Party on 22nd anniversary of establishment of diplomatic ties between DPRK and Nigeria
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Olugbenga Ayodeji Ashiru, Nigerian ambassador to Korea, gave a party at the embassy on May 25 on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Nigeria.
Invited to the party were Pak Kil Yon, vice-Minister of Foregin Affairs, and other officials concerned.
Speeches were exchanged at the party.
Rallies and demonstrations in South Korea
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) held rallies and demonstrations in Seoul, Pusan, Ulsan and Taegu areas on May 23, demanding the abolition of the lay-off system and the labor exchange system introduced by the fascist clique, according to a radio report from Seoul.
Some 2,000 workers affiliated with KCTU met at Jongmyo Park in Seoul and denounced structural readjustment planned by the fascist clique as a shameless step ignoring the existence of workers and seeking only "profits".
Some 1,500 unionists under the Pusan headquarters of KCTU protested against the fascist clique's infliction of sufferings on workers.
Over 8,000 workers under the U1san headquarters and workers under the Taegu headquarters held rallies and demonstrations urging the puppet authorities to ensure jobs and vital rights.
Rodong Sinmun censures S. Korean puppets for military exercises
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The South Korean "army metropolitan defense command" recently announced that a "tactical training" will be staged in Seoul from May 25 to 30.
Earlier, from May 18 to 23, a similar training was carried out in downtown Seoul day and night.
Rodong Sinmun today says the South Korean puppets' frequent military exercises are aimed at inciting north-south confrontation and war under the pretext of the non-existent "threat from the north" and diverting public attention elsewhere.
If the present South Korean rulers styling their regime a "government of the people" did not carry forward the policy of confrontation and war pursued by the civilian-veiled warmaniacs, they would not resort to war exercises so frantically, the daily says in a commentary, and continues:
There has been no change in the puppets' policy of confrontation.
If they continue seeking confrontation and war, inter-Korean relations will be further deteriorated and the nation will get a war disaster, let alone its reunification.
The warmaniacs had better act with prudence, mindful that the war gamble will only precipitate their doom.
Rodong Sinmun calls for creating new Chollima speed, forced march speed
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with an editorial calling for creating a new Chollima speed, forced march speed on all fronts of socialist construction.
This speed traces its origin to the steadfast spirit of resolutely safeguarding the leader and represents the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the spirit of bold offensive with which to create something out of nothing and break through obstacles.
The editorial says:
The history of the Korean people who have built socialism under the guidance of the party and the leader is the history of leaps when they have advanced as fast as Chollima (winged horse), creating a new speed of the general onward movement. The speed of Pyongyang, the speed of Vinalon and other world-startling speeds of advance were created one after another with the flow of the history of great Chollima upsurge which began in the 1950s.
When all the people redouble their efforts and create the speed of forced march, the history of great Chollima upsurge will continue and our country will shine as a "country of Chollima."
The present forced march for final victory is a fierce decisive battle with the enemy.
It is high time we advanced dynamically, doing in a day what would take a hundred days.
Only when we create a new Chollima speed, forced march speed can we rapidly vitalize the economy of the country and consolidate our political, military and economic fortresses like an impregnable fortress. When the speed of forced march is created, we can frustrate the anti-socialist moves of the enemy.
We should extensively create the speed of forced march in all fields and units. Only then can socialism will definitely win and our country will become an impregnable fortress which any enemy dare not violate.
War exercises in Seoul
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The puppet army metropolitan defence command announced that it would stage massive military exercises in Seoul area from May 25 to 30, a Seoul-based radio reported.
In the planned exercises, the puppets would stage general tactical and tank mobile drills in areas of Mts. Tobong, Nam and Pukhan, Ryongsan railway station and on the River Han, flying helicopters and firing blank shells.
This is part of war games being staged frequently by the reckless warmongers these days and reveals the fanatical bellicose nature of the present South Korean rulers.
Program contest and exhibition
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The 9th national program contest and exhibition will be held from Sep. 15 to Oct. 5 this year on the occasion of the 50th national day of Korea.
Korean style program tools, the four-dimensional programs, diversified calligraphic and ideographic programs and other programs contributive to carrying out the party's economic policy and developing the science and technology of the country will be presented to the contest and exhibition.
The contest and exhibition will be divided into four sections -- character recognition program, phonetics recognition program, machine-translation program and computer-aided design (card).
Probe into war damage called for in Japan
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- A forum calling for the probe into the truth of war damage and others in the Asia-Pacific region was held in Tokyo on May 14 under the cosponsorship of the society of lawyers and intellectuals calling for legislation on post-war settlement and the citizens' council for a law on the group of investigation into war damage.
Chairman of the society Kogen Tschiya, former Chairman of the Japan federation of bar associations, in his speech at the forum said that what is urgent in liquidating Japan's past crimes and probing the truth is to make public and investigate all materials.
To this end, it is imperative to legalize a fact-finding group of dietmen at an early date, he added.
In their speeches, dietmen said that if the past wrongdoings are to be probed and atoned for objectively, it is important to put the historical fact to rights.
In order to form an investigation group within the diet, they noted, they will have active relations with organisations of citizens' movement including non-governmental organisations.
University professors and delegates of movement organisations made speeches at the forum.
U.S. paper on serious employment problem in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Washington Post May 17 said South Korea's employment security is hopeless.
All companies of South Korea have been pressured by the "government" to carry out "structural readjustment" for "recovery" of the South Korean economy, so massive layoffs are unavoidable, the paper said.
According to the paper, about 8,000 workers lose their jobs every day and the unemployment rate is likely to reach 10-12 percent at the end of the year.
With unemployment causing social problems, 25 suicides are reported on a daily average and there has been a 50 percent increase in robbery in two months this year.
The South Korean workers consider the "structural readjustment" means losing their houses, families and even neighbours, the paper said.
The paper quoted an analyst as saying South Korea is like a small boat on a rough ocean.
Rodong Sinmun on army-people unity
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Korean society which is not wavering in any storms has been defended by the great strength of army-people unity.
Rodong Sinmun says this today in a political essay titled "Let us win with army-people unity."
No matter how desperately and recklessly the enemy may try, our society is impregnable and we are always ever-victorious as long as there is army-people unity cemented by General Kim Jong Il, the political essay points out, and goes on:
Army-people unity behind the Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il, this is the essence and root of the Juche society, an invincible society distinctive in the world.
Our red flag is one of army-people unity. The Chollima spirit of socialist Korea startling the world is the spirit of army-people unity, the basic spirit of our era is the idea of this unity and the most beautiful look of our society is bloomed by this unity.
The situation is so difficult that others would have fallen down several times, but Korean socialism is demonstrating its might as an impregnable fortress as it has a strong root of army-people unity.
Loyalty and filial piety to Supreme Commander and the spirit of human bomb in defending the headquarters are the great spirit of the era produced by army-people unity. The spirit of Kanggye and the torchlight kindled at the Songjin Steel Complex are the banner of struggle that encourages the workers and people to the final victory in the revolutionary spirit of soldiers.
Army-people unity in ideology, fighting trait and in sharing life and death, sweets and bitters is the profound essence of his great politics giving priority to army and the supreme principle and highest goal of the revolutionary leadership which are consistent with all his thinking, activities, inexhaustible energies and devotion.
Army-people unity is a proud crystal of the great revolutionary history of the commanders of Mt. Paektu. President Kim Il Sung provided its first seed and handed it over as a tradition of the Korean revolution and the Supreme Commander has cemented it as the strong root of our society, regarding it as the basis in defending the revolution.
Our army-people unity around the Supreme Commander will overcome the whirlwind of history, more vigorously build the socialism of Juche and win victory in the 21st century.
Principle of anti-imperialist struggle
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed article that all the progressive people in the world must vigorously fight against imperialism under the banner of the anti-imperialist struggle to achieve the cause of independence of mankind without fail.
It is important in the struggle not to have an illusion about imperialism, the paper says, and goes on:
If one has an illusion about imperialism, one will give up the anti-imperialist struggle and later will become its slave.
The imperialists are trying to make impressions that their nature has changed, in a bid to numb class consciousness and anti-imperialist consciousness of the people and stamp out their anti-imperialist struggle.
To maintain principled stand toward imperialism and fight against imperialism to the last is one of the principled demands in the struggle.
The popular masses should continue the anti-imperialist struggle without interruption and steadfastly maintain the anti-imperialist stand. Especially, they should not weaken the struggle though they have economic relations with capitalist countries.
All the anti-imperialist forces must unite to invigorate the struggle. When the anti-imperialist forces for independence firmly unite, they can check the imperialists' moves of aggression and war and successfully cut off their tentacles of domination and plunder.
It is one of the most important things in the struggle at present to powerfully stage the anti-war and anti-nuclear struggle.
The progressive people should have aggressive military bases of the imperialists abolished and their troops withdrawn and establish nuclear-free and peace zones in all parts of the world. In particular, they should vigorously wage the movement for eliminating nuclear weapons.
Minor power stations prove very useful
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The newly-built minor power stations of Korea are paying off profusely.
According to Kil Hun Jin, director of the minor power station guidance department of the Ministry of Power Industry, some ten cities and counties cut off power supply lines of the state and are managing their economic life with electricity produced by themselves.
Taehongdan and Pochon counties of Ryanggang Province, Janggang and Songgan counties of Jagang Province and Hochon county of South Hamgyong Province have established separate power supply systems. These counties have the generating capacity of tens of thousands of kw. Some ten local industrial factories, public buildings, and residential quarters in each county are fully supplied with electricity.
In Songgan county some 50 blocks of dwelling houses are supplied with power from minor power stations.
In Anju, South Phyongan Province, more than twenty factories are operated in full capacity by electric power from minor power stations and more than ten thousand dwelling houses are provided with electricity for lighting from them.
The Pyongyang Seasoning Powder Factory, the Ryongsong Meat Processing Factory and many other organs, enterprises and units are supplied with power by minor power stations built by themselves.
Korea is pushing ahead with the construction of minor power stations through a mass movement to secure a production capacity of more than 100,000 kw within this year.
Just struggle of S. Korean workers supported
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The national federation of trade unions of Nepal sent a letter of solidarity on May 16 to the South Korean workers who staged a demonstration in demand of elementary vital rights and freedom.
The letter noited that the just struggle of the South Korean workers could not be checked by force of arms and it is a historic truth that the struggle is sure to win.
The federation on the same day in a letter of protest to the South Korean authorities denounced their inhuman action of suppressing the workers in a peaceful demonstration by dint of riot police.
It urged the South Korean authorities to stop the suppression of the workers, immediately release the arrested workers and accept their demand unconditionally.
Vinalon production goes up
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Following the torch kindled at the Songjin Steel Complex, the workers and technicians at the Sunchon Vinalon Complex are working hard to increase the production of Vinalon by effecting a revolutionary upswing in their work.
The workers at the limekiln workshop rebuilt the outlet of kilns nos. 6, 7 and 8 to produce high-quality caustic lime in larger quantities. In addition, they introduced new techniques to manufacture electrodes suited to the specific features of the kilns and conduct the mixture of raw materials on a scientific basis, thus raising higher the quality of products.
Those at the carbide and all other workshops are also bringing about uninterrupted innovations.
Technicians at the complex are making a contribution to increasing Vinalon while striving to secure raw materials on their own.
They succeeded in producing a catalyzer by making use of raw materials abundant in Korea and introducing it into production. Besides, they solved a series of scientific and technical problems arising in the production of hypochlorous soda, one of the basic raw materials for Vinalon production, thus making it possible to normalize the production of Vinalon and increasing its output.