Foreigners on military parade in Korea
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The military parade staged at Kim Il Sung Square on April 25 in the presence of Secretary Kim Jong Il is evoking great repercussions upon foreigners.
Ivan Rodriguez, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Dominica, said: I saw such a military parade for the first time in my life.
Through the parade, I could know well that the leader, the party and the people are united in one mind in Korea.
It demonstrates the stamina, valour and might of the Korean people to smash any imperialist allied forces at one stroke.
Military attache of the Cuban embassy Arnaldo Fernandez Rodriguez noted that the military parade clearly showed the absolute trust of the Korean People's Army in its Secretary Kim Jong Il.
It also marked an important occasion in clearly demonstrating the might of the KPA to the enemy, he said.
Military attache of the Vietnamese embassy Vu Dinh Thang had this to say:
I have come to more firmly believe that the Korean People's Army guided by Secretary Kim Jong Il will always emerge victorious.
He expressed the belief that the KPA would defend the banner of socialism with weapons of justice.
Floral baskets laid before Statues of President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Officers and men of the Korean People's Army (KPA), working people and school children and students laid floral baskets before the Statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on April 25 on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the heroic KPA.
Laid before the statue was a floral basket sent by Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the KPA.
Organs, organisations, working people from all walks of life and school children and students laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers and made bows before the statue.
Floral baskets, bouquets and flowers were laid before the Statues of President Kim Il Sung in different parts of the country on the same day.
KPA servicemen pay their respects to President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Generals and officers of three services of the Korean People's Army visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Friday to pay their respects to President Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the 65th founding anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.
Among them were KPA Marshal Ri Ul Sol, KPA vice-marshals Jo Myong Rok, Kim Yong Chun, Paek Hak Rim, Kim Il Chol, Jon Jae Son, Pak Ki So and Ri Jong San, commanders of services and arms, generals and officers of the KPA.
Flags of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and colours were set up and guards of honour of three services of the KPA were lining up on both sides of the Statue of President Kim Il Sung.
Laid before the statue was a floral basket sent in the joint name of the WPK Central Military Commission and the DPRK National Defence Commission.
KPA generals and officers gave salutations up to the Statue of President Kim Il Sung in humble reverence and went upstairs to make bows to him lying in state.
65th anniversary of KPA celebrated
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Colourful ceremonies took place in Korea in celebration of the 65th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.
An evening gala of Pyongyang youth and students was held at Kim Il Sung Square on Friday evening.
The platform was taken up by Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol, Kim Pyong Sik, Kim Yong Nam, So Yun Sok, and other senior officials of the party, the state and the army and leading officials of working people's organizations.
Reviewing stands were occupied by capital and local representatives, KPA men and officers and working people in the city.
Present on invitation were delegations and delegates from different countries, diplomatic representatives in Korea and foreigners.
The youth and students danced to the tune of various songs.
People's delegations visited units of the KPA on the army day. Ceremonies for conveying gifts sent by Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, were held at KPA units.
Members of the delegations saw trainings of soldiers, looked round barracks and mess rooms and conversed with soldiers.
Meanwhile, artistes of capital and local art troupes gave their performances at KPA units on the army day.
Press review
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Papers here today make up special editions with reports on ceremonies on the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 65th birthday of the Korean People's Army.
Papers devote several pages to an account and photographs of a grand military parade held in Pyongyang to commemorate the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 65th birthday of the Korean People's Army and a picture of Secretary Kim Jong Il waving to the parade columns.
Conspicuous in the papers are news and photographs of a solemn ceremony of paying homage and pledging loyalty to Generalissimo Kim Il Sung held at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
Papers convey news that representatives of the three services of the Korean People's Army visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace and expressed respect to the President, that servicemen, working people, students and school children and overseas compartiots laid floral baskests before the President's statues on Mansu Hill and other places throughout the country and that people's delegations and artists visited Korean People's Army units.
Papers report that the paraders marched along streets in Pyongyang enjoying warm welcome from citizens.
Papers carry news that an evening gala of youth and students was held in Pyongyang and children joined the Korean children's union on the occasion of the 65th birthday of the Korean People's Army.
Floral baskets on President Kim Il Sung's birth anniversary
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, sent a floral basket to the Korean embassy in Moscow on April 15 on the occasion of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
The resident Cambodian mission in UNESCO and Quidem Co. and Sare Co. of France sent floral baskets to the Korean general mission in Paris. Floral baskets were sent to the Korean embassy in Damascus by general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lebanese Communist Party Farouk Dahrouj and Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Democratic Front Nayef Hawatmeh, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Syria Wisal Farha Bagdash and the director of the political department of the Syrian Defense Ministry, the Central Committee of the Jordanian Communist Party and the Palestine National Liberation Movement.
The Korean embassy in Kinshasa was visited on April 15 And 16 by the delegation of the political parties, which signed the Pyongyang Declaration, led by Otete Gaston Mboyo, National Chairman of the National Movement of the Genuine Lumumbist Combantants of Zaire, National Chairman of the Workers' Party of Zaire Emile Kibala Bey A Nsien and the Chairman of the Zaire-Korea Friendship Association.
A ceremony for laying a floral basket before a portrait of President Kim Il Sung took place at the Kim Il Sung Agriculture College in Cuba on April 12.
CPLA chief of general staff on Sino-Korean friendship
Beijing, April 24 (KCNA) -- Fu Quanyou, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, delivered a toast at the party given at the DPRK embassy here on April 24 on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the heroic Korean People's Army.
He said that the peoples and armies of the two countries, which are in lips-and-teeth relations, have forged revolutionary friendship, sharing weal and woe with each other in the struggle against the common enemy.
It is the invariable policy of the Communist Party of China and the desire of the Chinese people and army as well to constantly consolidate and develop this great friendship, he said.
He pointed out that in order to implement the behests of President Kim Il Sung, the officers and men of the Korean People's Army, together with the Korean people, are pushing ahead with all the construction work in singlehearted unity, giving full play to the glorious revolutionary tradition under the leadership of the Supreme Commander Secretary Kim Jong Il.
He sincerely wished them new successes in their great work.
We are convinced that the Sino-Korean friendship which was forged and cultivated by Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai and President Kim Il Sung and which experienced the trials of the war will be handed down through generations and shine for all ages thanks to the common efforts of the two countries.
Documents on s. Korea's human rights record distributed
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Official documents concerning the human rights record of south Korea were distributed during the discussion of human rights of all the prisoners at the 53rd meeting of the United Nations Commission on human rights.
One of the documents is a decision of a working group. It says that as the arrest of Kim Sam Sok, Ki Se Mun and others on charge of the "national security law" is illegal, a step should be taken in compliance with the international declaration of human rights and articles and principle of the convention on citizens' political rights.
Another document is a report submitted by the special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and dishonorable treatment and punishment. It says many students were arrested and brutally suppressed and persecuted during the August 15 pro-reunification festival in south Korea.
Leaflets found scattered in s. Korea
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Some 200 copies of a leaflet introducing the "Song of General Kim Jong Il" were found scattered along railways in Jonju area on April 11, according to the Seoul-based radio voice of national salvation quoting the information of the north Jolla provincial committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK).
Written on the front side of the leaflet printed in the name of the February 16 fellowship society were letters "Song of Peerless Great Man, the 'Song of General Kim Jong Il' has come into being. The nation's aspiration and the century-old desire were achieved at last".
On the back side were the "Song of General Kim Jong Il" with the musical note against the Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu.
85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung marked in s. Korea
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The information of the C.C., the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on colourful commemorations held in south Korea on the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, was released in Seoul on April 21.
The information said:
The NDFSK and patriotic fighting organizations set April 10-April 20 as a period of commemorations and held such colourful events as commemorative meetings, lecture meetings, symposiums, film shows, book and photo exhibitions, meetings of singing and meetings of pledging loyalty.
Letters to General Kim Jong Il were adopted at commemorative meetings.
Organizations under the NDFSK and patriotic fighting organizations laid floral baskets and bunches of flowers before the protrait of President Kim Il Sung and made bows to him in humble reverence and took a loyal pledge on April 15.
The radio voice of national salvation aired a special broadcasting over April 15-17 and the newspaper Kugukjonson edited special write-ups.
Students in Seoul and Suanbo, south Korea, where President Kim Il Sung had visited, planted memorial trees.
Considering April 15 to be a greatest eternal holiday for the nation, doctors gave free medical treatment and taxi drivers rendered services free of charge.
Religionists rang the bells of churches and said mass to pray for the eternity of President Kim Il Sung, which moved people.
The information stressed that the events, which were held on the occasion of the April holiday by the NDFSK, patriotic fighting organizations and people from all walks of life under difficult circumstances, show how ardently the south Korean people are longing for President Kim Il Sung and how reverentially they are looking up to General Kim Jong Il.
Undying exploits in army building
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The national art exhibition marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army is going on at the Korean Art Gallery.
On display are pictures of President Kim Il Sung, the founder of the Korean People's Army, and Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the revolutionary armed forces. Also displayed are more than 100 pictures on the development of the people's army into a-match-for-a-hundred revolutionary armed forces, its heroic defence of the socialist homeland and struggle for national reunification.
Seeing the displays, the visitors look back with deep emotion on the undying exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il in strengthening and developing the people's army into an invincible army.
In Korea, the cause of army building was started and triumphantly advanced by President Kim Il Sung.
He put forward an original idea of building revolutionary armed forces of the nation and founded the Korean People's revolutionary Army (the then anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army) on April 25, 1932.
Since then, the history of the heroic KPA has developed.
He exerted great efforts to strengthen the revolutionary armed forces for nearly 70 years.
He set forth original ideas, theories and policies on turning the whole army into an army of cadres, arming it with modern weapons and highly displaying the traits of army-people unity and the unity of officers and men.
He led to a brilliant victory two revolutionary wars against the one-million-strong army of the Japanese imperialists and the U.S.-led allied imperialists, ushering in a new era of anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle.
For this, the whole humankind praises him as General without an equal in the world.
He successfully solved the issue of continued leadership so that the people's army could be ever strengthened and developed.
Secretary Kim Jong Il, possessed of literary and military accomplishments and outstanding commanding ability, has led the army from more than 30 years ago, remaining unfailingly loyal to the President.
In this period, he has given on-site guidance to nearly 1,600 units of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces.
In the 1990s, he was elected Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The undying exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in army building all his life are being successfully carried forward by Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Secy. Kim Jong Il has picture taken with parade commanding officers
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), today met and had a picture taken with commanding officers of the military parade which took place in commemoration of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 65th founding anniversary of the KPA.
He highly praised the commanding officers, who exalted the achievements of the Workers' Party of Korea and the leader in army building and demonstrated the militant spirit and invincible might of the a-match-for-a-hundred revolutionary armed forces.
Present there were KPA Vice Marshals Jo Myong Rok, Kim Yong Chun, Paek Hak Rim, Kim Il Chol, Jon Jae Son, Pak Ki So and Ri Jong San, generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, commanders of arms and services and other generals.
Secy. Kim Jong Il has picture taken with Chongryon delegations
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il met and had a souvenir picture taken with the delegation of Koreans from Japan headed by Ho Jong Man, chief vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and other delegtions of Chongryon .
Members of the delegations extended warmest congratulations to Secretary Kim Jong Il and wished him a long life in good health, carrying the unanimous mind of the entire officials of Chongryon and 700,000 Koreans in Japan on the occasions of the 85th birth anniversary of Generalissimo Kim Il Sung and the 65th anniversary of the Korean People's Army.
Secy. Kim Jong Il meets KPA art propaganda squads
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, today met and posed for a souvenir photograph with members of the art propaganda squads of large combined units of the three services of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on the occasion of the 65th KPA founding anniversary.
On hand were KPA vice marshals Jo Myong Rok, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Il Chol and Jon Jae Son, KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and KPA colonel general Ri Myong Su.
Secretary Kim Jong Il highly praised the art propaganda squad members for making great contributions to the strengthening and development of the revolutionary armed forces by rousing KPA servicemen to feats with militant propaganda and agitation activities at military posts.
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