Greetings to Egyptian President
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on Tuesday on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the July 23 revolution in Egypt.
The message expressed belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would continue to grow stronger and wished the President and people of Egypt greater success in their efforts to protect the stability of the country and national unity and achieve economic progress.
Cuban Embassy Officials Visit Poman-ri
Sariwon, July 22 (KCNA) -- Enrique Montoto Cruz, charge d' affaires a.i., and staff members of the Cuban embassy here visited the Poman Fish Breeding Station and the Poman Co-op Farm in Sohung County on Tuesday.
They were briefed on the immortal leadership exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il in front of the monument to their revolutionary activities. Then they went round fish breeding ponds, visited a house of a farmer before mounting an observation platform to command a bird's-eye view of Poman-ri.
Earlier, the guests looked round the folk street in Sariwon.
Wreath Laid before Cemetery of Fallen Heroes of KPA
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Staff members of the Vietnamese embassy here laid a wreath before the cemetery of fallen heroes of the Korean People's Army on Tuesday on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
Present at the ceremony were Le Van Cu, Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the embassy.
A wreath in the name of the embassy was placed before the cemetery.
They paid silent tribute to those fallen fighters of the KPA who laid down their lives in the heroic battles for the freedom and liberation of the people.
Monument Draws Endless Stream of Visitors
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- The Monument to Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War is visited by an endless stream of Koreans at home and from overseas and foreigners.
The monument erected on July 26, Juche 82 (1993) comprehensively deals with the undying exploits President Kim Il Sung performed by leading the war to victory and the unparalleled bravery, the noble self-sacrificing spirit and popular heroism displayed by the soldiers of the Korean People's Army and the people in the hard-fought war.
The monument has been visited by millions of people from more than 42,300 organizations over the past 15 years since its erection.
At least 161,000 overseas compatriots and foreigners from nearly 8,900 organizations have visited the monument in the same period.
The visitors to the monument recollect with deep emotion the undying exploits the President performed by shattering the myth of the "mightiness" of the U.S. imperialists, who boasted of their numerical and technical superiority, with his outstanding military thought, adroit strategy and tactics and Juche-oriented war methods and bringing about the beginning of their decline.
Cultural Remains and Relics in Wonsan Area
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- There are many historical remains and relics which are of weighty significance in studying national culture in the Wonsan area, Kangwon Province.
Conspicuous among them are over ten historical remains including the Myongjok Temple, a national treasure.
The temple was rebuilt in 1771 and largely repaired in 1896 during the period of Ri Dynasty.
It consists of the main building and the Simgom pavilion.
The main building standing on a one-meter high foundation is 11 meters long on the front and 7.8 meters wide on both sides.
Decorated with different flower patterns, the doors of the temple give the impression of hanging silk fabrics.
The temple clearly shows the architecture in the period of Ri Dynasty.
Seen in the area near the temple are several round stone dagobas and tombstones.
There are also half a dozen sites of mountain walls including Koson Mountain Wall, Tokgyo Mountain Wall and Koryong Mountain Wall and signal fire sites.
Today they are preserved in their original state with good care thanks to the government's national cultural inheritance preservation policy.
Aid Program Applied to Education
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Hyong Jik University of Education has of late developed an education aid program which helps place the training of personnel on a more scientific and comprehensive basis to meet the requirements of the IT era.
Ri Jin Sop, chief of the Education Information Center of the university, told KCNA:
The center has developed a remote-controlled lecture system to lift the quality of education to a higher level.
The education system enables students to listen to lectures, have question and answer and take examinations with the help of computers in the absence of teachers.
We have produced a program for mathematics, logic and physical imaginary experiments and programs helpful to the extracurricular study of the primary and middle school pupils and to the kindergarten children in learning the mother tongue, counting, sight reading, etc.
Unlike the previous programs for teaching guidance, these multimedia programs make it possible for the students to prepare and review their lessons, listening to the teacher's explanation again at home.
It also helps the parents to guide the extracurricular study of their children satisfactorily with a good knowledge of educational words and methods of explanation used at school.
U.S. Escalated Military Provocations Accused
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- The United States' recent escalated military provocations and threat to the DPRK come under fire by a signed commentary of Minju Joson Tuesday.
The U.S. connived at and incited the mean and vulgar acts perpetrated by guards of the U.S. forces side to disturb the performance of the duties by guard personnel of the DPRK side in the area of the Panmunjom conference room. Shortly ago, the U.S. forces side was so foolish as to inform the DPRK side that it would stage Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises from August 18 to 22, far from making an apology and giving assurances against the reoccurrence of similar cases to the guard personnel of the DPRK side who protested against the provocations. Timed to coincide with this, the U.S. announced that it would bring the latest super large Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier Ronald Reagan to Pusan Port of south Korea.
This is a clear proof that the U.S. is keen to deliberately aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the commentary says, and goes on:
The U.S. is perpetrating ceaseless military provocations against the DPRK, its dialogue partner, at this crucial time when diplomatic efforts are being made to settle the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. Its behavior is prompted by its calculation that if its military pressure and threat are escalated to keep pace with its diplomatic dialogue, it can discourage its rival, wrest an important political concession and boost its negotiating position.
This tells that the way of solving problems by strength still serves as a major lever for implementing the U.S. foreign policy and the American politicians are still obsessed with the outdated conception of confrontation.
As the DPRK clarified more than once, the policy of strength is not all-powerful and it does not work on the DPRK, in particular.
Any attempt of the U.S. to settle issues concerning the relations with the DPRK by strength would only lead the situation to catastrophe.
It is high time the U.S. and other countries concerned behaved themselves now that they are at the crucial phase of the process to settle the deep-rooted hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and achieve peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula by realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula. It is quite nonsensical for the U.S. to offer a handshake to its dialogue partner, while holding a dagger in its other hand.
The U.S. should be prudent, cogitating about the grave consequences to be entailed by its irresponsible behavior.
Exploits Performed by Kim Il Sung in Struggle for National Reunification Lauded
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung is the sun of the Korean nation who put forward the Juche-oriented idea and line of achieving the reunification of the country and provided an important guiding principle to be always held fast to attain the national unity and settle the issue of the reunification of the country.
Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The President regarded the reunification of the country as the greatest task of the nation from the very day of the country's division and consistently maintained the line of one Korea, the line of reunification.
The President's idea of national reunification proceeded from the immortal great Juche idea.
He correctly clarified the cause of the national division and the essence of the issue of reunification from the Juche-oriented viewpoint and stand.
The President indicated the three charters for national reunification. This was an immortal exploit as he provided the nation with a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon for carrying out its cause of reunification.
The three principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo serve as the three charters for national reunification in which the fundamental principles and ways for national reunification are systematized and comprehensively dealt with in an integral manner on the basis of the immortal Juche idea and the precious experience gained by the President in the course of the struggle for the reunification of the country.
The President laid down the three principles-- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--, thereby providing the Korean nation with the fundamental stand and basic ways for solving the issue of national reunification by its own efforts in line with its will and interests.
Proving the scientific accuracy and validity of the three charters for national reunification, the article says the struggle to implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration precisely means the development in depth of the struggle to carry out the President's Juche-oriented line and policy for national reunification and their successful embodiment.
New Farce Cooked up by S. Korean Defence Security Command
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- The Defence Security Command of the south Korean puppet army is now hell-bent on devising a new plot.
The command arrested Kim Yong Jung, an officer of the puppet army, on July 9 on the charge of "violation of 'National Security Law'". Then it searched his office and house and confiscated books, photographs and articles he used.
Accusing him of working as a deputy to the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils when he was studying at Kyunghee University, the command is conducting an intensive investigation into him, claiming that he joined the "enemy-benefiting organization," the confiscated books are "enemy-benefiting" ones and he agitated the public to support the Democratic Labor Party.
In this regard, his family and the General Student Council of Kyunghee University is staging a strong protest after organizing a measure committee for demanding stop to the tricky investigation of the command.
Candlelight Actions Staged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Candlelight actions against traitor Lee Myung Bak took place in Seoul on July 19.
A candlelight rally was held at Chonggye Plaza under the sponsorship of the People's Measure Council against the Total Opening of south Korean Markets to American Beef. Speakers at the rally accused Lee of getting more frantic in the suppression of candlelight actions far from accepting the demands of the people for the total renegotiations on the American beef import.
They expressed bitter indignation at the traitor's humiliating diplomacy which emboldens Japan in its wild ambition to grab Tok Islet, declaring that they would struggle to the last against his "government's" unpopular policy and sycophancy and submission.
Over 2,000 members of the Internet organizations staged a demonstration around the plaza while the rally was underway.
The number of the demonstrators swelled to tens of thousands after the demo was joined in by the participants of the rally, the members of the Solidarity for the Struggle to Impeach Lee Myung Bak who held a meeting to vow to defend Tok Islet at Thapgol Park and people from all walks of life who turned out in the streets.
The demonstrators occupied the road and held a rally to denounce the Lee group's crackdown upon the candlelight actions before carrying on the march.
In front of the head offices of the Yonhap News Agency and Choongang Ilbo and the National Police Office, the participants chided the authorities for their attempt to put media under their control and the conservative media for releasing misinformation and demanded the chief of the National Police Office step down.
Their action lasted for ten hours till the dawn of the next day despite heavy rain.
They staged surprise demonstrations in different parts of the city.
Candlelight actions took place in various parts of the city on July 18, too, in protest against traitor Lee's import of American beef.
Kim Il Sung Remembered in Different Countries
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Korean book, photo and handicraft exhibitions were held in Russia and Nigeria between July 8 and 20 to commemorate the 14th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.
Displayed at the exhibition halls were famous works of the President and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and photos showing their undying feats, books and photos introducing the advantages of Korean-style socialism and handicrafts reflecting the wisdom and talent of the Korean people.
Present at their opening ceremonies were personages of the Nakhodka City Administration of Russia and the Culture and Art Council of Abuja City, Nigeria, and other political and social circles and citizen
Korean People's Struggle Supported
Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- The Arab Committee for Solidarity with Korean People and Supporting the Reunification of Korea in Jordan issued a statement on July 12 on the occasion of the month for international solidarity with the Korean people.
The statement expressed full support and solidarity with the Korean people who are struggling to realize the cause of independence against imperialism, closely rallied around General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The peace-loving forces of the world should expose the aggression moves of the south Korean reactionaries and lift up the voice of demanding the immediate pullout of the U.S. forces and their war equipment from south Korea, the discontinuation of the aggressive U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises, the replacement of the Korean Armistice Agreement by a peace agreement and stop to the U.S. interference in Korea's internal affairs, the statement said.
It called upon the peace-loving forces of the world to extend full support to the Korean people in the struggle to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country with the concerted efforts of the nation by implementing the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and its practical programme, the October 4 declaration.
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Diplomaticos vietnamitas depositan ofrenda floral ante tumba de martires
Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 55o aniversario del triunfo del pueblo coreano en la Guerra de Liberacion de la Patria los miembros de la Embajada de la Republica Socialista de Vietnam en Corea colocaron el dia 22 la ofrenda floral ante la tumba de los martires heroes del Ejercito Popular de Corea.
En la ocasion participaron el embajador Le Van Cu y otros miembros de la sede diplomatica vietnamita.
Fue depositada ante la tumba la ofrenda floral a nombre de la embajada.
Ellos guardaron un momento de silencio en memoria de los martires del EPC quienes lucharon heroicamente por la libertad y la emancipacion del pueblo.
Millones de personas visitan monumento a victoria en guerra
Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- El Monumento a la Victoria en la Guerra de Liberacion de la Patria es uno de los lugares mas visitados por los habitantes coreanos, compatriotas en ultramar y extranjeros.
Este monumento erguido el 26 de julio del 82 (1993) de la Era Juche muestra de modo sintetico las inmortales hazanas del Presidente Kim Il Sung realizadas por la victoria en la guerra, la valentia incomparable, el noble espiritu de sacrificio y el heroismo masivo de los militares del EPC y otros habitantes manifestados en esa enconada contienda belica.
Durante los 15 anos desde su inauguracion, lo visitaron millones de personas de mas de 42 mil 300 entidades.
Lo hicieron tambien mas de 161 mil coreanos en ultramar y extranjeros de casi 8 mil 900 entidades.
Los visitantes recordaron con profunda emocion las imborrables proezas del Presidente quien con su extraordinaria idea militar, diestra estrategia y tacticas y autoctonos metodos guerreros, dio inicio a la decadencia de los imperialistas norteamericanos, que se jactaban de la superioridad numerica y tecnica, rompiendo el mito de la "supremacia" de ellos.
Inventados nuevos programas para la educacion
Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- Recientemente, la Universidad Pedagogica Kim Hyong Jik desarrollo los programas de asistencia a la educacion que permiten impulsar de manera mas cientifica y profunda la formacion del personal calificado conforme a la epoca de industria de informatica.
Entrevistado con la Agencia Telegrafica Central de Corea, el director del Centro de Informacion Educacional del plantel docente, Ri Jin Sop, dijo como sigue:
Nuestro centro desarrollo nuevamente el sistema de leccion a distancia para poner en un nivel mas alto la calidad de la pedagogia universitaria.
Segun este sistema, los estudiantes podran recibir lecciones que quieran y hacer consultas y pruebas por medio del ordenador.
Ademas, inventamos programas para el estudio extraescolar de los alumnos primarios y secundarios, por ejemplo, matematica, logica y el sistema de ensayos simulados de fisica y los otros para ninos de jardin infantil tales como el estudio del idioma coreano, el conteo y la solfa.
A diferencia de los anteriores programas de ensenanza, las nuevas multimedias permiten a los alumnos repasar en su casa lo que aprendieron en la escuela escuchando otra vez explicaciones del maestro o estudiar de antemano lo que van a aprender.
Sirven tambien para que los padres sepan los terminos docentes y los modos de explicacion a fin de dirigir satisfactoriamente el estudio extraescolar de sus hijos.
Minju Joson condena escalada de provocacion militar de EE.UU.
Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- En un comentario individual publicado hoy, el rotativo Minju Joson denuncia la escalada de provocacion y amenaza militares de Estados Unidos contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
EE.UU. tolera tacitamente y hasta promueve las acciones bajas y viles de los guardias norteamericanos que obstaculizan el cumplimiento de mision de sus contrapartes de la RPDC en el area de reuniones de Phanmunjom, senala el comentarista y prosigue:
Hace poco, en lugar de pedir disculpas a la parte coreana que protesto dichas acciones y prometerle evitar la repeticion de tales casos, notifico que realizaria del 18 al 22 de agosto los ejercicios militares conjuntos "Ulji Freedom Guardian". Al mismo tiempo, anuncio que entraria en el mar frente a Pusan del Sur de Corea el ultramoderno portaaviones de propulsion nuclear "Ronald Reagan" que pertenece a la categoria "Nimitz" de maxima dimension.
Esto es una prueba evidente de que el imperio trata de agravar de manera intencional la situacion de la Peninsula Coreana.
Tales provocaciones militares de EE.UU. contra la RPDC, contraparte del dialogo, coinciden con los esfuerzos diplomaticos por eliminar las relaciones hostiles entre ambos paises.
Es que EE.UU. piensa que si intensifica la presion y la amenaza militares al paralelo del dialogo diplomatico, podria alcanzar mas "eficiencia" del dialogo doblegando a su contraparte y obligandole hacer importantes concesiones politicas.
Esto demuestra que el modo de solucionar los problemas con el garrote sigue siendo el favorito de EE.UU. en la realizacion de su politica exterior y que los politicos de este pais no se han liberado todavia de la concepcion de enfrentamiento de la vieja epoca.
La RPDC afirmo en varias ocasiones que la politica de garrote no es medio omnipotente ni mucho menos en el trato con si misma.
Si EE.UU. intenta solucionar con la fuerza el problema de relaciones con la RPDC, no traera otro resultado que llevar la situacion a la catastrofe.
Ahora es cuando EE.UU. y los paises interesados deben portarse correctamente dado que entraron en la importante fase para acabar con las bien arraigadas relaciones hostiles entre la RPDC y EE.UU. y establecer la paz y la estabilidad de la Peninsula Coreana mediante la desnuclearizacion de esta.
Sobre todo, esta prohibida la accion fuera de costumbre de EE.UU. como pedir el apreton de la mano con un punal en la otra.
Este pais debe tener cuidado al reflexionar seriamente de las graves consecuencias que emanen de sus acciones irresponsables.