Day of victory of Cuban revolution commemorated
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A meeting and film show were held in Pyongyang yesterday to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the victory of the Cuban revolution.
Present at the meeting were minister of education Pyon Yong Rip who is also chairman of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Jon Yong Jin, officials concerned and working people in the city.
Present on invitation were Cuban ambassador to the DPRK Esteban Lobaina Romero and embassy officials.
Speeches were exchanged at the meeting.
The participants saw a Cuban documentary film.
Day of Socialist Constitution observed
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an article to the Day of the Socialist Constitution.
The article says:
The DPRK Socialist Constitution authored by President Kim Il Sung and developed and perfected by leader Kim Jong Il is the most advanced Socialist Constitution of Korean style in the human history of state constitutions.
The constitution was adopted and promulgated by the president on December 27, Juche 61 (1972).
It was revised, supplemented, adopted and proclaimed on September 5, Juche 87 (1998) under the guidance of Kim Jong Il.
The article points to its advantages and originality, noting that it serves as a powerful weapon in carrying out the cause of socialism as it fully reflects the demand of the developing revolution and the desire of the Korean people.
The DPRK Socialist Constitution is, in a word, the Kim Il Sung constitution guaranteeing the eternal life of the president as it is strictly based on the revolutionary outlook on the leader. It is because its foundation is the Socialist Constitution authored by the president and it codifies the idea of Juche-oriented state building, immortal revolutionary feats and outstanding great personality of the president.
Reflected in the constitution are the faith and will of Kim Jong Il and the Korean people to hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal president of the DPRK and finally accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Therefore, the constitution always sheds its rays as a great political charter based on the revolutionary outlook on the leader and the great Kim Il Sung constitution and a great monumental document as it broke a new ground in the human history of state constitutions, the article stresses.
Book on folk songs published
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has recently published books "Folk Songs in Land of 3,000-Ri" (vols. 1 and 2).
The books are a revision and enlargement of the book "Folk Songs Sung in Land of 3,000-Ri" which was brought out in Juche 84 (1995).
They have been published with additions of words of over 260 songs including "Song of Myongsim (remember)" and "Five-Fortune Tharyong" (ballads), in the area of Phyongan Province, "Rice-Cake Tharyong" and "Drink Tharyong" in the area of Hwanghae Province and Kaesong, "Melody" in the area of Kyonggi Province and "Phansori" (song of a drama by reciter) in the area of Jolla Province and some analysis of them is given there.
The books are a collection of folk songs sung in regions from Hamgyong Province in the northern part of Korea to Jeju island in the southern most part of the country. They contain typical old folk songs sung by our ancestors and folk songs created in the 1920s and the 1930s as well as sheets of their music.
Promising acrobat Wi Son Hwa
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Aerial trapeze flight "flying girls" of the DPRK won "Golden Lion Prize" at the 8th Wuqiao International Circus Festival held in China from October 27 to November 4.
Wi Son Hwa, 23, plays the leading role in it.
Her successful quadruple somersault in the air caught the audience breathless.
The instantaneous somersault in a short distance of a few meters in the air is a trick of top difficulty.
She perfected the trick in five months.
She did gymnastic dance better than others from her childhood and graduated from Pyongyang circus school with high marks. She began her career in aerial acrobatics when she was 18.
After painstaking efforts of years, she successfully performed double flip-flap with a simultaneous treble pirouette in the air at the 9th massy international circus festival, drawing the attention of the world acrobatic.
New treatment method and medicine developed
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A new method of treatment and medicine have been developed in the DPRK.
Medical workers of the Kim Man Yu Hospital have succeeded in developing the method of easily treating the heart arterial stricture and the stricture of urethra caused by hyperthrophy of prostate gland.
The functions of vein and urethra are put to normal after very thin alloy lines are pushed into the constricted vein and urethra under a computer program.
The academy of medical science also succeeded in developing a variety of medicine very good for curing the cancer of mammary gland and hepatic cancer.
This medicine is very efficacious for curing, not only the untransferred cancer of mammary gland, but hepatic cancer less than 7cm in diameter.
The medicine is characterized by the fact that it kills only cancer-affected cells.
A research group under the ministry of public health has developed hepatitis-b vaccine, whose antigen dilution is 3-5 times that of other hepatitis-b vaccine, though its production needs only half of blood as compared with the consumption in the past.
The use of the new method of medical treatment and medicine proved successful in clinical treatment.
Greetings to prime minister of Denmark
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Anders Fogh Rasmusen upon his appointment as prime minister of Denmark.
Hoping that the relations between the two countries would grow stronger on the principles of respect for sovereignty, non-interference in others' internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, he wished the prime minister success in his responsible work.
Meanwhile, foreign minister Paek Nam Sun sent a similar message to his counterpart per Stig Moeller.
Japan's fuss about "unidentified ship" refuted
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Patrol boats of Japan indiscriminately machine-gunned an unidentified ship in the East China sea on Saturday, sinking it. This was an incident unprecedented in history.
This crime committed in other country's territorial waters is nothing but brutal piracy and unpardonable terrorism of modern brand that could be committed only by Samurais of Japan in defiance of international laws.
Nevertheless, the Japanese reactionaries are spreading a sheer rumour that the unidentified ship might be a "spy ship from North Korea," describing their piracy as a "measure for self-defence."
This proves that their loudmouthed case of the "unidentified ship" is another trite charade and a grave provocation, products of the anti-DPRK hostile policy of the Japanese reactionaries, who never open their mouths without pulling up the DPRK.
The anti-DPRK smear campaign launched by the Japanese authorities linking the DPRK with the case of the "unidentified ship" for no reason is little short of an act of adding to the crimes already committed against it.
The Japanese authorities, not content with the recent terrorist act perpetrated against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, an overseas compatriots organization of the dignified DPRK, are frantically escalating this hostile policy towards the DPRK under the above-said absurd pretext. We will never remain a passive onlooker to such moves of the Japanese authorities.
Establishment of interim government in Afghanistan welcomed
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the establishment of the interim government in Afghanistan.
He said:
An interim government made up of representatives of various tribes was set up on Dec. 22.
We welcome the formation of the government in Afghanistan on the basis of a broad-based national agreement.
Considering this as the first step for the stability and development of Afghanistan, we hope that the interim government will promote national harmony, achieve the prosperity of the country and contribute to the regional peace.