Dangerous attempt for missile attack under fire
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The United States set up an organisation in charge of the establishment of the Missile Defense System in South Korea and decided to deliver a lot of uptodate missiles targeted against the DPRK to South Korea.
Rodong Sinmun today describes this as a dangerous provocation to escalate tensions and unleash a war.
The news analyst says:
The U.S. military moves are dangerous war preparations driving the tense situation on the Korean peninsula to the extreme pitch of tension.
The DPRK cannot remain a passive on-looker to the U.S. moves to make a missile assault on the DPRK and realize its hegemony.
Independence and socialism are the life and soul and future of the DPRK.
The DPRK will make every possible effort for the preservation of peace, socialism and sovereignty.
There will be neither concession nor compromise in this respect. It is ready to fight a life-and-death battle.
Availing itself of this opportunity, the DPRK warns the South Korean authorities that if they follow the U.S. missile strategy against the northern half of Korea, it will give rise to a very complicated and grave situation and endanger the future of the nation.
It is a big mistake for the U.S. to set up missile attack networks on the plea of the "missile threat" from the DPRK and attain its sinister strategic aim. It will only put the U.S. in a serious danger.
Sustained efforts made to develop railway transport
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- Big sustained efforts have been made to develop the railway transport in the DPRK under the slogan "transport means a production."
The economic situation of the country remained very difficult in recent years due to vicious moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK of those who are displeased with its independent development and several years of serious natural disasters.
Railways of the country were switched over to electric tractions but their normal transport is hamstrung by an acute shortage of electricity.
An abnormal production performance in the related fields made it impossible to supply an adequate amount of materials for the production, repair and maintenance of electric locomotives, passenger trains and wagons.
Now ever deeper state concern is shown for the development of railway transport because it was singled out as an important field on which efforts should be focussed in the economic construction in order to build a powerful nation in the new century.
A dynamic drive has been underway to convert all railways of the country into horizontal ones. As a result, over 73 per cent of them have been improved as such taking the country as a whole.
The July 6 Railway Factory has technical foundations and processes for massproducing cast-railway wheels while the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Plant is accelerating preparations for the mass production of high capacity locomotives and passenger coaches.
The recently produced passenger coaches attract the attention of travellers as they are equipped with all amenities for them.
There remain not a few problems to be solved in the field of the railway transport. but the whole country is helping this domain.
It school set up
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- A new school of information technology (it) was set up at the academy of sciences in the DPRK.
The purpose of this school is to train it personnel. A program school and a school for training IC (Integrated Circuit) skilled workers run by institutes of information technology under the academy in the past will operate as its parent body.
It has various faculties such as program, digital control and precision machine and admits graduates of senior middle schools who have a particular penchant for engineering.
Its teaching staff will include prominent scientists and technicians at the institutes of mathematics, physics, etc. under the academy.
Great importance will be attached to practice. Schoolers will undergo training at different institutes under the academy after classes.
Preparations for gymnastic and artistic performance brisk
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- An interest in the grand mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" is growing deeper with each passing day.
Based on the folk song "Arirang," the performance will represent national emotion and spirit handed down through the history of Korea. The performance now in the making as a world masterpiece will be given by 100,000 youth and students.
"Let's go to Pyongyang" seems to be common words to be exchanged among the world people.
There is also a newly created poster "Welcome to Pyongyang" reflecting the world people's ever-growing desire to see this extravaganza.
The poster successfully reflects the thematic content of the performance.
Under the title of the performance "Arirang" the poster depicts dancers.
The venue of performance and its national style are clearly explained in the poster.
"Arirang" will be opened at the 150,000-seat May Day Stadium in coming April.
Now the attention of the world is focussed on Pyongyang which will open a new phase of human culture and art.
Enlarged plenary meeting of DPRK cabinet held
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- An enlarged plenary meeting of the DPRK cabinet was held recently.
The meeting reviewed the fulfilment of last year's national economic plan and discussed measures for carrying out the militant tasks set forth in the joint editorial this year.
According to it, a productive surge began in all fields of the economy through vigorous drive to decorate the first year of the new century with great achievements and production bases based on modern technology were built in different parts of the country last year.
The general task for this year is to accelerate the general onward march with viewpoints that our leader, ideology, army and political system are most valuable in order to glorify this year that greets the 90th birthday of President Kim Il Sung as a year of a new surge in the building of a powerful nation.
The meeting discussed the issues of making a breakthrough for economic surge in electric power, coal and metal industries and railway transport, the main fronts of the economic construction, while directing sustained big efforts to boosting the mining industry. It stressed the need to preferentially solve such problems related to the people's living as increasing agricultural output and the production of mass consumer goods and improving city administration.
It also called for paying a nationwide attention to the development of science, technology and education and set forth detailed tasks facing all fields of the national economy.
Present at the meeting were premier Hong Song Nam and other members of the cabinet.
Historic site in Komunmoru
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The historic site in Komunmoru, Sangwon county in Pyongyang has relics in a cave, which belongs to the early paleolithic era one million years ago.
The cave, which is about 30m long, about 2.5m wide and 2m high, was discovered and surveyed in Juche 50s (1960s).
Found in the site were stone implements used by paleolithic men and scores of kinds of fossilized animal bones.
The stone implements included stone hatchets, trapezoid tools, edged chisels and pieces of tools.
29 kinds of animal fossils were found there.
Among them, 17 kinds of relics including the Sangwon horse, buffalo and monkey are now extinct, and the rest fossils believed to belong to the paleozoic era were found in the country for the first time.
Those relics prove that human beings lived in Korea already in the early period of human life.
"Great Korean Encyclopedia" vols. 30 compiled in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- Compilation of "Great Korean Encyclopedia" vols. 30 has been completed in the DPRK as the most valuable national treasure.
Edited in the encyclopedia are history, culture, nature, geography, customs, legends, biographical names and latest scientific and technological materials of Korea and other countries.
It contains political, economic, cultural, military and all other fields and glosses over 100,000 lemmas in Korean alphabetical order.
Compiled in it are at least 25,000 visual aids and photos and more than 5,200 biographical names.
Each volume has more than 650 pages on an average.
For the convenience of the readers, an index is given in the last vol. 30.
The science and encyclopedia press and the Korean Computer Center are now working out a computer program for the encyclopedia.
The compilation of the encyclopedia in the DPRK has begun from Juche 53 (1964).
The compiling group has edited and published a "Complete Encyclopedia" (a set of three volumes), "Encyclopedia" (the first edition of 30 volumes) and "Complete Encyclopedia" (6 volumes).
KCNA on false rumor
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- Recently some media of the United States and the west are spreading a rumor that a new joint statement will be adopted between the U.S. and China, which will also contain an article on the Korean issue.
We do not care about whether a joint statement clarifying the stand of the two countries about issues arising in their relations will be adopted or not because it is a normal diplomatic usage. But we can neither overlook nor tolerate the disturbing rumor that the China-U.S. joint statement will include the Korean issue.
The above-said rumor can be spread only by those who do not know well about the DPRK.
It regards sovereignty as the life and soul and takes independence as its first principle in foreign relations.
Some media of the U.S. and the west are floating this kind of rumor in a bid to create impression that foreign forces are "responsible" for the Korean issue. But this will bring them to nowhere.
Since the foundation of the DPRK, its army and people have never left its issue to any foreign forces nor has it allowed anyone to encroach upon its national dignity and sovereignty.
We will consider foreign forces' discussion of the Korean issue behind us to be included in their joint statement as an encroachment upon our sovereignty and will never tolerate it.
Some media of the U.S. and the west are well advised to face up to such reality and remain true to the ethics of the media whose life and soul are objectivity, impartiality, accuracy and truth.