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December.28.2001 Juche 90 [CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il visits Kumsusan Memorial Palace * Kim Jong Il visits KPA unit no.646 * Celebration meeting held by Koreans in U.S. * U. S. condemned for its withdrawal from ABM treaty * Protest meeting in front of U.S. army command in S. Korea * New university appears in DPRK * Folkcraft exhibition Kim Jong Il visits Kumsusan Memorial Palace Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace Thursday morning and paid tribute to President Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the Day of the Constitution. He was accompanied by Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the KPA, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the general staff of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, marshal of the KPA Ri Ul Sol and secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK Kye Ung Thae, Kim Kuk Thae, Choe Thae Bok, Jong Ha Chol, Kim Jung Rin and Kim Ki Nam, and staff members of the supreme command of the KPA. Kim Jong Il paid respectful tribute to the statue of the president together with senior officials of the party and the army. In the hall where the president lies in state for perpetuity, he paid homage to him in deepest reverence together with them. Kim Jong Il visits KPA unit no.646 Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il Thursday visited KPA unit no. 646. he was greeted by commanding officers of the unit on the spot. He dropped in at the command post and acquainted himself in detail with the performance of the duty of the unit from its commander. He expressed great satisfaction with the successful performance of the duty of the unit's soldiers and advanced highly important tasks that would serve as a guideline in further strengthening the heroic KPA into invincible revolutionary armed forces. He went to the room for class education and a lecture room and saw the political work and training of soldiers. There he highly praised all the soldiers of the unit for growing to be combatants, each being a match for a hundred, firmly prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique through strenuous ideological education and training. Then he moved on to different places of the unit including an education room, a bedroom and mess to take warm care of the living of soldiers with paternal love. He appreciated an art performance given by the soldiers of a company under the unit. Expressing great satisfaction with the company soldiers' successful art performance of high ideological and artistic value, he said that the KPA that conducts training, studies and lives as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did is a model in creating new culture. He gave an automatic rifle to the soldiers of the unit as a gift and posed for a photograph with them. That day he went round power station no.1227 built by large combined unit no.564 of the KPA. Going round the interior and exterior of the power station including the generating room and power distribution room, he got familiar with details of the construction of the power station and the production of electricity. He was greatly satisfied to learn that the soldiers of the large combined unit have built the modern power station by themselves to produce much electricity and highly praised their devoted service. Celebration meeting held by Koreans in U.S. Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- A celebration meeting of the association of Koreans in southern region of the United States was held in Chicago on Dec. 18 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army and the 84th birth anniversary of the anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk. Yun Kil Sang, chairman of the association, in his report at the meeting highly praised the immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il who set forth the original revolutionary army-based line and has strengthened the KPA into the invincible revolutionary armed forces and the greatness of his ideas, leadership and trait. Yun noted that Kim Jong Suk was boundlessly loyal to President Kim Il Sung and devoted her all to the liberation of the country and the freedom and happiness of the people, performing brilliant feats in the history of the revolutionary struggle. A congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting. U. S. condemned for its withdrawal from ABM treaty Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Choe Sung Hwan, chairman of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), reportedly denounced the united states for its decision to withdraw
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TODAY'S NEWS (December.28.2000 Juche 89) [CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit no. 395 * Police called in to break up sit-in strike in S. Korea * Japan's moves to draw up war constitution under fire * South side's delegation arrives * Dismantlement of concrete wall urged * Celebrations by Kothongryon * Many films for children produced * Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's work marked * Greetings to King of Nepal * Greetings to PM of Nepal * Floral basket and messages to Kim Jong Il For Spanish-speaking people * comandante supremo kim jong il inspecciona unidad no. 395 de epc * llega a pyongyang delegacion de surcorea a primera reunion de cpcens * base de creacion de pelicula infantil Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit no. 395 Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il on December 27 inspected unit no. 395 of the Korean People's Army. He climbed up a forward command post on a height to learn about the terrain conditions and troops deployment. He said that the soldiers of the unit are now demonstrating their might in the sacred service for the defence of the country by inheriting the proud tradition of the unit and that the colours of the unit is associated with the noble soul of the revolutionary martyrs who dedicated their youth and life to the party and the leader, the country and the people. He went to the headquarters of the unit and acquainted himself with the performance of its mission and the soldiers' living, going round a lecture room, an education room and a sleeping room. He gave the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a picture taken with the commanding officers and soldiers of the unit. Then he visited a civil police company under the unit on guard duty at forefront post and gave a warm pep-talk to its soldiers. After acquainting himself with their military uniforms, he gave an instruction to supply more high quality uniforms to them who are performing the most difficult mission on the forefront. Getting familiar with the living conditions of the soldiers and seeing the sideline store, he expressed great satisfaction with the sideline job done well to provide a good diet to them. He gave the company a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a picture taken with its soldiers. That day he inspected a power station built by soldiers of KPA unit no. 415. Looking round different places of the power station, he highly appreciated the devoted efforts of the soldiers of the unit to contribute to the building of a prosperous and powerful nation. He was accompanied by Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the KPA, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the general staff of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces, and KPA generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong. Police called in to break up sit-in strike in S. Korea Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The police was hurled yesterday into the scene of the sit-in strike called by unionists of the national bank and the housing bank in South Korea, Seoul-based "Yonhap News" (internet) said. At least 8,000 unionists have been on a nearly week-long over-night sit-in strike against the forcible merger of the two banks in the playground of the training institute of the national bank in Koyang city, Kyonggi Province. Upset by the high spirits of the workers, the police let two helicopters fly over them early in the morning and scatter 10,000 leaflets warning strikers of punishment. Then at least 7,000 policemen of 51 companies were hurled into the scene of the strike. The low-altitude flight of the helicopters made over 150 tents collapse all at once by blowing them even 30 metres off and causing fire in different places. Japan's moves to draw up war constitution under fire Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, the greatest faction within the Japanese ruling liberal democratic party worked out a draft report calling for the revision of the present constitution to enable Japan to exercise the "right to collective self-defence." The report calls for stipulating in the constitution such articles as allowing Japan to exercise the "right to collective self-defence" and keep troops for "self-defence" and designating "emperor" as "head of state" and permitting Japan to dispatch armed forces overseas to take part in joint military operations with U.S. forces. A signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun today dismisses this move as a very dangerous and serious one as it laid bare the aggressive nature and ambition of Japanese militarism. It says: There is a serious poin
