Kim Yong Nam Receives Credentials from Namibian Ambassador

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Namibian Ambassador to the DPRK Leonard Nambahu at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Wednesday.
    Present there were Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, and others and staff members of the Namibian Embassy here.
    After receiving credentials, Kim Yong Nam had a talk with the Namibian ambassador.


Cuban Ambassador Hosts Reception

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Cuban Ambassador to the DPRK Jose Manuel Galego Montano hosted a reception Tuesday on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and Cuba.
    Present at the reception on invitation were Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin who is chairman of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Hyong Jun, Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea Kim Yong Do and officials concerned.
    On hand were staff members of the Cuban embassy here.
    Speeches were made at the reception.


Chinese Delegation Interviewed by KCNA

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Members of the visiting delegation of the China Association for International Friendly Contact were interviewed by KCNA in Pyongyang on September 10.
    Vice-President of the association Shen Weiping, who is leading the delegation, in the interview referred to the colorful functions held in Pyongyang to celebrate the 59th anniversary of the DPRK.
    He said that President Kim Il Sung liberated the country by leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory and built a socialist state centered on the popular masses.
    The Korean people are now registering many successes in socialist construction while overcoming hardships and difficulties encountered, closely rallied around Kim Jong Il true to the last instructions of Kim Il Sung, he stressed.
    And he said that Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese war hero, is a prominent woman revolutionary who devoted all her precious life to Korea's liberation and happiness of the people.
    General Secretary of the association Chen Zuming, who is a member of the delegation, said that today the friendship between China and the DPRK is growing stronger under the deep care of the supreme leaders of the two countries. We hope that the Korean people would make greater successes in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, he added.


Validity and Vitality of Three Charters for National Reunification Proved

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Ten years have passed since Kim Jong Il published the famous work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" on August 4, 1997 and formulated the President's idea and line on national reunification as three charters for national reunification.
    Over the last decade, a new epochal phase has been brought about in the development of the north-south relations and in the efforts for accomplishing the cause of national reunification and the entire Korean people have turned out vigorously in the struggle for smashing all the obstructions of the anti-reunification forces within and without and achieving the reunification under the banner of national independence and great unity.
    The historic Pyongyang summit was arranged in June 2000 by Kim Jong Il's will of loving the country and the nation to publish the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the kernel of which is "by our nation itself," an embodiment of the idea of the three charters. Those years have witnessed achievements unprecedented in the north-south relations.
    There were twists and turns owing to the moves of foreign forces to obstruct the reconciliation, cooperation and reunification of the Korean nation. But the north and south have held more than 140 talks and contacts including 21 rounds of ministerial talks and 13 rounds of meetings of the north-south committee for the promotion of economic cooperation. Both sides have briskly pushed ahead with the national economic collaboration such as the tourism of Mt. Kumgang and the construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone.
    In this period the severed railway lines and roads were relinked, air and sea routes opened and reunification activities of the north and the south held with large attendance on the occasion of the commemoration days common to the nation including August 15 and June 15.
    At the functions held in Pyongyang, Seoul, Mt. Paektu, Jeju Island and other parts of the north and south of Korea, fellow countrymen raised cheers calling for reunification all over the world.
    The scenes showing joint entrance of the athletes from the north and the south with the Korean peninsula flag in their van and the joint cheering in international sports competitions stirred up the enthusiasm of the Korean nation for reunification.
    The present stirring realities in which the Korean nation is glorifying the June 15 reunification era, attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity, clearly show the validity and tremendous vitality of the three charters.


Gift to Kim Jong Il from Head of Qatar Delegation

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by Director General of Al-Jazeera Satellite Television Wadah Khanfar who is leading its delegation on a visit to the DPRK.
    The gift was conveyed to an official concerned by the head of the delegation Wednesday.


National Exhibitions in Field of Education Held

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- National exhibitions of scientific research successes and experimental apparatus and teaching aids in the field of education took place here from September 4 to 11 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "Theses on Socialist Education."
    On display in the venues of the exhibitions were at least 1,600 scientific research results gained by the universities across the country in recent years.
    Educational establishments at different levels presented to the exhibition of experimental apparatus and teaching aids modern computer-aided experimental apparatus and facilities and the teaching aids helpful for objective study and high in cognitive and educational value.
    Presented to the national teaching aid exhibition held from September 1 to 5 were at least thousands of facilities, appliances, materials of more than 1,000 varieties including machines and equipment, computers, various kinds of experiment and practice apparatuses and reagents provided by ministries and national institutions.


Stamps on FIFA Women's World Cup Issued

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- New stamps (a sheetlet and a souvenir sheet) on the Fifth FIFA Women's World Cup have been published in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    The stamps reflect scenes showing female footballers playing games against the trophy cup of the championships and the flag of the Football Association of the DPRK.
    Seen there are words "WOMEN'S FOOTBALL" in Korean and English and "FIFA".
    The face values of the stamps are 12-140 won respectively.


Japan's Wrong Marking of "Sea of Korea" as "Sea of Japan" under Fire

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Japan asserted at the recent 9th UN Conference on Standardization of Geographical Names that the "Sea of Japan" has long been recognized internationally and has nothing to do with the colonial rule enforced by it in the past.
    Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard: What Japan trumpeted about this or that with the above-said conference as a momentum is, in essence, an extension of its vicious moves for territorial expansion.
    Japan seeks to legalize Tok Islet as "part of Japan's territory" and the East Sea of Korea as "Sea of Japan" and realize its ambition for reinvasion of Korea with it as a springboard, the commentary notes, and goes on:
    Japan's assertion that the East Sea of Korea be marked as "Sea of Japan" is a shameless distortion of history in disregard of the historicist principle and objective facts and a revelation of its militarist design for reinvasion.
    It is nonsensical for Japan to assert that the marking of the "Sea of Japan" has nothing to do with the colonial rule enforced by Japan in the past.
    The name of the East Sea of Korea was changed into "Sea of Japan" when the Japanese imperialists began working hard for the colonial occupation of Korea.
    After occupying Korea by force of arms in the past century, the Japanese imperialists resorted to crafty moves to mark the East Sea of Korea as "Sea of Japan" at the International Hydrographic Conference held in 1929. Marking the East Sea of Korea as "Sea of Japan" was a product of the Japanese imperialists' policy of colonial occupation and domination over Korea. Japan's persistent insistence that the East Sea of Korea be marked as "Sea of Japan" though 60 years have passed since the defeat of Japanese imperialism is little short of calling back the departed soul of the Japanese imperialists.
    Japan's sophism that the marking of the East Sea of Korea as "Sea of Japan" is "internationally recognized" is nothing but a sheer distortion of the reality and a foolish ruse to justify its brigandish act.


Rodong Sinmun on Cultural and Emotional Life in Songun Era

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- All the Party members and other working people should turn out to bring about a fresh turn in establishing the sound way of cultural and emotional life in the whole society, regarding it as an important political task for glorifying the era of Songun, says Rodong Sinmun today in an editorial.
    The Korean people should take the lead in cultural and emotional life, too, as they live in the homeland of great idea steering the era, that of the Songun politics, the editorial says, and goes on:
    To make the noble style of cultural and emotional life prevail over the country is an important work for bringing the advantages of Korean socialism into full play, and it is a major way for making fresh leaps and innovations in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    It is the true picture of our society that all the people enjoy a highly civilized and emotional life, helping and leading each other forward, closely rallied as one around the Party and the leader.
    Wherever loud singing can be heard, revolution is sure to emerge victorious, and wherever rich emotion and militant optimism are brimful, one can witness miracles and innovations.
    The militant and optimistic, cultural and emotional life of the Korean People's Army has become a model of socialist way of cultural and emotional life in the era of Songun. All the people should spruce up their units and houses, manage the economic life assiduously and methodically and always live and work full of optimism and joy, conducting militant art activities just as servicemen and their families do.


Rodong Sinmun on Task for Korea's Reunification

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- It is a main task facing the movement for national reunification to oppose aggression and war moves and ensure durable peace on the Korean Peninsula.
    Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article.
    The United States still remains a main target of the anti-war peace struggle in the peninsula, the article points out, and says:
    The U.S. openly designated the DPRK as a target of preemptive nuclear attack in the new century. And it has been massively deploying latest attack weapons and war equipment in and around south Korea while ceaselessly staging such large-scale war exercises against the DPRK as RSOI, Foal Eagle and Ulji Focus Lens joint military maneuvers in an attempt to carry out the preemptive nuclear attack.
    But for the strong war deterrent built up by the DPRK for self-defence, another war would have already broken out on the Korean Peninsula.
    The main link in the struggle for peace against war is to get the U.S. imperialist aggression forces withdrawn from south Korea.
    The forces are a field executor of the U.S. policy of aggression on the DPRK. Today when the atmosphere of reconciliation and unity is growing stronger and "Our nation by itself," the idea of national independence, serves as the idea of nationwide reunification and patriotic movement on the Korean Peninsula, there is no justification for the U.S. to keep its aggression forces in south Korea.
    The pro-American conservative forces in south Korea supporting the outsiders' aggression and war moves become a main target of the anti-war peace struggle.
    The above-said forces including the Grand National Party of south Korea are a group of traitors and warmongers seeking to bring disasters of war to the peninsula by toeing the U.S. policy of aggression on the DPRK.
    The people from all walks of life in south Korea should intensify the anti-GNP struggle under the banner of the great alliance against the conservatives and thus deal a telling blow of history to the pro-American reactionary conservatives who are hell-bent, in collusion with foreign forces, on the anti-reunification confrontation moves and maneuvers for war against the DPRK.


Birthday of DPRK Observed in Cuba

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- A function of laying a floral basket before the portrait of smiling President Kim Il Sung was held at Kim Il Sung Economic Special School of Cuba on September 6 on the occasion of the 59th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
    Present there were officials of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, teachers and employees of the school, the DPRK ambassador to Cuba and staff members of his embassy.
    The participants laid a floral basket before the portrait of the smiling President and paid tribute to him.


Birthday of DPRK Celebrated

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Lectures and reading sessions were held in India, Uganda and at the office of the Secretariat of the Pan-African Movement on September 4 and 5 and exhibitions of Korean books, photos and handicrafts took place in Brazil and Russia on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the DPRK.
    Displayed in the venues of the functions were famous works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, photos showing their immortal exploits, books and photos introducing the true appearance of Songun Korea and fine art works and handicrafts reflecting the wisdom and skills of Koreans.
    The chairman of the Indian Intellectuals' Society for the Study of the Juche Idea at a lecture said that the dawn of a great prosperous powerful nation has broken in the DPRK and its people have greeted a new era of prosperity thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    The acting executive secretary of the Ugandan National Women's Council at the reading session on Kim Jong Il's work "Socialism Is What Keeps Our People Alive" highly praised him for victoriously advancing the cause of socialism, the human cause of independence.
    The director for Political Affairs and International Relations of the Secretariat of the Pan-African Movement at the reading session on Kim Jong Il's work "Socialism Is a Science" stressed that his immortal exploits will shine forever with the human history.
    The director of the Department of Culture of the Dmitrov City Administration of Russia said that the exhibition helped know better about the successes made by the people of the DPRK in socialist construction, adding the DPRK will shine forever under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.


Birthday of DPRK Marked in Different Countries

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Figures of political parties, ministries of governments and organizations and individual personages of different countries sent floral baskets to the missions of the DPRK in different countries on September 7 on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the DPRK.
    Among them were the Funcinpec Party and the Khmer Democratic Party of Cambodia, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association, and the Workers' Party, the People's Socialist Party and the Socialist Popular Party of Mexico, the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, the Mexican Friendship Association to Remember President Kim Il Sung, the president of Cambodian Senate and the Cambodian deputy prime minister who is the minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
    In the meantime, the mayors of Nakhodka, Artyom, Pokino and Partizansk Cities, personages from various circles of Russia and the Director General of the Foreign Trade Bank of Libya paid congratulatory visits to the missions of the DPRK on September 6 and 7.
    The visitors laid floral baskets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and a full-length picture of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il before paying tribute to them.


Repeal of NSL Demanded in S. Korea

   Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and Peace of the Korean Peninsula, the Citizens' Solidarity for Peace and Reunification, the Headquarters of Movement for Fellow Countrymen to Become One and other organizations of people of different social standings of south Korea reportedly called a press conference in Seoul on September 6 in demand of the repeal of the "National Security Law (NSL)."
    Speakers at the press conference accused the "Grand National Party" of having worked hard to block the carriage of the "bill on the repeal of NSL" which had been presented to the "National Assembly" in 2004.
    They held that the bill should be passed through the session of the current NA without fail to abolish the evil law, a leftover of the era of dictatorship.
    They called on the people of different social standings to turn out in the struggle for the disbandment of the GNP which has persisted in the anti-reunification acts, doggedly insisting on keeping the evil law in force.
    A press release read out at the press conference urged the NA to make efforts for the repeal of the evil law with the will for peace and reunification.


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Se acredita ante Kim Yong Nam el embajador de Namibia

   Pyongyang, 12 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la Republica de Namibia en Corea, Leonard Nambahu, entrego este miercoles en el capitalino Palacio de los Congresos Mansudae sus cartas credenciales al presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kim Yong Nam.
    En la ocasion estuvieron presentes el vicecanciller Choe Su Hon y otros funcionarios coreanos y los miembros de la embajada de Namibia en Corea.
    Tras recibir las cartas credenciales, Kim departio con el diplomatico.


Embajador cubano ofrece banquete

   Pyongyang, 12 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El embajador cubano en Corea, Jose Manuel Galego Montano, ofrecio el dia 11 un banquete en ocasion del 47o aniversario del establecimiento de las relaciones diplomaticas entre la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y la Republica de Cuba.
    A la ocasion fueron invitados Kim Yong Jin, ministro de Educacion y presidente del Comite Coreano de Solidaridad con Cuba, el vicecanciller Kim Hyong Jun, Kim Yong Do, vicepresidente del Comite Central de la Federacion General de los Sindicatos de Corea, y otros funcionarios.
    Tambien, estuvieron presentes aqui los miembros de la embajada cubana.
    En la recepcion hubo discursos.


Rodong Sinmun critica a Japon por alterar nombre del "Mar de Corea"

   Pyongyang, 12 de septiembre (ATCC) -- En estos tiempos, Japon insiste en que la anotacion del "Mar de Japon" no tiene nada que ver con el colonialismo japones sobre Corea alegando que ella fue reconocida internacional e historicamente en la recien celebrada IX Conferencia de la ONU sobre la Estandarizacion de los Nombres Geograficos.
    Al respecto, el diario Rodong Sinmun publico en su edicion de este miercoles un comentario individual que senala como sigue:
    Ese alegato, que esgrime Japon aprovechando esa conferencia internacional, es en su esencia la continuacion de sus brutales maniobras para expandir el territorio.
    En particular, ese pais isleno pretende legitimar las anotaciones de la isla Tok y el Mar Este de Corea como el "territorio japones" y el "Mar de Japon" a fin de tomarlos como trampolin de nueva agresion a Corea.
    Esa postura de Japon en cuanto al Mar Este de Corea deviene un descarado acto de tergiversar la historia despreciando el principio historicista y todos los hechos objetivos y una muestra del intento de la reagresion militarista.
    En especial, resulta sumamente absurda la insistencia de Japon en que el nombramiento del mar en cuestion como el "Mar de Japon" esta desvinculado a la dominacion colonial sobre Corea por parte de los imperialistas japoneses.
    Ese mar comenzo a llamarse como "Mar de Japon" desde cuando los imperialistas nipones ocuparon a Corea y la convirtieron en su colonia.
    Tras ocupar en el siglo pasado a Corea con las fuerzas armadas, ellos emplearon artificios taimados para oficializar la anotacion del "Mar de Japon" en la Conferencia Hidrografica Internacional sesionada en 1929.
    Por cierto, ese llamado fue un producto de la politica de ocupacion y dominacion de los imperialistas japoneses sobre Corea.
    Sin embargo, a pesar de que transcurrieron 60 anos desde que fue derrotado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Japon sigue insistiendo en esa anotacion, lo cual se interpreta como un gesto encaminado a resucitar el fantasma del imperialismo japones.
    Si bien Japon habla como si ese nombramiento fuera "reconocido internacionalmente", esto no merece otro calificativo que una sucia distorsion de la realidad y un disparate para justificar sus acciones de bandido.


Entablado en Chengdu partido de futbol femenino RPDC vs. EE.UU.

   Pyongyang, 11 de septiembre (ATCC) -- En el primer juego por el grupo B de la Copa Mundial Femenina de 2007, efectuado el dia 11 en Chengdu de China, los equipos de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y los Estados Unidos han quedado empatados por 2 a 2.
    El once coreano jugara el dia 14 su segundo partido frente al equipo nigeriano.