Wheat and barley sowing begins on the Jangchon Vegetable Farm in Sadong District, Pyongyang. Farmers across the country are now stepping up farming preparations eager to hit the target of grain production for this year.
Statistics say the collection and transportation of manure to the field and other farming preparations are going full steam ahead in the final stage throughout the country and the spring sowing of wheat and barley seeds are at its height.
The farmers in North Hwanghae and Phyongan Provinces registered good results in the collection and transport of manure.
The Jongbang Cooperative Farm in Sariwon City and other farms in Unpha and Suan Counties in North Hwanghae Province collected a large amount of manure in townships while producing as much hukposan fertilizer as possible, exceeding the planned compost production targets.
The farmers on the Osan Cooperative Farm in Jongju City and the Unha Cooperative Farm in Unjon County, North Phyongan Province, positively applied productive methods of compost-making and finished the transportation of the produced compost to rice paddies and dry fields.
Many farms including the Oguk Cooperative Farm in Anak County and the Samjigang Cooperative Farm in Jaeryong County in South Hwanghae Province and the Sinsong Cooperative Farm in Kumya County and the Phungyang Cooperative Farm in Jongphyong County in South Hamgyong Province set the right places for digging fertile soil and increased the operation of transportation means, thereby finishing the carpeting of paddy and dry fields with new fertile soil in a short time.
The farmers in many counties in the west coastal areas including Chongdan and Unnyul counties in South Hwanghae Province have set themselves a goal of finishing spring sowing in a short time and are carrying out farming processes of seed sprouting and rice-seedling bed laying as scheduled.
On the basis of thorough preparation for the farming of earlier crops, they are now sowing seeds of spring wheat and barley as required by the technical specifications.
The farmers in North Hamgyong and Kangwon Provinces and Nampho City have also secured proper amount of materials for making rice seedling beds and seeds of high-yield crop species that suit their specific climate and soil conditions. Efforts have continuously been directed to improving acid soil and cold and humid land.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The DPRK’s first Paralympic delegation
Did you know that the first paralympic delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea participated in the 2012 international Paralympics was held in London from August 29, 2012?
The activities of disabled athletes in the country took a new shape and began to develop vivaciously when the DPRK Athletic Association of the Disabled Persons was organized under official approval of the government.
It started to cause great public interest with two rounds of table tennis games of disabled persons and their benefactors in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Thanks to the positive efforts of the central committee of the Korean Federation for Care of the Disabled and the DPRK Athletic Association of the Disabled Persons the public understanding of the people with disabilities improved considerably, and the government gave an endorsement to the National Paralympic Committee in August 2011 in an effort to keep the sports activities of the disabled people in step with the international trend.
Thus the DPRK National Paralympic Committee was organized in November 2011 and sent a delegation to the 15th general assembly of the International Paralympic Committee and a relevant conference held in Beijing in December the same year.
The general assembly gave a unanimous vote for the semi-membership of the Korean National Paralympic Committee and the semi-membership took effect officially on March 8, 2012.
The activities of disabled athletes in the country took a new shape and began to develop vivaciously when the DPRK Athletic Association of the Disabled Persons was organized under official approval of the government.
It started to cause great public interest with two rounds of table tennis games of disabled persons and their benefactors in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Thanks to the positive efforts of the central committee of the Korean Federation for Care of the Disabled and the DPRK Athletic Association of the Disabled Persons the public understanding of the people with disabilities improved considerably, and the government gave an endorsement to the National Paralympic Committee in August 2011 in an effort to keep the sports activities of the disabled people in step with the international trend.Thus the DPRK National Paralympic Committee was organized in November 2011 and sent a delegation to the 15th general assembly of the International Paralympic Committee and a relevant conference held in Beijing in December the same year.
The general assembly gave a unanimous vote for the semi-membership of the Korean National Paralympic Committee and the semi-membership took effect officially on March 8, 2012.
Archery Comes under Public Attention in the DPRK
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Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, though busy with his ceaseless inspection of military frontline units, recently watched an archery match between the April 25 Defense Sports Team and the Amnokgang Defense Sports Team and had a picture taken with players.
From the ancient times archery has been regarded in Korea as a symbol of resourcefulness and bravery. It was one of the martial arts in the medieval age, along with horse riding, fencing and spearing.
Archery developed onto a higher level particularly in the period of Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668). King Tongmyong, founder of Koguryo, was called Ju Mong in Korean which means a master hand at archery.
Archery has been one of the sporting events in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since the 1960s. The DPRK proved successful in the event in some international tournaments.
Ri Chol Hyon, senior coach of the Amnokgang Defense Sports Team, told KCNA:
"It is my plan to develop the nation's archery technique onto a higher level than that in the 1970s-1980s. I am sure that it is one of feasible events for the DPRK.
The team has paid big efforts to putting the archery training on a scientific basis."
Inspired by Kim Jong Un's call for winning the world championship in the archery event, the coaches and players of the team are now intensifying training in high spirits.
Kang Hui Ryon, 19, an archer, said:
"I was honored to have a picture taken with Marshal Kim Jong Un.
I will pay up to his expectation with good results in international games." -0-
Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, though busy with his ceaseless inspection of military frontline units, recently watched an archery match between the April 25 Defense Sports Team and the Amnokgang Defense Sports Team and had a picture taken with players.
From the ancient times archery has been regarded in Korea as a symbol of resourcefulness and bravery. It was one of the martial arts in the medieval age, along with horse riding, fencing and spearing.
Archery developed onto a higher level particularly in the period of Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668). King Tongmyong, founder of Koguryo, was called Ju Mong in Korean which means a master hand at archery.
Archery has been one of the sporting events in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since the 1960s. The DPRK proved successful in the event in some international tournaments.
Ri Chol Hyon, senior coach of the Amnokgang Defense Sports Team, told KCNA:
"It is my plan to develop the nation's archery technique onto a higher level than that in the 1970s-1980s. I am sure that it is one of feasible events for the DPRK.
The team has paid big efforts to putting the archery training on a scientific basis."
Inspired by Kim Jong Un's call for winning the world championship in the archery event, the coaches and players of the team are now intensifying training in high spirits.
Kang Hui Ryon, 19, an archer, said:
"I was honored to have a picture taken with Marshal Kim Jong Un.
I will pay up to his expectation with good results in international games." -0-
The Hakdanggol Revolutionary Site
The Hakdanggol Revolutionary Site is in the heart of Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea. A monument is standing there with an inscription engraved against sculpture of the green pine tree.
Lecturer Ko Un Ha explained about the history of Hakdanggol.
"Hakdang Valley is a wide space between the Pyongyang Students and Children´s Palace, the Mansudae Assembly Hall, the Pothong Gate, the Mansudae Art Theatre and the Grand People´s Study House. In the past the place was called Hakdang or School or Hakdang-dong. Because there were many schools such as the Sungsil Secondary School and the Sungui Girls´ School, private schools and village schools."
The lecturer impressively explained about the historical facts a century ago. In the 1910s Korea was completely reduced to a colony of the Japanese imperialists. The outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea Kim Hyong Jik, father of the great leader Kim Il Sung, embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle to smash the armed enemy with the strength of the Korean nation, keeping the idea of "aim high" that national independence must be achieved through a struggle generation after generation. The lecturer said Kim Hyong Jik made efforts to bring up reliable pivots of a revolutionary organization to be formed in the future while studying at the Pyongyang Sungsil Secondary School in Hakdang Valley from the Spring of 1911.
The lecturer said.
"As his comrades increased one by one, Kim Hyong Jik became a professional revolutionary without finishing the course of the Sungsil Secondary School in order to expand the theatre of the revolutionary activities extensively. He conducted revolutionary activities at the Sunhwa School in Mangyongdae and Myongsin School in Ponghwa-ri using them as centres of his activities as a teacher favourable to the revolutionary activities and powerfully accelerated preparations to form a revolutionary organization in the future."
While listening to the lecturer, I saw in my mind´s eyes the Sunhwa School in Mangyongdae I visit every year. The bell of the Myongsin School in Ponghwa-ri rung by Kim Hyong Jik seemed to be sounding in my ears.
Kim Hyong Jik walked the untrodden path of history for national independence and people´s emancipation. Thanks to his strenuous efforts, the inaugural meeitng of the "Korean National Association" was held in Hakdang Valley on March 23, Juche 6 or 1917. Present there were core champions of independence movement, anti-Japanese movement champions at home and abroad and the patriotic youth and students.
The lecturer said the aim of the "Korean National Association" was to achieve national independence and build a true civilized state with the strength of the Koreans through their unity. The "Korean National Association" expanded its organizations to the wide areas at home and abroad less than half a year after its foundation and included people from all walks of life, soldiers of the Independence Army and even religionists.
Pointing to the inscription, the lecturer said:
"The inscription reads:
Indeed, the ´Korean National Association´ formed by Kim Hyong Jik was a revolutionary organization for national independence to realize his idea of ´aim high´ and the first anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization in Korea around the March First Popular Uprising."
The "Korean National Association" was recorded in the history of the Korean revolution.
I left the Hakdanggol Revolutionary Site, firmly believing that the idea of "aim high" of
Kim Hyong Jik is shining brighter thanks to respected Kim Jong Un.
Lecturer Ko Un Ha explained about the history of Hakdanggol.
"Hakdang Valley is a wide space between the Pyongyang Students and Children´s Palace, the Mansudae Assembly Hall, the Pothong Gate, the Mansudae Art Theatre and the Grand People´s Study House. In the past the place was called Hakdang or School or Hakdang-dong. Because there were many schools such as the Sungsil Secondary School and the Sungui Girls´ School, private schools and village schools."
The lecturer impressively explained about the historical facts a century ago. In the 1910s Korea was completely reduced to a colony of the Japanese imperialists. The outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea Kim Hyong Jik, father of the great leader Kim Il Sung, embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle to smash the armed enemy with the strength of the Korean nation, keeping the idea of "aim high" that national independence must be achieved through a struggle generation after generation. The lecturer said Kim Hyong Jik made efforts to bring up reliable pivots of a revolutionary organization to be formed in the future while studying at the Pyongyang Sungsil Secondary School in Hakdang Valley from the Spring of 1911.
The lecturer said.
"As his comrades increased one by one, Kim Hyong Jik became a professional revolutionary without finishing the course of the Sungsil Secondary School in order to expand the theatre of the revolutionary activities extensively. He conducted revolutionary activities at the Sunhwa School in Mangyongdae and Myongsin School in Ponghwa-ri using them as centres of his activities as a teacher favourable to the revolutionary activities and powerfully accelerated preparations to form a revolutionary organization in the future."
While listening to the lecturer, I saw in my mind´s eyes the Sunhwa School in Mangyongdae I visit every year. The bell of the Myongsin School in Ponghwa-ri rung by Kim Hyong Jik seemed to be sounding in my ears.
Kim Hyong Jik walked the untrodden path of history for national independence and people´s emancipation. Thanks to his strenuous efforts, the inaugural meeitng of the "Korean National Association" was held in Hakdang Valley on March 23, Juche 6 or 1917. Present there were core champions of independence movement, anti-Japanese movement champions at home and abroad and the patriotic youth and students.
The lecturer said the aim of the "Korean National Association" was to achieve national independence and build a true civilized state with the strength of the Koreans through their unity. The "Korean National Association" expanded its organizations to the wide areas at home and abroad less than half a year after its foundation and included people from all walks of life, soldiers of the Independence Army and even religionists.
Pointing to the inscription, the lecturer said:
"The inscription reads:
´Oh, his high aim for liberation
Shone on the silk-embroidered land of 3,000 ri,
Struck roots deep among the people
Breaking through forest of bayonets
Under the banner of anti-Japanese struggle,
Korea breathed with his intention
Even in far-off foreign land.´
Indeed, the ´Korean National Association´ formed by Kim Hyong Jik was a revolutionary organization for national independence to realize his idea of ´aim high´ and the first anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization in Korea around the March First Popular Uprising."
The "Korean National Association" was recorded in the history of the Korean revolution.
I left the Hakdanggol Revolutionary Site, firmly believing that the idea of "aim high" of
Kim Hyong Jik is shining brighter thanks to respected Kim Jong Un.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Kim Jong Un Speaks at Light Workers National Meeting
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DPRK state media reported on March 18th 2013 that a national meeting of light industry workers was held in Pyongyang. Attending the meeting from the central leadership were Kim Jong Un, Choe Yong Rim (DPRK Cabinet Premier), Kim Kyong Hui (Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Secretary and Department Director), Kim Ki Nam [KWP Secretary], Mun Kyong Dok (Chief Secretary of the Pyongyang City [municipal] KWP Committee), Ro Tu Chol (DPRK Cabinet Vice Premier and Chairman of the State Planning Commission) and Tae Jong Su (Chief Secretary of the South Hamgyo’ng KWP Provincial Committee) along with “officials of the units taking the lead in carrying out the Party’s policy of light industry and labor innovators, leading officials here and in local areas, officials of economic guidance organs, affiliated fields and working people.”
Choe Yong Rim delivered the national meeting’s report. According to KCNA Choe said in his report “that the history of the development of light industry in the DPRK is a history associated with President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il’s Juche-oriented idea on building light industry, their outstanding leadership and tireless devotion and efforts. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il regarded it as the supreme principle of the party and state activities to improve the standard of people’s living, regarding it as their maxim to believe in people as in Heaven. The great Generalissimos’ idea of building the Juche-based light industry and their undying leadership feats are being successfully carried forward by Marshal Kim Jong Un.” Choe also “referred to the successes achieved in the light industrial field under the leadership of the WPK in the past” and “called for making great innovations and leap forward in producing consumer goods, steadily pushing forward the modernization of equipment and production processes and producing consumer goods as an all-people movement.”
Choe was followed by other speakers from the party, government and the country’s light industrial sector. Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un then delivered his speech in which he said:
"It is necessary to make the most effective use of the existing production potential to radically increase the production of consumer goods and push forward the modernization and scientification of light industry and thus put it on the world’s advanced level.
The light industry should keep production going at a high rate to massively produce varieties of quality consumer goods.
The industrial establishments in the field of light industry should wage a widespread campaign to improve the quality of consumer goods in order to produce daily necessities favored by people and ones symbolic of their units and impeccable on foreign markets.
In order to solve the issue of raw and other materials for light industry the units tasked to provide funds for the people’s living should increase their roles for the present.
A basic way of solving the issue is to locally produce raw and other materials.
The chemical industry has a big role to play for locally producing those materials.
It is very important to develop the local industry for boosting the production of consumer goods.
The field of light industry should regard it as important task to put light industry on a modern and scientific basis and dynamically push forward it at a high level.
The industrial establishments should have scientists and technicians positively involved in production as required by the trend of developing modern light industry so that they may scientifically analyze all the issues arising in producing goods, improving quality, managing equipment and conducting business activities and solve them by dint of science and technology.
It is important to wage the drive for radically increasing the production of consumer goods through a movement involving all masses and the whole society.
It is necessary to boost the production of varieties of quality consumer goods by waging a widespread August 3 Consumer Goods Production Movement as it was done in the 1980s.
If the field of light industry makes rapid progress ahead of other fields, displaying its vitality, and the whole country intensifies the drive for the production of consumer goods, keeping pace with it, the Party’s plan to radically improve the people’s living standard in near future will be translated into a reality.
Great efforts should be channeled into improving public service while increasing the production of consumer goods.
In order to quickly improve the people’s living standard by bringing about a new turn in the development of light industry
the officials in the field of light industry should increase their responsibility and role.
Officials of the ministries and national institutions in the field of light industry should learn about and grasp in detail the overall situation of light industry and actual conditions of the units under them. On this basis they should command in a responsible manner the operations for solving knotty problems and bringing about a new turn in the development of light industry.
The officials in the field of light industry should reject stiffness, schema, stagnation and depression, work in a unique and resilient manner and shape reasonable management and business strategies to ensure expanded reproduction and reenergize production by their own efforts.
The officials should have ardent patriotism, value their own things and make positive efforts to develop them to be better than others’.
Scientists and technicians should solve scientific and technological issues arising in the on-going production in good time and, at the same time, study and round off innovative plans for producing raw materials for light industry locally and putting machines and equipment and production processes on a CNC and automation basis and develop more new varieties of light industrial products and functional goods.
The whole state should attach importance to light industry and channel great efforts into its development.
Various sectors and units of national economy should render positive help to the field of light industry, bearing in mind the Party’s intention to effect a turn in the people’s living in the shortest possible span of time.
The Party organizations should increase their roles in order to rapidly develop light industry.
We have not a few difficulties and bottlenecks at present but light industry has a bright prospect of its development.
As long as there are a solid foundation of light industry provided by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il through all their lives’ dedication and the people intensely loyal to the Party’s leadership, a turn is sure to be effected in the development of the light industry and our people will fully enjoy wealth and glory under socialism without fail.
The Party Central Committee firmly believes that the officials and workers in the field of light industry will turn out with confidence of victory and bring about a new turn in its development."
DPRK state media reported on March 18th 2013 that a national meeting of light industry workers was held in Pyongyang. Attending the meeting from the central leadership were Kim Jong Un, Choe Yong Rim (DPRK Cabinet Premier), Kim Kyong Hui (Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Secretary and Department Director), Kim Ki Nam [KWP Secretary], Mun Kyong Dok (Chief Secretary of the Pyongyang City [municipal] KWP Committee), Ro Tu Chol (DPRK Cabinet Vice Premier and Chairman of the State Planning Commission) and Tae Jong Su (Chief Secretary of the South Hamgyo’ng KWP Provincial Committee) along with “officials of the units taking the lead in carrying out the Party’s policy of light industry and labor innovators, leading officials here and in local areas, officials of economic guidance organs, affiliated fields and working people.”
Choe Yong Rim delivered the national meeting’s report. According to KCNA Choe said in his report “that the history of the development of light industry in the DPRK is a history associated with President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il’s Juche-oriented idea on building light industry, their outstanding leadership and tireless devotion and efforts. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il regarded it as the supreme principle of the party and state activities to improve the standard of people’s living, regarding it as their maxim to believe in people as in Heaven. The great Generalissimos’ idea of building the Juche-based light industry and their undying leadership feats are being successfully carried forward by Marshal Kim Jong Un.” Choe also “referred to the successes achieved in the light industrial field under the leadership of the WPK in the past” and “called for making great innovations and leap forward in producing consumer goods, steadily pushing forward the modernization of equipment and production processes and producing consumer goods as an all-people movement.”
Choe was followed by other speakers from the party, government and the country’s light industrial sector. Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un then delivered his speech in which he said:
"It is necessary to make the most effective use of the existing production potential to radically increase the production of consumer goods and push forward the modernization and scientification of light industry and thus put it on the world’s advanced level.
The light industry should keep production going at a high rate to massively produce varieties of quality consumer goods.
The industrial establishments in the field of light industry should wage a widespread campaign to improve the quality of consumer goods in order to produce daily necessities favored by people and ones symbolic of their units and impeccable on foreign markets.
In order to solve the issue of raw and other materials for light industry the units tasked to provide funds for the people’s living should increase their roles for the present.
A basic way of solving the issue is to locally produce raw and other materials.
The chemical industry has a big role to play for locally producing those materials.
It is very important to develop the local industry for boosting the production of consumer goods.
The field of light industry should regard it as important task to put light industry on a modern and scientific basis and dynamically push forward it at a high level.
The industrial establishments should have scientists and technicians positively involved in production as required by the trend of developing modern light industry so that they may scientifically analyze all the issues arising in producing goods, improving quality, managing equipment and conducting business activities and solve them by dint of science and technology.
It is important to wage the drive for radically increasing the production of consumer goods through a movement involving all masses and the whole society.
It is necessary to boost the production of varieties of quality consumer goods by waging a widespread August 3 Consumer Goods Production Movement as it was done in the 1980s.
If the field of light industry makes rapid progress ahead of other fields, displaying its vitality, and the whole country intensifies the drive for the production of consumer goods, keeping pace with it, the Party’s plan to radically improve the people’s living standard in near future will be translated into a reality.
Great efforts should be channeled into improving public service while increasing the production of consumer goods.
In order to quickly improve the people’s living standard by bringing about a new turn in the development of light industry
the officials in the field of light industry should increase their responsibility and role.
Officials of the ministries and national institutions in the field of light industry should learn about and grasp in detail the overall situation of light industry and actual conditions of the units under them. On this basis they should command in a responsible manner the operations for solving knotty problems and bringing about a new turn in the development of light industry.
The officials in the field of light industry should reject stiffness, schema, stagnation and depression, work in a unique and resilient manner and shape reasonable management and business strategies to ensure expanded reproduction and reenergize production by their own efforts.
The officials should have ardent patriotism, value their own things and make positive efforts to develop them to be better than others’.
Scientists and technicians should solve scientific and technological issues arising in the on-going production in good time and, at the same time, study and round off innovative plans for producing raw materials for light industry locally and putting machines and equipment and production processes on a CNC and automation basis and develop more new varieties of light industrial products and functional goods.
The whole state should attach importance to light industry and channel great efforts into its development.
Various sectors and units of national economy should render positive help to the field of light industry, bearing in mind the Party’s intention to effect a turn in the people’s living in the shortest possible span of time.
The Party organizations should increase their roles in order to rapidly develop light industry.
We have not a few difficulties and bottlenecks at present but light industry has a bright prospect of its development.
As long as there are a solid foundation of light industry provided by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il through all their lives’ dedication and the people intensely loyal to the Party’s leadership, a turn is sure to be effected in the development of the light industry and our people will fully enjoy wealth and glory under socialism without fail.
The Party Central Committee firmly believes that the officials and workers in the field of light industry will turn out with confidence of victory and bring about a new turn in its development."
Sunday, March 17, 2013
DPRK Central Zoo
Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- Citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including school youth and children, spend a pleasant time at the Central Zoo in Taesong District, Pyongyang.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
1,000-ri Journey for Learning
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Today is the 90th anniversary of the 1,000-ri or 400-kilometre journey for learning made by the great President Kim Il Sung.
I visited the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum in Pyongyang on the occasion. Mangyongdae is in spring when buds began to shoot and spring breeze is warm. I expressed great admiration at the beautiful scenery of Mangyongdae, when a lecturer told me that the name of "Mangyongdae" means a place with a multitude of beautiful views.
And she guided me into the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum. Attentively looking round the historical materials and remains displayed in every room together with other visitors, I entered the 4th Room. Displayed there were materials concerning President Kim Il Sung´s "1,000-ri journey for learning".
In front of a large-size electronic jewel picture depicting the route of the "1,000-ri journey for learning" lecturer Ho Un Jong said:.
"The great leader President Kim Il Sung graduated the Badaogou Primary School with straight A´s in early Juche 12 or 1923. In those days, Kim Hyong Jik thought of the future of his son Kim Il Sung and said: ´You had better study in Korea from now on. A man of Korea must have a good knowledge of Korea. While studying in the home village, you must experience the miserable life of the Korean people. Then you will know what you should do.´
President Kim Il Sung set out on the ´1,000-ri journey for learning´ on March 16th, Juche 12 or 1923, amid the send-off of his parents and friends. More than half of the 400 kilometres he had to walk was steep mountains with beasts of prey prowling about even in broad daylight."
As I was solemnly looking at the oil painting "Great leader Kim Il Sung arriving at the native home in Mangyongdae after the ´1000-ri journey for learning´", the lecturer said:
"President Kim Il Sung entered the courtyard of his native home in Mangyongdae around sunset on March 29, 1923, fourteen days after his departure from Badaogou. Spinning in the room next to the kitchen, his grandma was so surprised that she ran out into the courtyard barefoot. She said: ´Your father is crueller than the tiger. A few years later you may try to sit on Mt. Paektu and wash your feet in the East Sea.´ And she admired her grandson."
During his journey from Badaogou to Mangyongdae, President Kim Il Sung experienced the miserable life of the Korean people groaning under the boots of the Japanese imperialists and hardened his resolve to liberate the country.
The lecturer said to me that, later, President Kim Il Sung looked back with deep emotion upon the journey, saying, to him the 400-kilometre journey was a great school that let him know his homeland and his fellow countrymen.
Feeling again that Korea today is possible thanks to the 1,000-ri journey for learning made by President Kim Il Sung in his teens, I left the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum.
Today is the 90th anniversary of the 1,000-ri or 400-kilometre journey for learning made by the great President Kim Il Sung.
I visited the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum in Pyongyang on the occasion. Mangyongdae is in spring when buds began to shoot and spring breeze is warm. I expressed great admiration at the beautiful scenery of Mangyongdae, when a lecturer told me that the name of "Mangyongdae" means a place with a multitude of beautiful views.
And she guided me into the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum. Attentively looking round the historical materials and remains displayed in every room together with other visitors, I entered the 4th Room. Displayed there were materials concerning President Kim Il Sung´s "1,000-ri journey for learning".
In front of a large-size electronic jewel picture depicting the route of the "1,000-ri journey for learning" lecturer Ho Un Jong said:.
"The great leader President Kim Il Sung graduated the Badaogou Primary School with straight A´s in early Juche 12 or 1923. In those days, Kim Hyong Jik thought of the future of his son Kim Il Sung and said: ´You had better study in Korea from now on. A man of Korea must have a good knowledge of Korea. While studying in the home village, you must experience the miserable life of the Korean people. Then you will know what you should do.´
President Kim Il Sung set out on the ´1,000-ri journey for learning´ on March 16th, Juche 12 or 1923, amid the send-off of his parents and friends. More than half of the 400 kilometres he had to walk was steep mountains with beasts of prey prowling about even in broad daylight."
As I was solemnly looking at the oil painting "Great leader Kim Il Sung arriving at the native home in Mangyongdae after the ´1000-ri journey for learning´", the lecturer said:
"President Kim Il Sung entered the courtyard of his native home in Mangyongdae around sunset on March 29, 1923, fourteen days after his departure from Badaogou. Spinning in the room next to the kitchen, his grandma was so surprised that she ran out into the courtyard barefoot. She said: ´Your father is crueller than the tiger. A few years later you may try to sit on Mt. Paektu and wash your feet in the East Sea.´ And she admired her grandson."
During his journey from Badaogou to Mangyongdae, President Kim Il Sung experienced the miserable life of the Korean people groaning under the boots of the Japanese imperialists and hardened his resolve to liberate the country.
The lecturer said to me that, later, President Kim Il Sung looked back with deep emotion upon the journey, saying, to him the 400-kilometre journey was a great school that let him know his homeland and his fellow countrymen.
Feeling again that Korea today is possible thanks to the 1,000-ri journey for learning made by President Kim Il Sung in his teens, I left the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum.
DPRK Saying: "A-Match-for-a-Hundred"
This year Juche 102 or 2013 is the 50th year after the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" was presented in Korea.The Korean people, seeing the heroic spirit of the Korean People´s Army, an invincible army capable of defeating any aggressors at a blow, look back with deep emotion upon the historic day when the slogan was presented.
The great President Kim Il Sung visited the army post on Mt. Taedok on the forefront on February 6th, Juche 52 or 1963. He met the soldiers and officers who were firmly defending the country and looked round different places of the post together with them.
He taught that all soldiers shoud be trained as "a-match-for-a-hundred" warriors so as to strengthen the People´s Army and increase its fighting capacity. He said, from olden times, a general good at battle was called "a-match-for-a-hundred" warrior, which means one man defeats a hundred foes. He stressed the need to firmly arm the entire servicemen with the indomitable revolutionary spirit so that they could defeat a hundred foes each.
This is how the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" came into being.
The great Kim Jong Il accompanied President Kim Il Sung visiting the post on Mt. Taedok that day and said the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" represents a high demand for the servicemen to be competent fighters each of whom can defeat one hundred foes in defensive and offensive battles.
He taught in detail that to prepare the soldiers to be a-match-for-a-hundred, they must arm themselves firmly with the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, master their arms, impregnably consolidate the positions and become familiar with the tactics of smashing the enemy relying on the positions.
During his Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Kim Jong Il visited the post on Mt. Taedok and called on the soldiers to fully demonstrate the invincible spirit of the heroic KPA by further strengthening military and political trainings under the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred".
Today, too, the post on Mt. Taedok is standing firmly as a symbol of "a-match-for-a-hundred", telling forever about the immortal exploits performed under the Songun-based leadership of the great
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the history of army building.
Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Fish Farm
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The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un gave field guidance to the Ryongjong Fish Farm. He said the Ryongjong Fish Farm is a typical fish farm of the Songun era built at the initiative of leader Kim Jong Il and under his energetic guidance.
He recollected the long and tiresome journeys made by Kim Jong Il, exerting devoted efforts to bring about a fresh turn in fish breeding as required by the new century, saying he could not forget November 21, 2010 when he visited there, accompanying the leader.
At the general control room he watched the real-time measurement of the quantity, temperature, pH and oxygen content of water in indoor and outdoor fish ponds with the help of computers and underwater cameras' monitoring of the physiology of fishes.
What is important in fish breeding is to put fish farming on a scientific basis, he noted, adding this would make it possible to keep fish production going at a high rate. He went round the fish ponds built along the water way of the Ryongjong spring.
He was pleased to watch sturgeons and fishes of various other species in the ponds. Watching the Ryongjong spring from which water was flowing into the fish ponds in an endless stream, he recalled that when water stopped gushing out from the spring, service persons and employees of the fish farm turned out to restore it into its original state. Water supply is of particular importance for fish farming, he added.
Feasting his eyes at the food factory and protein food factory standing near the outdoor ponds, he said with deep emotion that they were visited by Kim Jong Il.
He said people cannot substantially benefit from fish farms if the supply of food for fishes is not put on a par with fish production no matter how many modern ones are built.
Seeing the letters displayed in the compound of the fish farm "Sturgeons go to sea while the DPRK advances into the world", he told the officials to add the letters "Satellites enter space". World-startling miracles are being worked in various parts of the country through a dynamic drive for breaking through the cutting edge under the wise leadership of our party, he added.
Noting that the Ryongjong Fish Farm is crystal of Kim Jong Il's love for people, he proposed erecting a monument to the undying leadership feats of Kim Jong Il and displaying his portrait in the compound of the farm to convey his loving care to posterity.
He told the officials and employees of the fish farm to play a pioneer's role in translating the desire of Kim Jong Il to provide the people with more fish into reality. He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il and An Ji Yong.
The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un gave field guidance to the Ryongjong Fish Farm. He said the Ryongjong Fish Farm is a typical fish farm of the Songun era built at the initiative of leader Kim Jong Il and under his energetic guidance.
He recollected the long and tiresome journeys made by Kim Jong Il, exerting devoted efforts to bring about a fresh turn in fish breeding as required by the new century, saying he could not forget November 21, 2010 when he visited there, accompanying the leader.
At the general control room he watched the real-time measurement of the quantity, temperature, pH and oxygen content of water in indoor and outdoor fish ponds with the help of computers and underwater cameras' monitoring of the physiology of fishes.
What is important in fish breeding is to put fish farming on a scientific basis, he noted, adding this would make it possible to keep fish production going at a high rate. He went round the fish ponds built along the water way of the Ryongjong spring.
He was pleased to watch sturgeons and fishes of various other species in the ponds. Watching the Ryongjong spring from which water was flowing into the fish ponds in an endless stream, he recalled that when water stopped gushing out from the spring, service persons and employees of the fish farm turned out to restore it into its original state. Water supply is of particular importance for fish farming, he added.
Feasting his eyes at the food factory and protein food factory standing near the outdoor ponds, he said with deep emotion that they were visited by Kim Jong Il.
He said people cannot substantially benefit from fish farms if the supply of food for fishes is not put on a par with fish production no matter how many modern ones are built.
Seeing the letters displayed in the compound of the fish farm "Sturgeons go to sea while the DPRK advances into the world", he told the officials to add the letters "Satellites enter space". World-startling miracles are being worked in various parts of the country through a dynamic drive for breaking through the cutting edge under the wise leadership of our party, he added.
Noting that the Ryongjong Fish Farm is crystal of Kim Jong Il's love for people, he proposed erecting a monument to the undying leadership feats of Kim Jong Il and displaying his portrait in the compound of the farm to convey his loving care to posterity.
He told the officials and employees of the fish farm to play a pioneer's role in translating the desire of Kim Jong Il to provide the people with more fish into reality. He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il and An Ji Yong.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Historic Wangjaesan Meeting
Mt. Wangjae is in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province in the northern border area of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea.
The Wangjaesan Revolutionary Site is in the mountain. 80 years ago in March Juche 22 or 1933 the great leader President Kim Il Sung called a meeting of the heads of the underground revolutionary organizations and political operatives in the area of Onsong against the Japanese imperialists on Mt. Wangjae.
In those days the Japanese imperialists made desperate efforts to prevent the growth of the Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army and keep the revolutionary influence of the anti-Japanese armed struggle from reaching the people in the homeland.
The Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army was faced with a task to further spread and develop the armed struggle deep into the homeland to promote the Korean revolution as a whole.
Deeply seeing through the prevailing situation and the demand of the developing revolution, President Kim Il Sung led a unit of the guerrilla army to the Onsong area.
The meeting of the heads of the underground revolutionary organizations and political operatives in the area of Onsong was held on Mt. Wangjae on March 11, Juche 22 or 1933.
At the meeting President Kim Il Sung delivered a historic speech under the title "To Spread and Develop the Armed Struggle into the Homeland".
Jang Hye Ryon, lecturer of the Korean Revolution Museum, has this to say:
"That day the great leader President Kim Il Sung made a specific analysis of the successes achieved after the founding of the Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army and the then situation of the revolution and put forward a strategic and tactical policy on spreading and developing the armed struggle into the homeland. His speech convinced the participants of the victory of the anti-Japanese revolution and gave them revolutionary zeal. They unanimously and actively supported the policies put forward by President Kim Il Sung and made a firm resolve to resolutely defend and implement them. Indeed, the Wangjaesan meeting was a significant meeting of historic importance in the development of the Korean revolution."
After the historic meeting, the general Korean revolution centred on the anti-Japanese armed struggle rapidly spread deep into the homeland. It was a historic occasion to make a new heyday of the Korean revolution.
The Wangjaesan Revolutionary Site is in the mountain. 80 years ago in March Juche 22 or 1933 the great leader President Kim Il Sung called a meeting of the heads of the underground revolutionary organizations and political operatives in the area of Onsong against the Japanese imperialists on Mt. Wangjae.
In those days the Japanese imperialists made desperate efforts to prevent the growth of the Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army and keep the revolutionary influence of the anti-Japanese armed struggle from reaching the people in the homeland.
The Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army was faced with a task to further spread and develop the armed struggle deep into the homeland to promote the Korean revolution as a whole.
Deeply seeing through the prevailing situation and the demand of the developing revolution, President Kim Il Sung led a unit of the guerrilla army to the Onsong area.
The meeting of the heads of the underground revolutionary organizations and political operatives in the area of Onsong was held on Mt. Wangjae on March 11, Juche 22 or 1933.
At the meeting President Kim Il Sung delivered a historic speech under the title "To Spread and Develop the Armed Struggle into the Homeland".
Jang Hye Ryon, lecturer of the Korean Revolution Museum, has this to say:
"That day the great leader President Kim Il Sung made a specific analysis of the successes achieved after the founding of the Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army and the then situation of the revolution and put forward a strategic and tactical policy on spreading and developing the armed struggle into the homeland. His speech convinced the participants of the victory of the anti-Japanese revolution and gave them revolutionary zeal. They unanimously and actively supported the policies put forward by President Kim Il Sung and made a firm resolve to resolutely defend and implement them. Indeed, the Wangjaesan meeting was a significant meeting of historic importance in the development of the Korean revolution."
After the historic meeting, the general Korean revolution centred on the anti-Japanese armed struggle rapidly spread deep into the homeland. It was a historic occasion to make a new heyday of the Korean revolution.
General Secretary of the KFA (USA) on Russia Today (RT)
General Secretary of the Korean Friendship Association (USA) Martin Droll speaks to Russia Today (RT) about the current developments on the Korean Peninsula.
About the KFA:
The Korean Friendship Association (KFA) was founded on November of the year 2000 with the purpose of building international ties with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It has members from 120 countries. The KFA has full recognition from the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and is the world-wide leading organization of its supporters. It has offices in DPR Korea, Spain, Norway and Thailand.
About the KFA:
The Korean Friendship Association (KFA) was founded on November of the year 2000 with the purpose of building international ties with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It has members from 120 countries. The KFA has full recognition from the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and is the world-wide leading organization of its supporters. It has offices in DPR Korea, Spain, Norway and Thailand.
Kim Jong Un Visits Sports Village in Chongchun Street, DPRK
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Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, went round the sports village in Chongchun Street.
The village was built on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK under the wise leadership of the WPK. It is a comprehensive sports and cultural centre having gymnasiums, sports persons' restaurant, hotels and welfare service facilities. They can host various sports competitions of dozens of events including basketball, volleyball, table tennis, weightlifting and swimming events.
He toured the sports village with a plan to face-lift it as required by the new era because it has positively contributed to the country's development of sports and sports exchange with different countries.
He specified tasks and ways for remodeling the village, going round different gymnasiums, restaurants and hotels.
He recollected with deep emotion the immortal feats President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed by developing the Juche-oriented sports, saying that they took part in the ceremony for the completion of the sports village on Sept. 3, 1988.
The first leg of his tour was the Basketball Gymnasium.
Carefully seeing the floor and auditorium of the gymnasium, he gave instructions for remodeling it.
Seeing the sporting hall and player-waiting room, he stressed the need to take proper measures for improving sound-arresting and heating devices and remodel all the facilities to meet the need of gymnasium.
The next leg of his tour was the Table-Tennis Gymnasium.
He learned in detail about the quality of tables in the gymnasium, stressing the need to provide players with better sports apparatuses.
Saying that the luminous intensity is low, he stressed the need to reinforce lighting to suit games and watching.
He said that the gymnasium should have sufficient facilities for indoor broadcasting.
He dropped in at the Weightlifting Gymnasium.
Going round the sporting hall, auditorium and player-waiting room, he stressed the need to remodel well the gymnasium so as to make weightlifting one of the successful events in the future, too.
It is important to make a good design for updating the gymnasium, he said, talking about the need to consult a lot of worldwide data on sports facilities before working it out.
He looked round the sports persons' restaurant.
Going round eating rooms and kitchen, he learnt in detail about what kind of service players receive there, what kind of food they like best and the issues to be settled to improve the service at the restaurant.
There is nothing to spare for sports persons as they glorify the honor of the country at international games and bring national pride and self-confidence to the people, he noted, indicating ways to improve service to sports persons and took specific measures to do so.
He visited Sosan Hotel.
Looking round a restaurant and several rooms, he underscored the need to remodel the hotel as a modern one capable of providing good service to sports persons and spectators.
He specified tasks to officials concerned.
He said it is an important work for bringing about a radical change in sports of the country to successfully remodel the sports village as required by the era of Songun.
Saying that everything should be calculated carefully to update the village, he listened to views of sports officials.
He called for remodeling and face-lifting the inside and outside of the gymnasiums and providing them with modern sporting apparatuses and thereby glorifying the leadership feats performed by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the sports village.
He specified one by one issues arising in establishing a good system for managing sports facilities after remodeling the sports village and in ensuring the regular operation and management of the gymnasiums and their regular repair.
It is the firm resolution of the WPK to turn the country into a sports power and it is a sacred work for realizing the noble desire of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he said, expressing belief that the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports and the relevant fields would successfully remodel the sports village into a comprehensive sports and cultural centre impeccable in any aspect in a short period.
Accompanying him were Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Kyok Sik, Ri Yong Su, Kim Yong Hun, Ryang Chong Song, Ma Won Chun and Ri Jong Mu. -0-
Tourism
U.S. Ex-NBA Star Tours Pyongyang
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- Dennis Rodman, ex-player of the NBA of the U.S., and his party toured the Rungna Dolphinarium on Friday.
The guests expressed deep impressions as they were briefed on the Dolphinarium on picturesque Rungna Islet.
Tourists to DPRK Are Expected to Rise This Year
DPRK Draws Increasing Number of Tourists
Ryugyong Health Complex, People's Open-air Ice Rink, Skate Park Introduced by Chinese Paper
Folk Art Show Opens in Pyongyang
Overseas Koreans
Statement of Spokesman for KPA Supreme Command Favored by Koreans in China
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- The Federation of Korean National Economic Workers in China on March 6 issued a statement in support of the statement of a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army.
Key Resolve, Foal Eagle Censured by Korean in China
Japan's Discrimination against Korean Schools Protested
Key Resolve, Foal Eagle Assailed by Korean in Japan
Japan Accused of Suppressing Chongryon
Koreans in Russia Protest against U.S.-S. Korea War Exercises
Koreans in China Blast U.S.-S. Korea War Exercises against DPRK
Halt to Key Resolve, Foal Eagle Demanded by Organizations of Koreans in Europe
Organization of Koreans in Russia Urges Japan Not to Crack down on Chongryon
U.S. Imperialists and S. Korean Warmongers Warned Not to Act Rashly
No War Drill in Korean Peninsula: Koreans in Germany
North-South Relations
Minju Joson Blasts S. Korean War Maniac's Drumbeats
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Hon, director of the Operation Department of the south Korean puppet Joint Chief of Staff, at a press conference on March 6 threatened that the south "would mete out a strong and resolute punishment even to commanding forces in case of provocation", describing the statement of a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's
Rodong Sinmun Slams S. Korean Warmongers' Extreme War Hysteria
Rodong Sinmun Warns Enemy Not to Repeat History of Disgraceful Fiasco
U.S.-S. Korea Joint War Drills Condemned
DPRK-Targeted War Rehearsals Denounced by S. Korean Organization
Minju Joson Hails Statement Issued by Spokesman for KPA Supreme Command
Rodong Sinmun Calls for Decisively Frustrating U.S. Hostile Actions against DPRK
CPRK Spokesman Slams S. Korean Military for Making Rhetoric Hurting Social System and Dignity of DPRK
Aggressors Will Meet Destruction: CPRK Secretariat
Important Measures to Defend Nation's Sovereignty, Dignity and Country's Supreme Interests: CPRK
KCNA Commentary Warns U.S., S. Korean Warmongers Not to Wage War Drills Targeting DPRK's Headquarters and Social System
Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, went round the sports village in Chongchun Street.
The village was built on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK under the wise leadership of the WPK. It is a comprehensive sports and cultural centre having gymnasiums, sports persons' restaurant, hotels and welfare service facilities. They can host various sports competitions of dozens of events including basketball, volleyball, table tennis, weightlifting and swimming events.
He toured the sports village with a plan to face-lift it as required by the new era because it has positively contributed to the country's development of sports and sports exchange with different countries.
He specified tasks and ways for remodeling the village, going round different gymnasiums, restaurants and hotels.
He recollected with deep emotion the immortal feats President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed by developing the Juche-oriented sports, saying that they took part in the ceremony for the completion of the sports village on Sept. 3, 1988.
The first leg of his tour was the Basketball Gymnasium.
Carefully seeing the floor and auditorium of the gymnasium, he gave instructions for remodeling it.
Seeing the sporting hall and player-waiting room, he stressed the need to take proper measures for improving sound-arresting and heating devices and remodel all the facilities to meet the need of gymnasium.
The next leg of his tour was the Table-Tennis Gymnasium.
He learned in detail about the quality of tables in the gymnasium, stressing the need to provide players with better sports apparatuses.
Saying that the luminous intensity is low, he stressed the need to reinforce lighting to suit games and watching.
He said that the gymnasium should have sufficient facilities for indoor broadcasting.
He dropped in at the Weightlifting Gymnasium.
Going round the sporting hall, auditorium and player-waiting room, he stressed the need to remodel well the gymnasium so as to make weightlifting one of the successful events in the future, too.
It is important to make a good design for updating the gymnasium, he said, talking about the need to consult a lot of worldwide data on sports facilities before working it out.
He looked round the sports persons' restaurant.
Going round eating rooms and kitchen, he learnt in detail about what kind of service players receive there, what kind of food they like best and the issues to be settled to improve the service at the restaurant.
There is nothing to spare for sports persons as they glorify the honor of the country at international games and bring national pride and self-confidence to the people, he noted, indicating ways to improve service to sports persons and took specific measures to do so.
He visited Sosan Hotel.
Looking round a restaurant and several rooms, he underscored the need to remodel the hotel as a modern one capable of providing good service to sports persons and spectators.
He specified tasks to officials concerned.
He said it is an important work for bringing about a radical change in sports of the country to successfully remodel the sports village as required by the era of Songun.
Saying that everything should be calculated carefully to update the village, he listened to views of sports officials.
He called for remodeling and face-lifting the inside and outside of the gymnasiums and providing them with modern sporting apparatuses and thereby glorifying the leadership feats performed by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the sports village.
He specified one by one issues arising in establishing a good system for managing sports facilities after remodeling the sports village and in ensuring the regular operation and management of the gymnasiums and their regular repair.
It is the firm resolution of the WPK to turn the country into a sports power and it is a sacred work for realizing the noble desire of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he said, expressing belief that the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports and the relevant fields would successfully remodel the sports village into a comprehensive sports and cultural centre impeccable in any aspect in a short period.
Accompanying him were Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Kyok Sik, Ri Yong Su, Kim Yong Hun, Ryang Chong Song, Ma Won Chun and Ri Jong Mu. -0-
Tourism
U.S. Ex-NBA Star Tours Pyongyang
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- Dennis Rodman, ex-player of the NBA of the U.S., and his party toured the Rungna Dolphinarium on Friday.
The guests expressed deep impressions as they were briefed on the Dolphinarium on picturesque Rungna Islet.
Tourists to DPRK Are Expected to Rise This Year
DPRK Draws Increasing Number of Tourists
Ryugyong Health Complex, People's Open-air Ice Rink, Skate Park Introduced by Chinese Paper
Folk Art Show Opens in Pyongyang
Overseas Koreans
Statement of Spokesman for KPA Supreme Command Favored by Koreans in China
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- The Federation of Korean National Economic Workers in China on March 6 issued a statement in support of the statement of a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army.
Key Resolve, Foal Eagle Censured by Korean in China
Japan's Discrimination against Korean Schools Protested
Key Resolve, Foal Eagle Assailed by Korean in Japan
Japan Accused of Suppressing Chongryon
Koreans in Russia Protest against U.S.-S. Korea War Exercises
Koreans in China Blast U.S.-S. Korea War Exercises against DPRK
Halt to Key Resolve, Foal Eagle Demanded by Organizations of Koreans in Europe
Organization of Koreans in Russia Urges Japan Not to Crack down on Chongryon
U.S. Imperialists and S. Korean Warmongers Warned Not to Act Rashly
No War Drill in Korean Peninsula: Koreans in Germany
North-South Relations
Minju Joson Blasts S. Korean War Maniac's Drumbeats
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Hon, director of the Operation Department of the south Korean puppet Joint Chief of Staff, at a press conference on March 6 threatened that the south "would mete out a strong and resolute punishment even to commanding forces in case of provocation", describing the statement of a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's
Rodong Sinmun Slams S. Korean Warmongers' Extreme War Hysteria
Rodong Sinmun Warns Enemy Not to Repeat History of Disgraceful Fiasco
U.S.-S. Korea Joint War Drills Condemned
DPRK-Targeted War Rehearsals Denounced by S. Korean Organization
Minju Joson Hails Statement Issued by Spokesman for KPA Supreme Command
Rodong Sinmun Calls for Decisively Frustrating U.S. Hostile Actions against DPRK
CPRK Spokesman Slams S. Korean Military for Making Rhetoric Hurting Social System and Dignity of DPRK
Aggressors Will Meet Destruction: CPRK Secretariat
Important Measures to Defend Nation's Sovereignty, Dignity and Country's Supreme Interests: CPRK
KCNA Commentary Warns U.S., S. Korean Warmongers Not to Wage War Drills Targeting DPRK's Headquarters and Social System
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Korean women´s fruitful life under the care of great men
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The Korean women are significantly greeting the International Women´s Day March 8. The Korean women greeting the international holiday of the working women of the world express infinite thanks to the peerlessly great men who led them to enjoy a fruitful life.
It was the great leader President Kim Il Sung who brought about a radical turn in the destiny of the Korean women. Busy as he was right after liberation, he, with a deep understanding of the women´s role in the development of society and revolution, had the historic Law on Sex Equality promulgated to realize the long-cherished desire of the Korean women.
As a result, the Korean women who had been withering due to the feudal bondage, absence of rights and colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists, greeted the spring of women´s emancipation in the liberated country.
Under the care of the great men, the social status and role of the Korean women have increased generation after generation. The great Kim Jong Il regarded women as a powerful force promoting the revolution and construction and paid deep concern for them to devote all their strength and wisdom to the prosperity of the country. Whenever he met women soldiers during his inspection of the front, he showed all his love and trust to them, saying they are the women revolutionaries who are doing their duty in the defense of the country. When he met women officials and innovators during his field guidance, he encouraged them, saying they were doing their jobs well.
Thanks to his trust, songs of women including "Love Your Wives" and "Wemen Are Flowers" are resounding and the women are enjoying fruitful life in the Songun era.
Ri Chu Ok, Department Director of the Pyongyang City People´s Committee, says:
"Great social benefits were shown to the women in our country thanks to the deep trust and love of the great Kim Jong Il. A wonderful maternity hospital was built and precious stone pieces were set in the floor of the central entrance hall of the hospital. So the Korean women call it palace of love. And honey, different kinds of tonics and nutritive foods are supplied to the women in childbed every year.
Nurseries and kindergartens are run in different parts of the country at state expense and so the wemen are devoting themselves without any worry to the society and collective and to the building of a prosperous nation. Last year the Breast Cancer Research Centre was built at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital which is now rendering great services to the promotion of women´s health."
Under the love and benevolence, the Korean women are performing feats in national defense and socialist construction.
The Korean women are leading an honourable life as revolutionaries devoting their all to the country and people. Among them are deputies to assemblies of different levels, heroines, professors, doctors, and officials of party and government institutions. As they were led by the great men generation after generation, the Korean women could enjoy and are now enjoying an honourable life.
The Korean women are significantly greeting the International Women´s Day March 8. The Korean women greeting the international holiday of the working women of the world express infinite thanks to the peerlessly great men who led them to enjoy a fruitful life.
It was the great leader President Kim Il Sung who brought about a radical turn in the destiny of the Korean women. Busy as he was right after liberation, he, with a deep understanding of the women´s role in the development of society and revolution, had the historic Law on Sex Equality promulgated to realize the long-cherished desire of the Korean women.
As a result, the Korean women who had been withering due to the feudal bondage, absence of rights and colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists, greeted the spring of women´s emancipation in the liberated country.
Under the care of the great men, the social status and role of the Korean women have increased generation after generation. The great Kim Jong Il regarded women as a powerful force promoting the revolution and construction and paid deep concern for them to devote all their strength and wisdom to the prosperity of the country. Whenever he met women soldiers during his inspection of the front, he showed all his love and trust to them, saying they are the women revolutionaries who are doing their duty in the defense of the country. When he met women officials and innovators during his field guidance, he encouraged them, saying they were doing their jobs well.
Thanks to his trust, songs of women including "Love Your Wives" and "Wemen Are Flowers" are resounding and the women are enjoying fruitful life in the Songun era.
Ri Chu Ok, Department Director of the Pyongyang City People´s Committee, says:
"Great social benefits were shown to the women in our country thanks to the deep trust and love of the great Kim Jong Il. A wonderful maternity hospital was built and precious stone pieces were set in the floor of the central entrance hall of the hospital. So the Korean women call it palace of love. And honey, different kinds of tonics and nutritive foods are supplied to the women in childbed every year.
Nurseries and kindergartens are run in different parts of the country at state expense and so the wemen are devoting themselves without any worry to the society and collective and to the building of a prosperous nation. Last year the Breast Cancer Research Centre was built at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital which is now rendering great services to the promotion of women´s health."
Under the love and benevolence, the Korean women are performing feats in national defense and socialist construction.
The Korean women are leading an honourable life as revolutionaries devoting their all to the country and people. Among them are deputies to assemblies of different levels, heroines, professors, doctors, and officials of party and government institutions. As they were led by the great men generation after generation, the Korean women could enjoy and are now enjoying an honourable life.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Juche-based Socialism Is Life and Soul of Koreans
We significantly observed the 20th anniversary of the publication of the famous work of the great leader Kim Jong Il "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" when the mettle of socialist Korea with nuke and satellite is being demonstrated all over the world.
The work published on March 1, 1993 is an important document, which has implanted the superiority and invincibility of the Korean-style socialism centering on the popular masses deep in the minds of the entire army and people.
The Korean-style socialism is the cradle of life and the source of happiness, which has brought the ideal and desire of the people into full bloom.
Kim Jong Il, in the work, exposed the reactionary nature of the imperialists' sophism abusing socialism and clearly expounded what is the essential superiority of the Korean-style socialism centering on the popular masses and the source of invincible strength. The Juche-based socialism ensuring the dignity and rights of the people on the highest level is everlasting. This is the basic idea of the work.
To abandon socialism is precisely death and to defend it is victory; this is the unswerving creed of our people.
The Juche-based socialism is a true society for the people where they are the masters of everything. The essence of the socialist politics is a politics that the popular masses are enforcing as the masters. All the policies of our country are fully approved and supported by the people; they are thoroughly serving the popular masses.
Our socialism is a genuine society for the people where everything serves the people.
Today under our socialist society, everything is directed to promoting the public welfare. The standard in the production of each consumer good is the taste and favor of the people and preference is given to the convenience for them in the construction of every monumental edifice.
Our socialism is the most superior society in which the entire people form a big family and are marching forward towards rosy morrow, helping and pulling each other along.
Collectivism is the lifeline of our socialism. In our country, all the members of the society are firmly united ideologically, intentionally and with warm comradely love. Today the might of our people’s unity is displayed more convincingly in the efforts for building a thriving nation.
Our socialism is a science and truth. Invincible is the Juche-based socialism that has deeply rooted in the minds of the people as their life and soul.
The work published on March 1, 1993 is an important document, which has implanted the superiority and invincibility of the Korean-style socialism centering on the popular masses deep in the minds of the entire army and people.
The Korean-style socialism is the cradle of life and the source of happiness, which has brought the ideal and desire of the people into full bloom.
Kim Jong Il, in the work, exposed the reactionary nature of the imperialists' sophism abusing socialism and clearly expounded what is the essential superiority of the Korean-style socialism centering on the popular masses and the source of invincible strength. The Juche-based socialism ensuring the dignity and rights of the people on the highest level is everlasting. This is the basic idea of the work.
To abandon socialism is precisely death and to defend it is victory; this is the unswerving creed of our people.
The Juche-based socialism is a true society for the people where they are the masters of everything. The essence of the socialist politics is a politics that the popular masses are enforcing as the masters. All the policies of our country are fully approved and supported by the people; they are thoroughly serving the popular masses.
Our socialism is a genuine society for the people where everything serves the people.
Today under our socialist society, everything is directed to promoting the public welfare. The standard in the production of each consumer good is the taste and favor of the people and preference is given to the convenience for them in the construction of every monumental edifice.
Our socialism is the most superior society in which the entire people form a big family and are marching forward towards rosy morrow, helping and pulling each other along.
Collectivism is the lifeline of our socialism. In our country, all the members of the society are firmly united ideologically, intentionally and with warm comradely love. Today the might of our people’s unity is displayed more convincingly in the efforts for building a thriving nation.
Our socialism is a science and truth. Invincible is the Juche-based socialism that has deeply rooted in the minds of the people as their life and soul.
Kim Song Ryong
Kim Jong Un Enjoys Basketball Game of DPRK with American Players
[nggallery id=127] A mixed basketball game of the visiting American basketball players of Harlem Globetrotters and Korean players belonging to the Hwaebul basketball team of Korean University of Physical Education took place at Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium on Thursday.
Among the American players was ex-player of NBA Dennis Rodman.
Sports fans and other Pyongyang citizens packed the gymnasium to watch the game with great interest. Among the audience were foreign diplomatic envoys, representatives of international bodies, military attaches and other foreign guests here with their families.
The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, together with his wife Ri Sol Ju, came to the gymnasium to watch the game.
The players and audience broke into thunderous cheers, greatly excited to see the game together with Kim Jong Un.
Dennis Rodman went up to the auditorium to bow to Kim Jong Un.
Warmly welcoming him, Kim Jong Un let him sit next to him.
Brett Dennis Meister and Jeffrey Raymond Munn also sat near him.
American basketball players first played a demonstration game amid great attention of the audience.
They showed a variety of special basketball skills to be highly acclaimed.
Then a mixed game of DPRK and American players took place amid elated atmosphere.
Divided into red and white teams, the players carried out fierce seesaw battle.
In the first and second rounds, the red team players won 60:47 with long-distance shooting, dunk shot and other skills.
The audience enthusiastically cheered the players as they showed amazing skills.
During breaks, women's brass band presented glamorous rhythmic formations.
National dances by Korean women artistes and a demonstration performance of Taekwon-Do players added to the cheerful mood.
Korean basketball players played the game well with American players of their teams in a coordinated way by fully displaying their techniques. American players made a good job of the game to give good impressions to the audience.
The white team combined man-to-man defence and fast break. The game ended in a draw 110:110.
Kim Jong Un applauded both teams for their nice game.
Dennis Rodman expressed thanks to Kim Jong Un, saying over the mike with excitement that his impressive Pyongyang visit is quite satisfactory and it is a great privilege for him.
He said he was very pleased to mix with Pyongyang citizens, adding that it is regrettable that the relations between the U.S. and the DPRK are not good, but Korean people are his friends and in particular, he considers Marshal Kim Jong Un a close friend.
Kim Jong Un was presented with a uniform of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team as a gift by the American guests.
This evening Kim Jong Un was invited to a dinner hosted by the DPRK Olympic Committee in honour of Rodman and his party.
He met and conversed with them in an amicable atmosphere.
He was pleased they visited Pyongyang to provide young people of the DPRK who are fond of basketball with an opportunity of enjoying the nice game, he said.
He expressed his expectation that such sports exchange would be activated, contributing to promoting mutual understanding between the peoples of the two countries.
He welcomed their visit to the DPRK, hoping that through the visit they would become familiar with the DPRK people, especially with basketball fans.
Rodman said that it was the greatest pleasure for him to meet with Kim Jong Un and his wife for the first time for Americans.
The American basketball star hoped the sports exchange would continue between the two countries.
He wished Kim Jong Un good health, heartily thanking him for warm hospitality.
The dinner proceeded in an amicable atmosphere.
Among the American players was ex-player of NBA Dennis Rodman.
Sports fans and other Pyongyang citizens packed the gymnasium to watch the game with great interest. Among the audience were foreign diplomatic envoys, representatives of international bodies, military attaches and other foreign guests here with their families.
The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, together with his wife Ri Sol Ju, came to the gymnasium to watch the game.
The players and audience broke into thunderous cheers, greatly excited to see the game together with Kim Jong Un.
Dennis Rodman went up to the auditorium to bow to Kim Jong Un.
Warmly welcoming him, Kim Jong Un let him sit next to him.
Brett Dennis Meister and Jeffrey Raymond Munn also sat near him.
American basketball players first played a demonstration game amid great attention of the audience.
They showed a variety of special basketball skills to be highly acclaimed.
Then a mixed game of DPRK and American players took place amid elated atmosphere.
Divided into red and white teams, the players carried out fierce seesaw battle.
In the first and second rounds, the red team players won 60:47 with long-distance shooting, dunk shot and other skills.
The audience enthusiastically cheered the players as they showed amazing skills.
During breaks, women's brass band presented glamorous rhythmic formations.
National dances by Korean women artistes and a demonstration performance of Taekwon-Do players added to the cheerful mood.
Korean basketball players played the game well with American players of their teams in a coordinated way by fully displaying their techniques. American players made a good job of the game to give good impressions to the audience.
The white team combined man-to-man defence and fast break. The game ended in a draw 110:110.
Kim Jong Un applauded both teams for their nice game.
Dennis Rodman expressed thanks to Kim Jong Un, saying over the mike with excitement that his impressive Pyongyang visit is quite satisfactory and it is a great privilege for him.
He said he was very pleased to mix with Pyongyang citizens, adding that it is regrettable that the relations between the U.S. and the DPRK are not good, but Korean people are his friends and in particular, he considers Marshal Kim Jong Un a close friend.
Kim Jong Un was presented with a uniform of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team as a gift by the American guests.
This evening Kim Jong Un was invited to a dinner hosted by the DPRK Olympic Committee in honour of Rodman and his party.
He met and conversed with them in an amicable atmosphere.
He was pleased they visited Pyongyang to provide young people of the DPRK who are fond of basketball with an opportunity of enjoying the nice game, he said.
He expressed his expectation that such sports exchange would be activated, contributing to promoting mutual understanding between the peoples of the two countries.
He welcomed their visit to the DPRK, hoping that through the visit they would become familiar with the DPRK people, especially with basketball fans.
Rodman said that it was the greatest pleasure for him to meet with Kim Jong Un and his wife for the first time for Americans.
The American basketball star hoped the sports exchange would continue between the two countries.
He wished Kim Jong Un good health, heartily thanking him for warm hospitality.
The dinner proceeded in an amicable atmosphere.
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