TODAY'S NEWS (December.26.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Bouquets laid before bust of Kim Jong Suk
* Kim Jong Il sends gifts to officials of Chongryon
* Over 120 works of Kim Jong Il brought out
* Sports tournament for Osandok Cup closes
* Christmas masses held
* Japanese reactionaries' tampering with history
* Many publications computerized
* Dismantlement of concrete wall urged
* County well known to nation
* Federal formula, most reasonable way of Korea's reunification
* Japan urged to drop its wrong attitude towards its past crimes
For Spanish-speaking people
* miembros de embajada de cuba depositan ramo de flores ante busto de
camarada kim jong suk
* editadas mas de 120 obras de dirigente kim jong il
Bouquets laid before bust of Kim Jong Suk
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Jose Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban
ambassador to the DPRK,
and members of the embassy laid bouquets before the bust of the great
communist revolutionary fighter Kim
Jong Suk at the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong on December
25 on the occasion of her
83rd birth anniversary.
After placing bouquets, they paid a silent tribute to her who made an
immortal contribution to the sacred
struggle for the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Kim Jong Il sends gifts to officials of Chongryon
Pyongyang, December 24 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Tokyo on
December 23 to convey the
new year gifts sent by the great leader Kim Jong Il to the officials of the
General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and the patriotic traders and industrialists.
So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the central standing committee of
Chongryon, said in a speech that the
gifts are associated with the deepest trust and the greatest expectation of
Kim Jong Il for the officials of
Chongryon and the patriotic traders and industrialists. He extended the
highest glory and the warmest thanks
to the leader.
Referring to the successes made in the work of Chongryon, he said that
they are the result of the devoted
services the Chongryon officials, patriotic traders and industrialists and
compatriots have made, deeply
convinced that they are sure to win if they trust and follow Kim Jong Il only.
He called on the officials of Chongryon and compatriots to
energetically carry out the patriotic work of
Chongryon in the new year Juche 90 as intended and wished by the leader.
Over 120 works of Kim Jong Il brought out
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The great leader Kim Jong Il published
many works indicating the
road to be followed by the Korean revolution and the world revolution, a
result of his outstanding ideological
and theoretical activities in the 1990s.
The Worker's Party of Korea Publishing House has brought out at least
120 works out of them.
Kim Jong Il clearly proved the inevitable triumph of socialism as a
science at a time when socialism
collapsed in a number of countries due to renegades of revolution in the
early 1990s, taught a historical lesson
in building socialism and set out tasks and ways to defend and glorify
Korean-style socialism. This was an
immortal contribution to saving the cause of socialism from a crisis and
triumphantly advancing it.
Typical of those works are "Socialism Is a Science", "the Historical
Lesson in Building Socialism and
the General Line of Our Party", "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable", "Our
Socialism Centred on the
Masses Shall Not Perish" and "Socialism Is Lifeline of Our People."
When the President Kim Il Sung demised, the nation's greatest loss, Kim
Jong Il published "the Great
Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung Is Always With Our People", "Let Us Always Hold
the Great Leader in High
Esteem and Accomplish His Cause" and other famous works, thus inspiring
them to implement his last
instructions in order to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Kim Jong Il also authored many other famous works clearly teaching the
truth of the great Juche idea and
ways to embody it and giving lucid answers to the issues arising in
political, military, economic, cultural and
all other fields.
Sports tournament for Osandok Cup closes
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A sports tournament for Osandok Cup
which was opened on
December 20 to mark the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist
revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk
closed.
Its participants competed in at least 20 events including basketball,
volleyball, table-tennis and marathon
in Pyongyang and various local areas.
They displayed to the full their own sport methods and high technique.
Prizes were awarded to the sports teams and athletes, who distinguished
themselves, at a closing
ceremony held in Chongjin on December 24.
Christmas masses held
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Christmas masses was held at Pyongyang
Pongsu Church
yesterday.
Present there were Rev. Kang Yong Sop, chairman of the c.c., the Korean
Christian Federation,
ministers of the federation, churchmen and Christians in Pyongyang.
Also on hand were compatriots from South Korea and abroad and foreign
Christians.
A sermon was made at the mass.
Christmas masses also took place at Chilgol Church and families across
the country on the same day.
Japanese reactionaries' tampering with history
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The "Society to Make New History
Textbook" made up of
Japanese ultra right-wing elements published history textbooks describing
"Japan's invasion of Asia as a
liberation of it." In this regard a recent issue of the Japanese newspaper
Akahata carried an article captioned
"'Textbooks should not carry lies,' call of a historian and 60 educators."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses the Japanese
reactionaries' move to tamper
with history as a crime, adding that it is only too natural that their
moves arouse apprehension and come in for
criticism even in Japan, to say nothing of the international community.
Noting that the Japanese imperialists' Asian aggression was an
undeniable hideous crime, the
commentary says: Lurking behind such moves is their sinister intention not
to redress its criminal past but to
repeat it.
By teaching false history to the rising generation they seek to infuse
the sense of "superiority of Yamado
nation" and the awareness of war of aggression into them and drive them to
overseas aggression.
The Japanese reactionaries should discard their black-hearted aim
sought in tampering with the history
and repent of its past crimes and honestly own their responsibility for them.
Many publications computerized
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Central Scientific and
Technological Information
Agency has recently computerized many publications.
Among them are "Friend of Scientists and Technicians," "Foreign Science
and Technology Information
Magazine," "1,000 Phrases of Common Sense in Life" and "Materials for
Economy and Trade," an
encyclopedia, books, magazines, materials for education and program bases.
Carried in "Friend of Scientists and Technicians" covering nearly 20
scientific and technological sectors
are Korean, English, and five other languages and an exchange table,
characteristic value of chemical
elements, value of physical constants, calculated value of trigonometrical
and logarithmic functions.
"Materials for Economy and Trade" contains practical materials and
50,000 common vocabularies needed
in trading activities.
The publication is a mass medium which saves, reads and reproduces
optical character, picture and
speech information in a digital mode.
It is characterized by vivid expression and rich content.
All publications are high in effect and fast in publishing.
The computerized publications of diverse themes are contributing to the
economic development of the
country and the improvement of people's living.
Dismantlement of concrete wall urged
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Mamadou Ali Sampil, chairman of the
Guinean Committee for
Supporting Korea's Reunification, issued a statement to the press on
December 14 in demand of the
dismantlement of the concrete wall which bisects. Korea.
He said in the statement that it is an abnormal situation that the
concrete wall, symbol of division,
remains as yet when contacts and exchanges are now being expanded between
the north and south of Korea
and both of them are taking the road of reconciliation and cooperation. He
went on:
If the United States and the South Korean authorities truly want the
reunification of Korea, they should
immediately demolish the concrete wall at a time when the atmosphere of
peaceful reunification is surging into
high tide.
The Guinean Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification demanded the
U.S. and the South Korean
authorities not throw a wet blanket over the atmosphere of reunification
but pull down the concrete wall in
practice and behave in favour of Korea's reunification.
We extend firm solidarity to the just struggle of the Korean people to
pull down the concrete wall.
County well known to nation
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The Taehongdan county integrated farm
situated at the foot of Mt.
Paektu towering on the northernmost tip of the country is well known to the
nation for several reasons.
Once Taehongdan was known to be away from haunts of men.
In may Juche 28 (1939) the President Kim Il Sung, personally leading
the main force of the Korean
People's Revolutionary Army, advanced into the Musan area and wiped out
Japanese aggressors in
Taehongdan. So, this place is known as an anti-Japanese battle-site.
The monument to the victory in the Musan area battles and revolutionary
battle-sites and historic relics
which are well preserved draw an endless stream of visitors from across the
country.
The nation's first state-run farm made its appearance there as a result
of the huge land reclamation project
carried out during the hard fought Fatherland Liberation War (June
1950-july 1953).
The agricultural workers have turned their farm into a model despite
unfavorable natural conditions in the
alpine area.
The great leader Kim Jong Il visited the farm several times in the
period of the "arduous march" when the
country was hard pressed for everything. He instructed the farm to bring
about a signal boost in potato
cultivation and indicated a clear orientation and ways of turning the
county into a socialist paradise.
The county built minor power stations on its own efforts to solve the
acute shortage of electricity, thus
setting an example for all other people to follow.
The head of the power station construction unit is among those six
persons known to the country as
heroes and heroines of the times.
Taehongdan county is exemplary in potato farming, too.
The county has a bright prospect of comprehensive mechanization as it
has widely used trucks, tractors,
potato planters, potato harvesters and other modern farm machines this year.
A modern pig farm and a potato starch factory were newly commissioned,
one more example to other
counties.
The county is proud of couples of discharged soldiers who volunteered
to work there.
This March Kim Jong Il spared time to visit the family of a discharged
soldier working on the Sodu
branch farm. His wife asked the leader to name her baby expected a few
months later.
Kim Jong Il proposed two names: Taehong for a son and Hongdan for a
girl. He added that if they have
a son and a daughter, their names will make Taehongdan.
In July last she gave birth to a girl named Hongdan.
Later, couples of discharged soldiers came to have hundreds of babies
and vied with each other to name
them Taehong and Hongdan.
Successive births of Taehong and Hongdan promise a brighter future of
Taehongdan.
Federal formula, most reasonable way of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The proposal for founding the
Democratic Federal Republic of
Koryo put forward by the President Kim Il Sung in a report to the 6th
congress of the Worker's Party of
Korea is not to reunify the two differing systems into one but to set up a
unified federal state by the concerted
efforts of the north and the south, leaving the systems as they are.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article stresses that the proposal for
reunification by federal formula is
the best way of reunification that helps reunify Korea most quickly and
easily in conformity with the will and
interests of the nation and specific conditions of the country.
It is, first of all, because the proposal is a Juche-oriented and
unique one suitable to the specific reality of
Korea, the article says, and goes on:
One of the difficult problems in reunifying Korea is the long existence
of the different ideologies and
systems in the north and the south and the intention of any side not to
give them up.
If they are based on the homogeneity of our nation and national
identity, the different ideologies and
systems may exist together in a national state and the issue of national
reunification may be easily solved by
national harmony and unity.
The proposal for reunification by federal formula is the best way of
national reunification because it is the
most fair and aboveboard one.
The article explains that the proposal fully meets the requirements for
the unified development and
prosperity of the country and the nation.
The proposal is the best way of reunification that gives scientific
solutions to all problems arising in
founding a federal state including the method of foundation, principle of
formation, function and authority,
the name of the country and character, the article notes, and adds:
Both sides in the north-south joint declaration in June last declared
all over the world that they would
orient toward reunification by federal formula, keeping alive the common
features of the proposal for
lower-level federation raised by the north and the proposal for
confederation put forth by the south.
All the Korean people in the north, south and abroad should be out as
one in the nation-wide struggle to
realise the proposal for reunification by federal formula reflecting the
three principles of national reunification.
Japan urged to drop its wrong attitude towards its past crimes
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Japan can never improve its image in
the international community
as long as it Sticks to its wrong attitude towards the settlement of its
past, swimming against the trend of the
times, warns Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
It is an unpardonable mockery and affront to the international
community and human conscience that
Japan adamantly refuses to own its state responsibility for its past crimes
and tries to clinch the issue of
liquidating its past crimes by paying a trifling amount of money, the
commentary observes, and continues:
Japan is so shameless as to refuse to honestly admit any of its crimes,
apologize and compensate for
them even now when it is about to see out the 20th century in which it
committed unprecedented crimes
against humanity.
This wicked attitude of Japan toward the settlement of its past was
prompted by its intention to repeat its
crime-woven past. The international community will never pardon this
attitude of Japan.
For Spanish-speaking people
miembros de embajada de cuba depositan ramo de flores ante busto de
camarada kim jong suk
pyongyang, 26 de diciembre (atcc) -- jose manuel inclan embade,
embajador de la republica de cuba en
corea y los miembros de esta sede diplomatica guardaron ayer un momento de
silencio en memoria de la
camarada kim jong suk, gran combatiente revolucionaria comunista quien hizo
contribucion inmortal a la
sagrada lucha por la causa revolucionaria del juche, luego de depositar un
ramo de flores ante su busto en el
cementerio de martires revolucionarios del monte taesong con motivo del 83
aniversario de su nacimiento.
editadas mas de 120 obras de dirigente kim jong il
pyongyang, 26 de diciembre (atcc) -- en la decada de 1990 el gran
dirigente kim jong il al desplegar las
excepcionales actividades ideo-teoricas publico numerosas obras iluminando
el camino de la revolucion
coreana y la mundial.
mas de 120 obras entre ellas fueron editadas por la editora del partido
del trabajo de corea.
a principios de la decada de los 90 cuando en algunos paises el
socialismo fue derrumbado por los
traidores a la revolucion el dirigente kim jong il dilucido la
inevitabilidad del triunfo del socialismo como
ciencia, las lecciones historicas de la construccion socialista y las
tareas y los medios para defender y llevar
adelante el socialismo coreano haciendo asi una inmortal contribucion a
salvar de la crisis la causa socialista y
llevarla adelante victoriosamente.
entre otras se pueden citar las siguientes obras "el socialismo es
ciencia", "lecciones historicas de la
construccion socialista y la linea general de nuestro partido", "la
difamacion del socialismo no sera tolerada",
"nuestro socialismo centrado en las masas populares es invencible", "el
socialismo es la vida de nuestro
pueblo", etc.
cuando el pueblo coreano sufria el gran duelo nacional al perder al
gran lider el dirigente kim jong il
publico las obras "el gran lider camarada kim il sung estara para siempre
con nuestro pueblo" y "enaltezcamos
eternamente al gran lider y llevemos a feliz termino la causa de este" y
otras obras clasicas y oriento a nuestro
pueblo a materializar el legado del presidente kim il sung y completar
hasta el fin la causa revolucionaria del
juche.
entre otras figuran numerosas obras clasicas que dilucidan la profunda
verdad de la gran idea juche y el
medio para materializarla y que dan claras respuestas a los problemas que
se presentan en todos los dominios
politico, militar, economico y cultural.
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