Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance Given by KPA Company Soldiers
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed an art performance given by soldiers of companies under KPA Unit 775 and KPA Unit 176 who participated in the 31st art festival of servicepersons.
Among the audience were Kim Kyok Sik, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, Kim Jong Gak, first vice-director of the General Political Department of the KPA, KPA General Hyon Chol Hae, KPA Lieut. General Jong Thae Gun and other commanding officers of the KPA.
The repertoire of the performance included poem and chorus "The General Visits a Post", story-telling and chorus "Our General Is Best", chorus and story-telling "Soldier's Old Home Full of Joy", duet "Loving Care Given Full Play between Officers and Men during Their March", solos "The Country Which I Am Standing Guard Over" and "Blue Sky over My Country", interlude "Let's Bring It into Fuller Bloom", song and story-telling "Days of Our Service as Soldiers," narration and song "Dear General, Where Are You" and chorus "We'll Hold Our Rifles More Tightly" and other colorful numbers of diverse genres.
The performers truthfully represented the might of the heroic KPA and a glimpse of its servicepersons' worthwhile military service and powerfully demonstrated the strong faith and will and militant spirit of all servicepersons to devotedly defend the headquarters of the revolution and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms.
Hearing a-match-for-a hundred servicepersons sing the songs of loyalty and struggle, the whole audience extended the highest glory and warmest thanks to Kim Jong Il who has trained the KPA as the army strong in idea and faith with his Songun revolutionary leadership.
After watching the performance given by the brave and stalwart soldiers, Kim Jong Il expressed great satisfaction over the fact that all the company soldiers have prepared themselves to be a-match-for-a hundred fighters and grown to be creators of culture of Songun with high cultural attainments. He highly appreciated their successful performance and extended thanks to them.
It is an important work for increasing the combat capability of the unit to energetically conduct cultural and art activities among soldiers, he said, setting forth the tasks to be fulfilled to intensify art activities at all units including companies.
Indian Embassy Officials Help Korean Farmers
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Zile Singh and staff members of the Indian embassy here Monday gave a helping hand to farmers of the Korea-India Friendship Kalchon Cooperative Farm in Nampho City.
They were briefed on the history of the farm before helping the farmers in carrying rice sheaves.
The ambassador said that they were glad to work with the farmers of this farm and would strive for the development of friendly relations between India and the DPRK.
They gave aid materials to the farm.
DPRK Athletes Qualified for 29th Olympiad
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- Athletes of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have obtained the qualification for the 29th Olympic Games in various events.
The women footballers of the DPRK won all the Asian regional qualifiers held from April 7 till August 12 with well organized tactics and collective strength and thus earned the ticket to the 29th Olympic Games.
Many athletes including Kye Sun Hui, Kim Jong Su, Chae Hye Gyong, Kwon Un Sil and Kim Kkot Sun proved successful in the shooting matches held last year and in international contests including judo, archery and heavy gymnastics held this year, thus obtaining the qualification for the Olympiad.
According to Deputy Secretary-General of the DPRK Olympic Committee Kang Ryong Gil, 46, the athletes of the DPRK will also be qualified for the Olympiad in various events including wrestling, weightlifting, rowing, boxing and table tennis.
Tombs Belonging to Different historical Ages Discovered in DPRK
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) --The Archeological Institute under the Academy of Social Sciences of the DPRK has recently unearthed tombs belonging to different historical ages from the early period of Tangun's Korea to the period of Koryo in the Jongdong-ri area, Unchon County of South Hwanghae Province.
The tombs are distributed in groups within four kilometers around Mt. Mang located in the seat of Jongdong-ri. Among them are stone-corpse chamber tombs with earth mounds belonging to the periods of Koguryo and Koryo and dolmens and stone coffin tombs of ancient times.
There are 70 dolmens and two stone coffin tombs made in the period of Tangun and Kojoson (ancient Korea), two stone-corpse chamber tombs with earth mounds in the period of Koguryo and one stone-corpse chamber tomb with earth mound in the period of Koryo.
Among the dolmens are Chimchon-shaped dolmens (before 4500 B.C.- early in the 3rd millennium B.C.), Mukbang-shaped dolmens (middle in the 3rd millennium B.C.- middle in the 2nd millennium B.C.) and Odok-shaped dolmens (later in the 2nd millennium B.C.).
Varied are the forms of tombs including the tomb whose corpse chamber was reinforced with rubble stones, tomb whose one wall of the corpse chamber piled up with small pieces of stones was used as a door and tomb whose corpse chamber floor was laid with well-trimmed flat stones.
There are four dolmens with the Great Bear and some 30 dolmens with 28 constellations which are linked with each other by holes.
Found out in the tombs were relics including stone dagger, stone arrowhead, jar with long neck and top-shaped vessel.
It is for the first time in the country to have discovered such groups of tombs through which one can comprehensively see changes of tomb forms according to historical ages in a limited area like Jongdong-ri.
Japan's Moves for MD under Fire
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- The Japanese foreign minister recently asserted that Japan's missile defence network is aimed to cope with the "missile threat" from north Korea.
Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed commentary.
Japan's oft-repeated hue and cry over the "missile threat" from someone and "protection" of it from the threat are nothing but a crafty artifice to cover up its ulterior intention to justify its moves for building the missile defence system (MD) in a bid to establish military supremacy in Northeast Asia, the commentary notes, and goes on:
These moves of Japan veiled with such word as "defence" are not designed to cope with the "missile threat" from someone but reveal its sinister plot to realize its wild ambition for overseas aggression through preemptive missile attacks on other countries.
These moves frantically stepped up by Japan despite the concern and warning of the international community are prompted by its strategic purpose and ambition to establish military supremacy in Northeast Asia. These moves are the root cause of a fresh arms race, a new Cold War in the region.
Japan would be well advised to abandon its wicked intention to attain its sinister purpose while talking about someone's "threat." It had better behave itself, cogitating over the fact that its moves to hold a military edge in Northeast Asia would only precipitate its own self-destruction.
All Koreans Called upon to Uphold Songun
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- It is quite natural for all Koreans to regard it as a sacred duty to support the Songun politics which protects the dignity and destiny of the nation and actively uphold Songun. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
Upholding Songun alone guarantees the existence and development of the nation and its bright prospect and rosy future.
But for such powerful treasured sword as the Songun politics, the Korean Peninsula would have become a plaything of foreign forces long ago and the Korean people would have already been put again under the yoke of disgraceful slavery.
The peace of the country and the security of all Koreans depend on how they uphold Songun.
It is a vital issue related to the destiny of the Korean nation and the victory of the cause of national reunification to ensure lasting peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.
It is the Songun politics that helps achieve durable peace, protect the destiny of the nation and guarantee a dynamic advance of the cause of national reunification on the peninsula. This politics makes it possible to smash the U.S. moves for aggression against peace by dint of powerful deterrent for self-defence and firmly defend peace and security on the peninsula.
If the DPRK had failed to pursue Songun, a war would have broken out on this land a hundred times and the Koreans would have suffered an unimaginable holocaust. It is an undeniable truth that only when the Koreans firmly uphold the Songun politics is it possible to achieve the peace of the country and the security of the nation and national reunification and bring common prosperity to it.
Upholding Songun serves as a great banner for defending the Korean nation and guaranteeing the dignity and prosperity of the nation.
Solution to "Comfort Women" Issue Urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- The 785th Wednesday rally demanding solution to the issue of the "comfort women" for the Imperial Japanese Army was reportedly held in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on October 31.
Attending it were members of the south Korean Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps and survivors of the sexual slavery.
Speakers at the rally noted that a resolution demanding an official apology from the Japanese government for the past crimes related to sexual slavery was adopted at the plenary meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives and, afterwards, such actions have been conducted rapidly by parliaments of other countries.
They also said that such events have taken place in different parts of the world as a meeting for urging the Japanese government to hold itself legally accountable for the issue and a meeting to hear speeches of witnesses.
A statement read out at the rally said that twelve victims of the sexual slavery died this year alone and most of the survivors are over 80 years old at present. But, the Japanese government is delaying the solution to the issue because it stupidly calculates that everything will be hushed up if those survivors pass away, it pointed out.
The statement held that the Japanese and south Korean governments should settle the issue at an early date so that those survivors may not bear any grudge any longer.
Japanese Government Urged to Make Switchover in Its Korea Policy
Tokyo, November 3 (KNS-KCNA) -- A seminar urging the Japanese government to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK was held in Tokyo on Oct. 25 under the sponsorship of the National Association for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Diplomatic Relations.
Addressing the seminar, the vice-chairman of the association, professors and honorary professors of Keio University, Tokyo University and other universities referred to the recent affirmative developments in the Korean Peninsula and held that the Japanese government should opt for improving the Japan-DPRK relations in keeping with them.
Accusing the present regime, which is said to attach importance to dialogue, of failing to move toward the improvement of the bilateral relations, they strongly urged the Japanese government to lift the sanctions against the DPRK.
The seminar pointed to the injustice of behavior of Japanese media resorting to the misinformation about the Korean issue and stressed the importance of building up public opinions for the improvement of the DPRK-Japan relations.
Ri Myong Bak's Deception to Grab Power Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity of citizens for Presidential Election in 2007 involving 360 organizations in south Korea denounced the fraud of Ri Myong Bak, a presidential candidate from the Grand National Party of south Korea, aimed at grabbing power, according to the south Korean Internet newspaper "Chammalro" on Nov. 1.
It said the election commitments of Ri Myong Bak were "bad commitments which must be withdrawn" as they would harm the peoples' life.
It stated that it would launch a movement of the whole society for the withdrawal of the bad commitments, if Ri Myong Bak refused to retract them hoodwinking the people.
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Rodong Sinmun denuncia sistema antimisiles de Japon
Pyongyang, 5 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Recientemente, el canciller japones dijo que la red de defensa antimisil de Japon es para hacer frente a la "amenaza de misiles" del Norte de Corea.
El que el pais isleno hable mucho de la "proteccion" de su pais desde la "amenaza de misiles" de alguien es una artimana para procurar el pretexto del establecimiento del sistema antimisiles y ocultar su verdadero proposito de tomar la hegemonia militar en la region de Nordeste Asiatico.
Asi revela el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 5 y continua:
El establecimiento de este sistema ocultado con el velo de "defensa" no es para hacer frente a la "amenaza de misil" de alguien sino para asestar un ataque preventivo misilistico a otros paises y lograr la ambicion de agresion a ultramar.
Pese a la preocupacion y advertencia de la sociedad internacional Japon se entrega freneticamente al establecimiento del sistema antimisiles con el proposito estrategico de ocupar la hegemonia militar en la region del Nordeste Asiatico. Tal intento acarrea una nueva carrera armamentista y la Guerra Fria en dicha region.
Japon debe abandonar el malhabito de hablar de la "amenaza" de alguien para lograr su malsano proposito. Ademas debe tener presente de que las maniobras para ocupar la supremacia militar en la region del Nordeste Asiatico aceleraran solo la autodestruccion.
Rodong Sinmun conmemora el 61o de fundacion de UNESCO
Pyongyang, 5 de noviembre (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 4 un articulo dedicatorio al 61o aniversario de la fundacion de la Organizacion de las Naciones Unidas para la Educacion, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO).
La entidad internacional ha venido haciendo conforme a su objetivo y mision un gran aporte al fortalecimiento de la cooperacion entre los paises en esferas de la educacion, la ciencia y la cultura y a la preservacion de la paz y la seguridad del mundo, senala el articulo y continua:
Mediante el proceso de la ejecucion de la estrategia de tiempo intermedio, la UNESCO cumple en un nivel debido con su mision como la importante organizacion intelectual de talla mundial que promueve y controla el desarrollo de la educacion, la ciencia y la cultura. En la escena internacional se da suma importancia al papel de la UNESCO.
La Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, que ha sido el 18 de octubre de 1974 pais miembro de esta organizacion internacional, hace ingentes esfuerzos por realizar su deber asumido. En Corea, bajo la direccion del Partido del Trabajo de Corea se despliega con vigor la labor para desarrollar en un nivel mas alto la educacion, la ciencia, la cultura y otras ramas conforme a la demanda del nuevo siglo. Presta la fuerza a intensificar el sistema de ensenaza obligatoria general de 11 anos, elevar la calidad de la educacion y desarrollar la ciencia y la tecnologia de punta. Al mismo tiempo toma las medidas practicas para proteger y fomentar las herencias culturales nacionales y las tradiciones folkloricas. Corea presta debida atencion a la labor de cooperacion con la UNESCO.
Se fortaleceran en lo adelante tambien las actividades de la UNESCO para el progreso social, la diversidad cultural, la civilizacion y el desarrollo de la humanidad.
Apoyo a politica de Songun es deber de coreanos, subraya Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, 5 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Es muy natural que todos los coreanos apoyan activamente la politica de Songun (priorizacion militar) que defiende la dignidad y el destino de la nacion considerandolo un sagrado deber.
Asi subraya el diario Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual del dia 5 y continua:
El apoyo a la politica de Songun es para asegurar la subsistencia y el desarrollo de la nacion, la radiante perspectiva y el futuro.
Ya hace mucho tiempo que si no hubieramos contado con el poderoso remedio de politica de Songun, la Peninsula Coreana entera se habria convertido en objeto de caprichos de las fuerzas foraneas y el pueblo coreano se habria puesto otra vez en el ignominioso yugo de esclavo.
En el apoyo a la politica de Songun estan la paz del pais y la seguridad de la nacion.
La paz y la seguridad duraderas en la Peninsula Coreana son problemas vitales relacionados con el destino de la nacion coreana y el exitoso cumplimiento de la causa de reunificacion de la patria.
La politica de Songun permite lograr la paz duradera en la Peninsula Coreana, defender el destino de la nacion y asegurar el avance vigoroso de la causa de reunificacion de la patria. El poderosisimo disuasivo preparado por la politica de Songun permite frustrar las maniobras agresivas de EE.UU. y preservar la paz y seguridad de dicha Peninsula.
La politica de Songun nos permitio evitar con toda seguridad el estallido de la guerra y el desastre inimaginable de la nacion. Es una verdad innegable que al apoyarla activamente podemos lograr la paz del pais, la seguridad de la nacion, la reunificacion de la patria y la prosperidad comun de la nacion.
El apoyo al Songun es la gran bandera para defender la nacion coreana y asegurar la dignidad y prosperidad de la nacion.