TODAY'S NEWS (July.11.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Yong Nam greets Mongolian President
* Libyan guests leave
* Anniversary of Korea-China treaty marked
* Gigantic project for harnessing nature makes headway
* Reception by Libyan secretary
* Foreigners visit drought and heat ravaged areas
* Friendly meeting on National Day of Mongolia
* DPRK hard hit by long spell of drought and heat
* Choson Ilbo's diatribe against trend towards national reunification
* New international economic order
* KCNA terms Ri Hoe Chang imbecile
* World Day of Population observed
* Congratulatory message to 36th OAU summit
For Spanish-speaking people
* actividades exteriores de kim il sung
* disparate de idiota, comentario de atcc
Kim Yong Nam greets Mongolian President
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly
of the DPRK, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Nachagyn Bagabandy,
President of Mongolia, on the occasion
of the 79th anniversary of the Mongolian people's revolution, their
national holiday.
The message sent warm congratulations to the President and through him
to the Mongolian people on the day.
Convinced that the traditional relations of friendship between the two
countries will continue to grow stronger and
develop in the interests of the two peoples, it wished him success in his
work for the prosperity of the country and the
friendly Mongolian people happiness and prosperity.
Libyan guests leave
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham, secretary of
the general people's committee
for foreign liaison and international cooperation of the Great Socialist
People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and his party
left here today at the end of the 4-day visit to Korea.
They were seen off at the airport by Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, officials concerned, Ahmed
Amer al Muakkaf, secretary of the people's bureau of Libya and diplomatic
envoys of different countries here.
During their stay they visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the
President Kim Il Sung lies in state for
perpetuity and paid homage to him. They also visited Mangyongdae, his
birthplace, the Tower of the Juche Idea and
Pyongyang metro, and so on.
Anniversary of Korea-China treaty marked
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- The Committee for Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries and the central
committee of the Korea-China Friendship Association gave a reception at the
Okryu Restaurant on July 10 on the
occasion of the 39th anniversary of the Korea-China treaty of friendship,
cooperation and mutual assistance.
Minister of Public Health Kim Su Hak, chairman of the central committee
of the Korea-China Friendship
Association, said in his speech that the great leader President Kim Il Sung
and the respected premier Zhou Enlai signed
the Korea-China treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance 39
years ago, thus performing such immortal
exploits as developing in depth the Korea-China friendship on a new legal
basis.
The Chinese people have achieved great successes in the efforts to push
ahead with the socialist modernization
drive with Chinese characteristics and achieve the reunification of the
whole country under the leadership of the
communist party headed by the respected Jiang Zemin, he said, and went on:
The Korean people will as always make all efforts to strengthen and
develop the Korea-China friendship provided
and cultivated by preceding leaders of the two countries and consolidated
by the respected Kim Jong Il's unofficial visit
to the People's Republic of China.
Chinese ambassador to Korea Wang Guozhang said in his address that over
the last 39 years, the two parties and
two peoples have united close and supported each other in accordance with
the spirit of the treaty and conducted brisk
exchange and cooperation in political, economic, cultural, scientific and
technological and other fields, thus positively
contributing to the dynamic advance of socialist construction in the two
countries and the defence of peace and stability
in the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region.
Referring to the great Kim Jong Il's historic meeting and talks with
Jiang Zemin and leading officials of the party
and the state of China during his unofficial visit to China in May, he
pointed out that the leaders of the two countries
shared the need to further develop the China-Korea friendly and cooperative
relations from a prospective view.
Noting with great pleasure the achievements made by the Korean people
in socialist construction, he sincerely
hoped that the fraternal Korean people would turn their country into a more
beautiful and prosperous one under the
leadership of general secretary Kim Jong Il.
Gigantic project for harnessing nature makes headway
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Kaechon-Lake Thaesong waterway project, a
gigantic nature-harnessing work, is
now making brisk headway.
This is aimed to build a lock-gate across the River Taedong in
Taegak-ri, Kaechon city, and make a man-made
waterway extending more than 160 km from it to Lake Thaesong. It will
sufficiently provide irrigation and industrial
water to the western part of the country.
The project is being pushed ahead under the difficult conditions where
its builders are hard pressed for everything
including machines and equipment, fuel and various other materials.
Particularly, the work of digging a 160-km-long waterway, building a
barrage, dozens of tunnels and many
structures and laying ducts under ground is almost done manually.
The project is unprecedented in terms of amount of work to be done.
The scale of the project is 5 times the Phyongnam irrigation project
which was undertaken to store water in Lake
Yonphung and 4 times the Kiyang irrigation project aimed to draw water on
the lower reaches of the river taedong up
to Lake Thaesong.
Hundreds of pumping stations have so far been operated to pump up water
at low areas to store water at minor
reservoirs. But water of the River Taedong will be diverted through a
man-made waterway. When the project is
completed, water of the River Taedong will automatically flow to some 20
reservoirs located in areas much lower than
the level of the waterway. Then there will be no need to operate any longer
530 odd water pumps.
The completion of the project will make it possible to satisfactorily
solve the problem of water in the granaries on
the west coast and build minor power stations at the Taegak barrage and the
waterway to generate electricity and
develop fish farming.
A new "river" will appear between the Taedong and Chongchon rivers to
add to the beauty of the country's
landscape.
Reception by Libyan secretary
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham, secretary of
the general people's committee
for foreign liaison and international cooperation of the Great Socialist
People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, yesterday gave
a reception at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel on winding up his visit to the DPRK.
Invited there were Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign
Trade Kang Jong Mo, chairman of the
central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea Ryom
Sun Gil who is also chairman of the
Korea-Libya Friendship Association and other officials concerned and
foreign diplomatic envoys in Korea.
Present at the reception were the party of the secretary, secretary of
the people's bureau of the Great Socialist
People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the DPRK Ahmed Amer al Muakkaf and
members of the bureau.
The reception proceeded in a friendly atmosphere.
Foreigners visit drought and heat ravaged areas
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Members of international organizations and
Non-Governmental Organizations in
Korea yesterday looked round drought-stricken areas in Taedong county and
Jungsan county, South Phyongan
Province.
They acquainted themselves with the situation in which reservoirs dried
up and maize, rice and other crops are
heavily affected by drought and heat.
Friendly meeting on National Day of Mongolia
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting was held at the
Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace yesterday
on the occasion of the 79th National Day of Mongolia.
Invited there were Damdiny Byamba, Mongolian ambassador to the DPRK,
embassy officials and Mongolian
guests.
Present were Hong Son Ok, vice-chairperson of the Korean Committee for
Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries, and officials concerned.
The participants looked round well-furnished circle rooms of the
palace, which has been built as a center of after
school education of schoolchildren, and enjoyed a performance given by art
circle members of the palace.
The participants conversed with each other, deepening the feelings of
friendship.
DPRK hard hit by long spell of drought and heat
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
has been hard hit by a long spell of
drought and heat.
An unusual long spell of heat persisted in almost all areas of the DPRK
until July 10 due to the effect of hot and
dry air moving from vast areas of the Asian continent.
The temperature in Hamhung and Wonsan on July 2, registered 37 degrees
centigrade, that in Pyongyang,
Phyongsong, Haeju and Nampho from July 3 to 7 34-37 degrees centigrade and
that in Sariwon and Kanggye on July
8 37 degrees centigrade which are an all-time high in the meteorological
observation. The average temperature in these
areas was 6-12 degrees higher than normal temperature.
Maize, rice and other crops were badly affected by this long spell of
heat and drought as crops needed more water
this time than any other time.
The high temperature of water registering above 40 degrees centigrade
left roots of rice plants rotten and
non-paddy crops dried up in many areas on the west coast including
Pyongyang, South Phyongan Province, North
Hwanghae Province and Nampho city.
Crops in those areas are badly damaged by blight and harmful insects
due to drought and heat that hit them in the
middle of May.
Non-paddy crops in the intermediary and mountainous areas of the
northern inland region such as Jagang and
south Hamgyong provinces are hard hit by a long spell of drought and heat.
Crops in paddy and non-paddy fields across the country are seriously
affected by this drought and heat this month
alone.
In consequence, agricultural production this year is expected to suffer
a sharp drop.
Choson Ilbo's diatribe against trend towards national reunification
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- After the historic Pyongyang meeting and
the north-south summit, all the fellow
countrymen in the north, south and overseas are pooling their wisdom and
energies for reconciliation, unity and
reunification of the nation so as to contribute to the noble cause of
national reunification even a bit.
But the South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo is persistently pursuing
confrontation with the north, throwing wet
blanket over the ardent desire of the nation for reunification.
Confrontationists of Choson Ilbo were denied news coverage of the
north-south Red Cross talks held at Mt.
Kumgang in June. Drawing a proper lesson from this they should have
apologized for their wrongdoings and turned to
a right way.
However, they are now behaving like a thief crying "stop, thief."
At a recent meeting they adopted what they called "resolution" in which
they asserted that the north was "taming
media" and they would "resolutely react to the north's threat to violate
the freedom of the press." In that way they
renewed an anti-DPRK diatribe.
This is a virulent challenge to the north-south joint declaration and a
premeditated provocation against the north, far
from being an issue related to the "freedom of the press".
If Choson Ilbo were a genuine medium, it would reflect on its
wrongdoings before decrying others.
At a time when the whole nation is heading for national unity and
reunification, true to the north-south joint
declaration, only the Choson Ilbo is busy slandering the north and inciting
confrontation between the north and south,
floating the fiction that "the June 25 War broke out due to the north's
invasion of the south".
This smear campaign launched by Choson Ilbo diametrically runs counter
to spirit of the north-south joint
declaration for reconciliation and cooperation between the north and south
and peace and reunification and constitutes
an anti-national and anti-reunification crime as it fans up distrust,
antagonism, confrontation and division among fellow
countrymen.
This act detrimental to national unity and reunification should be
sternly dealt with as a treachery.
Those maniacs of the Choson Ilbo going against the strong trend towards
reunification should be severely judged
in the name of the nation and thrown overboard.
We once again solemnly declare that the north will not allow anyone
obstructing national unity and reunification,
be it Choson Ilbo or anything else nor will permit anyone setting a dirty
foot in the inviolable land of the north.
New international economic order
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
stresses that one of the urgent problems
in preventing war and defending peace is to destroy the present unfair
international economic order and establish a new
and fair international economic order.
The present unfair international economic order established by the
imperialists serves as a means of stuffing out the
belly of the western monopolies and a factor of rendering the world
unstable, the article says, and goes on:
The "globalization" spread over the world under the baton of the
imperialists after the end of the Cold War is
utterly destroying finance, trade and other fields of developing countries
and sweeping away regional character and the
peculiar national traditions and customs of each country.
Only when the present unfair international economic order is dismantled
and inequality between countries in
international economic relations, infringement on sovereignty and the
exploitation and plunder of other countries are
removed, can the stability of the world be guaranteed and conditions for
lasting peace be provided.
The imperialists are seeking to solve the market problem through
militarization of the economy, but it results in
increasing prices, fanning inflation and causing unemployment.
Whenever the imperialists are faced with economic crisis, they seek to
find a wayout in the war. The international
situation is still tense due to the imperialists' desperate moves to get
rid of the serious economic crisis.
Now that the imperialists are making desperate efforts to keep the
present unfair international economic order, only
through a resolute anti-imperialist struggle can we destroy the unfair
economic order and establish a new and fair
international economic order.
KCNA terms Ri Hoe Chang imbecile
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Improper behaviour swimming against the
nation's desire for national
reconciliation, unity and reunification and the trend of the times were
reported in South Korea recently.
Ri Hoe Chang, president of the "Grand National Party" of South Korea,
at a recent session of the "National
Assembly" dared to defame the authority of the supreme headquarters of our
revolution. He went the length of letting
loose outbursts intended to put a brake on the north-south joint
declaration and incite the north-south confrontation.
His malignant abuses cannot escape denunciation from the whole nation
as he betrayed his true colors as an
anti-reunification element and arch traitor keen on hurling mud at the
historic north-south joint declaration and
escalating the north-south confrontation.
It is by no means fortuitous that the public at home and abroad is now
laughing with scorn at Ri as a traitor and an
imbecile who is unable to foresee even a bit, ignorant of the trend of the
times because of his jealousy.
As already known, the historic meeting and talks which culminated in
the adoption of the north-south joint
declaration in Pyongyang in June marked a great event of the nation as it
ushered in a new era of reconciliation, unity
and reunification by bringing a thaw in the frozen relations between the
north and the south marked by over a half
century-long distrust and confrontation.
It is a height of folly for Ri Hoe Chang to dream of seizing "supreme
power" quite contrary to the desire of the
nation and the strong trend of the times.
It is as clear as noonday that if such traitor comes to power, the
South Korean people will not be able to live in
peace even a moment but face great misfortune and disasters and the
improving north-south relations will return to the
time of confrontation.
Those who are seeking north-south confrontation and challenging the
desire of the nation and the need of the times
are fated to meet a miserable end.
History will surely punish Ri Hoe Chang for his unpardonable crimes
against the cause of national reunification.
The traitors to the nation will have to pay a dear price.
World Day of Population observed
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Papers here today observe the World Day of
Population (July 11).
Rodong Sinmun says that the successful solution of the population
issue, one of urgent problems in the world, is
an important matter for the existence, development and well-being of
humankind in the future as well as for the present
time.
In order to settle the population issue it is imperative to keep
balance of population growth and socio-economic
development, the paper notes, pointing out that it can be solved only when
all the problems are settled centering on
man.
Minju Joson says that the Worker's Party of Korea and the government of
the DPRK solve the growth of
population and socio-economic problems that ensue from it according to the
Juche-oriented policy of population.
The DPRK, in the future, too, will develop exchange and cooperation
with international organisations including
the UN Population Fund to solve the population issue prospectively and
provide a more stable and cultured living to
the people, the paper says.
Congratulatory message to 36th OAU summit
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on July 8 sent a
congratulatory message to the 36th meeting of heads of
state and government of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
The message noted that the OAU and African countries set out the common
aim to achieve the unity and integration
of the African continent, opposed to the interference of the outside
forces, and have registered great successes in their
positive efforts to accomplish it.
The Korean people highly appreciate the efforts of the African people
to build United Africa, new peaceful and
prosperous Africa from independent stand on the principle of self-reliance
and extend firm solidarity with them, the
message said.
Reiterating the Korean people's pledge to continue to make positive
efforts to accomplish the human cause of
independence, firmly united with the African people in the idea of
independence, peace and friendship in the future,
too, the message sincerely wished the summit good results.
For Spanish-speaking people
actividades exteriores de kim il sung
pyongyang, 11 de julio (atcc) -- el 8 de julio se cumplio el 6
aniversario del fallecimiento del gran lider presidente
kim il sung.
con motivo de ese dia el pueblo coreano y la humanidad progresista
recuerdan profundamente las hazanas del
presidente kim il sung quien con sus dinamicas actividades exteriores bajo
el ideal de la independencia, la paz y la
amistad inscribio brillante pagina en la historia politica mundial.
durante todo el periodo de su actuacion como lider del partido del
trabajo de corea y del estado el presidente kim il
sung se encontro con mas de 70 mil personalidades de 136 paises sin
distincion de diferencias de idea e ideal, criterio
politico y creencia religiosa.
entre ellas figuran mas de 230 jefes del estado y gobierno como stalin,
mao zedong, sukarno, tito, ho chi minh,
mitterrand y houari boumedienne.
en junio del 83 (1994) de la era juche, ultimo periodo de su vida el
presidente trabajo con abnegacion concediendo
en 20 ocasiones audiencia a las delegaciones y huespedes extranjeros, en
particular a jimmy carter, ex presidente de
ee.uu.
el discutio durante varias horas con carter los importantes asuntos
para registrar viraje decisivo en la preservacion
de la paz y la seguridad de la peninsula coreana y el mundo.
en los historicos discursos pronunciados en varias conferencias
internacionales como 85 asamblea general de la
union interparlamentaria "por un mundo nuevo, libre y pacifico", "evitar la
guerra y preservar la paz es la inminente
tarea de la humanidad" el presidente kim il sung aclaro los problemas de
principios que se presentan en el cumplimiento
de la causa de independencia de la humanidad.
ademas en sus respuestas dadas al periodico norteamericano "washington
times", la revista politico-teorica
japonesa "sekai", el periodico frances "le monde" y otras numerosas
publicaciones extranjeras dio dilucidacion
cientifica al asunto de la edificacion de un nuevo mundo independiente
contra la guerra y la agresion.
el presidente recorrio la trayectoria de mas de 522 440 km para visitar
la ex urss, china, indonesia, yugoslavia,
vietnam, argelia y otros paises dejando asi inmarcesibles huellas que
brillaran eternamente en la historia.
disparate de idiota, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 11 de julio (atcc) -- en estos dias en el sur de corea
aparecen actos muy insolitos que desafian a la
aspiracion de la nacion y la tendencia de la epoca a la reconciliacion,
unidad y reintegracion de la nacion.
en la sesion principal de la "asamblea nacional" sostenida
recientemente ri hoe chang del "partido hannara" trato de
danar la autoridad de la direccion suprema de la revolucion de la rpdc y
profirio tonterias que frenan la ejecucion de la
declaracion conjunta norte-sur y fomentan el enfrentamiento entre ambas
partes de corea.
no podra evitar la condena de todos los coreanos la charlataneria de
este traidor inaudito, elemento
anti-reunificacion.
no es casual que la opinion interna y externa burla a ri hoe chang
calificandolo de traidor con mascara de la nacion,
ingenuo, imberbe, muy celoso y miope.
como es conocido por todos, el historico encuentro de pyongyang y las
conversaciones realizados en junio y la
aprobacion de la declaracion conjunta norte-sur son un gran evento nacional
que puso fin a la desconfianza y
enfrentamiento entre el norte y el sur de mas de un medio siglo e inauguro
la nueva epoca de la reconciliacion, la unidad
y la reunificacion.
ri hoe chang es miope e ignorante de la gran aspiracion de la nacion y
de la impetuosa corriente de la epoca. pero
suena con tomar "poder supremo". que ridiculo es evidente que en el caso de
que tal tipejo tome el "poder" los
habitantes surcoreanos no podran estar tranquilos ni por un momento ni
evitar tremendas desgracias y calamidades y
las relaciones norte-sur en evolucion favorable retornaran al punto
original del enfrentamiento.
sera tragico siempre el destino de quienes persiguen el enfrentamiento
norte-sur y contravienen a la aspiracion de la
nacion y la demanda de la epoca.
la historia calculara los imperdonables actos criminales de ri hoe
chang que contraviene a la causa de la
reunificacion nacional. los traidores deberan pagar un merecido precio.
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