Secy. Kim Jong Il sees samples and art works

Secy. Kim Jong Il sees products of soldiers

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- SECRETARY KIM JONG IL, SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY (KPA), ON TUESDAY SAW ANIMAL AND PLANT SAMPLES AND FINE ART WORKS PRODUCED BY SOLDIERS OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY. HE FIRST SAW THE SAMPLES OF RARE WILD ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF SEVERAL DOZEN KINDS OF KOREA. SEEING HUNDREDS OF SAMPLES ASSOCIATED WITH SINCERITY OF SOLDIERS, HE EXPRESSED GREAT SATISFACTION AND HIGHLY PRAISED SOLDIERS FOR HAVING DONE GOOD THINGS FOR POSTERITY. THIS NOBLE DEED CAN BE DONE ONLY BY KPA SOLDIERS WHO HAVE A RESOLUTION TO DEVOTEDLY FIGHT FOR THE PROSPERITY AND SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY AND FIRM CONFIDENCE IN THE VICTORY OF REVOLUTION, HE NOTED. HE SAID THE SAMPLES SHOULD BE SENT TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AND THAT THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS SHOULD BE EDUCATED TO LEARN FROM THE PATRIOTISM OF SOLDIERS AND BECOME TRUE SERVANTS FOR THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE. HE THEN APPRECIATED FINE ART WORKS, INCLUDING KOREAN PAINTINGS, OIL PAINTINGS, JEWEL PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, EMBROIDERIES AND CRAFTS EXHIBITED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSEUM OF THE MINISTRY OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMED FORCES. HE EXPRESSED GREAT SATISFACTION WITH THE MANY WORKS OF HIGH IDEOLOGICAL AND ARTISTIC VALUE THAT REFLECT THE HEROIC STAMINA AND FIGHTING SPIRIT OF THE KPA. HE SHOWED HIGH APPRECIATION FOR THE SOLDIERS' WORKS. THE KPA SOLDIERS ARE SO PREPARED IN POLITICO-IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND MILITARY TECHNIQUE THAT THEY EACH CAN MATCH A HUNDRED FOES AND THEY HAVE HIGH CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC QUALITIES, HE SAID. PRESENT ON THE OCCASION WERE KPA VICE MARSHALS JO MYONG ROK AND KIM YONG CHUN, KPA GENERALS HYON CHOL HAE, KIM HA GYU AND PAK JAE GYONG AND COL. GENERALS RI MYONG SU AND KIM TAE SIK. SECRETARIES OF THE WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHOE THAE BOK, KIM KUK THAE, KIM KI NAM AND KIM YONG SUN= FIRST SECRETARY OF THE KIM IL SUNG SOCIALIST YOUTH LEAGUE CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHOE RYONG HAE= AND FIRST VICE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS OF THE WPK CENTRAL COMMITTEE RI YONG CHOL AND JANG SONG THAEK WERE ALSO ON HAND.

Publications praising Secy. Kim Jong Il found in s. Korea

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- 200 COPIES OF PUBLICATIONS PRAISING THE RESPECTED SECRETARY KIM JONG IL WERE FOUND IN TAEDOK-RI, HOJO-MYON, WONJU CITY, SOUTH KOREAN KANGWON PROVINCE ON MARCH 4, SAID A RADIO REPORT FROM SEOUL. SUCH LITERATURE WAS FOUND HERE AND THERE, STIRRING UP PASSERS-BY WHILE REVERENCE FOR HIM WAS GROWING AMONG THE SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLE.

"Study Room of Juche" opened in Nicaragua

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- THE NICARAGUAN COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF KIMJONGILISM OPENED THE "STUDY ROOM OF JUCHE" ON FEB. 9 ON THE OCCASION OF THE 55TH BIRTHDAY OF SECRETARY KIM JONG IL. PUT ON DISPLAY AT THE STUDY ROOM ARE FAMOUS WORKS OF THE GREAT LEADERS PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG AND SECRETARY KIM JONG IL INCLUDING "KIM IL SUNG'S WORKS" AND "KIM IL SUNG'S SELECTED WORKS" AND MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA. AFTER THE OPENING OF THE ROOM A LECTURE MEETING ON THE REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AND GREATNESS OF SECRETARY KIM JONG IL WAS HELD, AT WHICH THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE SAID: SECRETARY KIM JONG IL IS THE GREAT MAN OF THE CENTURY WHOM THE WORLD'S REVOLUTIONARIES SHOULD FOLLOW. HE HAS PERFORMED IMMORTAL FEATS FOR THE TIMES AND HISTORY BY CONDUCTING TIRELESS REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES WITH HIS HIGH INTENTION TO ACCOMPLISH THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE PIONEERED BY PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG FROM HIS EARLY YEARS. IT IS THE NATURAL DUTY AND GREAT HONOR OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES TO MAKE A DEEP STUDY OF HIS REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AND GREATNESS AND WIDELY PROPAGANDISE THEM.

"KCTU" declares fifth-stage general strike

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- THE "KOREAN CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS" (KCTU) IN SOUTH KOREA HELD A RALLY IN FRONT OF THE "NATIONAL ASSEMBLY" BUILDING WEDNESDAY WITH THE ATTENDANCE OF ABOVE 300 LOCAL UNION LEADERS AND CALLED FOR THE REAMENDMENT OF "LABOUR LAWS", ACCORDING TO A RADIO REPORT FROM SEOUL. THE KCTU DECLARED THAT IT WOULD GO ON THE FIFTH-STAGE GENERAL STRIKE UNLESS THE PUPPET AUTHORITIES REAMEND THE RETROGRESSIVELY REVISED "LABOUR LAWS" UNTIL MARCH 8. IT ALSO SAID OVER 1,000 CHAIRMEN OF AFFILIATED UNIONS WILL STAGE A SIT-IN IN FRONT OF THE "NATIONAL ASSEMBLY" BUILDING FROM MARCH 6.LARGE-SCALE PROTEST RALLIES WILL BE HELD IN 20 ODD AREAS INCLUDING SEOUL ON MARCH 8, THE ORGANIZATION ADDED.

American newspapers mark birthday of Secy. Kim Jong Il

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS DEDICATED ARTICLES TO THE 55TH BIRTHDAY OF SECRETARY KIM JONG IL. THE NEW YORK TIMES DATED FEB. 16 CARRIED A SPECIAL WRITEUP UNDER THE HEADLINE "WARM CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LEADER ON HIS 55TH BIRTHDAY". THE PAPER CARRIED A COLOR PICTURE OF COMRADE KIM JONG IL AND, BELOW IT, AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "THE GREATEST HERO PRODUCED BY JUCHE KOREA", WHICH SAID: THE RESPECTED SECRETARY KIM JONG IL, WHO IS AN OUTSTANDING THINKER AND THEORETICIAN, A PROMINENT LEADER AND IS POSSESSED OF NOBLE VIRTUES, IS THE GREAT SUN OF THE 21ST CENTURY. THE WORKERS' WORLD OF FEBRUARY FOURTH WEEKLY ISSUE CARRIED AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "SUPPORT TO SOCIALIST KOREA". THE PAPER STRESSED SECRETARY KIM JONG IL TOOK OVER THE CAUSE OF THE GREAT PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG AND IS WISELY LEADING THE KOREAN PEOPLE TO SOCIALISM.

Streamer celebrating Secy. Kim Jong Il's birthday appears in s. Korea

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- A BALLOON AND A STREAMER CELEBRATING THE 55TH BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT LEADER SECRETARY KIM JONG IL WERE SEEN IN THE SKY ABOVE MAESAN-DONG, SUWON CITY, ON FEB. 16, MOVING INHABITANTS, SAID THE SEOUL- BASED RADIO VOICE OF NATIONAL SALVATION QUOTING INFORMATION OF THE KYONGGI PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF SOUTH KOREA. THE BALLOON 1.5 METRES IN DIAMETER WAS TIED WITH A STRING SOME 30 METRES HIGH IN THE AIR. WRITTEN ON THE BALLOON IN RED WERE BIG LETTERS "CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LEADER KIM JONG IL, A PEERLESS GREAT MAN, ON HIS 55TH BIRTHDAY !" ON THE FRONT SIDE OF THE HANGING STREAMER 2.5 METRES LONG AND 1 METRES WIDE, WERE BLUE LETTERS "WE SINCERELY WISH A LONGEVITY TO THE LEADER KIM JONG IL, THE GREAT MAN FOR ALL AGES !" AND ON THE BACK WERE LETTERS "THE PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH WAIT FOR THE GREAT LEADER OF THE REUNIFIED COUNTRY KIM JONG IL ! THE FEBRUARY 16 FELLOWSHIP SOCIETY."

Press review

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- PAPERS HERE TODAY REPORT THAT SECRETARY KIM JONG IL, CHAIRMAN OF THE DPRK NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMISSION AND SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY (KPA), SAW ANIMAL AND PLANT SAMPLES AND FINE ART WORKS PRODUCED BY SOLDIERS OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY. UNDER THE TITLE "SOCIALIST CAUSE IS INVINCIBLE AS IT IS LED BY OUR GENERAL" RODONG SINMUN EDITS ARTICLES STRESSING THAT COMRADE KIM JONG IL'S INSPECTION OF UNIT 212 OF THE KPA, WHICH DEFENDS THE FOREFRONT ON THE WEST COAST, IS THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES OF THE GREAT DEFENDER FOR THE SECURITY OF THE FATHERLAND AND PEOPLE. IT CARRIES NEWS THAT THE 55TH BIRTHDAY OF SECRETARY KIM JONG IL WAS CELEBRATED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND THE NICARAGUAN COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF KIMJONGILISM OPENED THE "STUDY ROOM OF JUCHE". GIVEN IN THE PRESS IS NEWS OF PREPARATIONS FOR SOWING ON COOPERATIVE FARMS AND INNOVATIONS IN COAL PRODUCTION. PAPERS CARRY NEWS THAT THE KOREAN CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS IN SOUTH KOREA DECLARED THE FIFTH-STAGE GENERAL STRIKE CALLING FOR REAMENDING THE EVIL LABOUR LAW. PAPERS RUN ARTICLES STRESSING THAT KIM YOUNG SAM, A KINGPIN OF IRREGULARITIES WHO DESTROYED THE SOUTH KOREAN ECONOMY, MUST BE PUNISHED. GIVEN IN THE PRESS ARE REFLECTIONS ON IT AT HOME AND ABROAD. RODONG SINMUN CARRIES A COMMENTARY DENOUNCING THE "PARTY AND GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE" STAGED BY THE KIM YOUNG SAM GROUP AS A POLITICAL FARCE TO GET OUT OF THE CRISIS. THE PAPER OBSERVES THE NATIONAL DAY OF GHANA. THE PAPER PRINTS AN ARTICLE TITLED "REACTIONARY NATURE OF 'LEGALISM' ON THE LIPS OF IMPERIALISTS".

Ghanaian National Day observed

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- RODONG SINMUN TODAY DEDICATES A SIGNED ARTICLE TO THE NATIONAL DAY OF GHANA. SINCE THE INDEPENDENCE THE GHANAIAN PEOPLE HAVE CONSOLIDATED NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND MADE EFFORTS TO BUILD A NEW SOCIETY, THE PAPER SAYS, AND GOES ON: THE KOREAN PEOPLE ARE REJOICED OVER THE ACHIEVEMENTS MADE BY THE GHANAIAN PEOPLE IN BUILDING A NEW LIFE. THE KOREAN AND GHANAIAN PEOPLES HAVE HAD THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS FROM LONG AGO. THE KOREAN PEOPLE WARMLY CONGRATULATE THE GHANAIAN PEOPLE ON THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE AND WISH THEM NEW SUCCESS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO BUILD A NEW LIFE.

Rodong Sinmun on Kim Young Sam's political trick

Liquidation of corrupt power urged

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- 508 KOREAN RESIDENTS IN NORTH AMERICA JOINTLY PUBLISHED A DECLARATION ON SITUATION ON FEB. 22 DENOUNCING THE RAILROADING OF THE FASCIST LAWS IN SOUTH KOREA AND DEMANDING THE LIQUIDATION OF THE CORRUPT POWER, ACCORDING TO A SOUTH KOREAN NEWSPAPER REPORT. CONTENDING THAT THE "CIVILIAN ERA" HAS DISAPPEARED AND A BLACK ANGEL OF CORRUPTNESS AND DICTATORSHIP REVIVED, THE DECLARATION SAID FELLOW COUNTRYMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD HAVE TURNED THEIR BACK ON THE KIM YOUNG SAM "GOVERNMENT". THE PRESENT "GOVERNMENT" HAS MADE A PRETEXT OF "COMPETITIVE POWER" AND "SECURITY" FOR THE RETROGRESSIVELY AMENDED "LABOUR LAWS" AND THE "LAW ON THE AGENCY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING" WHICH WERE RAILROADED. BUT IF IT IS TRULY WILLING TO INCREASE THE COMPETITIVE POWER AND ENSURE SECURITY, IT SHOULD ERADICATE POLITICS-BUSINESS COLLUSION, IRREGULARITIES AND PLUTOCRATIC DESPOTISM AND PROVIDE THE PEOPLE WITH GENUINE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, THE DECLARATION STRESSED. OVERSEAS COMPATRIOTS ARE JOINING THE FELLOW COUNTRYMEN IN THE SOUTH IN THE ALL-PEOPLE MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY, IT SAID, EXTENDING SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE WORKERS' STRIKE AND MOVEMENT AGAINST DICTATORSHIP AND CORRUPTNESS.

Health care for old people in Korea

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- THE NUMBER OF MACROBIANS IS ON A STEADY RISE IN KOREA. THE LAST DECADE HAS WITNESSED FIVE TIMES AS MANY MACROBIANS ABOVE 90 YEARS OF AGE AS THE PREVIOUS ONE DID. THOSE ABOVE A HUNDRED YEARS OF AGE IN 1993 WERE NEARLY THREE TIMES AS MANY AS IN 1971. THIS IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE STATE'S DEEP CARE AND FAVORS FOR THE HEALTH OF OLD PEOPLE. THERE ARE GERIATRIC SECTIONS IN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN ALL PROVINCES OF THE COUNTRY, WHERE OLD PEOPLE HAVE REGULAR CHECK-UPS SO THAT DISEASES ARE DETECTED IN EARLY STAGES AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IS GIVEN IN TIME. DOCTORS IN CHARGE OF OLD PEOPLE MAKE HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CALLS TO LOOK AFTER THEIR HEALTH SYSTEMATICALLY AND SCIENTIFICALLY, SUPPLY THEM WITH TONICS AND PROMOTE THEIR HEALTH. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO LONGEVITY OF OLD PEOPLE IS A CONCERN OF THE STATE. IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF PYONGYANG, THERE HAS BEEN SET UP A JOINT STUDY CENTRE OF GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY UNDER THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, WHICH HELPS MAKE GREAT PROGRESS IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF PEOPLE'S HEALTH. THE CENTRE HAS ABLE SCIENTISTS AND TECHNICIANS AND MODERN MEDICAL FACILITIES. IT ISSUES A MAGAZINE "SENILITY AND HEALTH" AND AN INFORMATION BULLETIN REGULARLY TO DISSEMINATE KOREA'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN JUCHE-BASED RESEARCH INTO MEDICAL SCIENCE TO SCORES OF COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD AND POSITIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL GERIATRICS. KOREA WILL HAVE A LARGER NUMBER OF "FAMILIES AND VILLAGES OF MACROBIANS."

Rodong Sinmun discloses reactionary nature of "legalism"

PYONGYANG, MARCH 6 (KCNA) -- RODONG SINMUN TODAY CARRIES A SIGNED ARTICLE LAYING BARE THE REACTIONARY NATURE OF "LEGALISM" ADVERTIZED BY THE IMPERIALISTS AND THEIR MOUTHPIECES. IN AN ARTICLE TITLED "REACTIONARY NATURE OF 'LEGALISM' ON THE LIPS OF IMPERIALISTS" THE DAILY SAYS THE BOURGEOIS "LEGALISM" IS AN UNSCIENTIFIC REACTIONARY SOPHISM WHICH DISTORTS CORRELATIONS BETWEEN LAW AND POLITICS. IT GOES ON: THE REACTIONARY NATURE OF "LEGALISM" IS EXPRESSED IN DISTORTING THE CLASS CHARACTERS AND ESSENCE OF LAW AND VOCIFERATING ABOUT "ABSTRACTION" AND "SUPERCLASS CHARACTER" TO DESCRIBE AS IF THE BOURGEOIS LAW REFLECTS THE WILL AND INTERESTS OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. THE LAW REFLECTS ONLY THE WILL AND INTERESTS OF THE CLASS IN POWER AND IS THE GENERAL RULE OF CONDUCT WHOSE OBSERVANCE IS GUARANTEED BY THE STATE POWER, A MEANS OF THE CLASS DICTATORSHIP. ACCORDINGLY, THE LAW ASSUMES CLASS CHARACTER IN ANY SOCIETY. "LEGALISM" IS AIMED AT DISTORTING THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE LAW AND POLITICS AND BETWEEN THE LAW AND STATE, ABSOLUTIZING "PREDOMINANCE OF LAW OVER POLITICS" AND "LAW OVER STATE" AND COVERING UP THE REACTIONARY RULE OF THE IMPERIALIST AND CAPITALIST STATE. PREACHING "SUPERCLASS CHARACTER" OF THE LAW, A MEANS OF ADMINISTERING POLITICS, AND "PREDOMINANCE OF LAW OVER POLITICS AND STATE" IS AN UNSCIENTIFIC LOGIC DISTORTING THE ESSENCE OF THE LAW AND POLITICS AND THEIR CORRELATIONS. THE IMPERIALISTS ARE ADMINISTERING THE ANTI-SOCIAL DICTATORIAL POLITICS MORE EASILY UNDER THE SIGNBOARD OF "LEGALISM" AND LAWFULLY CRACKING DOWN ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR INDEPENDENCE UNDER THE CLOAK OF "CONTROL BY LAW". HEREIN LIES ONE OF THE REACTIONARY NATURE OF "LEGALISM" ON THE LIPS OF THE IMPERIALISTS. "LEGALISM" IS ALSO AIMED AT PRETENDING TO FULLY GUARANTEE THE FREEDOM AND EQUALITY OF ALL THE PEOPLE, WHILE DEFENDING THE MODERN CAPITALIST SYSTEM WHICH OBLITERATES THEIR FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND VITAL RIGHT. "LEGALISM" IS THE MOST REACTIONARY POLITICAL IDEA AND A MODE OF RULE TO CONCEAL THE BOURGEOIS DICTATORSHIP OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS AND FULLY ENSURE THE IMPERIALISTS' POLITICAL DOMINATION OVER THE WORKING MASSES.