Sixth Session of Second Phase of Six-party Talks Held
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The sixth session of the second phase of the six-party talks was held in Beijing from Sept. 27 to 30.
The session reviewed the implementation of February 13 agreement, the first-phase measure for the implementation of the September 19, 2005 joint statement for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and discussed the next-phase goals and commitments of the six parties before adopting a joint document.
According to the joint document made public on October 3, the U.S. decided to take such political measures as delisting the DPRK as a terrorism sponsor and putting an end to the application of the Trading with the Enemy Act in return for the DPRK's neutralization of its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007 on the principle of "action for action" and the five parties decided to wind up the economic compensation equivalent to one million tons of heavy fuel oil whose supply has already started and is now underway under February 13 agreement.
Floral Baskets and Congratulatory Messages to Kim Jong Il from Foreign Diplomats
Pyongyang, October 5 KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with floral baskets and congratulatory messages from the diplomatic corps and the economic and commercial councilors' corps here on the occasion of the 62nd birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea.
The floral baskets and messages were conveyed to Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, on Friday by Pakistani Ambassador to the DPRK Noorullah Khan on behalf of the corps and those from the economic and commercial councilors' corps were handed to an official concerned by Commercial Councilor of the Cuban embassy Enrique Gomez Soler, who is doyen of the corps.
Yang Hyong Sop Meets Indian Ambassador
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with Zile Singh, new Indian ambassador to the DPRK who paid a courtesy call on him, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Friday.
Cambodian Diplomats Help Farmers in Harvesting
Sinchon, October 5 (KCNA) -- Chhorn Hay, Cambodian ambassador to the DPRK, and his embassy officials helped members of the DPRK-Cambodia Friendship Paeksok Co-op Farm in Sinchon County in rice harvesting on Friday.
During break they sang songs with farmers and talked to one another, deepening the friendship.
The ambassador said that the friendly relations between Cambodia and the DPRK were provided by Great King Norodom Sihanouk and President Kim Il Sung and wished the farm greater success in agricultural production.
They handed aid materials over to the farm.
True People's Army, Invincible Revolutionary Armed Forces
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung delivered a speech "Let Us Found a True People's Army, a Modern Regular Army" at the banquet of the third graduation ceremony of Pyongyang Institute on October 5, Juche 36 (1947). He, in the speech, put forward the direction and way for building true people's armed forces which would carry forward the revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army.
The famous work served as guidelines in strengthening and developing the army into the people's army, a modern regular army which would defend the country and the gains of the revolution from the encroachment of the imperialists and all the class foes and firmly guarantee the building of an independent and sovereign state and the cause of the socialist construction by force of arms.
The Korean People's Army (KPA) which was strengthened and developed to be invincible revolutionary armed forces under his wise leadership has carried on with credit its mission and duty assigned by the Party, the leader, the country and the people.
During the Fatherland Liberation War, the officers and men of the People's Army covered the enemy's pillboxes with their bodies to ensure the advance of the units and became human-bombs to wipe out the enemy soldiers by displaying unrivalled heroism and noble patriotism, thus protecting with honor the freedom and independence of the country.
In the postwar period, too, they reliably safeguarded the security of the country and people and the gains of the revolution, smashing the ceaseless war moves of the imperialists at every step.
The servicepersons of the KPA took upon themselves the national defence and socialist construction in the middle of the 1990s when the country and the people should undergo grave ordeals. They erected tremendous edifices for the happiness of the people in different parts of the country while increasing the combat capability of the army.
Today the KPA is fully discharging its lofty mission and duty as the defender and creator of the people's happiness, the vanguard of the times in the ideological, moral and cultural life, and the main force to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche. It is also demonstrating its might as the matchless elite armed forces which are capable of wiping out any aggressors at a stroke.
Art Exhibition Marks Birthday of WPK
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- An art exhibition is now underway at the Korean Art Gallery to mark the 62nd birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea.
On display at the exhibition are more than 50 successful paintings depicting the revolutionary exploits of the WPK and the leader and the ideological and moral world of the people of the DPRK.
Among them are oil painting "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung guiding the inaugural meeting of the party", Korean painting "For the happiness of the people" and graphic painting "Praising girls' admirable deeds." They deal with the indefatigable efforts made by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for founding and developing the party, achieving the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people and their immortal revolutionary feats.
Such art works as oil painting "For the country", graphic painting "Acting as intended by the party" and Korean painting "Tideland reclamation" portray the ideological and moral traits and fighting spirit of the army and people honorably defending the security of the country and building a great prosperous powerful nation, remaining true to the idea and leadership of the party and the leader.
Educators, Career Revolutionaries
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The educators of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are devoting themselves to the education of the rising generation with the high pride of being career revolutionaries.
Among them is Kim Hyon Ho who was teacher of Pyongyang University of Medicine. He made a great contribution to the medical development of the country.
With a view of life that a teacher should find himself worth of living in rearing rising generations, he dedicated his doctorial thesis to training several Doctors and 36 Masters and continued writing teaching materials till the last moment of his life.
The teachers of Sudu Middle School in Sinphyong County have made thousands of pieces of teaching materials, many stuffed specimens of animals and herbals and built a well-furnished swimming pool and laboratory by themselves under difficult conditions. And the teachers of Pyongyang Kwangbok Primary School are exerting all their mind and energy to raising the abilities of pupils. Such true educationists can be found in all parts of the country.
It was proved by the fact that last year, alone, thousands of educational workers and teachers joined the ranks of the "October 8 Model Teacher" all over the country.
The educators are striving hard to give ample knowledge to the students and, at the same time, to noble patriotism in their minds.
Teachers of Tongrim Middle School in Onchon County are visiting revolutionary sites together with students in order to bring literature circle members up as true human-beings who know the fatherland ahead of literature.
The teachers of Samchon Primary School in Samchon County are imbuing patriotism in the minds of pupils through the rabbit-raising campaign to give a help to the country even a little.
Thanks to the efforts of the educators, many heroes have been produced. Among them are Song Pong Un, ex-officer of the Korean People's Army who saved 15 servicepersons in a crucial moment at the cost of his life and Ri Yong Thaek, creator of the Mansudae Art Studio, and Hong Won Phyo, director of the Forest Management Office in Pyoksong County, who have made a positive contribution to the socialist construction. And the number of schools named after heroes is growing day by day.
On the occasion of the World Teacher's Day (October 5), model teachers are being widely introduced and the traits of respecting and preferentially treating the teachers are further pervading the whole society in the DPRK.
World Teachers' Day Observed
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The main purpose of commemorating World Teachers' Day is to bring home to the people the significance and importance of the educational work in social development and enhance the position and role of the teachers, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed article dedicated to the day Friday.
Colorful functions are held and various measures are taken to improve the educational work and boost social concern for teachers in many countries of the world on this day, the article notes, and continues:
In the DPRK, the educationalists reliably fulfill their mission and duty under the theses on socialist education, while state and social concern for them are increasing further still. The morale of respecting and putting up teachers is prevailing in the whole society. Educationalists of the DPRK are making a great contribution to the training of talents in different fields and to social development by enhancing their role with high pride as career revolutionaries.
Headway is noticed in the energetic efforts of the UNESCO and different countries of the world to help toward the development of education and social progress by increasing the position and role of teachers on the international scale.
World Teachers' Day marks an important occasion in improving the educational work and increasing the role of educationalists in the global community.
Corrupt Nature of Capitalist Society Exposed
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The imperialists and their mouthpieces talk about the "eternity of capitalist society", describing it as "one for the welfare of all people". But this is nothing but a cynical ploy to cover up the true nature of the unpopular and corrupt capitalist society.
So says Rodong Sinmun Friday in a signed article.
With nothing can the corrupt nature inherent to the capitalist society be covered up or denied, the article says, and goes on:
The capitalist society seems prosperous outwardly, but it becomes degenerated and its people are mentally and physically handicapped. This is a true picture of the capitalist society.
The capitalist society causes deformed material life, making people corrupt and depraved. This is one of the basic features proving the corruption deep-seated in the capitalist society.
Poor mental and cultural life is another specific feature proving the deep-seated corruption of the capitalist society.
In the capitalist society the capitalists try to benumb the independent ideological consciousness of the people and reduce them to slaves of money and working tools obeying the given destiny. The capitalists spend a great amount of money in spreading reactionary ideology and corrupt bourgeois lifestyle.
The corrupt bourgeois lifestyle prevails in capitalist society today, paralyzing sound mentality of people and leaving them in ignorance and benightedness. A huge number of people captive to the bourgeois way of life have been reduced to mental and physical cripples and slaves of money.
In capitalist society, a lifestyle based on the jungle law is fostered to become a social fashion and all sorts of social vices such as immorality and corruption, fraud and swindling, and violent crimes are rampant, making people shiver in uneasiness and fear.
The capitalist society is neither a civilized nor an eternal society as claimed by those who speak for the bourgeoisie.
Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from S. Korea Called for
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) in a statement released on Oct. 1 reportedly called for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces, hotbed of crimes and nuclear threat.
The statement recalled that it is 54 years since the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. "mutual defence treaty" and termed the treaty a brigandish one aimed at perpetuating the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea.
The South Headquarters of Pomminryon will wage a more resolute struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces threatening the existence of the nation and smash the reckless moves of the Grand National Party of south Korea, a pro-U.S. conservative group, to perpetuate the split of the nation and escalate confrontation, the statement stressed.
Kim Il Sung's Work Off Press in Venezuela
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung's famous work "For a Free and Peaceful New World" was brought out in booklet by the Canta Clara Publishing House in Venezuela on Sept. 23.
The work, published on April 29, Juche 80 (1991), clarifies the idea that it is necessary to destroy the unequal outdated international order and establish a fair new international order in all fields including politics, economy and culture in order to build a free and peaceful new world and that unity and cooperation guarantee the victory in the common cause and other ideas.
WPK's Anniversary Marked in Foreign Countries
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- A seminar was held by the group for the study of progressive idea of the branch of the northern Pretoria of the Democratic Union of Teachers of South Africa, round-table talks by the Czech, Moravian and Silesian Trade Unions' Association and a reading session and film show by the Youth Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of Ethiopia on Sept. 24 and 26 on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Displayed in the venue of the seminar were famous works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and photos showing their undying feats.
Edie Kekana, chairman of the group for the study of progressive idea of South Africa, noted that Kim Jong Il built the WPK into an invincible party, setting a brilliant example in the world history of party building.
Frantisek Krizek, executive secretary of the C.C. of the above-said trade unions association, said that unity and cohesion of the Korean people have a long tradition, adding that though the anti-socialist forces have become evermore undisguised in pressurizing the DPRK, the WPK is united closer under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
The participants of the film show watched Korean film "The great leader guiding our party to one victory after another".
For Spanish-speaking people
Segunda fase de la VI ronda de conversaciones a 6 bandas
Pyongyang, 5 de octubre (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar del 27 al 30 de septiembre en Beijing la segunda fase de la VI ronda de las conversaciones a 6 bandas.
El encuentro hizo balance de la ejecucion del acuerdo del 13 de febrero, que es la primera medida para el cumplimiento de la Declaracion Conjunta del 19 de Septiembre de 2005 sobre la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Corea, debatio la meta de la proxima fase y los deberes de cada parte y aprobo un documento conjunto.
Segun el documento publicado el 3 del mes en curso, Estados Unidos debe tomar una medida politica de excluir a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea de la lista de paises de apoyo al terrorismo y de poner fin a la aplicacion a ella de la ley de comercio exterior con paises hostiles, en lugar de que la RPDC neutralice hasta finales de 2007 sus instalaciones nucleares segun el principio de "accion vs. accion". Mientras tanto, las 5 partes deben concluir la compensacion economica a la RPDC correspondiente a un millon de toneladas de petroleo crudo, labor que ya se inicio y ahora esta en ejecucion segun el acuerdo del 13 de febrero.
Kim Jong Il recibe cartas de cuerpos diplomatico y de consejeros
Pyongyang, 5 de octubre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio cestos de flores y cartas de felicitacion que le dirigieran el Cuerpo Diplomatico y el de Consejeros Economicos y Comerciales, acreditados en Corea, con motivo del 62o aniversario de la fundacion del Partido del Trabajo de Corea.
Los cestos y cartas fueron trasladados el dia 5 al secretario del Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Kim Ki Nam, por el embajador de la Republica Islamica de Pakistan, Noorullah Khan, quien lo hizo en representacion del primer cuerpo, y a un funcionario coreano por el consejero comercial de la Embajada de la Republica de Cuba, Enrique Gomez Soler, quien preside el segundo cuerpo.
Venezuela: obra de Kim Il Sung en folleto
Pyongyang, 5 de octubre (ATCC) -- La Editorial Canta Clara de Venezuela dio a luz el 23 de septiembre en folleto la obra maestra del Presidente Kim Il Sung "Por un mundo nuevo, libre y pacifico", publicada el 29 de abril del 80 (1991) de la Era Juche.
Esta obra se refiere a que para construir un nuevo mundo libre y pacifico deben eliminar el viejo y desigual orden internacional en todas las esferas de la politica, economia y cultura y establecer el nuevo e imparcial.
Igualmente, aclara la idea de que la garantia de la victoria en la realizacion de la causa comun reside en la unidad y la cooperacion.
Ensenantes son revolucionarios profesionales
Pyongyang, 5 de octubre (ATCC) -- Hoy dia, los ensenantes de Corea, con el alto orgullo y dignidad de ser revolucionarios profesionales, dedican toda su inteligencia y fervor a la educacion de los integrantes de la generacion venidera.
Entre ellos figura Kim Hyon Ho, profesor de la Universidad de Medicina de Pyongyang, quien hizo gran contribucion al desarrollo de la ciencia medica del pais.
El tenia la concepcion de vida segun la cual la vida del ensenante brilla sirviendo de abono para formar a las generaciones venideras y dedico su tesis de doctorado para formar a varios doctores y 36 licenciados. Y hasta el ultimo momento de su vida no dejo de recopilar los manuales.
Por doquier del pais pueden ver los rostros de los autenticos maestros como los de la escuela secundaria Sudu del distrito de Sinphyong, quines prepararon por cuenta propia miles de medios de ensenanza y numerosos especimenes vegetales y animales y acondicionaron magnificamente la piscina y los laboratorios, y como los de la escuela primaria Kwangbok de Pyongyang quienes hacen meditacion y esfuerzos infatigables por educar mejor a los alumnos.
Por eso el ano pasado miles de funcionarios docentes y los educadores del pais se sumaron a la fila de "Educador ejemplar 8 de octubre".
Son infinitos el amor y la devocion de los educadores que se esfuerzan por dar ricos conocimientos y noble espiritu patriotico a los alumnos.
Los educadores de la escuela secundaria de Tongrim del distrito de Onchon continuan hoy tambien el recorrido por los lugares historicos de la revolucion junto con los miembros del grupo literario para formarlos como mejores encargados de la patria.
Los maestros de la Escuela Primaria de Samchon del distrito homonimo infunden el patriotismo en los alumnos a traves del movimiento de la cria de conejos para aportarlos a la vida economica del pais.
Gracias a tal contingente de educadores, surgieron numerosos heroes tales como Song Pong Un, ex oficial del Ejercito Popular de Corea quien en un momento critico se inmolo para salvar a 15 militares; Ri Yong Thaek, creador de la Casa de Creacion Mansudae quien hizo activo aporte a la construccion socialista: y Hong Won Phyo, titular del Centro de Administracion Forestal del distrito de Pyoksong y crece de dia en dia el numero de las escuelas que se denominan con los nombres de los heroes.
Con motivo del "Dia Mundial de Educadores" (el dia 5), en Corea se libra la campana de presentacion a los ensenantes ejemplares y se acentua cada vez mas el ambiente social de respetar y tratar con preferencia a los maestros.