Kim Jong Il Inspects Construction of Power Station Dam
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il commanded a bird's-eye view of the Wonsan Youth Power Station the construction of which has entered its finishing stage.
He was accompanied by Ri Je Gang and Ri Jae Il, first vice department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su, Generals of the Korean People's Army.
After being briefed on the construction project of the power station before a huge painting showing a panoramic view of the station, he commanded a bird's-eye view of the dam construction project.
Feasting his eyes on the gigantic dam and a large man-made reservoir, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the people in Kangwon Province have built another great structure in the era of the WPK.
It is an astonishing miracle that members of the youth shock brigade and other builders and helpers in the province have carried out the vast construction project by themselves even under the hard conditions where they were short of everything, he said. He highly appreciated the feat they have performed by creating a treasure of lasting value through the display of patriotic devotion and popular heroism. He extended warm thanks to them.
He stressed that the structures in the era of Songun now under construction in various parts of the country are the brilliant fruition of the inexhaustible mental power of the servicepersons and people single-mindedly united around the Party.
It is very good that the builders have contrived and introduced many new technological proposals and construction methods into the project by fully displaying wisdom and enthusiasm, thus increasing the speed of the project while economizing large quantities of materials including iron and steel materials, he noted, praising them for their creative and innovative work-style.
It is very difficult for the province to build such a modern power station by its own efforts but the party and working people's organizations in the province have successfully carried out the project by enlisting the efforts of party members and other working people, he said, adding that their experience clearly proves the truth of the WPK's work style that there is nothing impossible when masses' energies and wisdom are properly enlisted.
He underscored the necessity to ensure the best quality of the construction to win even the admiration of posterity as the power station is the nation's precious treasure.
Noting that the construction of hydropower stations is not only economically beneficial but the shortest cut to satisfactorily meeting the ever-increasing demand for electricity, he called for continuing to implement to the letter the WPK's policy for building minor power stations in a bid way along with large ones.
Foreign Minister of New Zealand Gives Reception
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Raymond Peters gave a reception on Friday as regards his visit to the DPRK.
Present there on invitation were DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Yong Il and officials concerned.
On hand were the foreign minister of New Zealand and his party.
FM of New Zealand and His Party Leave
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Raymond Peters and his party left here Saturday after winding up their visit to the DPRK.
During their stay here they visited Mangyongdae, the native home of President Kim Il Sung, the Tower of the Juche Idea and Pyongyang Metro and enjoyed a performance given by members of art group of the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace.
DPRK Delegation Leaves for China
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries headed by its acting Chairman Mun Jae Chol left Pyongyang on Saturday to visit China.
Greetings to Sultanate of Oman
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Saturday sent a message of greetings to Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, sultanate of Oman, on its national day.
Kim in the message wished the people of Oman new progress and welfare, expressing the conviction that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to strengthen and develop.
Distressed Sailors of DPRK Rescued by Chinese Side
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency Saturday released the following report as regards the Chinese side's sincere rescue of sailors of the DPRK-flagged ship which met a disaster in the waters off Yantai City, Shandong Province of China:
Shortly ago, the DPRK-flagged ship "Jungsan" was wrecked by a sudden strong wind in waters off Yantai City, Shandong Province when it was sailing with trade cargo aboard towards the Shandong Peninsula of China.
Upon receiving a distress signal sent by the ship, the Chinese side lost no time to give an instruction to the field concerned to launch a rescue operation by every possible means. The Maritime Bureau of Shandong Province and the maritime rescue centers of Yantai City and Weihai City and a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army stationed in the relevant area took emergency measures and sent dozens of rescue ships to the scene of the disaster.
Despite strong wind and wave, the local government there and the above-said army unit mobilized thousands of people and servicemen for a large-scale rescue operation. A large quantity of goods was provided to the distressed crewmen to protect them from cold and a medical team was sent to sincerely treat the rescued crewmen.
As a result, 20 sailors of the 23 crewmen of the wrecked ship were rescued and returned home.
An operation is going on to search for and rescue the sailors reported missing.
The sincere rescue operation conducted by the Chinese side for the distressed sailors of the ship was a clear manifestation of the traditional DPRK-China friendship which is favorably developing with each passing day.
We feel very thankful to the government and local people of China on sincerely rescuing and treating our distressed sailors.
We will join the Chinese side in displaying the fine traits of helping each other in hard times in the future, too, and make positive efforts to boost the DPRK-China friendship.
Art Performance of KPA Servicepersons Goes on
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- An art performance by servicepersons of companies of the Korean People's Army who participated in the 31st art festival of the KPA servicepersons is successfully going on at the People's Palace of Culture here.
Put on the stage are such numbers as poem and chorus "The General Visits a Post," story and chorus "Our General Is Best" and dialogic poem "The General and Our Company" highly praising the great leadership traits and exploits of KPA Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.
Deeply impressing the audiences are songs demonstrating the military traits of the KPA and the might of the arms of Mt. Paektu.
The performance is highly acclaimed by the audience as it makes truthful representation of the ideological and moral traits and invincible might of the KPA, the revolutionary army which has grown to be the army strong in ideology and faith, under the care of the great brilliant commander of Songun.
Jade Craftwork of Ancient Korea Discovered
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- A jade pig, a relic of Ancient Korea, discovered in Tomb No.56 in Jongo-dong, Rakrang District, Pyongyang, is a cultural heritage showing the remarkable artistic talent and sculptural art of the Korean nation.
It is 10 centimeters long and 2.5 centimeters high.
This sculpture depicts not a wild boar roaming about the field in search of food but a domestic pig tamed by people.
A rectangular solid of jade was carved exquisitely into the shape of a pig with its neatly cut head, haunch and four legs. The especially impressive muzzle and hocks parted in the middle show well the close observation of things and power of expression of the people in those days.
It also gives ornamental rendition to the characteristic details of the pig such as creases around the eyes, ears and nose and short legs.
Char of Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu teems with chars which move in shoals, adding beauty of the place.
Dr. Kim Ri Thae of the Zoological Institute of the State Academy of Sciences told KCNA:
There was no fish in Lake Chon when it took shape. Only microbes and aquatic organisms lived there.
Korean ichthyologists carried out a preliminary survey of the area of Mt. Paektu in Juche 47 (1958) and made a test in transferring silver carp of Lake Samji and char of River Tuman to the lake, the first test of its kind in the natural history of Mt. Paektu, on July 30, 1960.
In the later days, they released five species of fish in the lake including several hundreds of chars, Pseudor asbora parva and Moroco oxycephalus on several occasions.
This brought into being a new aquatic ecological system in the lake with char in the apex of the food chain.
A mother char (15cm) and a fry (2.5cm) were discovered in the water of Lake Chon by the expedition team of the lake in July 1987, which proved for the first time that chars had been habituated to the conditions of the lake and gone into self-reproduction.
Informed of this, leader Kim Jong Il personally named the fish "char of Lake Chon".
In August 1994 scholars again went up to the lake and made morphological, ecological and taxonomical researches on char of Lake Chon and gave wide publicity to it by attaching it the scientific name "Salvelinus malmam. chonjiensis KIM".
It is a special char differentiated into a new lake char from river char which adapted itself to the ecological circumstances peculiar to grim climatic and hydrologic conditions in scores of years after it was transferred to Lake Chon.
The ordinary size of char of Lake Chon is 40-50 cm (the maximum length is 85 cm and weight is 7.7 kilograms). Thus it is incomparably larger than the river char (15-20 cm in length and 100-150 grams in weight). Its jowl and mouth is protruding and long. The number of the teeth fanning out in gill, a digestive organ, is two or three less and the number of the pyloric caecum is three or four more than the river char. It is considered to be a variation phenomenon connected with the feed condition of the water of Lake Chon.
Not all the chars of Lake Chon living in the depth of the lake have been surveyed. It presumed that even bigger chars may inhabit the lake.
Char of Lake Chon is the noted fish inherent to Mt. Paektu. It is preserved as an object of special protection of an international biospheric sanctuary.
Ri Hoe Chang's Run for Presidential Elections under Fire
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland answered a question put by KCNA on Nov. 16 assailing Ri Hoe Chang, a political charlatan, of declaring his candidacy for the "presidential elections" in south Korea recently. He said:
Ri was forsaken by the times and the public and eliminated from the political arena for his base sycophantic and traitorous actions and crimes against reunification, irregularities and corruption and swindle. It is, therefore, an intolerable insult to the south Korean people and an unpardonable mockery of the justice and conscience for this guy to make a desperate bid for presidential office.
It is an irresistible trend of the times for the Korean nation to head for reconciliation and unity, peace and prosperity and reunification.
Notwithstanding, Ri is going so foolish as to stem the trend of the times. After declaring his candidacy for the elections, he spoke ill of the era of June 15 and went the lengths of taking issue with even the policy towards the north being pursued by the "party" once chaired by himself.
It is universally known that Ri is the worst traitor who betrayed national interests to serve the foreign forces, a remnant of the military fascist dictatorship and an anti-reunification traitor.
The "crisis" and the "confused system" much touted by Ri is nothing but a prelude to stemming the trend of democratization in south Korea and bringing back the inter-Korean ties to those of confrontation in the past and restoring a fascist and conservative Cold War-oriented regime.
It is as clear as noonday that if such human scum and confrontation and war monger as Ri is elected president, the justice of the south Korean society will be completely stamped out and the inter-Korean ties will collapse and the Koreans will not escape war holocaust, much less achieving the peace and prosperity of the nation.
The root cause of evils and corruption and disaster should be removed in good time.
Japan's Fabrication of "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" under Fire
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Japan's past crimes can never be covered up. It should honestly admit and reflect on and redress them as early as possible.
Rodong Sinmun Sunday urges this in a signed article dedicated to the 102nd anniversary of the fabrication of the "Ulsa (1905) Five-point Treaty" for aggression by the Japanese imperialists.
The "treaty", which the Japanese imperialists used as a "legal ground" for turning Korea into their colony, was an illegal and invalid one as it was cooked up and unilaterally made public by them in wanton violation of the requirements and principles of international law, the article notes, and goes on:
The "treaty" was a product of their policy of aggression towards Korea as it was forced upon Korea by the Japanese imperialists in total contravention of international law and norms of international relations after their aggressor forces put the royal palace under a manifold siege at the point of bayonet.
It was an illegal one in every sense as it lacked any elementary form as a treaty and failed to go through legal procedures.
At that time King Kojong resolutely turned down the Japanese imperialists' demand, declaring that he would never consent the conclusion of the treaty even if he might quit his throne and die for the country at the ancestors' shrine because it would mean the ruin of the country".
The "treaty" had only the seal of Pak Je Sun who was not appointed as a representative with full mandate and that of Konsuke Hayashi, the then Japanese minister in Seoul. It was neither signed by King Kojong nor stamped by the royal seal of the Ri Dynasty.
It was, therefore, an illegal false document as it lacked the state's approval of its conclusion and it was neither officially signed by a representative with full mandate nor examined nor ratified nor signed by the chief executive.
The Japanese imperialists enforced unprecedentedly harsh colonial fascist rule over Korea for more than four decades after illegally occupying it by force of arms on the strength of the "treaty."
During the period of their military occupation and rule over Korea, they took away at least 8.4 million Koreans to shambles of war of aggression and sites of slavery labor, forcing them to meet tragic deaths. Moreover, they forced 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. Over one million Koreans were killed by the Japanese imperialists.
They plundered Korea of its natural resources and properties lock, stock and barrel.
The crimes committed by them in Korea were organized state-sponsored ones because they were perpetrated at the instruction of the Japanese government and with its approval.
Consolidating Unity Based on Comradeship Called for
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- The unity based on comradeship serves as the most powerful weapon for Songun revolution.
Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The Korean revolution has emerged victorious thanks to the might of the unity based on comradeship.
President Kim Il Sung started the revolution in his early years by winning comrades and paved a victorious way in the whole historical course of the Korean revolution with the noble sense of revolutionary comradeship.
No one so values and shows deep loving care for revolutionary comrades as Kim Jong Il does. The single-minded unity of the people in the DPRK around the headquarters of revolution is the one in which all of them are united as one being attracted by his comradeship and the most durable and mighty one produced by his ardent comradeship.
The Korean revolution is making steady progress to a new higher stage under the Songun leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea. The unity based on the comradeship is a real picture of Songun Korea and a source of its inexhaustible strength. It also provides a sure guarantee for all its victories.
This unity serves as the most powerful fortress of devotedly defending the headquarters of revolution.
Today the army and people in the DPRK have become ardent comrades of Songun revolution to resolutely defend the headquarters of revolution. "Let us share intention with Kim Jong Il to the last." This is the unanimous desire and will of the army and people of the DPRK.
The unity based on the revolutionary comradeship also serves as a basic source of invincible might of the Korean People's Army.
The whole army is united based on the comradeship and has achieved successful unity with the people based on it. As a result, the KPA is always in high revolutionary and militant spirit and displays invincible might as strong revolutionary army which takes full charge not only of the country's defence but of socialist construction.
The unity has become a motive force giving an impetus to performing fresh miracles and feats in building a great prosperous powerful nation.
The single-minded unity based on comradeship serves as a lifeline and eternal foundation of Songun revolution as it gives a steady continuity to the nation's history of victory and prosperity, the article concludes.
Ri Hoe Chang's Run for "Presidential Elections" under Fire
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Ri Hoe Chang, who is running for the "presidential elections" as an independent politician, was pelted with eggs by a man in his 30s when he was walking round a market in Taegu, south Korea a few days ago.
Saying that it was well-deserved treatment, Minju Joson Sunday observes in a signed commentary:
Ri is a bete noire as he has been ill-famed for inciting confrontation with the fellow countrymen hell-bent on pro-U.S. flunkeyism and irregularities and corruption.
He committed such rash acts as rejecting the proposal for Pyongyang visit for historic summit meeting and turning off TV when it was broadcasting the meeting. He stooped to any infamy to please the United States.
It is none other than Ri who set a new record of irregularities and corruption in south Korea.
He was twice defeated in the past "presidential elections". This was a stern punishment meted out to him by the history and nation.
Irony is that he said the egg-hurling is an "expression of affection for him".
As already known, he has been under fire since he declared his candidacy for the "presidential elections." Under such situation he tried to create impression that he is "generous" and "broad-minded" with such sugar-coated words in a bid to win popularity.
However, he is gravely mistaken. No one can vouch that he would not be pelted with stones in the future. Ri has committed so many crimes against the nation.
The south Korean people have no other option but to eliminate Ri from the political arena for good as he is infected with an incurable disease i.e. wild ambition to become president.
Koreans Called upon to Implement Ten-Point Programme for Great National Unity
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- "Ten-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country" published by President Kim Il Sung in April Juche 82 (1993) serves as an immortal banner the Korean nation should invariably uphold in the efforts for the great unity of the entire nation as it is a precious boon to guaranteeing the victory of the cause of independent reunification, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The ten-point programme reflecting the President's noble idea and line of the great national unity is a scientific and just programme for reunification as it is based on the Juche-oriented view on the nation.
Enshrined in the above-said programme are a general goal, the fundamental principle and the ideological foundation of the great unity of the nation and tasks for implementing it and ways to do so.
The great programme serves as an encyclopedic library and the most just and scientific banner for unity which rallies all countrymen under the banner of the great national unity as it clarifies in detail all matters ranging from the appearance of a unified state and its nature to the orientation of accomplishing the cause of the great national unity and ways to do so and the mission and role to be performed by members of the nation.
The programme has fully displayed its tremendous might and vitality in the practical movement for reunification as it powerfully encouraged the Koreans to achieve national unity and wage the movement for national reunification.
Only when the Korean nation advances under the banner of the ten-point programme for the great unity of the entire nation can it achieve the cause of independent reunification without fail and pave a clear way for national prosperity, concludes the article.
Struggle against Irregularities and Corruption Called for in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration in an appeal on Nov. 14 assailed Ri Hoe Chang, kingpin of irregularities and corruption, of raising his head again to make desperate efforts to gratify his greed for power, according to a news report.
The appeal said that Ri openly declared his candidacy for the "presidential elections" although he has committed irregularities and corruption and become a main player in inciting confrontation dating back to the era of the Cold War. This deplorable reality clearly proves the fact that unless the root cause of corruption is completely removed, it will be practiced again anytime, it added.
It called for conducting special investigation into all cases of irregularities and corruption including Ri's embezzlement of truck loads of money and enforcing a new politics desired by the people after stamping out the roots of the close relations between the politics and economy.
U.S. Moves to Expand Its Forces' Base under Fire in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- A meeting against the ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of the U.S. forces' base in Phyongthaek was reportedly held in Taechu-ri, Phyongthaek City, Kyonggi Province, on Nov. 13.
It was attended by members of civic and social organizations of different circles including the All-People Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek and the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification, peace activists and inhabitants of Taechu-ri.
The speakers at the meeting accused the U.S. forces present in south Korea of holding a ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of their military base that day.
They noted with indignation that the U.S. forces are pushing ahead with the moves to build their bases for aggression not only in the area of Phyongthaek but various other places of south Korea to deprive people of their cradles and threaten their right to existence.
Read out at the meeting was a resolution calling for actions against the expansion of the U.S. military base and for the abrogation of the humiliating south Korea-U.S. "alliance".
Ri Hoe Chang's Run for "Presidential Elections" Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Political circles in south Korea are now becoming increasingly critical of Ri Hoe Chang's run for "presidential elections," according to press reports.
A spokesman for "Chongwadae" said Ri's failure in the last two "presidential elections" was not only a defeat but a moral punishment he faced, adding that his declaration of candidacy for the election despite his earlier frustrations is tantamount to an insult to and mockery of the people.
The Grand National Party held an "emergency meeting of its leadership," a press conference, etc. at which it strongly accused Ri of "backpedaling his promise to retire from the political circle without the least justification and procedure".
The New Democratic Party for Great Unity noted that Ri's extreme greed for power is nothing but an insult to the people and the desperate frenzy of the diehard reactionaries, ultra-right Cold War-minded forces to stem the trend of the history and bring back the era in which they could embezzle truck loads of money.
The Democratic Party said Ri Hoe Chang had better clarify how he spent the balance of the illegally embezzled truck loads of money for "presidential elections" in the past before running for "presidential elections."
The Creative Party noted that Ri Hoe Chang again declared his candidacy for the elections though he was eliminated from the political scene due to irregularities and corruption including the embezzled truck loads of money and Sephung scandal, adding that this is little short of an action to bring the politics of this land back to that a decade before.
The Democratic Labor Party said it is quite inappropriate for Ri to run for "presidential elections" as an independent politician, stressing that he should be tried by the people again for accumulating illicit money for "presidential elections."
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Kim Jong Il presencia la funcion artistica de los militares
Pyongyang, 17 de noviembre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, presencio una funcion artistica de los militares de las companias adscritas a las Unidades No. 1912 y No. 985, participantes en el 31o Festival Artistico de los Militares del EPC.
Los militares pusieron en la escena el coro "Felicitamos la salud del camarada Comandante Supremo", la poesia y cancion "Felicidad que disfrutamos bajo la esmerada atencion del querido Dirigente", el quinteto acompanado de instrumentos musicales "No nos olvidemos nunca de nuestra amistad", el trio "Cielo azul de mi pais" y otras piezas de diversos generos.
Al ver la funcion rebosada de conviccion y optimismo, el Dirigente Kim Jong Il se mostro muy satisfecho de que los militares de companias dieron una excelente funcion perfecta en lo ideo-artistico, evaluo altamente sus exitos y les dio agradecimiento.
Dijo que todas las companias se han formado como filas monoliticamente unidas a base de las relaciones consanguineas y anadio que es invencible nuestro ejercito porque forman un baluarte estas companias indestructibles.
Senalo que todas las companias participantes en el festival artistico dieron un vivo retrato de la cultura militar en pleno desarrollo y recalco que este exito orgulloso deviene una gran manifestacion de la cultura del Songun (priorizacion militar) y de la justeza y vitalidad de la orientacion del partido en materia de literatura y arte de hacer masiva el arte.
Subrayo que el desarrollo energico de las actividades artisticas revolucionarias del ejercito reviste gran significado para elevar la combatividad de la unidad y presento las tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para desarrollar las actividades masivas de cultura y arte.
Le acompanaron en disfrutarla los generales de ejercito del EPC Hyon Chol Hae y Ri Myong Su, el coronel general Yun Jong Rin y otros comandantes del ejercito.
Terminada la primera reunion entre premieres de Norte y Sur de Corea
Seul, 16 de noviembre (Corresponsal de ATCC) -- Quedo terminada este viernes la primera reunion entre los primeros ministros del Norte y el Sur de Corea.
En la ocasion ambas partes discutieron sinceramente unos problemas practicos, que se presentan para defender y materializar invariablemente la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio y ejecutar cabalmente la Declaracion del 4 de Octubre, y aprobaron el acuerdo y los anexos de la reunion firmados por el premier del Norte Kim Yong Il y su homologo del Sur Han Tok Su.
Segun el acuerdo, ambas partes decidieron tomar las medidas encaminadas a convertir seguramente las relaciones intercoreanas en los vinculos de respeto y confianza mutuos y a desarrollarlas de modo unificado, de acuerdo con el espiritu de "entre nosotros, los connacionales".
Para este fin, el Norte y el Sur quedaron en tomar una medida pertinente para instituir el 15 de junio como dia conmemorativo comun de la nacion y en organizar en el proximo ano en Seul el acto por el 8 aniversario de la publicacion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio con la participacion de las autoridades y civiles.
Igualmente, decidieron consultar el problema de revisar respectivos aparatos juridicos e institucionales y otros temas y dinamizar el dialogo y los contactos en todas las ramas como las conversaciones interparlamentarias.
Ademas, acordaron fijar la "zona especial de paz y cooperacion del Mar Oeste" para la paz y los intereses comunes en la costa occidental.
Como medida correspondiente, el Norte y el Sur aprobaron el acuerdo sobre la constitucion y operacion del "comite para la promocion de la zona especial de paz y cooperacion del Mar Oeste" presidido por la autoridad a nivel de ministro y se pusieron de acuerdo en convocar en Kaesong su primera reunion dentro de diciembre proximo.
El Norte y el Sur quedaron en impulsar activamente la cooperacion economica para el desarrollo equilibrado de la economia nacional y la prosperidad comun.
Para ello, decidieron colaborarse en varias ramas como la carretera y el ferrocarril, la zona de cooperacion en la construccion de barcos, la zona industrial de Kaesong y constituir para la marcha sin contratiempos de estas labores el "comite conjunto para la cooperacion economica N-S" a ser presidido por la autoridad del rango de viceprimer ministro y aprobaron un acuerdo sobre el particular.
Ademas, acordaron convocar en Seul la primera reunion de dicho comite desde el 4 hasta el 6 de diciembre.
Para desarrollar el intercambio y la cooperacion en la rama sociocultural como la historia, la lengua, la educacion, la cultura y arte, etc., decidieron fundar "el comite para la promocion de la cooperacion sociocultural N-S" y fomentar activamente la colaboracion humanitaria a fin de contribuir a la reconciliacion y unidad nacionales.
El Norte y el Sur decidieron efectuar la reunion de premieres una vez en un semestre y convocar la proxima ronda en Pyongyang dentro del primer semestre de 2008.
Roh Moo Hyun recibe a Kim Yong Il
Seul, 16 de noviembre (Corresponsal de ATCC) -- El presidente surcoreano Roh Moo Hyun recibio este viernes al premier Kim Yong Il y su comitiva, que participaron en la primera ronda de las conversaciones entre los premieres del Norte y el Sur de Corea.
En la ocasion estuvieron presentes por la parte del Sur el premier Han Tok Su y otros interesados.
Ante todo, Kim Yong Il transmitio el saludo que enviara el Dirigente Kim Jong Il al mandatario surcoreano.
Roh Moo Hyun agradecio mucho por el respecto y encomendo al premier que reciprocara el saludo al Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional Kim Jong Il.
A continuacion, subrayo que ese encuentro entre los premieres dio resultados positivos y deseo que se ejecuten bien en lo adelante los puntos acordados entre ambas partes coreanas.
Acto seguido, ofrecio un almuerzo en honor de Kim y su comitiva.
ATCC informa del rescate a marineros coreanos por China
Pyongyang, 17 de noviembre (ATCC) -- La Agencia Telegrafica Central de Corea dio a la publicidad este sabado la siguiente informacion:
Hace unos dias, el barco de nuestro pais "Jungsan" con cargas comerciales quedo siniestrado al ser sorprendido por una turbonada en el mar frente a la ciudad de Yantai de la provincia Shandong mientras navegaba con rumbo a la peninsula de igual nombre de China.
Al recibir las senales SOS, la parte china dio a las entidades correspondientes la orden de iniciar el trabajo socorrista realizando todos los esfuerzos posibles.
El Buro Maritimo de dicha provincia china, el centro de socorro naval de las ciudades de Yantai y Weihai y las unidades militares en las zonas cercanas despacharon pronto, como una medida de emergencia, decenas de naves de rescate al lugar del accidente.
Pese al fuerte viento y oleajes bravos, el gobierno y las unidades militares de esa localidad lanzaron una gran campana de auxilio movilizando a miles de habitantes y uniformados.
Ademas, brindaron muchos materiales protectores del frio y una sincera asistencia medica a los tripulantes coreanos salvados.
De esta manera, pudieron regresar a la patria 20 de los 23 tripulantes del barco naufragado.
Ahora prosigue la busqueda del marinero desaparecido.
Tal sincero trabajo socorrista por parte de China deviene una muestra evidente de la tradicional amistad Corea-China que se desarrolla cada dia mas favorablemente.
Nuestro pais esta muy agradecido por el rescate y la atencion medica brindados por el gobierno chino y los habitantes locales de este pais.
En lo adelante tambien nuestro pais realizara ingentes esfuerzos junto con China por desarrollar las relaciones de amistad entre ambos paises fomentando las bellas y excelentes costumbres de ayudar reciprocamente en momentos dificiles.