TODAY'S NEWS (April.05.2001 Juche 90)
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4th session of 10th DPRK SPA held
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On 2000 work and 2001 tasks of DPRK cabinet
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SPA of DPRK on last year's state budget and on new state budget
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Complete collection of Kim Il Sung's works volume 36 published
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Annual meeting of Korea-Cuba solidarity committee
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Meeting of solidarity with Korean people held in Ireland
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14th International Marathon Race for Mangyongdae Prize to be held
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U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK condemned abroad
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U.S. bombast ridiculed
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U.S. abrogation denounced in S. Korea
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Japan's moves to tamper with its history protested in S. Korea
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Members of Chinese youth delegation meet with young Korean builders
4th session of 10th DPRK SPA held
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- The fourth session of the tenth Supreme
People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was held at
the Mansudae Assembly Hall today. Present there were deputies to the SPA.
Officials of the party, armed forces and power bodies, commissions and
ministries of the cabinet, national institutions, public organizations and
those in the fields of science, education, culture and the arts, public
health and the press were present as observers.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il took the platform.
Also taking the platform were senior party and state officials--Kim Yong
Nam, Jo Myong Rok, Hong Song Nam, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Il Chol, Jon Pyong Ho,
Yon Hyong Muk, Ri Ul Sol, Yang Hyong Sop, Paek Hak Rim, Ri Yong Mu, Kim Chol
Man, Kye Ung Thae, Han Song Ryong, Choe Yong Rim, Kim Yun Hyok, chairperson
of the c.c, the Chondoist Chongu Party Ryu Mi Yong and members of the
presidium of the SPA.
The session discussed the following agenda items:
1. On Juche 89 (2000) work and tasks for juche 90 (2001) of the DPRK
cabinet.
2. On the summing up of the fulfilment of the state budget for Juche 89
(2000) and the state budget for Juche 90 (2001) of the DPRK.
3. On approving laws adopted by the spa presidium during a recess of the
SPA.
4. Organizational matter.
Premier of the cabinet Hong Song Nam and minister of finance Mun Il Bong
separately delivered reports on the first and second items.
Then followed speeches on the items.
The session separately adopted the SPA decision "On Approving the Report
on the Work of the DPRK Cabinet and the Summing Up of the Fulfilment of the
Juche 89 (2000) State Budget" and the spa ordinance "On the Juche 90 (2001)
State Budget of the DPRK".
It also separately adopted the spa ordinances "On Approving 'on Adopting
the DPRK Law on Processing Trade,' A Decree of the Presidium of the DPRK
SPA", "On Approving 'On Adopting the DPRK Law on Lockgate,' A Decree of the
Presidium of the DPRK SPA" and "On Approving 'on Adopting the DPRK Copyright
Law,' A Decree of the Presidium of the DPRK SPA".
On 2000 work and 2001 tasks of DPRK cabinet
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Premier of the cabinet of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea Hong Song Nam delivered a report "On the Work for
Juche 89 (2000) and the Tasks of the DPRK Cabinet for Juche 90 (2001)" at
the fourth session of the tenth Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK which
was held in Pyongyang today. The reporter said:
The cabinet made great progress in laying the economic foundations for
the prosperity of the country through a dynamic drive to carry through the
revolutionary economic policy of the Workers' Party of Korea last year.
It was an important achievement made in the economic construction that
solid material and technical groundwork was laid to pep up economy through a
powerful drive to increase investments in the industries to be kept ahead of
others and adjust and reinforce production processes and equipment in
various fields of the national economy.
Firm material and technical foundations of hydro-power stations and
thermo-power plants, coal and ore mines, iron and steel works and railway
transport were laid and a guarantee was provided for successful production
and construction thanks to the devoted efforts of the people's army soldiers
and the working class.
Achievements were made in agriculture, poultry farming, fish breeding
and light industry, and land management, environmental protection and city
management greatly improved.
The reporter referred to achievements in education, literature and art,
physical culture and sports.
All the achievements are a brilliant fruition of the tested leadership
provided by the WPK to usher in a new century which will see the rise of a
rich and powerful nation, he stressed.
He pointed to the tasks to step up the socialist advance under the red
flag to build a powerful nation in response to the militant appeal of the
WPK "Let's open our way through the new century in the spirit of the
victorious 'arduous march' " this year.
The cabinet will thoroughly embody the WPK's great politics of
independence, unity and love for the country and the nation in all fields of
its activities, he said, and went on:
All sectors should firmly maintain independence, resolutely uphold our
ideology, our own political system, our own mode of revolution and our own
economic system, fully apply the party's principle of leadership and
consistently implement the Juche-based line of socialist construction, the
line of giving priority to ideology, so as to remarkably increase the
overall power of the DPRK.
The politics of unity should be successfully applied to strengthen in
every way the single-hearted unity of the whole society replete with the
spirit of devotedly defending the leader and revolutionary comradeship and
consolidate our revolutionary ranks as invincible forces.
The Juche character and national identity should be preserved and
distinguished creative wisdom and patriotic devotion of our people displayed
to the full to enable the country to emerge as a powerful nation in all
fields, reach the world level and achieve the prosperity of the country and
the nation.
The army-first revolutionary line is the enduring strategic line of
revolution in our era and an all-powerful treasured sword for socialist
construction.
The cabinet will continue to direct great efforts to increasing in every
way the military power of the country, taking the army-first revolutionary
line of the party as a lifeline.
The spirit of attaching importance to the army and military affairs
should firmly be established in the whole society and the principle of
giving priority to military affairs thoroughly maintained to mobilise the
economic potential of the country to the maximum in increasing the combat
capability of the people's army.
The spirit of defending the country, the spirit of assisting the army
and the spirit of unity between the army and the people should prevail
throughout the country and the work of fortifying the rear of the people's
army inside the country should be pushed forward.
The cabinet will bring about a radical turn in building up the economic
potential of the country to meet the requirements of the new era of the
army-first revolution.
The main thrust of economic construction this year is to make sustained
efforts to equip the national economy as a whole with uptodate technology,
while readjusting the present economic foundations and increasing its might
to the maximum.
In order to pep up the national economy as early as possible it is
imperative to concentrate efforts on upgrading power, coal and metal
industries and railway transport.
At the same time, a high-pitched drive should be waged to boost
production in chemical and building-material industries, forestry and all
other sectors.
The technological modernization of the national economy is a main link
in the chain of the economic work at present.
The cabinet will steadily carry out the work of updating the national
economy as a whole with the latest technology to meet the requirements of
the new century.
Machine-building industry should produce many uptodate machines and
equipment fitted with latest electronic technology for technological
modernization.
State investment will be increased in science and technology and the
exchange of science and technology with other countries and their
information strengthened.
The most urgent task facing the cabinet this year is to improve the
standard of the people's living.
Every effort should be exerted to develop agriculture to resolve the
food problem of the people.
State efforts should be channelled into completing quickly land
realignment in South Hwanghae Province and the Kaechon-lake Thaesong
Waterway Project.
The production of meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and industrial crops
should be boosted.
This year, too, sustained great efforts should be directed to light
industry to satisfactorily meet the demand for consumption goods.
Foreign trade should be developed, solid exports production bases built
up to decisively expand the export of goods.
Many dwelling houses with amenities of modern life and holiday and rest
homes and sanatoria will be built to bring more social benefits to people.
The cabinet will improve the management and operation of the socialist
economy our own way in keeping with the changed environment and conditions.
All the sectors and units of the national economy should thoroughly meet
the demands of the taean work system, properly combine the state centralized
uniform guidance with the creative ingenuity of lower units in economic
management and strictly apply the socialist principle of distribution so
that everyone can work to his best ability and get paid according to the
work done.
Education, culture, public health, sports and socialist cultural
construction should be improved to meet the requirements of the new century
and sustained big efforts be directed to land management and city
administration this year.
Independence, peace and friendship are the basic idea of the dprk
foreign policy and the principle of its external activities.
The DPRK will expand and develop relations with all those countries
which are friendly to our country in all fields on the principle of complete
equality, independence, mutual respect, non-interference in internal affairs
and reciprocity, and actively cooperate with international organisations in
their work.
SPA of DPRK on last year's state budget and on new state budget
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- The fourth session of the tenth Supreme
People's Assembly was held here today. At the session minister of finance
Mun Il Nong made a report on "On the Summing Up of the Fulfilment of the
State Budget for Juche 89 (2000) and the State Budget for Juche 90 (2001) of
the DPRK."
The reporter said:
Last year the state budgetary revenue stood at 20,903,430,000 won, or
2.4 per cent increase over 20,405,320,000 won under the plan and the state
budgetary expenditure at 20,955,030,000 won, or 2.7 per cent growth over
20,405,320,000 won under the plan.
The DPRK government allocated 40.1 per cent of its total budgetary
expenditure for the national economy last year. A colossal amount of money
was disbursed for pepping up such important domains of the national economy
as power, coal and metal industries and railway transport and agriculture,
successfully pushing forward great nature-harnessing projects and
constructing many grand monumental edifices. As a result, a foundation was
laid to put the nation's economy as a whole on a higher level.
38.2 per cent of last year's total state budget was spent as expenses
for the enforcement of various popular policies including additional
expenditure for the betterment of the people's living and free education and
free health care, a clear demonstration of the popular nature and advantages
of the socialist state budgetary system. Last year, the DPRK government
allocated 14.3 per cent of the total budget for national defence, thus
contributing to increasing the defence capabilities of the country.
The budget of the state for this year has been worked out in such a way
as to build up invincible military power and powerful state economic
potential, pursuant to the economic policy of the Workers' Party of Korea
and the tasks set forth in the joint new year editorial and meet huge
financial need for improving the standard of the people's living with its
own revenue.
The state budgetary revenue and expenditure for this year are
21,570,800,000 won respectively, up 3.2 per cent in total revenue and up 2.9
per cent in total expenditure over last year.
Revenue to come from the socialist economy will hold a considerable
proportion of the state budgetary revenue this year: 43.2 per cent of it
from turnover levies and 32.9 per cent of it from profits of state
enterprises.
The state will spend 2.7 per cent more fund than last year to upgrade
such key departments in the socialist economic construction as power, coal
and metal industries and railway transport, increase the production of
primary consumer goods and basic foodstuffs essential for the people's
living and radically boost agricultural production.
A big share of funds will be allocated to put our science and technology
on the world level, successfully solve scientific and technological problems
in economic construction, refashion industrial establishments with modern
technology and build new production centres based on up-to-date science and
technology.
The state will allocate 3,487,060,000 won for capital construction to
push forward the construction of large-scale hydro-power stations, the
Kaechon-lake Thaesong Waterway Project, land realignment project in South
Hwanghae Province and the modernization of chicken farms in pyongyang.
It envisages the allocation of 14.5 per cent of total state budgetary
expenditure as military spending this year. 2.5 per cent more money than
last year will be spent for the implementation of the popular policies and a
huge amount of educational aid fund will be given to the children of korean
residents in japan.
A thorough implementation of the state budget for this year would serve
as an important guarantee for building up powerful state economic potential
to meet the requirements of the new era of the army-first revolution and
glorifying this year as a year of a new advance to build an economically
powerful country and a year of an overall revival.
Complete collection of Kim Il Sung's works volume 36 published
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- On the occasion of the birth anniversary of
President Kim Il Sung the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House brought
out "Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" volume 36, a library of the
Juche idea carrying his famous works in chronological order. The volume
contains his 15 works including highly important speeches, concluding
speeches and talks covering the period from November Juche 54 (1965) to may
Juche 55 (1966).
The volume includes his unique ideas, theories and policies of
intensifying party work and activities and stepping up socialist economic
construction to complete overall industrialisation ahead of schedule,
develop national culture and build up the defence capacity of the country.
Annual meeting of Korea-Cuba solidarity committee
pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- An annual meeting of the Korea-Cuba
solidarity committee was held in Pyongyang on April 4. Present were Pyon
Yong Rip, minister of education and chairman of the committee, Ri Song Ho,
vice-chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries, and other officials concerned.
Also present were charge d'affaires of Cuba in the DPRK Violeta
Goodridge Culzac and embassy officials.
The meeting reviewed last year's work for friendship and solidarity with
the Cuban people who are vigorously advancing along the road of socialism
despite the U.S. imperialists' blockade against cuba and discussed the
action program for this year.
Meeting of solidarity with Korean people held in Ireland
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- A solidarity meeting denouncing the new
U.S. administration's hostile policy toward the dprk and supporting the just
struggle of the Korean people was held in dublin on march 25 under the
cosponsorship of the Workers' Party of Ireland, the Communist Party of
Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) and the Irish-Korean Friendship Society. Speeches
were made and a letter to the government of ireland was adopted at the
meeting.
The letter said that the new U.S. administration's claim for a bellicose
policy of confrontation with the DPRK, eventually, a return to the era of
the Cold War, invites the unanimous condemnation and astonishment by the
progressive people of the world who value peace and justice.
The letter called upon the irish government to clearly see the
reactionary character and danger of the present U.S. administration's
hostile policy toward the DPRK and join the world progressives denouncing
it.
14th International Marathon Race for Mangyongdae Prize to be held
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- The 14th International Marathon Race for
Mangyongdae Prize will be held in Pyongyang on the occasion of Sun's Day,
the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. It will be participated in
by about 500 athletes from more than 20 countries, including the DPRK.
Preparations for the successful contest are proceeding in high gear.
U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK condemned abroad
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- The Arab Socialist Baath Party of Syria,
the Syrian Communist Party, the Socialist Unionist Party of Syria, the
Palestine National Liberation Movement, the Palestine Liberation Democratic
Front and the popular front for the liberation of palestine released a joint
statement denouncing the hostile policy of the united states toward the DPRK
on March 28. The statement said:
The United States organized more than 690,000-strong aggressor army for
"emergency" on the Korean peninsula at the end of last year and is going to
equip it with various warships and planes based in the U.S. mainland and
japan. It is working hard to set up "National Missile Defence" system under
the pretext of non-existent "missile threat" from the DPRK.
Such moves of the U.S. pose a grave threat to the implementation of the
June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, Korea's reunification, peace and
security in this region and the world peace.
The U.S. should drop at once the hostile policy toward the DPRK, the
leftover of the Cold War era. The South Korean authorities should stop
cooperating with the U.S. and implement the declaration to the letter, which
calls for reunifying the country by the concerted efforts of the Korean
nation.
On the same day, the Peruvian committee for supporting the independent
and peaceful reunification of Korea released a statement, in which it urged
hardline conservatives of the present U.S. administration to immediately
stop all provocations against the dprk, sincerely implement the DPRK-U.S.
agreed framework, and withdraw their lethal weapons and aggression forces
from South Korea at once.
U.S. bombast ridiculed
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary
accuses U.S. bellicose forces of openly disclosing their wild ambition to
seize the DPRK. The commentary says:
The commander-in-chief of the U.S. central command called for
maintaining the "win-win strategy" at a recent meeting of the U.S. House of
Representatives Armed Services Committee. He bluffed that the "U.S. can win
two wars on the korean peninsula and other area." Meanwhile, U.S. defence
secretary rumsfeld asked Bush to "shift the europe-centred U.S. military
forces in the era of the Cold War into the Pacific," talking about the
"win-win strategy."
This is an indication of their stand to provoke the second Korean war
any time at any cost.
It is the unchangeable intention of the U.S. imperialists to stifle the
dprk by force, put the whole of korea under their control and use it as a
springboard from which to carry out their asia-pacific strategy for
aggression. To this end, they are contemplating the shift of even their
military forces present in Europe to the Pacific.
Regarding the DPRK as their "no. 1 enemy," they seek to "emerge as
victor" in their "confrontation" with the DPRK with the mobilization of all
their military forces stationed in the U.S. mainland, the Asia-Pacific and
europe. But this is nothing but a pipe dream.
If the U.S. imperialists finally ignite a war of aggression, oblivious
of the serious lesson drawn from the last Korean War, the army and people of
the dprk single-heartedly united around the great illustrious commander in
the spirit of becoming human bombs will retaliate against Yankees by
mobilizing all attack means and potentials they have built up for decades.
The yankees are well advised to bear in mind that their big talk about
the "victorious win-win strategy" prove a dirge.
U.S. abrogation denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- South Korean environment organizations
including the Environment Movement Association and the Green Federation
simultaneously denounced the United States for its declaration that it will
not implement the convention on preventing the global warming, Seoul-based
MBC said. The organizations charged that it is an outrage upon the humankind
that the U.S. abrogated the convention under the pretext of fostering its
energy industry.
They declared that they will wage a campaign to boycott U.S. goods as
well as an organized protest drive in case of no change in the U.S.
position.
Japan's moves to tamper with its history protested in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- South Korean internet subscribers staged a
protest on March 31 against Japan's moves to twist the content of its
history textbooks, Seoul-based MBC said. They kept making inputs to the
homepages of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Ministry of Education and
Science, the "society for preparing new history textbooks" and 5 other units
of Japan, getting their computers constantly engaged.
Due to this protest around 3:30 p.m. that day the homepage of the
Ministry of Education and Science malfunctioned and then followed disorder
on the homepages of the "society," the Hokkaido prefectural assembly and the
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.
Members of Chinese youth delegation meet with young Korean builders
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Communist Youth League
of China (CYLC) met with innovators in the construction of the youth hero
motorway at the Central Youth Hall on Wednesday. Present there were Kim
Kyong Ko, secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist
Youth League, officials of the youth league and innovators in the
construction of the motorway.
Members of the delegation headed by Zhou Qiang, first secretary of the
central committee of the CYLE, was also present there.
The participants visited the room for the education in comrade Kim Il
Sung's exploits in the youth movement before looking round an exhibition of
successes made by the builders of the motorway.
The guests were told by innovators that young koreans successfully built
the motorway, known as a highway for building a powerful nation, in less
than two years with matchless pluck and gut instilled by leader Kim Jong Il
into them.
The participants appreciated "Building of Powerful Nation and Unknown
Heroes and Heroines," part 16 of the Korean documentary film "Care Shown for
Brilliant Life."
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