Gift to Kim Jong Il

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by Thongsing Thammavong, president of the Lao National Assembly, on a visit to the DPRK.
    It was conveyed to Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, by Thongsing Thammavong on August 3.


Floral Basket and Gifts to Kim Jong Il

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a floral basket and a gift from a delegation of Japan-Korea Friendship Linking with Juche and gifts from a delegation of the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, a delegation of the Mongolian Mt. Paektu Association for Independent Development, a delegation of the French Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and the chairman of the Belorusian Feb. 16 Youth Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics and the chief of the Group of Youth for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea in Vienna on the study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.
    He was also presented with a gift in the joint name by the All-Russian Society for the Study and Dissemination of Kimilsungism and the Russian Women's Union Named after Kim Jong Suk.
    The floral basket and gifts were handed over to an official concerned.


Kim Yong Nam Meets Lao Delegation

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with the delegation of the National Assembly of the Lao People's Democratic Republic led by Thongsing Thammavong, president of the National Assembly who is member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
    Present there were Kim Wan Su, chairman of the Korea-Laos Friendship Parliamentary Group, and officials concerned and the Lao charge d' affaires a. i. here.


Reception Hosted

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Thongsing Thammavong, president of the National Assembly of Laos who is member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, hosted a reception on Friday upon the conclusion of the visit to the DPRK.
    Present there on invitation were Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Wan Su, chairman of the DPRK-Laos Friendship Parliamentary Group, and others.
    Preset on hand were members of the delegation and the Lao charge d' Affaires ad interim here.


Choe Thae Bok Meets Bulgarian Guests

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Friday met and had a conversation with Solomon Passy, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bulgarian National Assembly, and his party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
    On hand were Ri Jong Hyok, chairman of the DPRK-EU Friendship Parliamentary Group, and the charge d'affaires ad interim of Bulgaria here.


Half Centenary of Meeting between Kim Il Sung and Ho Chi Minh Observed

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition and film show took place at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday to commemorate the half centenary of the meeting between President Kim Il Sung and Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh.
    Speeches were made there.
    The participants in the functions looked round the photos showing Kim Il Sung meeting Vietnamese leaders including Ho Chi Minh and conducting external activities and photos dealing with the life and activities of Ho Chi Minh.
    Then they watched the Korean documentary film "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung meets heads of state and prominent figures of foreign countries" Part 1.
    Present there were Acting Chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Mun Jae Chol, Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea Kim Yong Do who is vice-chairman of the DPRK-Viet Nam Friendship Association and others.
    On hand were members of the delegation of the Viet Nam−DPRK Friendship Association led by its Chairman Pham Tat Dong who is chairman of the Educational Panel of the State Council of Education and Vietnamese Ambassador to the DPRK Phan Trong Thai and others.


Anniversary of Korean People's Victory in War Observed

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The Songun Group comprising figures of different social standings in different countries and regions posted on the Internet homepage an article titled "Warm congratulations to the DPRK on the day of its victory in the Fatherland Liberation War" on July 27, the 54th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the war.
    The homepage in the article said that the Korean War was a just anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. war to achieve national liberation and to win the class struggle and a war which defended socialism and global peace and propelled the world revolutionary movement.
    The Korean War clearly proved the validity and vitality of the Juche-oriented view on the war that the victory and defeat in war depend on the ideological and moral advantages, not on weapons, the article said, adding that the might of the Songun idea was fully demonstrated through the war.
    The article went on:
    President Kim Il Sung wisely led the Fatherland Liberation War against the U.S. imperialists to brilliant victory, thus performing great exploits for the Korean revolution and the world revolutionary cause.
    The director for political affairs and international relations of the Pan-African Movement in a statement released on July 26 on the same occasion noted that the DPRK's victory in the Korean War was a historic miracle and a world-startling event, adding that the Korean people under the leadership of Kim Jong Il would always emerge victorious.


Statement Issued on Korean People's Day of Victory in War

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Cha Sang Bo, vice-chairman of the General Association of Koreans in China, issued a statement on July 27 on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
    Recalling that the Korean people could emerge victorious in the hard-fought war against the U.S. imperialists and their allied forces with young regular armed forces in the early period of building a new country entirely thanks to the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, the statement said:
    He shattered to smithereens the myth of the U.S. imperialists' "mightiness" for the first time in history and demonstrated the invincible might and dignity of heroic Korea and ushered in a new era of anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle. These immortal exploits he performed by leading the war to victory are shining along with the history of the Korean nation.
    These exploits have been successfully carried forward thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, illustrious commander of Mt. Paektu possessed of extraordinary wisdom and far-sighted strategy.
    As commanded by Kim Jong Il the Korean People's Army has grown to be an invincible revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu capable of annihilating any formidable enemy at one blow and developed into a driving force for reinforcing the socialist military power and mighty vanguard for achieving the prosperity of the country.
    If the U.S. imperialists ignite a new war, far from drawing a bitter lesson from their defeat in the past Korean War, the Korean People's Army will fully demonstrate before the world the mettle of the powerful revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu which has grown under the care of the great Songun brilliant commander.
    We will wage a more dynamic struggle to frustrate the imperialists' moves to invade the DPRK and turn out as one in the movement to drive the U.S. forces, a source of war, out of south Korea and achieve the reunification and prosperity of the country, the statement stressed.


Vietnamese Ambassador to DPRK Hosts Film Show and Cocktail Party

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Vietnamese Ambassador to the DPRK Phan Trong Thai Thursday hosted a film show and cocktail party at his embassy on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the visit of Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh to the DPRK.
    Present there on invitation were Acting Chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Mun Jae Chol, Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea Kim Yong Do who is vice-chairman of the DPRK-Viet Nam Friendship Association and others.
    On hand were members of the delegation of the Viet Nam−DPRK Friendship Association led by its Chairman Pham Tat Dong who is chairman of the Educational Panel of the State Council of Education on a visit to the DPRK and staff members of the Vietnamese embassy here.
    After a speech was made the participants watched a Vietnamese documentary film.
    Then followed a cocktail party.


Cuban Diplomats Visit Fish-Breeding Station

   Sohung, August 2 (KCNA) -- Cuban Charge d' Affaires ad interim here Enrique Montoto Cruz and staff members of his embassy Thursday visited the Poman Fish-Breeding Station in Sohung County of North Hwanghae Province on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the July 26 armed uprising of the Cuban people.
    They commanded a bird's-eye view of the station which has undergone a big change after being briefed on the modernization of the station under the wise leadership of the Party and the leader before the monument to the revolutionary history.
    Then they looked round the rainbow trout pond and the Poman Power Station and other places.
    The charge d' affaires ad interim said that the officials and working people there have built their area into a place good to live in true to the instructions of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.


Conclusion of Peace Agreement and Withdrawal of U.S. Forces Urged in S. Korea

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification of south Korea on July 27 made public a statement demanding the conclusion of a peace agreement and the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea, according to a media report.
    The statement said that, for the establishment of a durable peace system on the Korean Peninsula, the United States, a responsible party, should come out actively to sign a peace agreement and withdraw its forces from south Korea and the unequal south Korea-U.S. "alliance" be repealed.
    The U.S. forces' presence in south Korea has nothing to do with peace and reunification, being one designed to promote the U.S. interests on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia and it is nonsensical to sign a peace agreement without scrapping the aggressive south Korea-U.S "alliance" targeted against the north, the statement noted, adding:
    The U.S. should retract its plan to mount a nuclear strike at the north and completely pull back its forces from the Korean Peninsula and areas around it, if the war danger is to be removed and peace be actually ensured in this land.


S. Korean Authorities' Moves for Confrontation between Fellow Countrymen under Fire

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Thirty-two civic and public organizations of south Korea including the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification and the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration and the Democratic Labour Party reportedly called a joint press conference in Seoul on July 30 to denounce the authorities' moves for confrontation between fellow countrymen.
    Referring to the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises projected in south Korea in August, the speakers at the press conference branded the south Korean military authorities planning to join the United States in the maneuvers for a war of aggression as a harasser of peaceful reunification going against the trend of the times.
    They demanded the south Korean authorities immediately drop the plan for the joint military drill with the U.S.
    A letter to civic and public organizations was read out at the press conference. The letter urged the authorities to abandon their outdated anti-north policy inciting confrontation between Koreans and implement the June 15 joint declaration from the stand of national cooperation.


Japan Urged to Apologize for Past Crimes

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Members of the Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps and victims to sexual slavery to the Imperial Japanese Army in south Korea reportedly called a joint press conference on July 31 and demanded apology and compensation of the Japanese authorities for the past crimes.
    Recalling that a resolution calling for the Japanese government's official apology for the crimes related to sexual slavery was adopted at the session of the U.S. House of Representatives, the speakers at the press conference said the settlement of the past by Japan stands out as an issue of the international community.
    They exposed the fact that the Japanese authorities had made desperate efforts to conceal their crimes while engaging themselves in a hectic lobbying to bar the resolution on the "comfort women" from passing the U.S. House of Representatives.
    The Japanese authorities, looking straight into the trend of the times, should make official apology and compensation for the past crimes related to sexual slavery and stop at once the distortion of facts in the history textbook, revision of the "pacifist Constitution" and the moves to turn the country into a military giant, they urged.
    They declared they would wage an active movement worldwide for a solution to the issue of "comfort women" forcibly recruited for the Imperial Japanese Army.


Drama "The Sea of Blood" Created in Flames of Anti-Japanese War

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung wrote in his reminiscences "With the Century" that through the literature and arts in the period of the anti-Japanese revolution we realized that an excellent poem, play or story could stir up thousands of hearts and that a revolutionary song could pierce the enemy's heart which was beyond the reach of a bayonet.
     The President created many famous art works in his lifetime to hand them down to rising generations as national treasure.
     Among them is the famous play "The Sea of Blood" which was created and performed during the anti-Japanese war.
     The President's motive for creating the drama came mainly from the Song of "Punitive" Operation in Jiandao.
     He learnt the song from his father in his childhood and cultivated his hatred for the Japanese imperialists. When he was staging an armed struggle later, he keenly witnessed that the Jiandao area was soaked in a sea of blood at the point of bayonets of the invaders.
     What deeply moved him was the feature of the indomitable Korean people who courageously rose up in the resistance, without submitting to such miserable lot.
     This all-out resistance even involved the women, who had been bound by three bonds and five moral rules and three principles of obedience preached by Confucianism, and their children, who used to grumble over their food on their mothers' laps.
     As he provided support to them and sympathized with them, the images of a woman and her children, who followed in the footsteps of their fallen revolutionary husband and father formed and developed in his mind.
     He wanted to produce a work dealing with the principal character of such a woman. He found time in hot battles to write single details and a few words of dialogue.
     On a summer day in Juche 25 (1936) a premiere of the play "The Sea of Blood" was staged in Manjiang, a slash-and-burners' village, immediately below Mt. Paektu.
     Audience grinded their teeth with indignation at the brutal Japanese imperialists, seeing the scenes of the play which were similar with what they had experienced.
     Many young people of the village stepped onto the stage and ardently volunteered warmly to join the guerrilla army.
     The President, seeing the excitement and ardor prevailing over Manjiang village, keenly realized once again what a great the influence of art was.
     Everything gets discolored and withers with the passage of times. But the famous work "The Sea of Blood" still implants in the minds of the Korean people the truth that the revolution is the only way-out and the revolution should be carried to accomplishment.


Rodong Sinmun on Abe Regime's Crushing Defeat in Upper House Election

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan suffered a smashing defeat in the election to the House of Councillors held a few days ago, losing its control on the upper house for the first time since its emergence in 1955. It is no more No.1 party in the house.
    Commenting on this, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Friday says:
    The Abe group itself is to blame for the defeat of the LDP in the election. Japanese voters turned their backs on the LDP because they felt disillusioned about the political incompetence of the Abe Cabinet and its corrupt policy and its policy poor in substance, though showy in appearance
    The disgraceful defeat of the LDP is a deserved result of the Abe regime's political incompetence and anti-popular policy.
    The nearly one year long course of the Abe Cabinet is marred by nasty records run through with Abe's incompetence and diplomacy bereft of principle and reckless militarist moves. No sooner had the Abe group taken office than it got frantic in realizing its militarist ambition.
    The miserable defeat of the Abe group in the election is, in a way, a result of its hostile policy toward the DPRK. During its office it has pursued a hostile policy previously unknown toward the DPRK. Foaming at its mouth as a manifestation of its hostile feelings toward the DPRK, the group resorted to a madcap smear campaign and sanctions against it. And it has thrashed around in a desperate effort to destroy the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, the dignified overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK.
    The Abe group, after taking office, brought forward again the already-settled abduction issue under the pretext of the "sentiments of the people" and made it "an industry of abduction," reaching the peak of hysteria to utilize it for the maintenance of its power and for the victory in the election.
    The Abe group should clearly learn from the upper house election returns what consequences an unpopular, corrupt policy entails and what sorry lot awaits incompetent fellows acting rashly.


Plan of U.S. and S. Korean Authorities for War Maneuvers under Fire

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean authorities decided to stage "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises, large-scale war exercises targeted against the north, in south Korea from Aug. 20 to 31. This is an unpardonable provocation as they drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula into an extreme phase of showdown.
    A spokesman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said this in a statement released on Thursday.
    They are trying to cover up the aggressive and provocative nature of the projected war exercises with their hackneyed rhetoric that they would be "annual" and just a "command's drill," but that is nothing but sophism which can convince no one, the statement notes, an goes on:
    The reality clearly shows that the U.S. and its allied forces are chiefly to blame for disturbing peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. and south Korean authorities can never evade the responsibility for having strained the situation on the Korean Peninsula and deliberately thrown hurdles in the way of solving the nuclear issue and improving the inter-Korean relations in breach of their promises, swimming against the trend of the times.
    It is the invariable will and stand of the DPRK to respond to good faith in kind and react to provocations with merciless retaliation.
    The army and people in the DPRK will further bolster the war deterrent for self-defence to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the nation in order to cope with the reckless war moves of the U.S. and south Korean warlike forces.
    The U.S. and south Korean authorities should face up to the trend of the times and cancel at once their anachronistic plan for reckless war gambles targeted against the north.


Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Marked

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang meeting to mark the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" took place at the Central Workers' Hall on Friday.
    Kim Jong Il published the work on August 4, Juche 86 (1997) to formulate the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo which were put forward by President Kim Il Sung as the three charters for national reunification to be always maintained by the Korean nation for achieving the reunification of the country.
    Also clarified in the work are the principled need for the north and the south to preserve the Juche character and national character in the struggle for reunification and independence of the country, maintain the principle of national independence, promote co-existence, co-prosperity and common interests irrespective of ideology, ism and social system and achieve unity on the basis of patriotism.
    Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said in his report made at the meeting that the work serves as an immortal library as it provided fundamental guidelines for faithfully carrying forward the cause of national reunification started and led by the President and achieving the national reunification, the long-cherished desire of the nation.
    The publication of the work helped the fellow countrymen vigorously conduct the patriotic movement for reunification with a clear target and confidence, the reporter noted.
    The reporter called upon all people to firmly uphold the three charters and the June 15 joint declaration, its embodiment, as a banner for national reunification and wage a vigorous struggle to implement them.
    He urged the United States to make a fundamental switchover in its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK and stop doing anything obstructive to the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea and the Japanese reactionaries to halt at once their campaigns against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
    The south Korean authorities should reject cooperation with outside forces and confidently take the road of national cooperation and promptly abolish all anti-reunification legal and institutional mechanisms including the "National Security Law".
    Present at the meeting were leading officials of political parties, power organs, public organizations and educational institutions and working people in Pyongyang.


Japan Urged to Stop Suppression of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification reportedly issued a statement on July 29 in which it denounced the Japanese reactionaries' suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
    The statement said that Japan has not yet redeemed its past crimes against the Korean nation but has become ever more undisguised in its unethical suppression of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan.
    Accusing the Abe regime of instigating the Resolution and Collection Corporation to seize the Hall of the Headquarters of Chongryon, the statement said that this rampage of the Japanese reactionaries lashed the Koreans into great fury.
    The statement called on the Koreans to pool efforts and intensify the anti-Japan actions to frustrate the Japanese reactionaries' reckless moves, urging the Japanese authorities to immediately stop the suppression of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan.


Kim Jong Il Inspects Command of KPA Unit

   Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected the command of KPA Unit 273.
    He dropped in at the operation command room to learn about the unit's performance of duty and watched the exercise of the commanding staff in the military lecture room.
    He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled by the unit to boost its combat capability in every way, expressing satisfaction over the fact that it has firmly armed its commanding officers with Juche-based war methods by putting the training on a regular basis to get them fully ready to successfully perform their combat duties under any circumstances. He learned about how the politico-ideological work is conducted at the unit, making the rounds of the servicepersons' hall, library and other entertainment and educational facilities.
    He praised the unit for having prepared all its servicepersons as staunch fighters equipped with a transparent revolutionary outlook by fully applying the way the Anti-Japanese Guerilla Army did the political work.
    A fresh turn has taken place in the politico-ideological traits and fighting spirit of the servicepersons of the People's Army in the Songun era and its might has grown remarkably stronger, he noted, adding that no force on earth can match the strength of this invincible army.
    He had a photo session with the servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su.


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Kim Jong Il inspecciona Unidad No. 136 del EPC

   Pyongyang, 3 de agosto (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, inspecciono la Unidad No.136 del EPC.
     Ante todo, el Comandante Supremo hizo conocimiento del estado de cumplimiento del deber de la unidad y vio un entrenamiento de los militares.
     Se mostro satisfecho de que al regularizar los ejercicios segun la demanda de la orientacion del PTC de esta materia, todos los oficiales y soldados de aqui se forman como combatientes capaces de combatir a solas contra cien enemigos y presento las tareas para incrementar aun mas la combatividad de la unidad.
     El Comandante Supremo senalo que gracias a la primordial atencion concedida en esta unidad al entrenamiento, todos los uniformados pudieron poseer altas tecnicas militares y gran combatividad e indico que fortalecer los ejercicios de combate es la garantia fundamental para elevar la capacidad de pelea.
     Luego, presencio una reunion de felicitacion a los militares ejemplares que se desarrollo en el lugar de descanso al aire libre.
     Evaluo altamente el caracter tipico de este encuentro y estimulo a los efectivos quienes coronan con meritos orgullosos los momentos del servicio militar para convertirse en los heroes jovenes de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar) que ofrendan su juventud y hasta la vida para la patria como lo hizo el heroe Ri Su Bok.
     En el EPC se desarrolla originalmente la labor politica de diferentes formas conforme a las caracteristicas psicologicas de los militares, recalco el Comandante Supremo y resalto la necesidad de impulsar de continuo la educacion ideologica para formar a todos los uniformados como los fuertes en ideologia y en fe.
     Acto seguido, recorrio la sala de educacion, dormitorio, comedor, bano, deposito de alimentos subsidiarios y otras instalaciones educacionales, culturales y de intendencia prestando profunda atencion a la labor y la vida de los militares.
     Al decir que los comandantes deben esforzarse con asiduidad por dar magnificas condiciones de vida a los soldados, enseno los remedios para este fin.  Dejo como recuerdo a los militares de la unidad binoculos, ametralladora y fusil automatico y se fotografio junto con ellos.
     Le acompanaron los generales de ejercito del EPC Hyon Chol Hae y Ri Myong Su.


Rodong Sinmun comenta derrota del PDL de Japon

   Pyongyang, 3 de agosto (ATCC) -- En las elecciones de consejeros de la dieta japonesa, celebradas hace unos dias en Japon, el Partido Democratico Liberal sufrio una gran derrota.
    De esta manera, perdio el control en esa camara por primera vez despues de su fundacion en 1955 y la calidad de primera agrupacion politica de Japon. Asi comienza un comentario individual difundido este viernes por el diario Rodong Sinmun y prosigue:
    La perdida del PDL en esos comicios se debe a la propia banda de Abe.
    Los votantes japoneses viraron la espalda a esta entidad porque ya estan decepcionados de la incapacidad politica, la vistosa pero inconsistente, impopular y corrupta politica del gabinete de Abe.
    La estancia de cerca de un ano de este ejecutivo en el poder es una sucia trayectoria signada de la ineptitud y la diplomacia sin criterio propio de Abe.
    Ademas, tan pronto como asumiera el poder, la horda liderada por el se enfrasco en las maniobras para satisfacer su ambicion militarista.
    Por otra parte, esa derrota electoral es un resultado de la brutal politica hostil a Corea, que practican los pandilleros al mando de Abe.
    Al exponer abiertamente su hostilidad a Corea, ellos recurrieron desenfrenadamente a la demagogia y la sancion contra la RPDC y se afanaron en destruir la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon) que es una digna organizacion de los ciudadanos de la primera en ultramar.
    Ademas, pretextando el "sentimiento popular" ellos volvieron a cuestionar el ya resuelto problema del secuestro a fin de convertirlo en una "industria" que este en funcion de sus maniobras para mantenerse en el poder y de su campana electoral.
    A traves del saldo de las elecciones de consejeros, la banda de Abe debe darse clara cuenta de que sus impopulares y corruptas politicas tienen nefastas consecuencias y de que los incapaces e imprudentes caen en una situacion muy tragica.


Miembros de embajada cubana visitan empresa de piscicultura

   Sohung, 2 de agosto (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 54o aniversario de la insurreccion armada del 26 de julio del pueblo cubano, el encargado de negocios a.i. Enrique Montoto Cruz y otros miembros de la sede diplomatica cubana en Corea visitaron el dia 2 la Empresa de Piscicultura de Pom-an en el distrito de Sohung de la provincia de Hwanghae del Norte.
     Los huespedes escucharon ante el monumento a la historia revolucionaria las explicaciones de como esta empresa fue construida magnificamente bajo la sabia direccion del partido y el lider.
     Despues de mirar un panorama de los criaderos de peces, ellos recorrieron el estanque de truchas irisadas, la planta hidroelectrica de Pom-an y otras partes.
     Enrique Montoto Cruz dijo que en acato a las instrucciones del Presidente Kim Il Sung y el Dirigente Kim Jong Il, los funcionarios y otros trabajadores de aqui convirtieron su tierra natal en un lugar acomodado.


Personalidades extranjeras felicitan el 27 de julio del pueblo coreano

   Pyongyang, 3 de agosto (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 54o aniversario del triunfo (el 27 de julio de 1953) del pueblo coreano en la Guerra de Liberacion de la Patria, el Grupo del Songun (priorizacion militar), integrado por las personalidades de diferentes sectores de varios paises y regiones, inserto en la pagina web el articulo intitulado "Felicitamos calurosamente el 54 aniversario del triunfo en la Guerra de Liberacion de la Patria en Corea".
    Su texto va como sigue:
    La guerra coreana fue una justa contienda de emancipacion nacional para la lucha antiimperialista, antiyanqui y de clase, que defendio el socialismo y la paz mundial y dio impulso al movimiento de la revolucion mundial.
    Ademas, probo fehacientemente la justeza y la vigencia de la autoctona concepcion de guerra de que el factor determinante de la victoria o derrota en una contienda belica no es el armamento sino la superioridad ideo-espiritual y demostro plenamente el poderio de la idea del Songun.
    El Presidente Kim Il Sung condujo sabiamente la Guerra de Liberacion de la Patria contra los imperialistas yanquis y logro esa fulminante victoria acumulando asi grandes proezas en aras de la revolucion coreana y la causa de la revolucion mundial.
    Por otra parte el director de Asuntos Politicos y Relaciones Internacionales del Movimiento Panafricano, publico el 26 de julio una declaracion dedicada a la misma efemeride.
     En esta nota el subrayo que la victoria de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea en la guerra coreana resulto un milagro de la historia y evento de sorpresa para todo el mundo y afirmo que el pueblo coreano guiado por el General Kim Jong Il seguira siendo victorioso tambien en lo adelante.