Kim Jong Il Receives Floral Baskets and Gift
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a floral basket by a delegation of the Secretariat of the International Institute of the Juche Idea led by its Secretary General Kenichi Ogami and a floral basket and gift by a delegation of the Japanese Society for the Study of the Juche Idea led by Soko Shimabukuro, advisor of the Okinawa Socialist Masses' Party, on a visit to the DPRK.
The heads of the delegations respectively conveyed the floral baskets and gift to an official concerned on Monday.
Kim Yong Dae Meets Vietnamese Delegation
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Dae, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, met and conversed with the delegation of the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association led by its Chairman Pham Tat Dong, who is chairman of the Educational Panel of the State Council of Education of Vietnam, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present there were Kim Yong Do, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea who is vice-chairman of the DPRK-Vietnam Friendship Association, and others and the Vietnamese Ambassador to the DPRK.
Greetings to President of Cote d'Ivoire
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Laurent Gbagbo, President of Cote d'Ivoire, on August 3 on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of its independence.
Kim Yong Nam in his message extended solidarity to the government and people of Cote d'Ivoire in their efforts for peace, stability and national unity, expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the future.
Greetings to Jamaican Prime Minister
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Il, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of its independence.
Kim Yong Il in his message sincerely wished the Jamaican prime minister success in his responsible work for development and prosperity of the country, expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the future.
Full Support and Solidarity for Korean People Expressed
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- We are convinced that the Korean people led by Kim Jong Il will always emerge victorious and will extend full support and solidarity to the Korean people in their just struggle for the national sovereignty and the reunification of the country.
Wahid Al Uksouri, chairman of the Misr Arab Socialist Party of Egypt, said this in a statement on July 27 on the occasion of the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
We once again feel proud of having such close friends as the Korean people on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War fought against the U.S. imperialist aggressors, he noted, and continued:
The Korean people have firmly defended the sovereignty of the country and dignity of the nation from the plots, all forms of threat and pressure and challenge of the U.S. and its allied forces and have steadily carried out the patriotic cause, pursuant to the line laid down by President Kim Il Sung, the immortal leader, under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il. This is winning admiration of the world people aspiring after independence and dignity.
He expressed positive support to the just stand of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the nuclear issue.
S. Korean Military Authorities' Arms Buildup under Fire
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification of south Korea reportedly held the 70th meeting for peace and disarmament in front of the building of the "Ministry of National Defense" in Seoul on July 31, at which it denounced the military authorities' arms buildup.
The speakers at the meeting recalled that the "Ministry of National Defense" announced the "2008-2012 mid-term national defense program" focused on the "increase of the capability of independently gathering information on the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity, the ability to command and control and the capability to make precision strikes," and a " proposal for defense budget for 2008" on July 18.
They accused the ministry of contemplating spending such a stupendous amount of money as 164 trillion won for the implementation of the "mid-term national defense program" aimed at securing the capability of independent surveillance and reconnaissance, establishing the tactical commanding and controlling system and acquiring the capability to make precision strikes.
They also censured the ministry for contemplating increasing the next year's "defense budget" 9.9 percent as compared with that for this year.
They noted that such moves of the military authorities are intended to steadily boost armaments, justify their introduction of weaponry for preemptive attacks and continue rounding off the present anti-north war scenario under the pretext of coping with the transfer of the "right to command the wartime operations."
They said that the military authorities' arms buildup aimed at bolstering the military power to put into practice the U.S. scenario for preemptive attacks on the north and realize the "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. forces in south Korea is an act of openly challenging the fellow countrymen aspiring after the peace on the Korean Peninsula.
At the end of the meeting the participants thrust a letter of protest to the ministry before staging a demonstration.
S. Korean Students Start Grand March for Reunification
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- South Korean students reportedly started a grand march for reunification on Aug. 1.
Prior to the march they held a starting meeting at Suwon Branch of Kyunghee University.
Speakers at the meeting declared that youths and students would intensify the reunification movement, once again experiencing the pain resulting from the territorial division through the grand march as they are the younger generation in the June 15 era of reunification.
They said they would stage such march in Phyongthaek, Chonan, Ronsan, Taegu, Kimhae, Pusan and other areas till Aug. 14.
At the end of the meeting the students left for Osan.
Settlement of Problem of Civilians under Detention Demanded
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Members of south Korean political parties and civic and public organizations including the Democratic Labor Party, the preparatory committee for the Solidarity for Progress of south Korea and the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reportedly called a joint press conference near the U.S. embassy in Seoul on August 2 and demanded an immediate settlement of the problem of civilians under detention.
Noting that the United States announced it would launch a new military operation in Afghanistan despite the fact that south Korean civilians were now under detention there, the speakers at the press conference said this, in the final analysis, meant that it would not buckle down to the settlement of the problem.
The U.S. should not merely talk about the "safe return of the civilians" but take practical measures at once for the solution of the problem, they urged.
They held that the south Korean authorities should withdraw the dispatched unit immediately and demand the U.S. grapple with the problem at an early date.
At the end of the conference, Han Sang Ryol, co-chairman of the preparatory committee for the Solidarity for Progress of south Korea, staged a one-man protest and then went on an all-night hunger sit-down in front of the U.S. embassy.
Meanwhile, women's organizations including the Women's Solidarity of south Korea called a press conference on the same day, at which they demanded the U.S. pitch into the rescue of south Korean civilians.
All Koreans Called upon to Promote National Reunification
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- National reunification is a sacred patriotic cause to protect independence which keeps the nation alive. Rodong Sinmun Monday observes this in a signed article.
It goes on:
It is the greatest national shame and tragedy not to be allowed to last any longer that the Korean nation has undergone sufferings resulting from the division imposed by the foreign forces upon it though the Koreans regard the national dignity and sovereignty as their life and soul.
Efforts to achieve national reunification represent a patriotic struggle to achieve the common development and prosperity of the nation by rejoining the severed blood ties of the nation divided into the north and the south and realizing national reconciliation and unity.
The historic June 15 joint declaration comprehensively clarifies the principles and ways to independently settle the issue of the national reunification by the concerted efforts of the Koreans responsible for settling the issue of the country's reunification.
Firmly upholding and thoroughly implementing the north-south joint declaration provides a sure guarantee for attaining national reunification.
National independence is the main spirit and core of the June 15 joint declaration.
Only when the principle of national independence is observed is it possible to protect the national interests and independently achieve national reunification, a vital demand of the nation and its greatest interests, by its concerted efforts.
Only when all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas dynamically forge ahead, resolutely opposing and rejecting the foreign forces' interference and domination and flunkeyism towards and dependence upon them, holding aloft the banner of national independence, can they surely accomplish the cause of national reunification.
The June 15 joint declaration serves not only as a declaration on national independence but as one on great national unity.
Koreans stronger in patriotism than any others share the desire common to the nation, that is, the 5,000 year-old national identity and national reunification.
There are various differences between the north and the south. But Koreans can certainly achieve great unity if they think of national reunification, the supreme interests and demand of the nation, before anything else.
The independent and peaceful reunification of the country is sure to come true as the June 15 joint declaration, a milestone of independent national reunification, indicates the way for the nation to follow, the might of the great national unity is growing stronger as the days go by and the 70 million Koreans desire reunification.
Japanese Reactionaries' Reckless Arms Buildup under Fire
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- In June the Japanese reactionaries let formations of fighter planes of the Air "Self-Defense Force (ASDF)" fly in the air over Guam to stage a bomb dropping exercise together with the U.S. forces under the simulated conditions of an actual battle.
Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard: The recent exercise which examined the capability of ASDF to fly back after mounting preemptive attacks on neighboring countries any time is a dangerous military action, the first of its kind since the Second World War. This is a blatant violation of the "Pacifist Constitution" of Japan which stipulates that Japan shall use its military force exclusively for the defense purpose only, denying any war action.
Terming the exercise a military action prompted by Japan's aggressive ambition to have the SDF's military and technological edge for a preemptive attack and continental aggression and military supremacy in Asia from A to Z, the commentary goes on:
What merits attention in Japan's moves to bolster its military force is that it is in the process of fully reorganizing the SDF into armed forces of offensive nature equipped with long-range attack means.
Japan is regarding the DPRK as the primary target of its overseas aggression. It is the view of Japan that it can never realize its ambition for continental aggression unless it puts under its control the DPRK imposingly standing as an invulnerable socialist fortress and as a gateway to the Asian continent. Hence, it is watching for every chance to stage a comeback to Korea while further stepping up the hostile policy toward the DPRK than ever before. It is part of Japan's scenario to re-invade Korea that the Abe Cabinet is frantically tightening the sanctions against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan over the abduction issue and so on. The same can be said of the recent war maneuver staged by the SDF in Guam.
It is beyond any doubt that the Japanese militarists will not hesitate to run the whole gamut of hideous crimes in order to realize their shameless ambition for overseas military expansion as they have rich war experience and huge modern aggressor forces.
Friendly Gathering Held
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Vietnam Friendship Association Monday co-sponsored a friendly gathering at Korea-Vietnam Friendship Pyongyang Tonghung Middle School on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting between President Kim Il Sung and Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh.
Present there on invitation were the members of the delegation of the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association led by its Chairman Pham Tat Dong who is chairman of the Educational Panel of the State Council of Education, the Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK and staff members of the embassy.
On hand were Jon Yong Jin, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, members of the DPRK-Vietnam Friendship Association and teachers and pupils of the school.
Being briefed on the history of the school, they looked round several classrooms and rooms for hobby groups and enjoyed an art performance given by pupils.
The participants talked with each other about the need to boost the friendly relations between the two countries, deepening the feelings of friendship.
Friendly Gathering with Foreign Children Held
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering between schoolchildren in Pyongyang and foreign children from different countries participating in the 22nd Songdowon international children's camping took place at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace on Monday.
Present there were children of the DPRK, China, Russia, Mongolia, Tanzania and Poland participating in the camping and schoolchildren in Pyongyang.
Speeches were made there and participants gave colorful art performances, deepening friendly feelings.
Ideological and Spiritual Source and Precondition of Juche Idea
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- The ideological and spiritual source of the Juche idea is Jiwon (aim high) originated by Kim Hyong Jik, father of President Kim Il Sung and outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea.
Jiwon is a revolutionary and patriotic idea based on the historical lessons the Korean people had drawn in the struggle to win back the ruined country.
Reflected in the idea are the ardent love for the country, nation and people, absolute trust in the might of the popular masses and a thorough-going independent spirit that the national independence should be achieved by the nation's own efforts.
President Kim Il Sung embarked upon the road of revolution with the idea as valuable ideological and spiritual pabulum and mixed himself with the people to find a new road of the revolution.
In those years, he came to have the idea that one can win a victory only when one is responsible for the revolution in one's country and carries it out in reliance on the strength of one's people and that one should solve all problems arising in the revolution in an independent and creative way.
The Juche idea presupposes Marxism-Leninism ideologically and theoretically.
While reading Marxist-Leninist books with avidity, he sympathized with the socialist idea advocated by the preceding theories and found out its limitations of the time and history.
Basing himself on the deep-going analysis of them, he fathered new principles of revolution and the essentials of the Juche idea, an independent revolutionary idea.
The Juche idea, thus, is deeply related with Marxism-Leninism which advocates liquidating the exploitation and oppression of man by man, doing away with all the sorts of social inequalities and building a socialist society where the broad sections of the working masses live a free and equal life.
It does not mean that the Juche idea directly inherits some Marxist-Leninist principles.
The Juche idea is an idea connected with Marxism-Leninism, but it is an original revolutionary idea which gives an answer to the requirement of the historical era differing from the latter and is evolved with and systematized its own inherent principles.
Kim Jong Il Gives On-Site Guidance to Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex
Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-site guidance to the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex.
He looked round the rooms dedicated to the education in the revolutionary history and the history of the complex.
Recollecting with deep emotion the history of the development of the complex, he said that the complex turned into the nation's Juche-oriented leading powerful metallurgical base under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
He went round the newly built Coke Oven No. 4 and other places to learn about the technological updating of the complex and the production there.
He appreciated the efforts exerted by the workers of the complex, expressing satisfaction over the fact that they have successfully finished the huge construction of the coke oven and the reconstruction of the sintering furnace by their own efforts and technique.
The complex can put the production on a high level if it further speeds up the technological updating and scrupulously organizes the economic work including the measures for the supply of raw materials, he noted.
He put forward the tasks to be implemented by the complex.
He said that the workers of the complex should live and struggle with the same spirit and stamina with which they built socialism from scratch after the war.
He expressed the expectation and belief that the workers of the complex would bring about a fresh surge in the production of iron and steel through a devoted drive and thus creditably perform their honorable mission and duty as soldiers on the outpost duty and pioneers in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
He was accompanied by Hong Sok Hyong, chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, and Pak Nam Gi, department director of the WPK Central Committee.
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Kim Jong Il dirige complejo de maquinas de minas de carbon Ranam
Pyongyang, 6 de agosto (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, dirigio sobre el terreno el Complejo de Maquinas de Minas de Carbon de Ranam.
Primeramente, vio el monumento a la direccion sobre el terreno del Presidente Kim Il Sung y la sala de presentacion del historial.
Al recordar con profunda emocion la historia de desarrollo del complejo, el dijo que gracias a la sabia direccion y el cuidado del Presidente el complejo se convirtio en una gran base fidedigna de fabricacion de maquinas del pais.
Recorrio el centro de montaje de maquinas y otros lugares y se entero del estado de produccion.
Expreso una gran satisfaccion de que los funcionarios, obreros y tecnicos de la planta, al fortalecer la cooperacion creativa y desarrollar ampliamente el movimiento masivo de innovacion tecnica, solucionaron excelentemente con sus propias fuerzas los problemas tecnicos dificiles y aseguraron con satisfaccion la produccion de importantes equipos encargados y evaluo altamente sus exitos.
Senalo que el complejo vino consolidando la base material y tecnica que permite fabricar las maquinas que requieren alto nivel tecnologico y elogio la actitud y el estilo de trabajo emprendedor de los funcionarios, obreros y tecnicos del complejo.
Subrayo que los obreros heroicos son los combatientes que materializan infaliblemente cualquier tarea dificil con el credo de cumplir incondicionalmente lo decide el Partido y continuo que gracias a contar con este gran destacamento obrero la revolucion coreana avanza sin cesar por el camino del gran salto.
Apunto que son muy importantes el deber y el papel de este complejo y presento las tareas que incumben a este.
Lo acompanaron Hong Sok Hyong, secretario responsable del Comite del Partido del Trabajo de Corea en la Provincia de Hamgyong del Norte, y Pak Nam Gi, jefe de departamento del CC del PTC.
Kim Jong Il dirige hospital popular de provincia de Hamgyong del Norte
Pyongyang, 6 de agosto (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, dirigio sobre el terreno el nuevamente construido Hospital Popular de la Provincia de Hamgyong del Norte.
Este centro asistencial recien inaugurado ocupa una superficie de mas de 50 mil metros cuadrados y se dispone de todas las instalaciones de tratamiento y servicio.
Al recorrer durante muchas horas el interior y el exterior del hospital, se entero detalladamente de la estructura interior y del curso de construccion y elogio el hecho de que la provincia construyo por cuenta propia este centro sanitario de gran tamano.
Dado que el hospital es un importante lugar relacionado con la preciosa vida y salud de nuestro pueblo, hay que asegurar el ambiente higienico y las comodidades de maxima calidad, destaco y reprocho que algunas partes no estan acondicionadas de tal manera.
En un hospital hay que observar estrictamente el principio de apartarlo de la parte exterior y de mantener aisladas las secciones interiores, enseno.
Continuo que para ello, es preciso impedir el acceso desordenado al hospital de los no empleados y prohibir la entrada y la salida, excepto del personal autorizado, en los laboratorios y otras secciones en el interior del hospital que requieren un clima totalmente desinfectado.
A continuacion, dio minuciosas instrucciones sobre los detalles que surgen en el aseguramiento de la curacion cientifica y la creacion del ambiente del contorno.
Subrayo que los errores cometidos en la construccion del hospital se deben a los funcionarios del dominio de proyecto, quienes disenaron sin tomar en consideracion las funciones y el caracter de la obra, y a los de la rama de supervision que faltan de la responsabilidad por su profesion y el caracter popular.
Y enfatizo que todos los funcionarios deben pensar mucho en su trabajo y elevar incesantemente su nivel tecnico y profesional para prepararse como verdaderos servidores al pueblo.
Senalo que en acato al proposito del Presidente Kim Il Sung, se debe construir modernamente el Hospital Popular de la Provincia de Hamgyong del Norte para que los habitantes provinciales puedan disfrutar plenamente de los beneficios del sistema de asistencia medica gratuita.
Acompanaron al Dirigente Hong Sok Hyong, secretario responsable del Comite del Partido del Trabajo de Corea en la Provincia de Hamgyong del Norte, Kim Ki Nam y Pak Nam Gi, secretario y jefe de departamento del CC del PTC, respectivamente.
Rodong Sinmun revela el fortalecimiento armado de Japon
Pyongyang, 6 de agosto (ATCC) -- En junio pasado las formaciones de cazas de las "fuerzas aereas de autodefensa" de Japon salieron a la isla Guam para librar un entrenamiento de lanzamiento de bombas junto con los cazas estadounidenses.
El ejercicio en cuestion es para comprobar la capacidad de las "fuerzas aereas de autodefensa" de regresar luego de asestar en cualquier momento un ataque preventivo contra los paises vecinos. Es una accion militar peligrosisima que se efectua por primera vez despues de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ademas, es una violacion abierta a la "constitucion pacifista" que niega la guerra y define usar las fuerzas armadas solo para la defensa.
Senala asi el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual de este lunes y prosigue:
Es tambien una accion militar agresiva para tomar la superioridad tecnico-militar de las "fuerzas de autodefensa" para el ataque preventivo y la agresion al continente, o sea, tomar la supremacia militar en Asia.
Lo que llama atencion en el fortalecimiento de la capacidad militar del pais isleno es que las "fuerzas de autodefensa" se reorganizan en las fuerzas armadas ofensivas dispuestas de medios de ataque a larga distancia.
Japon toma a la RPDC por primer blanco de la agresion a ultramar, considerando que es del todo imposible realizar su ambicion de agresion al continente sin apoderarse de ella que es una invencible fortaleza socialista en la puerta del continente asiatico. Es por eso que el pais isleno recrudece mas que nunca su politica de hostilidad a la RPDC acechando una oportunidad propicia para agredirla otra vez.
Para ese fin, el gabinete de Abe arrecia sancion a la RPDC y la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon) cuestionando el problema del secuestro. Susodicho ejercicio fue perpetrado segun un guion de nueva agresion a Corea.
Es obvio que los militaristas japoneses poseedores de abundantes experiencias de guerra e inmensas fuerzas agresoras modernas pueden cometer los crimenes de toda indole para llevar a efecto su descarada ambicion de expansion militar a ultramar.
Reunificacion es la maxima causa, ratifica Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, 6 de agosto (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion de hoy un articulo individual con enfasis en que la reunificacion de la patria es la sagrada causa patriotica para defender la independencia, que resulta vital para la nacion coreana, que toma por su vida la dignidad y la soberania de si misma. Esta vive dividida en dos partes por culpa de las fuerzas foraneas, lo cual deviene una afrenta nacional y una tragedia imposible de soportar por mas tiempo, senala el articulista y continua:
La reintegracion de la patria es la lucha patriotica por ajuntar los vasos sanguineos de la nacion dividida en el Norte y el Sur y lograr el desarrollo y prosperidad comunes de ella al alcanzar la reconciliacion y la unidad entre todos los coterraneos.
En la historica Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio estan indicados de modo global los principios y remedios para resolver de manera independiente ese asunto uniendo las fuerzas de la nacion coreana, que lo tiene a su cargo.
Por eso, defender, mantener y ejecutar firmemente esa declaracion constituye garantia fundamental de la reunificacion.
La independencia nacional es el fundamento y el nucleo de ese documento.
De mantener el principio de independencia nacional, es posible defender los intereses nacionales y resolver con las fuerzas nacionales el problema de reunificacion del pais, demanda vital de la nacion coreana y su maximo beneficio.
Se cumplira sin falta la causa de reunificacion cuando todos los compatriotas del Norte, el Sur y en ultramar marchen adelante a pasos firmes bajo la bandera de la independencia nacional rechazando rotundamente la injerencia y el dominio de las fuerzas foraneas, el servilismo a las grandes potencias y la dependencia de estas.
La declaracion en cuestion resulta un manifiesto de la independencia nacional y, al mismo tiempo, de la gran unidad nacional.
La nacion coreana caracterizada por el fuerte amor a la patria y la nacion tiene su nacionalidad forjada durante 5 milenios y una aspiracion comun llamada la reunificacion de la patria. Si el Norte y el Sur dan preferencia a esta causa dejando a un lado las diferencias existentes entre si, podran lograr seguramente la gran unidad nacional.
La reunificacion independiente y pacifica de la patria se hara realidad sin falta gracias a dicha declaracion, hoja de ruta en esta empresa que ilumina el camino a seguir por todos los compatriotas, y al poderio de la cada dia mas creciente unidad nacional entre los 70 millones de coreanos, que la desean con ansiedad.