Resolution of S. Korean reunification vanguard
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- The reunification vanguard of the 15th term National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon) reportedly released a resolution on July 30 for a successful August 15 meeting for national reunification to be held in Seoul.
The resolution noted that the u.s. And the south Korean anti-reunification forces, including Ri Hoe Chang of the grand national party, have defamed the significance of the north-south joint declaration and even negated it while pressing down on the ardent desire of youth and students for reunification.
The vanguard and one million students of the south Korean federation of university student councils will fight with iron will and surely ensure a successful holding of the August 15 meeting in Seoul, the resolution said.
International signature campaign held in Pakistan
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) - The international signature campaign took place in Pakistan to support the June 15 inter-Korean joint declaration and demand the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea. Participating in it were 309,450 people.
In the period from July 6 to 22, the signature paper was signed by the heads of 19 political parties and organizations, including the socialist party, the Federation of Trade Unions, the Kissan Committee, the Federation of Power Trade Unions, the Federation of Transport Workers' Unions, the Federation of Railway Workers' Unions and the Pakistani Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification.
Written in the signature paper are the following words:
We support the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration that calls for reunifying Korea independently and peacefully by the concerted efforts of its nation.
We demand that the U.S. forces be withdrawn from south Korea at once for durable peace on the Korean Peninsula and for the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea.
Anti-U.S. rally held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Students belonging to the National Students' Council, the National Council for Solidarity among Students, the Federation of University Student Councils and the Solidarity for Students' Action in south Korea called upon youth and students to unite as one and take the lead in the struggle to drive the U.S. troops, murderers, out of south Korea.
At a rally of youth and students held in front of Hanyang University on July 31 to vow a struggle against the U.S. and war and for peace and human rights, they expressed resentment at the fact that the demand for the punishment of GI criminals has not yet been met. They held that it is a solution to this issue to get the U.S. troops withdrawn from south Korea.
A resolution for the joint struggle of youth and students, adopted at the rally, said that as long as the U.S. troops remain on this land, it is impossible for south Koreans to enjoy peace, existence and even elementary human rights. The U.S. is a group of evildoers and a rogue state harassing global peace, it added.
Kim Jong Il's work reported abroad
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Over 300 media of at least 100 countries reported the full text or gist of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let us carry out the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung's instructions for national reunification" published on August 4, Juche 86 (1997).
The work was also printed in booklet in more than 50 countries including Russia, Cuba, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Libya and Laos. Political parties and organizations of different countries translated the work in eight languages and published tens of thousands of copies.
Meanwhile, seminars, lectures, explanation meetings and reading sessions on the work were held on over 500 occasions in Nepal, Mongolia, India, Uganda, Madagascar, Guyana, Egypt, Bulgaria, France and other countries with an attendance of high-level officials of political and social circles.
At those meetings the participants unanimously praised Kim Jong Il as the center of unity for all the Korean people, the only leader for the reunification of Korea and defender of peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The work refers to the exploits president Kim Il Sung performed for national reunification and formulates the Three Principles for National Reunification, the Ten-Point Programme of the Great National Unity and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo as the Three Charters for Korea's Reunification.
Double standard in human rights issue rejected
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- If worldwide effective measures are to be taken to protect human rights at present, it is urgent to strictly reject unreasonable attempts to encroach upon inviolable national sovereignty under the pretext of human rights and allow no longer the selection and double standard in international discussion on human rights.
The DPRK delegate said this on August 1 when a package agenda item "human rights situation of all countries" was under discussion at the 54th Session of the UN Sub-commission on Human Rights.
Recalling the efforts the sub-commission has made for the worldwide protection and improvement of human rights, he said: it is important to respect diversity of history, traditions, culture and customs of each country and region and oppose arbitrary and highhanded practices of judging human rights situation of each nation with "conception of value" and "model" of a specified country.
Regarding it as the supreme principle of its activities to make everything serve man, the DPRK government has made sustained efforts for the improvement of the people's rights to independence. And it has attached importance to dialogue and cooperation in international human rights field and fully showed its good faith in practice, he noted, and further said:
Dialogue and cooperation called for by the DPRK government in human rights aspect are genuine ones based on equality, reciprocity and reconciliation, not unilateral pressure, blackmail and antagonism.
We will continue dialogue and cooperation on this principle and do all we should do.
Reunification vanguard formed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- The reunification solidarity of south Korea on August 2 inaugurated the reunification vanguard for implementing the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The vanguard involving workers, peasants, youth and students, women and other people is to march across south Korea, divided into the east and west groups. During the march, they will conduct various anti-U.S., anti-war activities to create an atmosphere for reunification and realize peace, and wage a struggle against Ri Hoe Chang, the Grand National Party, conservative media and other separatist forces.
At the inaugural ceremony of the vanguard the participants said that the pro-reunification march of the vanguard will be one for the unity of the Korean nation and for warm welcome to the north side's delegation to Seoul.
Then followed a rally for urging an apology of bush and the renunciation of U.S. forces' criminal jurisdiction, at which a resolution was adopted.
The resolution said it is a disgrace to the nation that south Korea has been under the U.S. domination and control still now in the new century, its sovereignty being totally violated. As long as the U.S. troops, source of evil, are allowed to remain in south Korea, its people will inevitably continue to undergo misfortune and sufferings, it warned.
It stated that they would valiantly turn out in the struggle to probe the truth behind the murder of two schoolgirls, get an apology and compensation for it, quash the unequal south Korea-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement and drive the U.S. troops out of south Korea.
Kim Il Sung institute of agricultural science in Guinea
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Il Sung institute of Agricultural Science has registered many successes in agriculture by widely distributing new high-yielding seeds to guinea and 17 other west African countries.
The institute in Kindia province, more than 160 km away from Conakry, was set up on January 13, Juche 71 (1982).
Some ten scientists and technicians of the DPRK are working with the institute.
It has 14 buildings including an exhibition hall of agricultural science and experimental center, an experimental farm and enough production facilities and technical means.
It has made tremendous achievements in researches into agricultural science over the past 20 years.
The researchers have studied and completed a double-cropping farming method suitable to the natural and geographical conditions, climate, soil conditions and the situation of the agricultural production in different areas of Guinea.
They have also made high-yielding seeds of over 50 species.
In Guinea the rice production sharply increased to reach 410,000 tons in 1985, a year after it introduced a new farming method and high-yielding seeds and was nearly doubled in 2000.
Jean Paul Sarr, minister of agriculture and livestock of Guinea, said that the institute has become a byword for friendly feelings toward the DPRK, a symbol of the friendly ties between the two countries and a model of guinea's agricultural development.
New synthetic resin painting materials invented
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- New synthetic resin painting materials have been invented in the DPRK.
Their main ingredients are polyvinyl acetate emulsion polymer and polyacrylic ester emulsion polymer. These are mixed with various inorganic and organic substances to produce light and heat-proof painting materials of bright and clear color.
According to Dr. Ri Hong Myong, the painting materials are dissolved in water before using. They are proved to be good in dispersion of color and fine in grain. Paintings drawn with the materials are highly water-resistant, also.
Therefore, colors of the paintings do not change for many years.
The materials, very popular among drawers, were highly estimated at the 7th national invention and new technology exhibition held in April.
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's visit to Russia marked
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- The national defense commission of the DPRK gave a reception at the manual art theatre Sunday on the occasion of the first anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's historic visit to Russia.
Yon Hyong Muk, member of the DPRK National Defense Commission, said in a speech at the reception that his visit to Russia and significant meeting with president Putin gave a powerful impetus to the development of the DPRK-Russia friendly relations and had a far-reaching impact on the overall international relations, adding that its vitality is being more clearly demonstrated with each passing day and the DPRK-Russia relations have been put on a new higher stage on the basis of the close relationship between the two top leaders.
The Korean people are rejoiced over the fact that the socio-political stability and economic growth are maintained in Russia and sincerely wish the Russian government and people new success in their work to build powerful Russia, he said, and went on:
It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to steadily develop the traditional DPRK-Russia relations. The DPRK will thoroughly fulfill its commitments stipulated in the DPRK-Russia joint declaration and treaties in the future, too, and thus positively contribute to the common prosperity and development of the two countries and the peace and stability in the Asian-pacific region.
Oleg Dabydov, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Russian embassy here, said in his speech that Kim Jong Il's historic visit to Russia marked an unprecedented event and the bilateral relations have effectively developed since the visit.
The Russian federation and the DPRK have supported each other in the course of settling pending problems at the un and other international organizations in the spirit of the Moscow declaration and developed cooperation on the international arena, he noted and went on:
Russia fully supports the efforts of the Korean people to implement the north-south joint declaration to the letter and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea by the concerted efforts of the nation.
Noting that the Korean people are increasing the defense capacity of the country and carrying out gigantic tasks by mobilizing the economic potential under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, he wished them fresh success in their efforts to build a powerful nation.
Present on invitation were officials of the Russian embassy here. Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly Choe Thae Bok, Vice-premier of the Cabinet Jo Chang Dok and officials concerned were among those present at the reception.
Starting point of Juche idea
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- The Juche idea was founded to meet the needs of the new times and Korean revolution.
As the 20th century began, there emerged the world's first socialist state and the revolutionary struggle of the working class and the national liberation movement of the people in colonial or semi-colonial countries rapidly gained momentum worldwide.
The national liberation struggle and the revolutionary movement gained in dimension and became diverse in the world arena. The reality of the times urgently required the people of each country to solve all the problems in keeping with its specific conditions, not dogmatically clinging to any established theory.
The creation of a new idea was a practical requirement in Korea.
In the 1920s too, "leaders" of the nationalist movement and the revolutionary movement did not drop their old bad habit of being engrossed in flunkeyism and factional strife.
They did not give thought to the need to make revolution in reliance upon the strength of the popular masses but tried to liberate the country from the Japanese imperialists by depending on foreign forces. Each of them was engrossed in despicable scramble for power after creating a separate faction.
Consequently, the nationalist and revolutionary movements could not escape from setbacks and frustrations.
The Korean revolution urgently demanded that the popular masses hew out their path in an independent and creative manner because they had to carry out simultaneously the two tasks--national liberation and anti-feudal democratic revolution--that no one had ever attempted to do.
President Kim Il Sung, basing himself on a scientific analysis and review of the actual sate of the Korean revolution, sought a new path of struggle quite different from that of the "forerunners" and discovered a new truth of revolution in that course.
The truth is that the popular masses are the master of the revolution and only when revolutionaries go among the masses to educate, organize and inspire them to a struggle can they emerge victorious in the revolution, that a revolution should not be carried out by anyone's approval or instruction but on one's responsibility and that all problems should be solved independently and creatively in a responsible manner.
This was the starting point of the Juche idea.
The president proclaimed the creation of the Juche idea to the world in Kalun on June 30, Juche 19 (1930), reflecting the practical requirements of the new historic times and the Korean revolution.
Great cause of national reunification called for
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- The National Democratic Front of south Korea (NDFSK) will step up the advance for implementing the June 15 joint declaration, holding leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem, together with the whole nation so as to achieve the great cause of national reunification, which was the life-long desire of President Kim Il Sung.
The spokesman of the NDFSK said this in a statement Saturday on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let us carry out the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung's instructions for national reunification" (August 4, 1997.)
The work is a crystal reflecting the firm determination of Kim Jong Il to accomplish the sacred cause of national reunification at an early date true to the idea and intention of the president, the statement says, and goes on:
It is the grand program and library for reunification to powerfully inspire the whole nation to carrying through the president's instructions for national reunification.
Kim Jong Il provided the historic Pyongyang meeting and the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration to open a new era of independent national reunification to all the fellow countrymen.
The people of all strata should come out as one in the struggle to defend and implement the June 15 joint declaration to the letter and frustrate the vicious moves of the U.S. imperialists and anti-reunification forces such as Ri Hoe Chang against the implementation of the joint declaration.
National reunification is sure to come under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st century and the lodestar of national reunification.
Hong Song Nam greets PM of Jamaica
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to his Jamaican counterpart p. J. Patterson on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its independence.
The message wished the prime minister greater success in his responsible work for the progress of the country and welfare of the people and expressed belief that the friendly ties between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms in the future, too.