National Symposium on Medical Science Held
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- A national symposium on medical science was held at the Grand People's Study House on May 15 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's work "On Improving the Public Health Service".
The work published on May 21, Juche 36 (1947) comprehensively clarifies the issues of definitely keeping prevention ahead of treatment, enforcing free medical care system and consolidating it, expanding the ranks of medical workers and the necessity to make them genuine servants for the people.
Prof. and Dr. Choe Chang Sik, who is minister of Public Health, in his speech proved the validity and the originality of the ideas and theories advanced by the President, saying that the celebrated work clarifies the position and role of the public health and gives perfect answers to theoretical and practical questions arising in developing it.
He recalled that the President not only published the historic work but wisely led the health workers to make signal progress in health service in each period and at every stage of the revolution and construction, adding that the feats performed by him in the field of public health are shining more brilliantly thanks to Kim Jong Il.
He underlined the need for the medical workers, scientists and technicians in the field of public health to effect a fresh turn in medical service and medical science researches and thus give full play to the advantages of the socialist public health system in the DPRK.
The symposium heard several excellent papers including "On study of blood vessel reflection by use of Stent transplantation in case of acute myocardial infarction", "Treatment of cirrhosis of liver by way of marrow stem cell transplantation" and "On study of effect of anti-cancer vaccine on tumor".
Friendly Meeting with Iranian Embassy Officials Held
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Iran Friendship Association arranged a friendly meeting with officials of the Iranian embassy here at the Korean April 26 Children's Film Studio on Tuesday on the occasion of a week for friendship between the two countries.
Present there on invitation were the Iranian charge d'affaires a.i. and staff members of the embassy.
On hand were Jon Yong Jin, vice-chairman of the committee who is also vice-chairman of the association, members of the association and officials of the studio.
The participants went round various rooms of the creative groups where films of diverse themes for children are produced.
The guests were briefed on the events taking place on the occasion of the week. The participants talked to one another about the need to boost the relations between the two countries and watched a film for children produced at the studio, deepening the friendship.
Agreement Signed between DPRK and Syrian Universities
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- An agreement on friendship and scientific cooperation between Kim Il Sung University and University of Damascus in Syria was signed.
It was inked by Song Ja Rip, president of Kim Il Sung University, and Wael Mualla, president of the Syrian university.
Architectural Festival Held
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The 7th May 21 Architectural Festival was held here from May 10 to 15.
It brought together architects, construction technicians and teachers and researchers in the field of architecture and construction from across the country. Displayed there were at least 230 designing contest entries and more than 160 scientific papers and over 30 architectural designing programs.
It involved designing contest of various objects, contest of architectural patterns and decorative designs, a scientific symposium on architecture and construction and a contest of modernization of architectural designing.
The designs well showed the features of ever-developing Juche-based architecture meeting the aesthetic and emotional requirements of the Korean people and representing the global trend of architecture.
The scientific symposium on architecture and construction was divided into panels of architecture, architectural structure, building, heating and hygiene and building materials. Published there were papers helpful to resolving scientific and technological matters arising in realizing the intention of the Workers' Party of Korea on placing architectures on a formative and artistic basis.
Also presented at the festival were valuable programs which had contributed to developing science and technology of architecture and construction of the country by optimizing designs of architectures, agricultural construction, land development and other fields.
An exhibition of finishing building materials made of domestic raw materials and materials was open during the period.
The closing ceremony took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Tuesday. There best prizes, honor prizes, festival prizes and labor prizes went to at least 100 participants who were highly praised.
Moves for Extended Presence of Troops in Iraq Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The preparatory committee of the Solidarity for Progress in south Korea issued a statement on May 10 in which it denounced the moves of the "government" to extend the term of the presence of the troops in Iraq pursuant to the U.S. policy of aggression, according to the south Korean Internet newspaper Chammallo.
Accusing the "government" of justifying the troop dispatch under the pretext of "economic interests", ignoring the unanimous demand of the people from all walks of life, the statement termed the troop dispatch to Iraq a criminal act of participating in the war of aggression by the U.S. which threatens world peace, talking about "spread of democracy".
If the "government" extends the term of the presence of troops in Iraq, it will meet stronger denunciation by the world community as an accomplice in the war, it warned, demanding an immediate withdrawal of the south Korean troops from Iraq.
Slogans of Anti-U.S., Anti-GNP Struggle Published in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration in south Korea reportedly published slogans of the struggle against the U.S. and the Grand National Party on May 11 on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising.
The slogans underscored the need to inherit the May 18 spirit to bring an end to the GNP, a fascist party, and called upon all the people to turn out in the struggle to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea.
The slogans also called for shattering the attempt of the GNP, a hurdle lying in the way of achieving peaceful reunification and prosperity, to come to power, and winning victory in the "presidential elections" through a great alliance against the conservative forces and thus bringing about independent reunification and ushering in the greatest heyday of the nation.
U.S. Branded as Chief Pursuer of Nuclear War
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The Bush administration has drawn up a plan to produce 125 new nuclear weapons every year and, for this purpose, decided to set up a combined centre for the production of nuclear materials.
Noting that the establishment of the centre is intended for the development of more powerful and effective nuclear warheads, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Wednesday says:
Planning to make it allowed to use nuclear weapons like conventional weapons in all wars, the Bush group intends to make smaller nukes of formidable explosive power and let the U.S. forces use them easily in any place at any time.
This convincingly proves that the United States is the very one bringing a new Cold War and a nuclear war to the international arena.
The nuclear strong-arm policy is the backbone of the aggressive military strategy of the U.S. imperialists and, prompted by it, they are zealously hastening the work to make nukes modern, smaller and conventional.
Their ultimate aim is world supremacy and its main means is a nuclear war. In other words, they seek to gain an unchallenged nuclear advantage and contain "adversaries" by the nuclear strong arm and thus gratify their ambition for world supremacy.
The frantic nuclear war moves of the U.S. aimed at world supremacy backed by strength are the catalyser accelerating the global nuclear arms race and creating the danger of a thermonuclear war.
The U.S., the most heinous nuclear criminal, has neither qualification nor face to say this or that about other's "nuclear issue".
The Bush administration should renounce their reckless moves to fan a nuclear war and nuclear arms race, instead of raising outcries over the fictitious "nuclear threat" of other countries.
Japan's Energy Diplomacy Debunked
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- Japanese Prime Minister Abe, some time ago, made a trip to Mideast countries, leading a large economic and trade delegation.
In major oil-producing countries in the Mideast, he agreed to provide them with fund and technology in exchange for a long-term and preferential oil supply.
In this regard a Minju Joson analyst Wednesday says:
Lurking behind the Mideast junket of Abe is an important political purpose transcending economic issues.
The oil resources are rapidly drying up worldwide and the Mideast situation has become unstable. Such being the situation, the powers are locked in a fierce competition for protecting their interests, vying with each other to meddle in the Mideast issues. Japan feels deeply uneasy and concerned over this. It is overwhelmed with the apprehension that, at the slightest slip, it may lose its voice and influence in the Mideast region and get not a drop of oil from there.
For this reason, Japan is craftily scheming to allure the Mideast countries with fund and technology as the bait and tightly bind them to economic fetters and thus draw water to its mill.
Timed to coincide with this, the Japanese minister of Economy and Industry, leading a large delegation of businessmen including energy company bosses, flew to Kazakhstan to discuss the issue of economic cooperation.
Japan is very covetous of the inexhaustible uranium resources of Kazakhstan. What Japan seeks is to monopolize oil and nuclear energy resources including uranium and take the post of the leader of Asia at any cost.
With nothing can the Japanese reactionaries cover up their sinister intention to seize the major regions of strategic resources under the veil of energy diplomacy and put into practice its aggressive policy of unbridled looting.
Greetings to Norwegian King
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Tuesday sent a message of greetings to Harald V, King of Norway, on its national day.
He in his message wished the Norwegian people progress and prosperity.
Favorite Bean Foodstuffs
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- Bean food, one of the favorite folk foodstuffs is being encouraged in the DPRK.
Bean food contains rich protein, oil and other nutritive substances. So the demand for it is ever increasing.
Public catering establishments serve varied kinds of bean foodstuffs and each family makes tubu (bean-curds), bean sprouts and other dishes.
Soybean sauce, bean paste, soybean soup, bean-flour goods, bean oil and so on are turned out by foodstuff processing factories.
Bean milk and bean processing factories in different parts of the country are also producing bean-milk for nurseries, kindergartens and primary and middle schools.
Meanwhile, scientists and technicians in the public catering field are striving to increase the kinds of bean food and develop various processing methods.
Wi Yon, director of the technical preparatory office for catering under the Public Catering Management Bureau of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, said that the completion of standardization of yon-tubu (uncurdled tubu) production enables each family easily to make it, to say nothing of the catering establishments.
International Trade Fair Goes on
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The 10th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair opened at the Three-Revolution Exhibition on May 14 is going on with success.
Kim Myong Chol, a section chief of the Korean International Exhibition Corporation, told KCNA that the current trade fair has been participated in by more countries with more exhibits compared with previous ones and is visited by over 10,000 Korean people and foreigners every day.
More than 200 companies from different countries including China, Russia, Syria, Germany, Bangladesh and Switzerland and region exhibited over 20,000 items of 8,000-odd kinds including machine tools, petrochemical products, electric and electronic equipment, vehicles, medicaments and foodstuffs.
During the fair, possibilities for extensive contacts and trade transactions are discussed and trade contracts concluded among participants.
The trade fair is a good occasion for the DPRK and other participants to develop many-sided exchange, cooperation and trade relations.
Football Match between DPRK and Thailand Held
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The Asian regional men's football second-round qualifier (Group E) between the DPRK and Thai teams for the 29th Olympic Games was held at Kim Il Sung Stadium on Wednesday.
The match ended in a draw with no score.
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Rodong Sinmun inculpa a EE.UU. de la guerra nuclear
Pyongyang, 16 de mayo (ATCC) -- Recientemente, la administracion Bush planeo la produccion anual en lo adelante de 125 armas nucleares de nuevo tipo y decidio para este fin fundar un "Proyecto confiable de cambio de ojivas nucleares", que resultara un centro combinado de produccion de sustancias nucleares.
La fundacion de este centro tiene por su objetivo desarrollar ojivas mas poderosas y eficaces.
Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual de este miercoles y continua:
La banda de Bush trata de fabricar mini-artefactos nucleares con mayor potencia explosiva para que las tropas norteamericanas puedan usarlas facilmente a cualquier momento y en cualesquier campos de combate como armas convencionales.
Este hecho comprueba claramente que EE.UU. es el fautor que acarrea una nueva Guerra Fria y la guerra nuclear en el escenario mundial.
La politica de garrote nuclear es lo clave de la estrategia militar agresiva de los imperialistas norteamericanos quienes dan acicates a los trabajos orientados a la modernizacion, minimizacion y convencionalismo de armamentos nucleares.
Los imperialistas gringos recurren principalmente a la guerra nuclear para cumplir su meta final: tomar la hegemonia mundial.
El desenfrenado belicismo nuclear del imperio sirve de catalizador en buscar la carrera armamentista nuclear y la guerra termonuclear a escala mundial. Este pais, que es criminal de pesima calana en el campo nuclear, no tiene derecho ni cara para cuestionar el "problema nuclear" de los otros.
Seria recomendable que la administracion Bush se abstenga de esas maniobras antes de acusar a otros paises de la falsa "amenaza nuclear".
Minju Joson comenta el viaje de Abe por paises del Medio Oriente
Pyongyang, 16 de mayo (ATCC) -- Recientemente el premier japones Abe encabezo una delegacion economica y comercial de gran tamano de visita a varios paises del Medio Oriente.
Durante su estancia en los principales paises productores de petroleo del Medio Oriente, Abe se comprometio a ofrecerles fondos y tecnologia en lugar de recibir el suministro primordial y prolongado de dichos paises.
Abe en su reciente recorrido por tales paises persiguio un objetivo politico por encima del economico.
Senala asi el rotativo Minju Joson en un comentario individual publicado este miercoles y prosigue:
Dado que se agotan bruscamente los recursos petroleros mundiales y se torna inestable la situacion de esta region, las potencias se emulan en lo tocante al problema del Medio Oriente para proteger sus concesiones. Japon siente gran preocupacion e inquietud por ello. Es posible que pierda su derecho a la palabra, su influencia en esta region y la posibilidad de recibir petroleo de esta.
Por eso, el pais isleno intenta atraer con el dinero y la tecnologia a los paises del Medio Oriente y avasallarlos economicamente para satisfacer sus intereses.
Coincidiendo en tiempo con la visita de Abe a las naciones del Medio Oriente, el ministro japones de Economia e Industria viajo a Kazajstan con un grueso equipo de empresarios incluidos los titulares de las companias de energia para discutir el problema de la cooperacion economica.
Japon codicia mucho los recursos de uranio abundantes en Kazajstan. Intenta apoderarse de petroleo y de los recursos de energia nuclear como el uranio para tomar la posicion de amo en Asia.
Se ha revelado el designio de los reaccionarios japoneses de controlar las zonas de recursos estrategicos importantes y realizar la politica de agresion y saqueo, portando el rotulo de la diplomacia energetica.
Simposio de ciencia medica por sexagenario de obra de Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, 16 de mayo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar la vispera en el capitalino Palacio de Estudio del Pueblo el simposio nacional sobre la ciencia medica en homenaje al 60 aniversario de publicacion de la obra del Presidente Kim Il Sung "Para fomentar la sanidad publica", publicada el 21 de mayo del 36 (1947) de la Era Juche.
La obra aclara todos los problemas para anteponer la profilaxis al tratamiento, implantar y desarrollar el sistema de asistencia medica gratuita, ampliar las filas de los funcionarios sanitarios y convertirlos en verdaderos servidores al pueblo.
En su discurso, el ministro de Salud Publica, Choe Chang Sik, profesor titular y doctor, afirmo que la obra maestra del Presidente esclarece la posicion y el papel de la salud publica y da una respuesta perfecta a los problemas teoricos y practicos para su desarrollo.
A continuacion, argumento la justeza y la originalidad de las ideas y teorias presentadas por el Presidente.
Prosiguio que ademas de publicarla, el Presidente Kim Il Sung dirigio sabiamente en cada periodo y etapa de la revolucion y construccion para lograr avances trascendentales en la sanidad y refirio que estas hazanas son glorificadas de modo brillante por el Dirigente Kim Jong Il.
Todos los funcionarios, cientificos y tecnicos de la rama deben producir nuevos virajes en la asistencia medica y el estudio de ciencias medicas para poner en pleno juego la superioridad del sistema sanitario socialista de nuestro pais, concluyo.
En el foro se dio a conocer una serie de valiosas disertaciones tales como "Estudio de la reflexion de vasos sanguineos en el tratamiento por el trasplante Stent del infarto cardiaco agudo", "Terapia de la cirrosis hepatica con el trasplante de celulas de tallo medular" y "Estudio de los efectos de vacunas anti-cancer sobre el tumor".
Rubricado acuerdo entre universidades de Corea y Siria
Pyongyang, 16 de mayo (ATCC) -- Quedo firmado un acuerdo de amistad y colaboracion cientifica entre la Universidad Kim Il Sung y la Universidad de Damasco.
Lo suscribio el rector del plantel docente coreano, Song Ja Rip, junto con su homologo sirio, Wael Mualla.