Pyongyang, April 21, 2002 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Pyongyang Textile Machine Plant yesterday to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the model machine movement. Leader Kim Jong Il worked with workers of the plant from the latter part of April to early May, Juche 50 (1961). In this period he put forward the original idea of taking care of equipment and set a noble example through his energetic activities, thus making a new history of mass management of equipment as required by the socialist system.
A message of thanks to the workers, technicians and officials of the plant from the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was conveyed by Hong Song-nam, Premier of the Cabinet, at the meeting. The message said that the workers and officials of the plant set a good example in managing equipment and lit the torch to start a model machine movement of loyalty for emulating lathe no. 26 under the leadership of the WPK and thus greatly contributed to bringing about a new turn in the management of equipment in all fields and units of the national economy.
Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, said in his report at the meeting that the model machine movement initiated by Kim Jong Il was an immortal exploit performed by him as he led the masses to accelerate socialist construction by bringing about collective innovations in taking care of equipment as masters and steadily strengthen independent national economy and increase production potential and thereby paved a wide avenue for fully demonstrating the advantages of the Korean-style socialist economic system. Thanks to the rapid progress of the model machine movement of loyalty for emulating lathe no. 26 in every field and at every unit of the national economy, the title of the model machine for emulating lathe no.26 went to over 1,150,000 machines, the title of unit of model machine for emulating lathe no. 26 to more than 109,000 workteams and workshops and over 8,800 factories and co-op farms and the title of "factory honored with the prize of model machine for emulating lathe no.26" to over 900 units, a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the movement, the reporter stressed.
Pyongyang, March 16, 2001 (KCNA) -- The Hamhung branch of the academy of sciences situated in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province on the east coast was established in August Juche 49 (1960). It is furnished with a dozen institutes of inorganic, organic and analytical chemistry, chemical materials and vinalon, and several pilot plants for vinalon and experimental apparatuses, a postgraduate course, a foreign languages course and a branch of the university of science. it has a good 10,000 items of experimental and technological devices and many laboratories. It has so far introduced a great many research results into different branches of the national economy, going a long way towards enhancing the Juche character of industry and the people's welfare. The exposure reagent, main disk record, noise-proof recording, rust and cave-water prevention and pantile-reinforcing agent are heavily favoured for the preservation of revolutionary remains, information and cultural relics.
The phosphorous, lime and other fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, high-pressure hoses, stabilizers and ultraviolet absorbents claim an important role in agricultural production. Besides, vinalon fibre, inhygroscopicity sutures, mobilon rayon yarn, plastic goods, stone coal, efficient catalyzer, electrodes and manifold dyes have been adopted in industrial production. Leader Kim Jong Il, with his habitual concern for scientific and technical development, inspected the branch on March 7, Juche 88 (1999) and gave high appreciation for its research achievements. All the researchers here, true to the science-first policy, are eager to contribute themselves to the building of a powerful socialist nation.
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Natural Conservation Union gets its shares in natural conservation of the country. The central committee of the union recently held a plenary meeting and discussed a series of measures related to natural conservation including the issue of carrying out afforestation and forest conservation, river improvement and urban plantation as mass movements this year on a scientific and technological basis. The union, founded in November Juche 48 (1959), makes propaganda, education and dissemination of scientific knowledge among masses so as to carry out natural conservation as a mass movement on a scientific and technological basis. The union published scores of books including "history of conservation of Korean nature and environment" vols. 1, 2 and 3 and "encyclopaedia of natural conservation" and many propaganda materials to raise public concern over natural conservation. It also introduced scientific ways of natural conservation into practice to put natural conservation on a scientific and technological basis. The union has more than 10,000 branch organizations throughout the country, which involve 200,000 officials in the field of natural conservation, scientists, technicians, experts, teachers and working people who are highly concerned about natural conservation. It has 11 societies for forestry, plant, land, water, atmospheric protection, hunting, etc.
The societies consist of doctors and professors authoritative in the work of natural conservation. The societies organize regular scientific and technological consultative meetings and public presentation of current materials. The union regularly collects data on the situation of natural conservation in the country and works out plans, thus helping the party and the government work out and implement policies related to natural conservation. It systematically issues its organ "natural conservation" and reference bulletins "information for officials in field of natural conservation." Admitted into the international union for conservation of nature and natural resources in September Juche 52 (1963),the DPRK Natural Conservation Union has versatile exchanges with natural conservation institutions and organizations and individual figures in more than 50 countries.
Pyongyang, March 3, 2001 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today devotes a full page to an article entitled "great history of socialist solution to land issue" on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the promulgation of the historic agrarian reform law. Recalling that President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il have given most successful solution to the issue of land which was raised as humankind's historical task, the article refers to their wise leadership and outstanding feats.
The promulgation of the law on March 5, Juche 35(1946) was a declaration on putting a definite end to the exploiting land ownership deeply rooted in the Korean countryside, marked a historic event which brought about an epochal turn in the peasants' destiny and a prelude to the new chapter on the solution to the land issue, the article notes, and goes on: The solution to the issue is a historic task to guarantee the popular masses an independent life. Properly solving the issue of land ownership is prerequisite to settling the question of land and, furthermore, the socialist rural question.
Pointing to the shining example set by the DPRK in the issue of land, the article says : Under the wise guidance of Kim Il Sung, the Workers' Party of Korea has successfully solved the land issue by laying down correct guidelines and policies at every stage of the revolutionary development and implementing them to the letter.
Kim Il Sung promulgated the agrarian reform law without delay after the establishment of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea and solved all problems in carrying out the reform in conformity with the peasants' requirements and will. He put up the slogan "land to the tillers " and set forth the policy on confiscating the land of the landlords without compensation and distributing it free to the peasants.
As a result, the land revolution was successfully carried out in a matter of 20 odd days only half a year after the liberation of the country. Kim Il Sung steered the drive for agricultural cooperativization in the direction of uniting the peasants close around the party by closely combining the class line and mass line. The principle of land distribution, the method of enforcing the agrarian reform and the class policy, all enforced at the time of the land reform, were not picked up from any classics but were confirmed by him on the basis of his deep grasp of the situation in rural areas through his tour of those places including taedong county, South Phyongan Province. The policy on agricultural cooperativization was a unique policy laid down by him after the war.
True to the noble intention of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il paid deep attention to the rural question as early as in the 1960s and has since energetically led the drive for its solution.
Kim Jong Il toured various local areas and acquainted himself with the situation there and discussed the orientation and ways of settling the rural question with the president before the publication of the rural theses.
Kim Jong Il published the famous work "position and role of the county in socialist construction" right after the publication of the theses and further enriched and developed the theory on regional base clarified in the rural theses. Noting that a bright prospect was opened in the DPRK for the socialist solution of the land issue, the article says: Kim Jong Il, considering it as a work of eternal value for the complete solution of the land issue and an important work for building a powerful nation to change the appearance of land beyond recognition in the socialist society, comprehensively expounded the idea and line of the Juche-oriented land levelling and rezoning.
The originality of his idea of this land realignment lies in that he proposed this work as an important socio-political work to completely remove the leftover of feudal land ownership and highlight the characteristic feature of the socialist state. His dynamic and clear-sighted leadership lies in that he chose one province as a unit for this gigantic undertaking and has pushed ahead with it in a big way throughout the country.
The great victory achieved in the socialist solution to the land issue fully demonstrated the undisputed superiority of socialism to capitalism, it concludes.
Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- The 21st century will be marked as an era which will witness victory in the struggle for global independence under the guidance of leader Kim Jong Il, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. Referring to its reason, the article says: Kim Jong Il has the most brilliant, ideo-theoretical wisdom. His wisdom is characterized by exceptional insight and ideological and theoretical intelligence. He instantly grasps the essence of any complicated situation others can hardly predict and perfectly solves any difficult, theoretical and practical problem. He made a clear exposition of problems arising in the human cause of independence such as the revolutionary character and essence of the cause of global independence, its objective and features of the independent world. Through his energetic, ideo-theoretical activities he proved the scientific accuracy and truth of the socialist ideology and the inevitability of its victory and thus dealt a telling blow at the imperialists in frantic anti-socialist campaign and imbued the world's revolutionary people with confidence in victory of the cause of independence and the steadfast fighting spirit.
It is Kim Jong Il who clarified in an overall way the national and international character and essence of the popular masses' cause of independence, the key to final victory of this cause and the fundamental ways for it.
His distinguished ideas and theories firmly ensure the present era and the eternal future of humankind as they are perfect in content, depth and scientitic accuracy. He is also a peerlessly great man with the most outstanding leadership ability and method. His leadership which the world witnesses today is the leadership over the cause of humankind that involves all countries and nations aspiring after independence. His noble virtues based on deep human love moves all people irrespective of political view, religious belief, race and nationality. It is the faith and conviction of the progressive humankind that the cause of global independence is sure to win in the 21st century as Kim Jong Il steers the development of it.
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The world admires the single-hearted unity of the people in the DPRK around their leader. The Korean people are sure to reunify the country and build a powerful socialist country on this land with strength of this unity. This is what foreigners said after seeing the military parade and civilian demonstration celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in October 2000.
It is the DPRK's enduring political philosophy to achieve the single-hearted unity of the leader, the party and masses and advance the revolution with the strength of unity. A joint editorial of the newspapers Rodong Sinmun, Josoninmingun and Chongnyonjonwi published on the occasion of the New Year called for successfully implementing the WPK's policy of unity. The strength of unity is guaranteed by the spirit of devotedly safeguarding the leader and it is based on the revolutionary comradeship.
The unity has provided the bonds of kinship between the leader and the popular masses and turned the whole society into a great family. It dates back to the 1920s. The reality of Korea in those days was very grim. The Japanese imperialists' military rule over Korea after their occupation became harsher and those involved in the movement for independence were at odds with each other and their scramble for hegemony led to even bloody armed conflicts. What was more serious was the fact that the Korean communist party was disbanded due to the factional strifes in which it had been engrossed, alienated from the popular masses. President Kim Il Sung, who embarked upon the road of the revolution shouldering the destiny of the country and the nation, achieved national unity and the single-hearted cohesion of the revolutionary ranks despite difficulties and ordeals with his unique ideology, outstanding leadership ability, noble comradeship and obligation and benevolent patriotic policy. This unity has been consolidated throughout the history of the Korean revolution full of twists and turns, bringing about only victories.
A good example of this was that under Kim Il Sung's leadership the Korean people successfully carried out challenging historic tasks during the sacred war for the liberation of the country, in the period of building a new country, during the fatherland liberation war, in the periods of post-war rehabilitation, socialist revolution and construction. The DPRK's single-hearted unity has grown stronger for the past 6 years after the demise of the president. The situation in the DPRK in those years was several times more difficult than that in the post-war period in the 1950s due to several years of natural disasters and the imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle it.
However, the Korean people did not waver but turned out in a drive to defend the fatherland and build socialism in hearty response to leader Kim Jong Il's army-first politics. These years witnessed the creation of the revolutionary spirit of soldiers and the Kanggye spirit and the lighting of a torch at the Songjin Steel Complex and the Rakwon Machine Plant that brought about a great revolutionary upswing throughout the country. The DPRK's single-hearted unity which stood the tempests of revolution in the 20th century is sure to bring about a great change in the 21st century.
Pyongyang, January 16, 2002 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea has pursued strictly independent politics. The joint New Year editorial on Jan. 1 called for upholding the WPK politics of independence in stepping up the socialist advance under the Red Flag in the 21st century. The independent politics calls for solving all the problems in carving out the destiny of a country and nation in the interests of its people and in conformity with the specific conditions of its country according to its view and faith. The WPK has consistently maintained its independent stand in each period and at each stage of the developing revolution since its foundation on October 10, 1945.
It put forward the slogan "Let us live our own way " as its main strategic slogan long time ago and worked out line and policies and established diplomatic relations with other countries guided by its ide a and in concordance with its own political system and revolutionary mode, resolutely reject ing flunkeyism and dogmatism.The WPK, guided by the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung, put forward the single-hearted unity of the leader, the party and the masses as a key link in its efforts for the victory of revolution. it is carrying out the economic construction, pursuant to the line of building an independent national economy, building national defences in accordance with the line of self-reliance and conducting the movement for the country's reunification on the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
The vitality and validity of the independent politics of the WPK were clearly proved by the reality of Korea in the 1990s. In this period, temporary trials and difficulties lay in the way of its economic const ruction and, at the same time, political pressure, economic blockade and military threat of the imperialist allied forces reached a highest pitch. The WPK overcame all of them by carrying through the unique line of the army-first revolution set forth by leader Kim Jong Il. The stronger pressure of the imperialists and the dominationists was, the more firmly the WPK maintained its line and policies in defending the sovereignty of the country and national dignity and openning up a new signal phase in the development of external relations. Thanks to the independent politics of the WPK the whole nation is optimistic about a bright future of a prosperous nation.
Pyongyang, December 29, 2001 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a political essay titled "We will remember 2000 with deep emotion". Seeing out 2000, the last year of the 20th century, the author says the great leader Kim Jong Il is confident that the 21st century will be a century of victory and glory for Korea, recollecting with deep emotion 2000 as a significant year. The essay describes 2000 as a year of victory that startled the world with significant historic events in the DPRK. Noting that 2000 was marked with the meridian of the Korean revolution in the 20th century, the essay goes on: 2000 reviewed the last century of the Korean history that started with the national ruin as a shining victory of socialism and described it as a year that paved the way for building a reunified powerful nation. The world startling victory in 2000 marked a great event in the 20th century which proved that no country can match the DPRK.
The DPRK achieved historic victory in defending socialism and paved a wide avenue for national reunification. An unbroken chain of landmark events unprecedented in the 5,000-year-long history of the nation took place in the diplomatic field of the DPRK. This is clear evidence of the collapse of the imperialists' persistent blockade against the DPRK and a historic event demonstrating the victory of socialism in the DPRK. The hero of the history who has glorified 2000 is none other than Kim Jong Il. He is the great leader produced by the 20th century who has concluded 2000 with shining victory. Standing on the top of Mt. Paektu in the 20th century, he has steered the world, bringing about a great victory in 2000.
The 21st century augurs a rosy future for the Korean people as they are blessed with the leader. Final victory is in store for the Korean revolution led by Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st century, and socialism is sure to triumph. The Korean people led by him will enjoy happiness in the powerful socialist country as its masters generation after generation.
Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) -- The vigorous three-revolution red flag movement has been under way in all parts of the DPRK. At least 600 units across the country have won three-revolution red flags this year, among them over 70 units twice and thrice three-revolution red flags. The three-revolution red flag movement is a mass movement to hasten socialist construction through the three revolutions--ideological, technical and cultural. The movement, which started in Juche 64 (1975), rapidly spread to all units of the country including industrial establishments, co-op farms and scientific, educational and cultural institutions, demonstrating its validity and vitality in practice. The movement has brought about a change in the people's spiritual and moral traits, way of thinking and work style, significant boost in their revolutionary zeal and rapid progress in production and construction. The single-hearted unity of the leader, the party and popular masses grew as strong as a rock and the politico-ideological position of the revolution was consolidated in the course of the "arduous march" and the forced march, in particular.
The movement has produced many heroes and heroines of the times and men of merit who devotedly struggle for society and the collective and given fuller play to the traits of working and living in a revolutionary manner, helping and pulling each other along. Edifices of eternal value and modern industrial establishments appeared in different parts of the country and gigantic nature-harnessing projects including land leveling and rezoning made rapid progress despite manifold difficulties and trials, changing the appearance of the land beyond recognition.
Achievements of world significance have been made in heat engineering, electronics, bio-engineering and other scientific and technological fields. This year alone, thousands of the latest scientific and technological achievements have been introduced to production to contribute to economic growth. The three-revolution red flag movement powerfully encourages the Korean people to turn out in building a powerful nation full of confidence and optimism even under the difficult conditions where everything is in short supply.
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The Korean people achieved a proud victory by emerging from the severest trials in the 90s. Several years of natural disasters and the collapse of the socialist market brought serious consequences to the Korean economy as a whole. Taking a mean advantage of this, the imperialists intensified their moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK in every way. Production decreased in all economic sectors due to lack of power, raw and other materials and equipment, seriously affecting economic development and rendering it impossible to meet people's demand for daily necessaries. Regular food supply was suspended and people had to take food substitute. The situation was several times harder than that right after the three-year war in the 50s during which everything had been destroyed.
In the 90s the Korean people went into a national mourning over the loss of the President Kim Il Sung.
The world worried about the future of Korea. However, the Korean people did not waver but rose like a phoenix. The great leader Kim Jong Il smashed the enemies' military pressure and row over "nuclear inspection" with his stiff stand and defended the dignity of the nation and socialism with his iron will and prodigious grit. He led the "arduous march" and the forced march to a victory by pursuing the unique army-first policy and provided a spring-board from which to build a powerful nation.
Under his wise leadership the Korean people advanced with revolutionary faith and optimism.
The whole country was pervaded with the revolutionary spirit of people's army soldiers who built the Anbyon Youth Power Station during the period of rigorous trials and with the noble spirit of self-reliance and fortitude displayed by the people in Jagang Province. This was a great demonstration of the Korean people's indomitable will and faith. Satellite Kwangmyongsong no. 1 was made and launched by Korean scientists and technicians. This heralded the start of the building of a powerful nation. This also provided the world people with a good opportunity to entertain a new view on the future of Korea.
Urgent scientific and technical problems including the completion of the Juche-based method of producing iron by oxygen blowing have been resolved, the construction of Pyongyang-Nampho 40 odd km-long Youth Hero Motorway and the expansion project of the Thaechon area electricity production base completed and many other monumental edifices built. The country has taken on new looks with unprecedented land development including the construction of September 9 Street, Kumnung tunnel no.2, Chongryu bridge and Kwangmyongsong saltern and the land leveling and rezoning of more than 200,000 hectares in Kangwon, north Phyongan and other provinces. And the international prestige of the country has rapidly risen.
A clear proof of this is that Italy, Australia, Philippines and many other western countries established or resumed diplomatic relations with the DPRK and European countries made a definite promise to establish diplomatic relations with it. Korea has tided over the trials of the 90s and defended the banner of socialism with the might of the single-hearted unity of the leader, the party and the masses. Its future will be brighter in the 21st century.