TODAY'S NEWS (January.18.2001 Juche 90)
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Film show and friendly meeting held
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Young KPA soldiers vow loyalty to Kim Jong Il
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Proposals made by north hailed in S. Korea
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All Koreans urged to display patriotism
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New posters created
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Proposal for independent reunification of Korea supported
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Computer education intensified in DPRK
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Preparatory committee of Koreans residents in China inaugurated
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S. Korean figure on peaceful reunification
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Kye Ung Thae meets Cuban ambassador
For Spanish-speaking people
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ensenanza de computacion en rpdc
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kye ung thae se reune con embajador cubano
Film show and friendly meeting held
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural
Relations with Foreign Countries hosted a film show and a friendly meeting
here yesterday on the occasion of the New Year Juche 90 (2001). Invited
there were foreign embassy officials here in charge of cultural and friendly
relations.
Present were Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the committee, and officials
concerned.
The participants enjoyed a Korean feature film "Oh, Youth " and
conversed with each other in a friendly atmosphere.
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Young KPA soldiers vow loyalty to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Young soldiers of the Korean People's
Army held a rally at the plaza of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace yesterday to
vow loyalty to supreme commander Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 55th
anniversary of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League. Young soldiers of the
KPA three services pledged themselves to be standard-bearers and shock
brigaders who take the lead in upholding Kim Jong Il's army-first
revolutionary politics with arms.
Present there were Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political
department of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces,
and generals.
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Proposals made by north hailed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Several South Korean organizations
welcomed the proposals made at the 2001 meeting held in Pyongyang on Jan.
10, according to Seoul-based "Yonhap News" (internet). The People's Council
for National Reconciliation and Cooperation (Minhwahyop) in a statement on
Jan. 12 warmly welcomed the "June 15-August 15 period of movement for
promoting national reunification" set by the north, noting that "the south
and north should seek specific ways of putting it into practice in future."
The Consultative Council for Democracy and Peaceful Reunification
(Minjuphyongthong) in a news release issued on Jan. 12 called upon all the
fellow countrymen at home and abroad to pool their will to launch a
nationwide movement irrespective of their party affiliation "in order to
positively cooperate with each other in the sincere implementation of the
south-north joint declaration."
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All Koreans urged to display patriotism
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- All Koreans in the north and the south
and abroad who love and are concerned about the destiny of the country and
nation should firmly unite irrespective of ideology, religious belief,
political view, class and strata under the banner of national reunification,
urges Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It says:
Patriotism serves as an ideological basis of the great national unity
for the reunification of the country.
This is mainly because patriotism is feelings common to all Koreans.
There are classes and strata with differing ideas, political views and
isms in the north and the south. But all of them value their country and
love their nation, not seeking their interests only.
Another reason is that patriotism serves as a most viable idea of
achieving true great national unity under the present situation in Korea
which remains divided into two.
The distinctions between the north and south are gaping as the days go
by in all fields of social life such as politics, economy and culture as
differing ideologies and systems have existed there for over a half century.
It is not what the Korean nation wants. It is its unanimous desire to
live and develop as a homogeneous nation.
The Korean nation is a resourceful nation that turned its land into a
fertile one, carving out its destiny by itself and rejecting foreign forces.
It was patriotism that inspired our ancestors hand down wisdom and
talent to posterity.
Nothing is stronger and nobler than patriotism. Patriotism alone serves
as an ideological and mental basis of uniting the north and south as one
nation irrespective of political views and isms.
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New posters created
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of posters calling for
the implementation of the tasks laid down in the joint new year editorial is
now under way in Pyongyang. On display are some 60 posters.
They were created by the Mansudae Art Studio, the Central Fine Arts
Studio and Pyongyang University of Fine Arts.
All the posters vigorously call upon the entire party and the army and
all the people to speed up the socialist advance under the Red Flag.
Posters "open up the road of advance through the new century in the
spirit of the victorious 'arduous march' " and "let's pave a broad avenue
for the building of a powerful nation ," in particular, attract the
attention of visitors as they represent the spirit of the times.
Some of them call for carrying the socialist cause of Juche to
completion in hearty response to the politics of independence and unity of
the Workers' Party of Korea.
The posters "let's increase our military strength to be invincible to
meet the requirements of the era of army-first revolution " and "let's stick
to the line of army-first revolution " underscore the need to build up the
army as an invincible one carrying forward the tradition of the Korean
revolution which was launched with arms and won victories with arms.
There are also posters dealing with the firm faith of the Korean people
to accomplish the cause of the country's reunification by their concerted
efforts.
Also displayed at the exhibition are posters encouraging people in the
high-pitched drive in various fields of the national economy such as power,
coal and metal industries and such nature-harnessing projects including land
levelling and rezoning project in South Hwanghae Province and Kaechon-Lake
Thaesong Waterway project.
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Proposal for independent reunification of Korea supported
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Angel Castro Lavarello, chairman of the
Peru-Korea Institute of Culture and Friendship, expressed support to the
proposals set forth at the 2001 meeting for independent reunification of the
Korean nation. He in a press statement on January 11 said that neither one
nor force can check a new history of Korea's reunification which started on
the Korean peninsula. The statement said that in order to pave the way for
the independent reunification of the Korean nation the north-south joint
declaration should be implemented to the letter.
And it expressed support to the 2001 meeting for independent
reunification of the Korean nation which set a period of the movement for
the promotion of national reunification from June 15 to august 15 liberation
day this year and ardently called upon the whole nation to decorate the
first liberation day of the 21st century as a nation-wide festival for
reunification.
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Computer education intensified in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Computer education has been intensified
as an important subject in education in the DPRK today when information
technology is making rapid progress, said director of the program education
guidance department of the ministry of education O Min, when interviewed by
KCNA recently as regards the computer education emphasized in the
educational field in keeping with the need of the present times. He said:
In recent years, the state set up a new program education guidance
department at the ministry of education for the purpose of enforcing
computer education in the fields of higher and common education under a
uniform and long-term plan and organized a center for program education
under it.
These mechanisms give a uniform help and guidance to research work to
improve schedules and contents of program education and develop computer
programs.
In the field of higher education, the computer science college was newly
established at Kim Il Sung University and such specialized computer colleges
as the computer technology college appeared in Pyongyang and Hamhung.
A faculty of computer engineering made its appearance at Kim Chaek
University of Technology and a faculty of computer science at university of
science. At the same time chairs and courses of information engineering were
set up at several universities to train computer experts.
In the field of common education, program classes appeared at various
provincial senior middle schools no. 1 and a considerable portion of
mathematical lessons is devoted to computer education from the second year
to the sixth year course at senior middle schools.
Computer education has thus been made a compulsory subject at all
universities, colleges and middle schools throughout the country.
A national program contest and exhibition was held last year with
teachers and schoolchildren of schools at all levels attending.
This program contest and exhibition is expected to be annual event.
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Preparatory committee of Koreans residents in China inaugurated
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- A Preparatory Committee of the General
Association of Koreans in China was inaugurated in Shenyang, China, on
January 9 to celebrate the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il. Yang Yong Dong,
chairman of the general association, was elected its chairman. The
preparatory committee decided to hold colorful celebrations on the occasion
of his birthday.
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S. Korean figure on peaceful reunification
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Yang Tong Ju, director of the Institute
of North Pacific Studies in South Korea, published an article calling for
sincerely implementing the June 15 joint declaration to open up a radical
phase of national reunification, according to the South Korean newspaper
Hangyore. After the publication of the joint declaration an atmosphere of
reconciliation and cooperation is growing in different fields, the article
noted, and said: however, in South Korea "anti-communist ideology," which
had prevailed in the past period of dictatorship and the era of Cold War, is
still maintained by the hardline conservatives.
As peaceful reunification is supposed to be achieved under an agreement
between both sides with differing systems, there can never be "reunification
by force," it said, and went on:
Genuine peaceful reunification can be achieved when we preserve common
denominators of the south-proposed "confederation" formula and the
north-proposed "low-stage federation" formula and go through an intermediary
stage (one nation, one state, two systems and two governments) to attain
complete reunification.
All of us should drop narrow-minded, ideological and regional discord
and open up a new era on the basic principle of democracy and reasonable way
of thinking for the future of the nation.
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Kye Ung Thae meets Cuban ambassador
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Kye Ung Thae, secretary of the c.c.,
the Workers' Party of Korea, today met and conversed with Jose Manuel Inclan
Embade, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, who paid a farewell visit to him.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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ensenanza de computacion en rpdc
pyongyang, 18 de enero (atcc) -- recientemente, o min, director de
ensenanza de programa del ministerio de ensenanza al responder a la pregunta
de un reportero de la agencia telegrafica central de corea relativa a la
ensenanza de computacion a que se da importancia en este sector conforme a
la tendencia de desarrollo de la epoca dijo como sigue: hoy que se
desarrolla vertiginosamente la tecnologia de informatica, la ensenanza de
computacion deviene uno de los importantes problemas que se presentan en el
sector docente.
en los ultimos anos el estado establecio la direccion de ensenanza de
programa en el ministerio de ensenanza y organizo el centro de ensenanza de
programa adscripto a ella a fin de realizar de modo unificado y con vision
al futuro la ensenanza del particular en los organismos de ensenanzasuperior
y general.
estos aparatos ejecutan y orientan de modo unitaria la labor de mejora
del programa y el contenido de la ensenanza del genero asi como el
desarrollo y el estudio del particular.
fueron creados el instituto superior de ciencia de computacion en la
universidad kim il sung, los institutos superiores de la tecnologia de
computacion en pyongyang y hamhung.
fueron creados la facultad de tecnologia de computacion en el instituto
universitario politecnico kim chaek, la facultad de ciencia de computacion
en el instituto superior de ciencias naturales, las catedras y secciones de
tecnologia de informatica en varios institutos superiores.
fueron organizadas y gestionadas clases de programa en las escuelas
secundarias integrales no.1 de todas las provincias y la ensenanza de
computacion ocupa una considerable proporcion del horario de matematica en
el programa docente del segundo al sexto grados de las escuelas secundarias
integrales ordinarias.
ahora en todos los organismos de ensenanza superior, las escuelas
especiales y secundarias del pais se da esenanza de computacion.
el ano pasado tuvieron lugar el concurso y la exhibicion nacionales de
programas con la participacion de los maestros y profesores y los alumnos y
estudiantes de los organismos docentes a todos los niveles.
se preve que sigan efectuandose cada ano estos actos.
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kye ung thae se reune con embajador cubano
pyongyang, 18 de enero (atcc) -- kye ung thae, secretario del cc del
partido del trabajo de corea charlo hoy con jose manuel inclan embade,
embajador de la republica de cuba en la republica popular democratica de
corea, quien le hizo una visita de despedida.
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