Kim Yong Nam Receives Credentials from Iranian Ambassador to DPRK
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Iranian Ambassador to the DPRK Morteza Moradian at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Monday.
On hand were Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Yong Il and Iranian embassy officials here.
After receiving the credentials, Kim had a talk with the ambassador.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Iranian President
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran.
It was handed to Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Monday by Morteza Moradian, new Iranian ambassador to the DPRK.
National Seminar on Kim Jong Il's Undying Feats Held
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- A national seminar on the undying feats Kim Jong Il performed by ushering in the dawn of a great prosperous powerful nation through the great Songun leadership was held at the Central Youth Hall Monday.
The seminar heard five papers.
Kim Jung Hyop, editor-in-chief of the Rodong Sinmun, in a speech said that what occupies an outstanding position among the great feats performed by him on behalf of the country and the revolution is that he has built a politically and ideologically powerful socialist country on this land under the banner of single-minded unity.
Ryo Chun Sok, president of Kim Il Sung Military University, in a speech said that in the period of the Songun revolutionary leadership Kim Jong Il developed the People's Army into an invincible revolutionary army, thus providing a firm military guarantee for building a rich and powerful country, adding what is important among his feats is that he trained the KPA into an army strong in idea and faith whose servicepersons are equipped with the spirit of devotedly safeguarding the leader and a matchless strong army having tremendous military and technical capability.
Hwang I Chol, vice-president of University of National Economics, in a speech recalled that Kim Jong Il developed the nation's economy into a self-supporting national economy high in the level of Juche character and independence, bringing about a substantial turn in improving the people's living standard.
Ri Jong Hyok, director of the National Reunification Institute, in a speech said that Kim Jong Il provided a fundamental guarantee for defending the security of the nation and achieving national reunification and prosperity with the great Songun leadership, led the work to achieve the reconciliation and unity between the north and the south and paved a wide avenue for cooperation aimed at bringing about the common prosperity of the nation with his noble patriotism and great magnanimity.
Kim Kwang Yon, chief secretary of the Committee of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of the Workers' Party of Korea, underlined the need to step up the general advance for building a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation under the Songun leadership of the Party. He called for conducting a vigorous ideological offensive to give fullest play to the mental power of all servicepersons and people so as to make the spirit of unprecedented creation and surge prevail throughout the country and do all work strictly the way Kim Jong Il does, taking the leadership exploits of the WPK as guidelines.
Present there were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, officials concerned, officials of party and administrative bodies and working people's organizations and scientific, educational, literary and art and media institutions, party cadre training institutions and those in the field of the preservation of revolutionary relics at national level and in Pyongyang.
More Gift Animals Sent to Central Zoo
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Animals presented to Kim Jong Il by the Kuwaiti Zoo have begun to inhabit the Central Zoo of the DPRK.
They are 60 animals of nine species including black swans.
The animals are distributed in various regions of Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania.
A section chief of the zoo Ju Kum Chol said in an interview with KCNA:
The director of the Kuwaiti Zoo, who has boundlessly revered Kim Jong Il from long ago, decided to present rare animals to him as gift and chose them for himself.
The black swans, Greek tortoises, dwarf goats, vervet monkeys and spotted and fallow deer among the gift animals are for the first time in recent years.
The gift animals in the zoo have been ever increasing in number since Ho Chi Minh, ex-President of Vietnam, gifted President Kim Il Sung with Indian elephants on August 12, Juche 48 (1959) on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the liberation of Korea.
The number of the animals sent to President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as gifts by heads of parties, states and governments and public figures of various countries including Indonesia, Tanzania and Somalia totals more than 900 heads of 327 species.
Many of them have brought forth their young several times to delight the visitors to the zoo.
Students' Study Tour of Mt. Paektu Started
Hyesan, February 3 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in front of the Monument to the Victorious Battle of Pochonbo in Hyesan City on Feb. 3 to launch the study march of school youth and children from across the country towards the native home of Kim Jong Il in the secret camp on Mt. Paektu on the occasion of the auspicious February holiday.
Participating in the march are working youth, school youth and children and youth league officials from across the country.
The participants placed floral baskets and bunches of flowers before the statue of President Kim Il Sung at the monument and paid high tribute to him.
At the meeting Ri Kum Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the youth league, made a report which was followed by speeches.
The reporter and speakers called upon all the marchers to fully display, through the study tour, their unshakable faith and spirit to wholeheartedly follow Kim Jong Il and give steady continuity to a long journey of the Songun revolution under his leadership.
At the end of the meeting, the marchers group started their study tour, holding aloft the flags carrying portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the head and fluttering the flags of the Workers' Party of Korea, the DPRK, the youth league and the group.
School youth and children and working people in Hyesan City saw off the members of the group.
Preparations under Way for 12th Kimjongilia Festival
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Brisk preparations are going on for the 12th Kimjongilia Festival in the DPRK.
Ri Yong Je, a department director of the Korean Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee, told KCNA that applications are coming in an endless stream from units and individuals at home and abroad to take part in the festival this year which marks the lapse of 20 years since the flower was born. She went on:
More than 100 units including organs of armed forces, commissions and ministries of the Cabinet, national institutions and Pyongyang city and individuals as well as overseas Korean organizations including Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan), overseas Koreans and foreigners will participate in the festival.
The committee is doing its utmost to render a three-dimensional and peculiar appearance to the festival hall to suit its theme: "Long Live General Kim Jong Il, the Sun of the 21st Century!"
The diploma, participation certificate and posters of the festival have already been brought out.
The applicants are putting every ounce of efforts into bringing the flower for the festival into beautiful efflorescence, adjusting the temperature, light and moisture on a scientific basis in the biting cold.
Meanwhile, each province is astir with preparations for the Kimjongilia show this month.
The immortal flower is unfolding fascinating scenes in the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia greenhouses in all parts of the country with the approach of the festival thanks to the painstaking efforts made by the people to render grandeur to the festival.
All Koreans Called upon to Work for Great National Unity
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- The great national unity is the great foundation of national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article.
Achieving the national unity is a basic way to vigorously push forward the cause of national reunification as it provides a powerful engine for the reunification of the country, the article notes, and goes on:
What is most important for achieving the national unity is to maintain the principle of putting the common interests of the nation above anything else, irrespective of idea and system, class and stratum.
It is a hard fact that there exist some differences among Koreans including those in ideology and system due to the unending tragedy of division. But they are not insurmountable in achieving the national unity and reunification.
Now that the national reunification presents itself as a more urgent issue than ever before, different classes and strata in the north and the south should not hold their isms and interests supreme.
There can be neither classes nor strata apart from the nation and classes and factions also belong to the nation.
National unity is the unanimous desire of all Koreans and an urgent demand of the times. For all of them to unite close to achieve the great purpose common to the nation provides a sure guarantee for independent reunification and peace and prosperity.
Frustration of Imperialists' Psychological Warfare Called for
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- It is one of the important ways of frustrating the imperialists' psychological warfare to intensify the politico-ideological education and heighten revolutionary vigilance among the people. Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The imperialists' psychological warfare is crafty tactics to benumb the people's mentality and reason. It is a dangerous method to militarily browbeat people so that they may remain crestfallen and non-resistant and yield to them.
If people are outwitted by the imperialists' psychological warfare, they will opt for treachery, perfidy and surrender and the country and nation will go to ruin in the end. This is a lesson taught by history.
The U.S. imperialists are now persistently working to apply the crafty and vicious psychological warfare to the DPRK. They are intensifying the above-said warfare against the DPRK because it is winning victory after victory, displaying the might of Songun politics despite any anti-socialist hurricane after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and East European socialist countries. It is also because the world socialist movement and the movement for independence are growing stronger as the days go by, inspired by the DPRK's advance, whereas the U.S. imperialists are finding themselves in a more difficult position.
They are scared by the invincible might of the DPRK to which the world people look up as a beacon of hope. Such psychological warfare, however, does not work on the Korean people strong in faith and mental power. It only stokes their anti-U.S. sentiment.
A people strong in revolutionary faith are sure to emerge victorious. When people are confident of sure victory, they will not be afraid of any formidable enemy but can fight it with confidence and optimism without vacillation in any adversity and ordeal and decisively frustrate the enemy's psychological warfare.
Suppression Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- The People's Solidarity for Abolition of the "National Security Law" (NSL) in south Korea reportedly made public a statement on January 29 denouncing the security authorities for having detained a member of the Teachers' Trade Union of south Korea (Jongyojo) on the charge of violation of the NSL, an evil law.
The statement recalled that on the same day the Security Investigation Corps of the Jonju District Police Office detained Kim Hyong Gun, chairman of the reunification committee of the North Jolla Provincial Branch of Jongyojo, by invoking the NSL.
The security authorities called to account his participation with students in a memorial service for pro-reunification patriotic martyrs held in Sunchang in May 2005 and perpetrated such suppression for the mere reason that he paid tribute to guerrillas and distributed enemy-benefiting handbills at the service, the statement noted, and saying:
It is due obligation to awake the students to the tragedy of national division and urgency of national reunification.
Nevertheless, the security authorities arrested the teacher who conducted the education in reunification, on the charges of praise and encouragement, a poisonous provision of the NSL. This is evidently a harsh suppression of the progressive camp.
The statement held that the NSL is a source of all tragedies and there will be no end to such repressive actions as long as the law remains in force, the statement stressed.
Anti-U.S. Action in S. Korea
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Civic and social organizations of south Korea including the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration reportedly held the 176th Friday meeting against the U.S. and war and for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops outside the U.S. embassy in Seoul on January 25.
A resolution of struggle was read out at the meeting. The resolution referred to the fact that the United States deployed in its air-force base in Kunsan, North Jolla Province, south Korea, 20 F-16s belonging to the 79th combat wing of the 20th combat flying corps under the 9th U.S. Air Force and at least 300 personnel from its mainland, starting on January 14. Along with this, the U.S. air force in the base is planning to conduct exercises for examining the operation preparedness in collusion with the south Korean air force, it pointed out, saying:
The U.S. air force has set up the operation command for carrying out an independent operation. This is intended to further concretize the realization of "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. forces in south Korea.
Such moves intensified by the U.S. from the outset of the year as deployment of up-to-date combat wing in south Korea and its plan to conduct large-scale joint military exercises under the pretext of "familiarization with local conditions" are a dangerous provocation of threatening peace.
The resolution warned that if the U.S. continues its moves to provoke a war, threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula, it would meet a strong resistance of all the people.
Preparatory Committee Formed in Denmark
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- The Danish preparatory committee to commemorate the Day of the Sun and February 16 was formed with due ceremony in Copenhagen on Jan. 22.
Elected co-chairmen of the preparatory committee were the chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark (Marxist-Leninist), the chairman of the Danish Workers' Party of Common Cause, the chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark and the chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association.
The preparatory committee decided to hold colorful functions such as a meeting and a film show on the occasions of the above-said days.
Unwarranted Suppression of Koreans by Japanese Police Authorities under Fire
Tokyo, February 2 (KNS-KCNA) -- Officials of the Kyoto Prefectural headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) staged an action before the Kyoto Prefectural Police Office on Jan. 29 in protest against the unreasonable crackdown of the Japanese police authorities upon the Korean Commercial Association in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Kum Ki Do, vice-chairman of the Kyoto Prefectural headquarters of Chongryon, and its other officials thrust a written protest to the police office.
Accusing the police authorities of Kyoto prefecture of searching 15 facilities related to Chongryon including the building of the commercial association on Jan. 21 and 22 and arresting its incumbent official on the unreasonable charge of the "violation of the law on taxation" and searching the houses of officials of the commercial association all of a sudden on Jan. 27, they branded these frantic search operations as an intolerable human rights abuse.
They declared that officials of the commercial association did nothing but legally helping Korean workers in commerce in dealing with the issue of taxation.
Recalling that the public relations section of the public security office was involved in the investigation of the issue of taxation, an economic issue, they stated that this fact alone clearly indicates that the recent search operations are politically motivated suppression and human rights abuse against the commercial association and Koreans in Japan.
The recent action will leave a big stain on the above-said police office, they noted, urging the police authorities to immediately release the arrested official and return the confiscated data.
The officials of the Kyoto Prefectural headquarters staged a strong protest on Jan. 30 and 31, too.
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Kim Yong Nam recibe cartas credenciales de embajador irani
Pyongyang, 4 de febrero (ATCC) -- Morteza Moradian presento este lunes en el capitalino Palacio de los Congresos Mansudae ante el presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kim Yong Nam, sus cartas credenciales que le acreditan como nuevo embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la Republica Islamica de Iran en Corea.
En la ocasion estuvieron presentes el vicecanciller coreano Kim Yong Il y los miembros de la embajada irani.
Tras recibirlas, Kim Yong Nam departio con el diplomatico.
Kim Jong Il recibe presente del presidente irani
Pyongyang, 4 de febrero (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio presente que le dirigiera el presidente de la Republica Islamica de Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
El nuevo embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de Iran en Corea, Morteza Moradian, lo entrego este lunes al presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kim Yong Nam.
Parte de Hyesan grupo de recorrido por casa natal del monte Paektu
Hyesan, 3 de febrero (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 3 ante el Monumento a la Victoria de la Batalla de Pochombo situado en esta ciudad la ceremonia de partida del recorrido nacional de jovenes y ninos escolares por la visita a la casa natal del campamento secreto del monte Paektu con motivo de la fiesta de febrero (cumpleanos del Dirigente Kim Jong Il).
En esa marcha estuvieron presentes los jovenes trabajadores, jovenes y ninos escolares y funcionarios de la Union de la Juventud Socialista Kim Il Sung.
Los participantes rindieron tributo al Presidente Kim Il Sung tras depositar cesto y ramos de flores ante su estatua de bronce erguida en el monumento arriba mencionado.
En la ocasion hubo el informe del secretario del Comite Central de la union juvenil, Ri Kum Chol, e intervenciones.
Los oradores subrayaron que todos los peregrinos deben poner de pleno manifiesto en el presente recorrido su conviccion y espiritu indoblegables de confiar y seguir invariablemente solo al Dirigente Kim Jong Il y llevar adelante la revolucion del Songun (priorizacion militar) bajo su direccion.
Tras la ceremonia el grupo inicio la marcha poniendo al frente las banderas con efigies del Presidente y del Dirigente y flameando las banderas del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, de la RPDC, de la Union de la Juventud Socialista Kim Il Sung y del grupo de recorrido.
Los jovenes, ninos escolares y trabajadores de la ciudad de Hyesan despidieron a los integrantes del grupo.
Aumenta el numero de animales regalados en Zoologico Nacional
Pyongyang, 4 de febrero (ATCC) -- Ultimamente al Parque Zoologico Nacional de Corea llegaron nuevos animales enviados al Dirigente Kim Jong Il por el Parque Zoologico de Kuwait.
Se trata de 60 animales de 9 especies incluidos Cygnus atratus.
Son animales raros que habitan en varias regiones de Asia, Europa, Africa y Oceania.
Entrevistado con un reportero de la Agencia Telegrafica Central de Corea el jefe de seccion del Parque Zoologico Nacional, Ju Kum Chol, dijo:
Estos animales los selecciono personalmente el titular del Parque Zoologico de Kuwait quien venerando infinitamente desde hace mucho tiempo al Dirigente Kim Jong Il tomo la decision de obsequiarle las especies raras.
En los ultimos anos llegaron por primera vez al parque zoologico nacional Cygnus atratus, Testudo gracea, Capra hircus, Cercopithecus aethiops, Cervus axis y Cervus dama.
El 12 de agosto del 48 (1959) de la Era Juche, el presidente de Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, regalo los elefantes de India al Presidente Kim Il Sung con motivo del 14 aniversario de la liberacion de la patria. El numero de estos animales se aumenta de dia en dia.
Llega a mas de 900 de 327 especies el numero de animales obsequiados al Presidente Kim Il Sung y el Dirigente Kim Jong Il por los jefes de partido, estado y gobierno y personalidades de distintos estratos de Indonesia, Tanzania, Somalia y otros paises del mundo.
Los obsequiados de varias especies multiplicados dan alegria a los trabajadores, jovenes y ninos escolares que visitan el parque zoologico.