Gen. Secy. Kim Jong Il enjoys art performance
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), enjoyed an art performance given by company soldiers of KPA unit no. 5484 on Sunday.
Among the audience were director of the KPA General Political Department Jo Myong Rok, Chief of the KPA General staff Kim Yong Chun, KPA Vice Marshal Ri Ha Il, KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Ha Gyu and Pak Jae Gyong and other generals of the KPA.
Secretaries Kye Ung Thae, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yong Sun and other senior officials of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee were also present.
The colorful program included a dialogic poem and song "The leader has come to our post," a narrative and chorus "Let us sing of our pride in having the General" and a choral poem recitation and chorus "We will defend the headquarters of revolution with our lives."
After seeing the inspiring performance, General Kim Jong Il expressed high appreciation for their successful performance, noting with great satisfaction that the soldiers not only have become invincible combatants but also have high cultural standards.
He added that brisk revolutionary art activities among soldiers are instrumental in increasing the combat capacity of the unit.
General Kim Jong Il's pictures printed in s. Korean publications
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- South Korean publications recently gave wide publicity to the noble traits of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, illustrated by his pictures, according to the information bulletin published by the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea.
Hankuk Ilbo and Kyunghyang Daily News printed pictures of General Kim Jong Il firing a pistol and an automatic rifle.
Weekly Korea, with a portrait of the General, said that the leader Kim Jong Il showed the supreme filial piety for three years after the death of President Kim Il Sung.
Seoul Shinmun printed a picture of the General paying respects to the President at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
Printed in the magazine Mal was a picture of the General standing on the platform of the military parade marking the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 65th anniversary of the Korean People's Army.
U.S. moves to stifle DPRK under fire
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The United States is now cooperating with its followers to make a preemptive attack on and stifle the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Rodong Sinmun today, commenting on this, says that involved in the current U.S.-Japan joint military manoeuvres are the U.S. fighter planes present in south Korea and the aircraft carrier independence which participated in the Foal Eagle war exercises.
The operation theatre is the sea near the Korean Peninsula, the news analyst says, and goes on:
The joint manoeuvres now under way fully reveal the aggressive, anti-DPRK nature of the new "Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defence Cooperation".
By the "event of contingency" around Japan they mean a "case of emergency" on the Korean Peninsula. The new "guidelines", therefore, focus on the DPRK.
We are compelled to take countermeasures to cope with the frantic anti-DPRK war gamble of the U.S. and its followers.
CPRF secretariat demands release of So Jun Sik
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF) issued the information bulletin no. 750 denouncing the south Korean fascist clique for imprisoning So Jun Sik, chairman of the "human rights movement committee", on charges of violation of the "National Security Law" (NSL).
He had served prison terms for 17 years after he was arrested in April 1971 while studying at Seoul National University as a Japan-born Korean student, on charges of involvement in the false "campus spy-ring case".
After release, he formed the "Human Rights Movement Committee" and conducted righteous activities in the teeth of various restrictions.
The information bulletin said that his sponsorship of a festival of a film on historical facts cannot be a crime.
That is why human rights and democratic organizations including the "Bar Association for Democratic Society" of south Korea strongly urge the fascist regime to stop the repression of the human rights film festival and release him at once, it said, adding:
The south Korean puppets should imediately release the illegaly arrested So Jun Sik, abolish the "NSL" and stop the violation of human rights and democracy.
Anniversary of Japan-Korea Cultural Interchange Association marked
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Tokyo on Nov. 6 to mark the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Japan-Korea Cultural Interchange Association.
Present there were Chief Director Ryosho Hayashi and other deputy chief directors, Secretary General and directors of the association, Chairman of the Japan Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea Motofumi Makieda, and other delegates of solidarity organisations.
A delegation of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries on a visit to Japan and O Hyong Jin, Vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, were invited there.
The Chief Director of the association in his report at the meeting referred to the course traversed by the association for 25 years.
Japan should discontinue the hostile policy toward the DPRK and make active efforts for an early normalisation of the Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations, he said.
Then followed a reception.
The speakers at the reception called for further striving for the early normalisation of Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations and strengthening and development of the Japan-Korea cultural interchange.
WFDY denounces "Foal Eagle" joint war manoeuvres
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The coordination council of the World Federation of Democratic Youth published a statement on Nov. 5 denouncing the "Foal Eagle" joint war maneouvres of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet clique.
The statement said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is growing more strained owing to the "Foal Eagle".
It demanded that such war manoeuvres not be staged again.
It noted: The tieup between the United States and south Korea cannot be justified today when the United States is vociferating about the "four-way talks"= It is an open challenge to the world peace-loving forces.
The statement called upon all the member organisations of the WFDY and friendly organisations to conduct solidarity activities denouncing the war manoeuvres.
Nature on Mt. Kuwol
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- An increasing number of people are now visiting Mt. Kuwol.
The five famous mountains of Korea include mts. Paektu, Kumgang, Myohyang, Kuwol and Jiri.
It is said that the mountain is called Mt. Kuwol (Mt. September) because it is most beautiful in September with yellow and red leaves.
When autumn comes, the mountain is covered with tree-leaves and grass-blades all red and yellow.
On Sahwang Peak (954 metres), the highest peak of the mountain, you can enjoy a bird's-eye view of the sea, towns, rural villages and factories.
The weather of the mountain not far from Pyongyang is moderate. Even in summer the mountain provides the people with a good place to rest in. The mean annual temperature is 10 degrees and the rainfall is some 860 milimetres. The tempo of the wind is 3 metres per second.
The streams through valleys, waterfalls, ponds and thick forests add to the joy of the visitors.
For its natural and geographical features the mountain has many kinds of animals and plants.
The state set up a nature reserve in the area for the protection and proliferation of animals and plants.
More than 600 kinds of plants, including pine-nut, pine, chestnut, maple and other 82 kinds of tall trees, grow in the mountain. Wild insam (Ginseng), schizandra chinensis, codolnopsis pilosula and many other herbs live in it as well.
On the mountain there are more than one hundred kinds of animals and birds, including roe deer, wild rabbit, pheasant, black-naped oriole and migratory grosbeak.
Rana coreana and pinus bankiana are natural monuments.
Taylor stigmatized as human dreg
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- William Taylor, Vice Director of the U.S. Centre of Strategic and International Studies recently, in an article he contributed to the Washington Post, took issue with the DPRK again over the "human rights problem". He said the light water reactor supply and humanitarian food assistance should be discontinued.
He, styling himself a scholar, would not have made such remark, inviting worldwide ridicule, if he had had a proper thinking pattern and a sound sense of the time.
The LWR supply is an important project under the DPRK-U.S. framework agreement, which set a milestone in the improvement of bilateral relations. It is good developments that the U.S. and other countries are taking active part in the project. However, Taylor, who has nothing to do with the project, is despicably pouring cold water on the project.
His remark is apparently abuses against the U.S. Administration and those countries that are taking part in the project. His abuses, however, are as foolish as trying to sweep the sea with a broom.
Many countries and international organizations have rendered food and other relief goods to the DPRK, which has suffered from repeated flood damage, encouraging the Korean people in their "arduous march".
Taylor's abuses are an undisguised challenge to the international usage and humanitarian principles concerning disasters.
Taylor even talked about "collapse" of the DPRK. Before he said if the U.S. gave no "assistance" to the DPRK, it would "collapse" soon. But this time he said the DPRK should be let to go down by itself without assistance.
His remark is not enough to hurt our invincible and solid system. But it has sparked off the resentment of the Korean people. He, who once made eyes at the DPRK, is now maliciously slandering it.
From the beginning of the '90s, he had visited the DPRK more than once for "improvement of DPRK-U.S. ties", speaking highly of it.
He expressed sympathy with the DPRK's will and stand and voiced willingness to make efforts for the improvement of DPRK-U.S. relations. Now, however, he has reduced to a mouthpiece of the south Korean "Agency for National Security Planning", bribed by it.
No matter how faithfully serving the south Korean puppets, such a human dreg has nothing to get but worldwide ridicule and denunciation.
Greetings to fifth national meeting of Revolutionary Party of Tanzania
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea today sent a message of greetings to the fifth national meeting of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania.
The message expresses the conviction that the fifth national meeting of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania will mark an important occasion in the revolutionary party's activity for further strengthening the party and achieving the independent development of the country.
It also expresses the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties will grow stronger in the idea of independence, peace and friendship, and wishes the fifth national meeting of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania excellent success.
Gift to Gen. Secy. Kim Jong Il from Danish Party
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Communist Party of Denmark.
It was conveyed to an official concerned by Anton Nielsen, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Denmark and representative of the party, on a visit to the DPRK.
S. Korea accused of trying to check Japanese delegation's visit to DPRK
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK-Japan Friendship Society issued a statement today, accusing the south Korean puppets of putting a spoke in the wheel of the moves for the improvement of DPRK-Japan ties, in connection with the soon-to-be-held visit to the DPRK by a delegation of three ruling coalition parties of Japan.
The spokesman says:
The south Korean puppet authorities are resorting to mendicant diplomacy for the revocation of the planned Pyongyang visit of the Japanese delegation. They ask for delaying the time of the visit, arguing that the visit is not timely and may have an adverse impact on certain "talks."
Meanwhile, they lay stress on the so-called "unreasonable nature" of the visit.
This emanates from their sinister political intention to check the improvement of DPRK-Japan ties, get rid of their worsening international isolation and maintain the anti-DPRK "cooperation system" at any cost.
The planned Korea visit of the delegation reflects the desire of the two peoples of the DPRK and Japan, and meets the requirement of the time.
In view of the demand of the present time for independence, peace and friendship, the DPRK-Japan relations should be improved at an early date and should not be postponed any longer.
This notwithstanding, the south Korean puppets have left no stone unturned to lay a stumbling-block in the way of the improvement of the DPRK-Japan relations with the anachronistic way of thinking to isolate and stifle the fellow countrymen in conspiracy with outsiders.
The Kim Young Sam regime is forsaken by the nation and rejected even within the ruling group for the thrice-cursed crimes it committed during its five years of office. It still fails to discard its bad habit, and engages itself in anti-DPRK confrontation campaign abroad. Its unpardonable crime of driving a wedge between the DPRK and Japan is denounced by the world people, including the Korean and Japanese peoples.
The dishonest moves of the south Korean puppets to block progress in the DPRK-Japan relations, going against the desire of the two peoples of the DPRK and Japan and the demand of the time, will end in failure.
The dog barks, the caravan goes on.
The improvement of the DPRK-Japan relations is an irresistable trend of history.
The south Korean puppets should be aware of their miserable lot of prolonging their remaining days as colonial stooges in reliance upon outsiders and immediately stop their foolish act of keeping others from improving the DPRK-Japan relations.