production there.
    He was greatly satisfied to learn that the modern power station has been built successfully to meet the need of the Songun era. He highly praised the builders and their helpers for their feats, adding that their construction of such modern power station in a short span of time is a precious fruition of their boundless fidelity to the revolution and ardent patriotism.
    He advanced the tasks to be fulfilled to operate the power station, underlining the need to improve the management of equipment and technical control in order to operate it in full capacity.
    He was accompanied by Hong Sok Hyong, chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and Pak Nam Gi, department director of the same.

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Rodong Sinmun revela crimenes historicos del "GPN"

   Pyongyang, 8 de febrero (ATCC) -- Hace unos dias, el Instituto de Reunificacion de la Patria (IRP) dio a la publicidad un memorando, que revela a todo el mundo los crimenes historicos cometidos por el "Gran Partido Nacional" del Sur de Corea, en ocasion del 11o aniversario de la fundacion de su agrupacion antecesora "Partido de Nueva Corea". Este documento es una acta de acusacion de los crimenes antinacionales y anti-reunificacion cometidos por los predecesores del "GPN" y una sentencia severa de la epoca y la nacion a esta entidad fascista y traidora.
    Senala asi el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual publicado este jueves y prosigue:
    La historia del "GPN" de varios decenios, que data de la fundacion del "Partido Liberal" hasta el periodo del "Partido Democrata Liberal", es una trayectoria antinacional, anti-reunificacion y llena de crimenes sangrientos en que dividio a la nacion, promovio la confrontacion fratricida y masacro a los habitantes inocentes adulando a las fuerzas extranjeras.
    Esta horda de traidores convirtio el suelo surcoreano en una colonia de EE.UU., el maximo arsenal nuclear del Extremo Oriente y base avanzada para la agresion a la RPDC y edifico la rencorosa muralla de hormigon armado desafiando a la aspiracion nacional.
    Por tales crimenes incontables esta banda debio desaparecerse del escenario de la historia. Sin embargo, solo se limito a cambiar su etiqueta por la del "Partido de Nueva Corea" con el fin de calmar la indignacion del pueblo.
    　Pero, a menos de 2 anos de fundado, el "PNC" dejo de existir porque tuvo los mismos vicios cronicos de su entidad antecesora: el servilismo a grandes potencias, la traicion a la nacion, el fascismo y la oposicion a la reunificacion. Como su sucesor nacio el "GPN".
    Los compinches del "GPN", torpes en asuntos politicos e ignorantes de las leyes del desarrollo de la historia, nadan hasta hoy a contrapelo de la aspiracion de la nacion y epoca para revitalizar la epoca de oscurantismo del pasado y se aferran con mas frenesi al servilismo proyanqui, la represion fascista y las maquinaciones anti-reunificacion sonando con el poder.
    A traves del memorando referido, nuestra nacion vuelve a sacar la leccion de que hay que darle duro al perro rabioso y acabar una vez por todas con la causa del mal.

Inaugurada Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes por 16 de febrero

    Pyongyang, 8 de febrero (ATCC) -- La Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes por el 16 de febrero (cumpleanos del Dirigente Kim Jong Il) quedo inaugurada la vispera en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Corea con la participacion de los creadores de la rama y trabajadores capitalinos. 　Alli estan exhibidas mas de 500 obras de bellas artes que describen bien en lo ideo-artistico las proezas revolucionarias de los tres Generales del monte Paektu y sus imagenes, la dignidad y el orgullo nacionales de los militares y habitantes de Corea que tienen como generoso padre al invencible Comandante del Songun Kim Jong Il. Entre ellas figuran la pintura al estilo coreano "La noche del frente", el dibujo al oleo "Treinta millones del pueblo deben armarse" y la escultura "Confiando siempre en el pueblo", que demuestran la infinita veneracion y la anoranza al Presidente Kim Il Sung.
    　Las pinturas al estilo coreano "Diciendo que es un paisaje orgulloso de la epoca del Songun", "Queria encontrarme con mis soldados" y "Largo camino de la felicidad", el dibujo al oleo "Nuestro General visitando la tierra de Samsu" y otras obras describen con emocion las inmortales proezas y nobles rasgos populares del Dirigente Kim Jong Il quien sigue el largo camino de orientacion del Songun.
    　Ademas, estan puestas las obras alusivas a la brillante vida de la heroina de lucha antijaponesa Kim Jong Suk.
    　En la ocasion hizo uso de la palabra inaugural el ministro de Cultura, Kang Nung Su.
    　Por otra parte, el mismo dia se inicio tambien la exhibicion central de bellas artes.

Mongolia concede titulo honorifico a Kim Il Sung

    Pyongyang, 8 de febrero (ATCC) -- En ocasion del Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung), el consejo directivo de la Federacion de Organizaciones Mongolas por la Paz y la Amistad decidio otorgarle el pasado 18 de enero la orden "Estrella de oro de la paz", conocida como maxima distincion, traduciendo infinito respeto y veneracion del pueblo mongol hacia el.

Parte de Pyongyang la delegacion de RPDC para asistir a cita a 6 bandas

    Pyongyang, 8 de febrero (ATCC) -- Partio este jueves de esta capital la delegacion de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea presidida por el vicecanciller Kim Kye Gwan para participar en las conversaciones a 6 partes que tendran lugar en Beijing a partir del dia 8. 　La despidieron en el aeropuerto el vicecanciller Kim Hyong Jun y otros funcionarios coreanos, el ministro-consejero de la Embajada de la Republica Popular China Guan Huabing y el consejero de la Embajada de la Federacion Rusa Vladimir Arkhipenko, ambos acreditados en Corea.