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Data: Segunda-feira, 23 de Outubro de 2000 02:45
Assunto: Korean Central News Agency Oct 21
>October.21.2000 Juche 89
>
>[CONTENTS]
>
> * Message of sympathy to Bangladesh Prime Minister
>
> * Stand of EU countries to open diplomatic relations with DPRK welcomed
>
> * Talks between delegations of WPK and British party
>
> * Executive director of KEDO leaves
>
> * Kim Jong Il receives Choe Hong Hui
>
> * 2nd-stage project of Anbyon Youth Power Station completed
>
> * 4th "National Immunization Day" observed
>
> * Turning out to build reunified powerful nation
>
> * Israel hit for aggravating situation in Middle East
>
> * 6th National Exhibition of Inventions and New Technologies closes
>
> * Japan's move to establish "TMD" system under fire
>
> * Popular dish at Pyongyang restaurants
>
> * Mori's junket to S. Korea rejected
>
> * Kim Jong Il's works published in Mexico
>
> * DPRK-U.S. joint communique supported
>
> * Kim Il Sung's great idea of reunification and immortal exploits
praised
>
> * Group for study of Juche philosophy formed in Ecuador
>
> * Kim Jong Il praised
>
>
>
>Message of sympathy to Bangladesh Prime Minister
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the cabinet
of the
>Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message of sympathy to Sheikh
>Hasina,
>Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, in connection with
>big human
>and material losses caused by the floods that hit its southwestern part.
> He in the message expressed deep sympathy and consolation to the Prime
>Minister
>and, through her, to the people in the afflicted area and belief that the
>government would
>recover from the disaster and bring their living to normal at an early
date.
>
>
>
>Stand of EU countries to open diplomatic relations with
>DPRK welcomed
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry
of the
>Democratic People's Republic of Korea today gave an answer to a question
put by
>KCNA as regards the position of Germany, Britain, Netherlands and other EU
>countries
>to establish diplomatic relations with the DPRK.
> He said:
> Establishment and development of friendly relations among the states
>are a product
>of an independent decision of each country and of an independent foreign
>policy.
> We welcome the decision of those countries, considering that this
>conforms with
>the trend of the situation today when radical changes are taking place in
>the international
>relations after the end of the Cold War.
> It is the invariable stand of the DPRK government to establish and
>develop friendly
>and cooperative relations with all the countries on the principle of mutual
>respect for
>sovereignty, non-interference in other's internal affairs, equality and
>mutual benefits in
>accordance with the noble idea of its foreign policy--independence, peace
and
>friendship.
> We have had multi-faceted contacts and dialogue to boost the relations
>with EU
>countries and already proposed to those countries to establish diplomatic
>relations with
>the DPRK.
> To establish diplomatic relations between the DPRK and EU countries
>will help
>expand and develop the bilateral relations in various fields and preserve
>peace and
>security in northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
> The DPRK government will as ever develop friendly and cooperative
>relations with
>all the countries around the world that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK
>and are
>friendly toward it.
>
>
>
>Talks between delegations of WPK and British party
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Talks were held here today between the
>delegations of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and the New Communist
Party of
>Great Britain.
> Present there were Kim Yang Gon, department director of the Central
>Committee of
>the WPK, officials concerned and the members of the delegation of the New
>Communist
>Party of Great Britain headed by Andy Brooks, general secretary of the
party.
> Both sides informed each other of their activities and exchanged views
on
>developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties
>and a series of
>matters of mutual concern.
> The talks proceeded in a comradely and friendly atmosphere.
>
>
>
>Executive director of KEDO leaves
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The executive director of the KEDO
(Korean
>Peninsula Energy Development Organization) and his party left here today
>after visiting
>the DPRK in connection with the light water reactor project.
>
>
>
>Kim Jong Il receives Choe Hong Hui
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Friday
>received Choe Hong Hui, president of the International Taekwon-do
>Federation, who is
>staying in the socialist homeland.
> Present there were secretaries Kim Jung Rin and Kim Yong Sun of the
Central
>Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
> Kim Jong Il had a cordial conversation with the president, gave a
>luncheon for him
>and had a souvenir picture taken with him.
>
>
>
>2nd-stage project of Anbyon Youth Power Station completed
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for the completion of the
>2nd-stage
>project of the Anbyon Youth Power Station, one of the world's leading hydro
>power
>stations, was held on the spot yesterday.
> This power station in Kangwon Province is the biggest gift presented by
the
>people's army and people to the party and the country on the occasion of
>the 55th
>anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
> On the very day people's army soldiers finished the first-stage project
>of the power
>station despite adversity, the great leader Kim Jong Il visited it and
>unrolled a grand
>blueprint for the second-stage project of the power station and wisely led
>their drive to
>complete it.
> He gave at least 50 highly important teachings and took every necessary
>measure to
>push ahead with the project.
> During the second-stage project soldier-builders erected several giant
>dams and
>finished the project for expanding the lower intake tunnel extending
>thousands of
>metres.
> Keeping pace with their drive, civilian builders also succeeded in
>completing
>various power stations, the assembling of generator and the project for
>reinforcing the
>regulating dam.
> Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il in an order issued on October 4 declared
>to the
>world that the power station was completed thanks to the heroic struggle of
the
>servicemen and builders and extended thanks to them, highly appreciating
>the heroic
>exploits they performed by erecting a gigantic edifice in the era of the
>workers' party.
> Among those present at the ceremony were Jo Myong Rok, director of the
>general
>political department of the Korean People's Army, Kwak Pom Gi, vice premier
>of the
>cabinet, and others.
> Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Il Chol in a report at the
>ceremony said
>that the completion of the second-stage project of the Anbyon youth power
>station made
>it possible to creditably carry out the behest of the President Kim Il Sung
>and more
>satisfactorily meet the needs of the national economy for electricity.
> Noting that it is of weighty importance to keep electricity production
>going at the
>power station to seek the solution of the problem of electricity, a
>breakthrough in the
>building of a powerful nation, he called for taking good care of equipment
>to boost the
>production.
> Senior party and state officials cut the red cloth hanging across the
dam.
>
>
>
>4th "National Immunization Day" observed
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- October 20 is "National Immunization
Day" in
>the DPRK.
> An inaugural meeting of the 4th "National Immunization Day" was held in
>Pyongyang on Friday.
> Present there were scientists and technicians in the field of public
>health and medical
>workers in the DPRK. Also present there were David Morton, UN resident
>coordinator
>and resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme
here,
>Dilawar Ali Khan, representative of the office of the United Nations
>Children's Fund,
>head Thomas Liew and members of the aid delegation of the International
>Federation of
>Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Du Yuping, consultant of the expanded
>programme on immunization of the who, David Bulman, deputy representative
and a
>staff member of the Mission of the World Food Programme, and staff members
>of the
>office of the UNICEF here.
> Minister of Public Health Kim Su Hak recalled in his opening speech
>that various
>international bodies and organizations including who and UNICEF sent
competent
>experts to the DPRK for technical cooperation in the successful holding of
>the day and
>provided a sufficient amount of prophylactic medicine, many refrigeration
>facilities and
>transport means for scientific and technological preventive inoculation.
> He expressed his heartfelt thanks to the international bodies and
various
>governmental and non-governmental organizations for their sincere help to
>the DPRK,
>manifesting expectation that they would positively contribute to the work
>for the
>promotion of the Korean children's health in the future, too.
> The representative of the office of the UNICEF here and the adviser of
the
>expanded programme on immunization of the who made congratulatory speeches.
> They said that international organizations would in the future, too,
>continue
>technical and material aid to combating infantile paralysis and the
>expanded programme
>on immunization in the DPRK.
> At the end of the meeting its participants looked round photos showing
the
>successes achieved in the health care in the DPRK.
> On this day, spinal paralysis preventive inoculation was done to all
>the children up
>to the age of five in Pyongyang and all local areas.
>
>
>
>Turning out to build reunified powerful nation
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
>calls
>upon all the fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad to turn out
in a
>nationwide struggle to build a reunified powerful nation in this land with
>optimism and
>firm conviction of the reunification of the country under the guidance of
>the great Kim
>Jong Il, the sun of the nation and the lodestar of national reunification.
> The present reality that an epochal phase of national reunification is
>opening more
>urgently requires our fellow countrymen to devote themselves to the cause
>of national
>reunification, the cherished desire of the nation, irrespective of
>differences in ideology
>and system, class and strata, political view and religious belief, whether
>they live in the
>north, south or abroad, the article says, and notes:
> The desire for national reunification should be achieved by struggle.
> The day of national reunification will come faster when all the members
>of the
>nation are closely united as one and make a tangible contribution to the
>cause of national
>reunification, the common cause of the nation, those with strength devoting
>strength,
>those with knowledge dedicating knowledge and those with money donating
money.
> The north-south joint declaration is a declaration of national
>independence which
>opened a bright prospect of national reunification, a declaration
>orientated toward
>reunification and a declaration of national unity, enjoying absolute
>support of the Korean
>nation as well as the world people.
> Now that the great vitality of the declaration has been verified in
>practice, attitude
>toward it is a touchstone which proves who truly wants reunification or
not.
> Kim Jong Il with his unshakable will to reunify the country in our
>generation
>without fail, true to the noble intention of the great leader Kim Il Sung,
>the eternal sun of
>the nation, is leading the struggle of the Korean nation for reunification
>to victory.
> A bright vista for the Korean people to achieve their historic desire
>for national
>reunification in the near future has opened because they are holding Kim
>Jong Il in high
>esteem as the sun of the nation and the lodestar of national reunification
>and are wisely
>led by him.
>
>
>
>Israel hit for aggravating situation in Middle East
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- It is Israel that is rendering the
>situation in the
>Middle East unstable, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
> The issue of peace in the Middle East would have been settled long
>before if Israel
>had not pursued its expansionist policy there, the commentary observes, and
>goes on:
> Sustained efforts have been made for peace in this region on the
>peace-for-land
>principle, but they have produced no result owing to Israel.
> No sooner had Palestinians staged a mass demonstration than Israel
>committed a
>bloody crackdown upon it by mobilizing heavily armed soldiers. This
>revealed once
>again Israel's true colors as harasser of Middle East peace.
> The massive resistance of the Palestinians is a just struggle to defend
>their legitimate
>national rights. The Korean people's stand toward the struggle of the
>Palestinian people
>remains unchanged.
> Israel should swim with the trend of the times, come out at once to
>settle the
>situation and take practical measures for Middle East peace.
>
>
>
>6th National Exhibition of Inventions and New Technologies
>closes
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The 6th National Exhibition of
>Inventions and
>New Technologies closed on Oct. 19 with due ceremony.
> Objects, miniatures, video cassettes and pictures of more than 11,000
>inventions
>and new technical materials of at least 3,500 species achieved by
>scientists, technicians
>and inventors in their scientific researches and practice were presented at
>the exhibition,
>which opened on July 13. Tens of thousands of working people including
>scientists,
>technicians, office workers and students visited the exhibition hall and
>methodological
>lectures and presentation meetings of scientific and technological papers
>were held.
> Over 1,200 presenters were awarded prizes at the closing ceremony for
their
>valuable inventions and new technical achievements such as steel casting
>mold for
>molten iron, remote-controlled excessive electricity load breaker and
>technique of
>producing footwear mould with the help of computers, which were highly
>evaluated at
>the exhibition.
> Vice-premier of the cabinet Jo Chang Dok and officials concerned were
>present at
>the closing ceremony.
>
>
>
>Japan's move to establish "TMD" system under fire
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed
article
>accusing the Japanese chief executive for reaffirming at the diet on Sept.
>27 that Japan
>would continue a joint technical study of the "Theatre Missile Defence"
system.
> The article says:
> He made incoherent remarks that the system is merely "defensive," the
joint
>technical study with the United States is an "important task for the sake
>of national
>defence policy and it would not exert negative influence on peace and
>security in the
>region".
> Japan's active participation in the joint development of the system is
>aimed to have
>the technique of producing mass destruction weapons and secure a large
number of
>offensive weapons.
> The article brings to light the sophism of the Japanese reactionaries
>about "military
>threat" from the DPRK, a pretext for the development of the system.
> Now that huge aggression forces including many missiles and nuclear
weapons
>have been densely deployed around the Korean peninsula for a forestalling
>attack, it is
>necessary for the DPRK to have its own firm defence power, the article
>says, stressing:
>all this is for self-defence.
> The Japan's move to establish the system is not for "security" and
>"defence" but for
>offensive, becoming a great threat to peace and security in Asia and the
>factor of
>aggravating tensions, the article notes, adding:
> Many countries are making efforts to strengthen military forces against
>the moves of
>Japan to establish the system.
> The Japanese reactionaries should clearly see developments and stop
>their moves to
>develop the system.
>
>
>
>Popular dish at Pyongyang restaurants
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Nowadays catfish soup is very popular
at
>different restaurants in Pyongyang.
> Most famous of them is Pyongyang Megithangjip (restaurant which
>specially serves
>catfish soup) situated on the bank of the River Taedong. It is visited by
>at least 1,500
>people everyday.
> A two-phase preparation is needed for this soup. Cuts of catfish are
>briefly boiled in
>a scallop and beef, beancurds, eggs, costmary and at least 10 kinds of
>spices such as
>cherry, green onion and garlic are put into it before boiling it again.
> Then the soup gives a savory smell and special flavor.
> Catfish soup is listed as very highly caloric dish as it contains
>various nutritive
>substance including proteins, minerals and vitamins.
> Everyday fresh catfish is delivered to restaurants from catfish farms.
> A mass movement is now under way across the country to breed catfish.
>
>
>
>Mori's junket to S. Korea rejected
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- At least 200 members of the association
of
>families of pacific war dead on October 18 held a rally in Seoul to protest
>Japanese
>Prime Minister Mori's junket to South Korea, according to the South Korean
>newspaper
>Hangyore.
> Its participants denounced the Japanese imperialists for hurling many
>Koreans into
>pacific war shambles to meet disasters and demanded Japan officially
>apologize and
>compensate for them.
> They stated that they are opposed to the South Korea visit of Mori who
>claimed that
>Tok islet belongs to Japan, and demanded Mori promptly withdraw his
>reckless remarks
>and step down.
>
>
>
>Kim Jong Il's works published in Mexico
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous
works
>"Socialism Is a Science" and "the Worker's Party of Korea Is the Party of
>the Great
>Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" were published in pamphlet by the Mexican
Worker's
>Party Publishing House on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the
>Worker's Party
>of Korea.
>
>
>
>DPRK-U.S. joint communique supported
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK-U.S. joint communique was
>supported by China and Russia.
> A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of China, commenting on the
>DPRK-U.S.
>joint communique, said that the Chinese government is making sustained
>efforts to
>preserve peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and has always
>supported and
>welcomed anything helpful to them.
> Losyukov, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, when interviewed
by
>Itar-tass, noted that the dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington is of
>important
>nature and, accordingly, Russia fully supports it.
>
>
>
>Kim Il Sung's great idea of reunification and immortal
>exploits praised
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The Latin American and Caribbean
Regional
>Committee to Support the Reunification of Korea, political parties and
>organizations of
>Peru issued a joint statement on October 9 on the occasion of the 20th
>anniversary of the
>publication of the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of
>Koryo
>(DFRK).
> The statement said that they paid highest tribute to the great Kim Il
>Sung, highly
>praising the immortal exploits he performed on behalf of times and
>humankind for the
>reunification of Korea and the cause of global independence.
> It continued:
> Kim Il Sung set forth many fair and aboveboard reunification proposals
>including
>the proposal for founding the DFRK and devoted all his life to their
>materialization.
> His great idea of reunification and immortal exploits will shine long
>in the history of
>the movement for Korea's reunification.
> It warmly supported and welcomed the north-south joint declaration
>provided by the
>respected Kim Jong Il, highly appreciating it as a historic agreement of
weighty
>significance in the history of the movement.
> It bitterly condemned the anachronistic moves of the anti-reunification
>war forces in
>the name of the world peaceloving people and strongly demanded an immediate
>halt to
>them.
> The statement appealed to all the peace- and justice-loving
>governments, political
>parties and organizations and individual figures of the world and
>international bodies
>and democratic organizations to undertake a positive international campaign
>to voice
>support and solidarity for the peace on the Korean peninsula and its
>independent and
>peaceful reunification based on the progress in the implementation of the
>north-south
>joint declaration.
>
>
>
>Group for study of Juche philosophy formed in Ecuador
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The Quito, Ecuador, Group for the Study
of
>the Man-centered Juche Philosophy was formed in Quito on October 9.
> A member of the Ecuadorian parliament who is chairman of the Ecuadorian
>African
>and American Tribe Association was elected chairman of the group at the
>inaugural
>meeting.
> The chairman said that the study and dissemination of the Juche idea is
>an issue vital
>to the people of Ecuador and vowed to deeply study the man-centered Juche
>idea and
>learn from the precious experience of the Democratic People's Republic of
>Korea and
>thus positively contribute to building independent and powerful Ecuador
>like the DPRK.
>
> A letter to the great leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
>
>
>
>Kim Jong Il praised
>
> Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Senior political party leaders of the
>Congo and
>Peru issued statements on October 8 on the occasion of the 55th anniversary
>of the
>Worker's Party of Korea.
> Leon Nzokene, general secretary of the Congolese Socialist Party, said
>in the
>statement that the WPK, which was founded and has grown strong, guided by
>the great
>Juche idea, is now dynamically advancing as the center of world socialism.
> The DPRK has become a great crystal of the ideology and will and a
>large family,
>an invincible political and military power in which all the people are
>firmly united as one
>around General Secretary Kim Jong Il under his wise leadership, he noted.
> Victor Oliva Miguel, general secretary of the Socialist Revolutionary
>Party of Peru,
>said in the statement titled "Comrade Kim Jong Il is the great leader of
>the cause of
>independence and the sun of humankind in the 21st century":
> Kim Jong Il, leading the party, the state and revolutionary armed
>forces for many
>years, has strengthened and developed the WPK to be a single-heartedly
united
>invincible party and ever-victorious, experienced guiding forces that
>ensure one victory
>after another and enabled the Korean people to emerge as the most
>dignified, greatest
>and happiest people in the world.
> He is not only the great leader of the Korean people but a great guide
>of the cause of
>independence and the sun of the people in the 21st century.
> The socialist revolutionary party of Peru will always support the cause
>of the WPK,
>cherishing the exceptional honor and pride of having Kim Jong Il as its
>honorary leader.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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