TODAY'S NEWS (September.20.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Intellectuals, lasting companions of Korean revolution
* Kim Jong Il's work published in Trinidad and Tobago
* Preparatory committee for celebrating WPK anniversary formed in
Ethiopia
* Speech by head of DPRK delegation at Meeting of For. Ministers of Group
77
* Japan is not qualified to sit on UNSC
* National public presentation of science and technology held
* New computer programs developed
* DPRK Foreign Minister meets new Yugoslav ambassador
* First-day meeting of second north-south Red Cross talks held
For Spanish-speaking people
* discurso de jefe de delegacion de rpdc en reunion de grupo de los 77
Intellectuals, lasting companions of Korean revolution
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 10th anniversary of
the publication of "Let
us further enhance the role of intellectuals in the revolution and
construction," a famous work of leader
Kim Jong Il. On this occasion Rodong Sinmun and Minju Joson run signed
articles stressing that
intellectuals are lasting companions of the Korean revolution. In the work
Kim Jong Il clarified the
position and role of the intellectuals in the revolution and construction,
original policy of the Workers'
Party of Korea (WPK) towards intellectuals and issue of further
strengthening the work among
intellectuals. Rodong Sinmun says:
The work serves as a guideline which put the position and role of the
intellectuals in the revolution
and construction on a new stage.
The intellectuals represent a component of the driving force of
revolution and a powerful force of
the revolutionary struggle and social development.
Without revolutionary intellectuals it is impossible to build up
revolutionary ranks by awakening
broad segments of people and push ahead with the noble work of building a
prosperous country through
dynamic economic and cultural construction.
Only when the intellectuals share the destiny and purpose with their
leader, can they make great
contributions to the development of society as the independent driving
force of revolution, the paper
notes, stressing:
An intellectual can not carve out his destiny and discharge his mission
on behalf of the times and
history, if he is not united with the leader in ideology, purpose, morality
and obligation.
Minju Joson calls on all the intellectuals to display their wisdom and
energies and reliably support
the building of a powerful nation of Juche with science and technology.
Kim Jong Il's work published in Trinidad and Tobago
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous
work "On
thoroughly establishing the system of party leadership" was published in
booklet by the heritage
publishing house of Trinidad and Tobago on September 14. The work was
released on April 28, Juche
68 (1979).
Preparatory committee for celebrating WPK anniversary formed in
Ethiopia
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of a preparatory
committee was held
by the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, group for the study of the Juche idea on Sep.
12 to mark the 55th
anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The meeting elected the head of
the group chairman of the
committee and decided on programme of functions to be held on the WPK
anniversary.
Speech by head of DPRK delegation at Meeting of For. Ministers of
Group 77
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The head of the DPRK delegation in
his speech at the
Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Group 77 in New York on Sept. 15
reaffirmed that the DPRK will
as always remain faithful to the noble aim and mission of the group 77 to
establish a new international
economic order based on justice, equality and impartiality. Special
attention should be paid to the issues
of displaying to the full the united power of the group 77 in the U.N.
arena to meet new challenges of
"globalization" and promoting the scientific and technological development
of developing countries, he
said.
He called for taking practical measures to create international
environment and conditions in favour
of the economic growth and development of developing countries.
He laid stress on establishing a fair international economic order and
reforming the multi-purpose
trade system and the international financial structure so as to expand
preferential treatment and
development loan to developing countries.
The DPRK delegation considers that the issue of further strengthening
the pivotal role of the U.N.
in the analysis and the negotiations on international economic problems and
in policy-making should be
underscored in unison, he said.
He expressed the belief that the U.N. General Assembly this year will
be a meeting of significance
in demonstrating the solidarity and cooperation of developing countries.
Japan is not qualified to sit on UNSC
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- It is not fitting for Japan to behave
itself as a permanent
member of the United Nations Security Council. Instead, Japan must do what
it should do above
anything else, knowing where it stands. Rodong Sinmun today stresses this,
commenting on the
Japanese Foreign Minister's speech at the UN General Assembly session.
The commentary says:
The Japanese Foreign Minister said Japan is going to fully discharge
its duty as befits a permanent
UNSC member, making an effective use of its capability and experience in
various fields such as
disarmament and guarantee for human security.
This shows that Japan, forgetful of its position, is impudently
behaving itself as a permanent
memeber of the UNSC.
Japan contends that it has fully discharged its duty and role in the
international arena. but its
assertion is a lie.
Capability of performance of international duty and role and standard
of its appraisal are not decided
by the amount of "contribution" to the UN or by economic potentials and
military power.
Japan is not eligible to occupy a permanent seat on the UNSC. It has
made neither an apology nor
compensation for the crimes it committed against the Korean people in the past.
It is the height of sarcasm and shamelessness that Japan is behaving
itself as a permanent UNSC
member though it failed to do its past settlement, a top-priority issue,
and get out of the disgraceful
"enemy state."
Such behaviour will further bring down the international confidence in
Japan.
Japan should clearly know where it stands and behave itself, squarely
seeing the present situation.
National public presentation of science and technology held
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- A national public presentation of
science and technology was
recently held at Kim Chaek University of technology to mark the 25th
anniversary of the start of the
movement of the "February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians".
Presented there were at
least 350 valuable scientific and technological data made by scientists and
technicians who were active in
different domains of the national economy in the recent few years. Among
them were analysis of the
cause of electric locomotive bogie destruction and measure for reinforcing
the bogie, measure for
protecting adhesion motor, technical reconstruction of oxygen plant and
dressing of limonite dust ores
and other technical problems whose solution is badly needed by railway
transport and metal industry,
and crushing technology through air current, rocking excavator and way of
horizontal leaf mining and
other successes gained in power and coal industries.
Scientitic and technical successes gained in light industry included
improvement of quality of
footwear mould and technical reconstruction of vinyl chloride footwear
injection process and production
process of silk yarn. Also included there were data on breeding potato seed
with no virus, establishing
seed selection system and researching and introducing technology of overall
potato processing.
The "February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians" was
organized in September Juche
64 (1975). The group of excellent scientists and technicians and university
teachers has succeeded in
more than 1,800 major researches over the last 25 years, thus greatly
contributing to making the national
economy Juche-oriented, modernized and scientific.
It greatly helped establish technological process for production of
large roller, complete the
Juche-based iron-making method and develop large-capacity rectifier, a
generator with a capacity of tens
of thousands of kilowatts and 7,000 h.p. 8-axle electric locomotive and
other modern machines. it also
played a positive role in computerizing the comprehensive command of the
water management of the
River Taedong, weather forcasting, information of science and technology
and operation and
management of industrial establishments and other sectors.
The shock brigade is now taking the lead in settling important
scientific and technological problems
at over 240 units in the major domains of the national economy.
New computer programs developed
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean computer Center has
developed new programs
on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea
(October 10). Among them are
the operating system, Korean optical character recognition, Korean speech
recognition and translation
programs such as Korean input method editor.
The Korean optical character recognition programme which needs latest
technique has reached the
recognition rate of 99.9 percent in printing and 95 percent in writing.
The word recognition rate of the Korean speech recognition program is
over 90 percent. The input
words are more than 100,000.
Multilingual translation program including Korean, Japanese, English
and Chinese languages will
be completed before long.
The Korean-Japanese translation program and the Japanese-Korean
translation program have been
developed, winning public favour.
The development of the English-Korean and Korean-English translation
program is coming near
completion.
A signal success has been made in the research into Korean font and
application program.
Following this latest technology, a drive to bring the computer
engineering across the country on to
the world-level is being conducted in Korea.
The prospect of Korean computer with scientists of twenties as the main
force is bright.
DPRK Foreign Minister meets new Yugoslav ambassador
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Foreign Minister of the
DPRK, today met
and conversed with Milorad Kosovac, new Yugoslav ambassador to Korea, who
paid a courtesy call on
him.
First-day meeting of second north-south Red Cross talks held
Kosong, September 20 (KCNA) -- The first-day meeting of the second
north-south Red Cross talks
was held on Mt. Kumgang today to discuss humanitarian issues such as the
exchange of visiting groups
of separated families and relatives, the work of confirming whether they
are alive or not and their
addresses, exchange of correspondence, the issue of setting up and
operating meeting rooms under the
north-south agreement. At the talks the head of the north side stressed
that two more visiting groups of
separated families and relatives would be exchanged within this year by
initiative efforts of the north
side. in this connection, he set forth a reasonable proposal of the north
side for the period and day of
exchange and size of visiting groups.
Presenting the proposal of the north side on the issue of confirming
whether the separated families
and relatives are alive or not and their addresses, exchange of
correspondence and the issue of setting up
and operating meetings rooms, he explained the stand of the north side on
the humanitarian issues raised
between the north and south including the matter of correcting deviations
which have been made in the
exhange of visiting groups in the past.
The south side, too, brought forward its proposal on abovesaid issues.
Both sides agreed to meet again after examining and discussing each
other's stands.
For Spanish-speaking people
discurso de jefe de delegacion de rpdc en reunion de grupo de los 77
pyongyang, 20 de septiembre (atcc) -- el jefe de la delegacion de la
rpdc al hacer uso de la palabra el
dia 15 del mes en curso en nueva york en la reunion de los cancilleres del
grupo de los 77 senalo: la
republica popular democratica de corea quedara fiel tambien en el futuro al
sublime objetivo y mision del
grupo de los 77 para establecer un nuevo orden economico internacional
basado en la justicia, la
igualdad y la imparcialidad.
en la escena de la onu se debe manifestar vigorosamente la fuerza unida
del grupo de los 77 para
hacer frente a los nuevos desafios de la "globalizacion" y dar importancia
especial a acelerar el desarrollo
de la ciencia y tecnica de los paises en vias de desarrollo.
tambien se debe tomar medidas de accion practica para crear condiciones
y circunstancias
internacionales favorables para el aumento y el desarrollo de la economia
de los paises en vias de
desarrollo.
se debe establecer un equitativo orden economico internacional y
reformar el sistema de comercio
multilateral y la estructura monetaria internacional en direccion de
ampliar el tratamiento favorecido y la
financiacion para el desarrollo en los paises en vias de desarrollo.
la delegacion de la rpdc considera que se debe subrayar el problema de
fortalecer el papel centrico de
la onu en la analisis, negociacion y elaboracion de la politica en cuanto a
los problemas economicos
internacionales.
estoy convencido de que la asamblea general de la onu de este ano se
hara una reunion de gran
significado para manifestar la unidad y la colaboracion de los paises en
vias de desarrollo.
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