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	Anti- Bush Music Video DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts Bush's Reckless Remarks Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA Monday as regards the recent vituperation let loose by U.S. President Bush against the supreme headquarters of the DPRK: Bush during his recent election campaign in Wisconsin State again let loose such outbursts as hurling malignant slanders and calumnies at the supreme headquarters of the DPRK. He asserted that it is necessary for the U.S., China, Japan, south Korea and Russia to unite and they are urging "the tyrant" to disarm himself. This can not be construed as remarks made by a politician with sound reason and sensibility to reality but as a base tongue-lashing that can be made only by the stupid. Bush who styles himself president of a super power went the lengths of decrying the supreme headquarters of a sovereign state and saying this or that of it unbecoming for his position. This clearly proves that the DPRK was quite right when it commented that he is a political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality as a human being and a bad guy, much less being a politician. It was none other than Bush who started wars in Iraq and other parts of the world to commit genocide as he pleases. Bush's assumption of office turned a peaceful world into a pandemonium unprecedented in history as it is plagued with a vicious circle of terrorism and war. Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade and his group of such tyrants is a typical gang of political gangsters. It is, therefore, by no means fortuitous that Bush is ridiculed and censured as an idiot, an ignorant, a tyrant and a man-killer not only in the U.S. but in various parts of the world. Bush's recent remarks openly demanding the DPRK to disarm itself clearly indicate that his utterances that the U.S. has no intention to invade north Korea and it would never attack north Korea are nothing but a gimmick as they are hypocrisy and a deceptive artifice to fool the world public. He, in the final analysis, clearly disclosed that it is the real intention of the U.S. to bring down the system in the DPRK by force though everything in the world may change. Bush's assertion that the U.S. is demanding the DPRK disarm itself in unity with other countries participating in the six-party talks once again discloses the real aim sought by the U.S. in the framework of the talks. The meeting of the working group for the six-party talks can not be opened because the U.S. has become more undisguised in pursuing its hostile policy towards the DPRK, backtracking from all agreements and common understanding reached at the third round of the six-party talks. The Bush group has betrayed its true colors once again though it is directly responsible for properly laying a foundation for the talks. This made it quite impossible for the DPRK to go to the talks and deprived it of any elementary justification to sit at the negotiating table with the U.S. The reality today substantially convinces the army and people of the DPRK that the Songun policy of the Workers' Party of Korea is entirely just and heightens their faith and confidence in it. No one can and will replace them in defending the country and the nation and Korean style socialism. The DPRK will increase thousand times its capability for self defense, the people's life and sole, to frustrate the extremely escalating moves of the U.S. to isolate and stifle it.
	International Children's Day Celebrated Pyongyang, June 1 (KCNA) -- A joint friendly gathering of Korean children and women in the city and foreign children and women was held at the Mangyongdae Fun Fair Wednesday to celebrate the 55th International Children's Day. Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, officials concerned, foreign women including wives of diplomatic envoys and women of foreign embassies here and their children, overseas Korean women staying in the homeland joined children and women in the city in the celebration. Members of the delegation of the Women's Committee of the Headquarters of the Movement for Reunified Korean Nation of south Korea visited the celebration. Pak Sun Hui, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, in her congratulatory speech said that she warmly congratulated the Korean children cheerily growing up as pillars of Songun Korea under the warm care of leader Kim Jong Il. She urged all the children not to forget Kim Jong Il's profound loving care even a moment but stoutly grow up to become future heroes and doctors who would glorify the country. Children's rhythmic gymnastics was followed by joyous sports and amusement games between "raccoon dog's" group and "hedgehog's" group. Korean and foreign children enjoyed such various games as two persons' running inside a ring and tug-of-war. Attracting the attention of the participants was a Korean map making game held by women and children in the north and compatriots from the south as it reflected the strong desire of the Koreans to live in happiness in the reunified land. At the end of the games foreign children successfully presented in Korean "Song of General Kim Jong Il", "Old Home in Mt. Paektu" and other songs to the acclaim of the participants. The gathering ended with a grand dance "We Have One Mind" of participants International Children's Day Marked Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Korean children marked the International@Children's Day with various sports and amusement games Wednesday. Every nursery and kindergarten were beautifully decorated with stringed@miniature flags, balloons and flowers. They were animated with children, nurses, kindergarteners and mothers in holiday best. Pyongyangites were delighted to see children's colorful sports and amusement games held in parks, recreation grounds including the Mangyongdae Fun Fair, Mt. Taesong, Rungna Islet and Moran Hill and nurseries and kindergartens in Pyongyang. Children presented rhythmic gymnastics and dances with flowers, ribbons and balloons to the tune of songs "We Offer Greetings to Marshal Kim Jong Il" and "Today Is June 1." Through this they represented their happiness of growing with nothing to desire more under the benevolent care of their father Kim Jong Il, holding President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal sun. The programs at the Kim Jong Suk Creche and other nurseries included three or four years old children's games of winning toys, running out of a ring and crossing a stone bridge, tricycle race and obstacle race. Songs and happy laughter of the children enjoying their holiday could be heard from every nook and corner of the country from the Mubong village at the foot of Mt. Paektu to the villages near the Military Demarcation Line and remote islet villages in the East and West Seas.
	60th Anniversary of April Joint Conference Anniversary of April Joint Conference Marked Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at a plaza of the United Front Tower in the Ssuksom Revolutionary Site on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the historic Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea. Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Vice-Premier Ro Tu Chol, the chairpersons of the friendly parties and other officials concerned, recipients of National Reunification Prize, former unconverted long-term prisoners who are pro-reunification patriotic fighters, officials of national institutions, people from all walks of life in Pyongyang and overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland. Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in a report said that the joint conference held in Pyongyang on the initiative of President Kim Il Sung and under his guidance in April Juche 37 (1948) was a historic grand meeting of the nation for achieving the great national unity under the banner of reunification and patriotism to reject the outsiders' interference and domination and save the destiny of the country and the nation. Recalling that thanks to the outstanding guidance of Kim Il Sung and his energetic activities the joint conference took place in a grand style in Pyongyang from April 19 to 23 in Juche 37 (1948), the reporter continued: The President at the conference made a historic report titled "The Political Situation in North Korea" on April 21. In the report he made a lucid analysis of the political situation prevailing inside and outside the country and clearly indicated tasks facing the Koreans in the north and the south to foil the separatist moves of the U.S. imperialists and set up a unified democratic government. In the wake of the conference the patriotic and democratic forces in the north and the south under his wise leadership courageously turned out in the struggle to shatter the plots to hold a treacherous "separate election" and set up a "separate government," dealing heavy blows at the moves of the U.S. imperialists and their stooges to split the nation and laying a solid foundation for founding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the glorious motherland. It was the imperishable great exploit performed by the President in his efforts to achieve the reunification of the country that he indicated the fundamental principles and ways for it. His Juche-based idea of great national unity and cause of national reunification are being firmly upheld and successfully carried forward and accomplished by General Secretary Kim Jong Il. A particular mention should be made of the fact that Kim Jong Il provided the historic Pyongyang meeting in June Juche 89(2000) and the June 15 joint declaration and made sure that the October 4 declaration, a programme for fully implementing the above-said declaration, was published last year. This constitutes an undying great exploit as it brought about a new phase for the development of the inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity. South Koreans from all walks of life and other Koreans at home and abroad should resolutely foil the anti-reunification forces' acts of denying the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and open up a new phase of inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity through their concerted efforts. The reporter called on all Koreans in the north and the south of Korea and abroad to wage a dynamic anti-U.S. and anti-war struggle to remove the root cause of hindering the national unity and reunification once and for all, resolutely frustrate the south Korean conservative ruling forces' anti-reunification policy and their moves for confrontation with the DPRK and positively support and uphold the great Songun policy.
	Kim Jong Il Signs together with Roh Moo Hyun a Declaration Kim Jong Il Signs together with Roh Moo Hyun Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il together with south Korean President Roh Moo Hyun signed the Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity Thursday. Present there were Kim Yong Il, premier of the Cabinet, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, and Kim Yang Gon, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Also on hand were Minister of Finance and Economy Kwon O Gyu, Minister of Unification Ri Jae Jong, Director of the National Intelligence Service Kim Man Bok and Chief for Unification, Diplomatic and Security Polices of Chongwadae Paek Jong Chon. Kim Jong Il together with Roh Moo Hyun inked the Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity and exchanged its texts. Kim Jong Il toasted with Roh Moo Hyun before having a photograph taken. The declaration is the precious fruition of the meeting of the top leaders of the north and the south and the summit talks as it reflects the desire and will of all Koreans to accomplish the sacred cause of reunification and build a rich and powerful country by the concerted efforts of the nation.
	Kim Jong Il Greets Roh Moo Hyun Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Tuesday greeted south Korean President Roh Moo Hyun on a visit to Pyongyang. The streets of the capital city were wrapped in a festive mood. The meeting of the top leaders of the north and the south will mark an event of weighty significance in boosting the inter-Korean relations to a new higher stage on the basis of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and in the spirit of "By our nation itself" and opening up a new phase for achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula, prosperity common to the nation and national reunification. Pyongyangites from all walks of life lined up at the plaza in front of the April 25 House of Culture where flags of the DPRK were seen fluttering. When Kim Jong Il appeared at the plaza, the crowd broke into thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!" rocking the earth and sky. Present there were Kim Yong Il, premier of the Cabinet, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the SPA Presidium, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, and leading officials of the party, armed forces and power organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions. At noon, a limousine carrying Kim Yong Nam, president of the SPA Presidium, and President Roh Moo Hyun arrived at the plaza after passing through tens of ri-long route amid the welcome of the crowd. Amidst the playing of the welcome music, the crowd welcomed Roh Moo Hyun, waving bouquets. Kim Jong Il exchanged a handshake and greetings with Roh Moo Hyun. Roh Moo Hyun is accompanied by Minister of Finance and Economy Kwon O Gyu, Minister of Science and Technology Kim U Sik, Minister of Unification Ri Jae Jong, Minister of National Defence Kim Jang Su, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Im Sang Gyu, Minister of Health and Welfare Pyon Jae Jin, Director of the National Intelligence Service Kim Man Bok and other suite members and reporters. A function took place at the plaza in welcome of Roh Moo Hyun. Kim Jong Il and Roh Moo Hyun reviewed the guard of honor of the three services of the Korean People's Army. Women workers presented bouquets to Roh Moo Hyun and his wife. Kim Jong Il and Roh Moo Hyun waved back to the enthusiastically welcoming crowd, passing before them.
	Nascent Dissident Movement Inside North Korea A part of the film was made on this spot in Hoeryong: http://wikimapia.org/#y=42440484&x=129743195&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2 The market shown on this tape,is in Hoeryong: http://wikimapia.org/#y=42441456&x=129741953&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2 With shaking hands, the North Korean climbed onto the shoulders of a buddy to reach the underside of the bridge. As another accomplice stood guard, he hung up a banner denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in bright red paint. Then he took out a video camera, disguised to look like a carton of cigarettes, and filmed his handiwork for posterity. Today, the North Korean who says he shot the video on behalf of a group called the Freedom Youth League lives in hiding in Thailand under an assumed name. A small, wiry man in his 30s, he smoked L&M cigarettes nervously as he recalled his daring feat against the totalitarian government. Everything had to be done with the utmost secrecy, he said, to the point that he and his associates communicated by means of notes passed in sacks of potatoes. He didn't dare tell even his wife. "If we were caught, everybody would be dead," said the man, who goes by the name Park Dae Heung. The 33-minute tape has created a sensation in Japan and South Korea, where it has aired repeatedly. South Korean human rights advocates say it is the first evidence of a nascent dissident movement inside North Korea. Besides the banner hung on the bridge, the video shows an anti-government banner in a factory restroom and has one particularly eye-catching scene in which the camera pans over an official photograph of Kim Jong Il defaced with graffiti as a man denounces him off-camera. The video is one of a series of samizdat videos that provide a rare glimpse of life in what may be the most secretive country in the world. Since the beginning of this year, videos have emerged from inside North Korea of a public execution, children begging at a train station and humanitarian aid from the United Nations being sold at a market. Among North Korea watchers, there is some debate about whether the filmmakers were motivated mainly by their opposition to the government or by greed. Many of the videos have been sold to Japanese television stations, which have paid as much as $200,000 for choice footage, according to some accounts. That people are able to make such videos challenges many of the assumptions about Kim's grip on power. The videos do not necessarily mean the government is on the verge of collapse — the majority opinion among analysts is that it is not — but their existence shows that social control is fraying at the edges. "Nobody would have dared to do such a thing three or four years ago," said Hitoshi Takase, president of Japan Independent News Net, a Tokyo-based company that distributed footage in March of an apparent public execution in North Korea. The footage of the anti-government banners was smuggled out of North Korea across the Chinese border by activists working with the Seoul-based Citizens Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees. It has been widely shown on television and Internet sites, including http://www.dailynk.com/file/2005/01/19/DNKR00001267.wmv . Do Hee Yun, secretary-general of the group, says it is the first solid evidence of nascent dissident activity within North Korea. "Of course, the filmmakers have made some money with these videos, but I don't think that is their primary motivation," said Do, who introduced a Los Angeles Times reporter to Park, the defector, for his first interview with the Western press. "They believe their society should change, and they want to bring the world's attention to the human rights situation." Do said Japanese television paid his organization $15,000 for the video and that it tried to pass on all of the money to Park's group, but that after money brokers took their cut, only $3,000 made it into North Korea. Park, who fled North Korea early this year, said he worked as a driver for a state-owned company in Hoeryong, a city near the Chinese border. About five years ago, he was approached by a well-connected trader from the capital, Pyongyang, with a business proposition. The trader asked him to use his car to distribute pirated DVDs and videos that were being smuggled in from China. Foreign films are banned by the government, which considers them cultural imperialism. But then his Pyongyang contact asked Park to start shooting videos to send abroad. Park said he was eager to oblige. Even though he was a member of the ruling Korean Workers' Party, and relatively privileged, he said he was disenchanted. "I saw that everybody was starving, and the state wasn't doing anything but building mausoleums to Kim Il Sung" — the late founder of North Korea and father of Kim Jong Il — "and villas for Kim Jong Il." Moreover, Park had watched many of the DVDs he was distributing, and from his glimpses of life abroad, at least as depicted by Hollywood, he knew that North Korea badly lagged. Park started filming in 2003 with a small camera that was smuggled across the Chinese border. He concealed it in a shoulder bag or an empty cigarette carton, pointing the lens through a small hole. He recruited several other people he knew in Hoeryong to help. With his hidden camera, he shot footage of wanted posters, of women crouching in the dirt at a dismal black market and of people waiting to hitch rides. Last fall, he painted three anti-government banners in his apartment and with two other people put them up. The posters were only up for a few hours. But the filmmakers wanted the footage to serve as a gesture of their resistance to the government because it is impossible to hold a demonstration or speak out openly. "The camera is our weapon," Park said. "We wanted to break the myth that North Korea is an impenetrable fortress.... Our goal is to bring down the regime by spreading knowledge to the outside world." Their posters were all signed in the name of the Freedom Youth League, an appellation chosen to embody hopes for the next generation, and detailed their accusations against Kim Jong Il. They blamed him for the country's poverty and for stifling reforms. They accused him of arresting reformers and causing the death of his father, who they claimed died of grief because of the country's deterioration. Park said his Pyongyang boss told him that the Freedom Youth League had cells in other cities — Pyongyang, Chongjin, Kaesong, Musan and Nampo — but that for security reasons he never met anyone other than the few he was working with in Hoeryong. Much of Park's account can be confirmed. A Japanese broadcaster, Asahi Television, which also interviewed Park, did a sound analysis and concluded that he was the man whose voice is heard in the footage, program director Hiromichi Shizume said. Numerous defectors who have seen the footage say that several scenes, particularly the one at the bridge, were clearly shot in Hoeryong. But they, along with North Korea analysts, expressed doubts about whether the Freedom Youth League was a genuine dissident movement or just a few guys trying to make a quick buck. "I don't believe there are conditions in North Korea for any kind of real opposition movement. These people are out for money," said journalist Chu Sung Ha, a defector in Seoul who covers North Korea. North Korea permits only state-owned publications or broadcasting; even the slightest criticism of Kim Jong Il can result in execution or deportation to a prison camp. Under its law, three generations of a family can be punished for the crimes of one member. Regardless of the motives, there is little doubt that a growing number of North Koreans have found new purpose as amateur filmmakers trying to document their country for foreign TV. In many cases, the video cameras have been supplied by activists and defectors living in South Korea. In March, Japan's NTV aired the most dramatic footage, purportedly of a firing squad executing three men in Hoeryong for helping North Koreans escape across the river to China. It was apparently filmed by a North Korean who was among the hundreds of spectators. The first underground footage from North Korea appeared in 1998, when the Japan-based Rescue the North Koreans group gave a camera to a North Korean refugee in China and sent him back across the border. He captured harrowing images of people lying near death in the streets and begging children that helped to convince the world that refugee accounts of a famine ravaging the country were true. "It was almost impossible to film inside North Korea then, because nobody owned a camera," said Lee Young Hwa, the founder of the Rescue organization. "Now, it has gotten much easier and you're seeing many videos. There are some rich people in North Korea who own video cameras. You don't immediately fall under suspicion just because you have a camera." The videos are stored on slim memory cards that are easy to smuggle into China. From there, they usually end up in Japan. "All the videos have been shot with the cooperation of South Koreans, but they go to Japan. The reason is that the South Korean government is reluctant to criticize North Korea," Takase, the TV executive, said. "In Japan, the demand for North Korean videos is very high, as are the prices." The most coveted footage is that from inside the political prison camps, but nobody has succeeded in penetrating what is widely considered a gulag holding up to 200,000 people. There have, however, been shots of ordinary prisoners. When Park Dae Heung was told that the video of the posters had been aired in Japan and South Korea, his career as an underground filmmaker came to an end. Fearful that his voice could be identified reading out the denunciation of Kim Jong Il, Park fled across the Tumen River into China. He has been in hiding ever since and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. or South Korea.
	MARSAL JOSIP BROZ TITO: Welcome to Korea http://forum.radza.com/ RETRO FORUM smrt fašizmu - sloboda narodu Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, May 7, 1892 [May 25th according to official birth certificate] -- May 4, 1980) was the leader of the Second Yugoslavia, which lasted from 1943 until 1991. Tito is best known for organizing the anti-fascist resistance movement known as the Yugoslav Partisans, founding Cominform,[1] along with defying Soviet influence (see Titoism), and founding and promoting the Non-Aligned Movement. He died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana. Josip Broz was born in Kumrovec, Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in an area called Zagorje. He was the seventh child of Franjo and Marija Broz. His father, Franjo Broz, was a Croat, while his mother Marija (born Javeršek) was a Slovenian. After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather in Podsreda, he entered the primary school in Kumrovec, and failed the second grade. He left school in 1905. In 1907, moving out of the rural environment, Broz started working as a machinist's apprentice in Sisak. There, he became aware of the labor movement and celebrated May 1 - Labour Day for the first time. In 1910, he joined the union of metallurgy workers and at the same time the Social-Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia. Between 1911 and 1913, Broz worked for shorter periods in Kamnik (Slovenia), Cenkovo (Bohemia), Munich and Mannheim (Germany), where he worked for Benz automobile factory; he then went to Wiener Neustadt, Austria, where he worked at Daimler as a test driver. On April 6, 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces attacked Yugoslavia. The Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade and other major Yugoslav cities. On April 17, representatives of Yugoslavia's various regions signed an armistice with Germany at Belgrade, ending eleven days of resistance against the invading German Wehrmacht. The Independent State of Croatia was established as a Nazi puppet-state, ruled by the Ustaša, a militant wing of the Croatian Party of Rights, which split off from it in 1929, went into exile in Italy, and was therefore limited in its activities until 1941. German troops occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as part of Serbia and Slovenia, while other parts of the country were occupied by Bulgaria, Hungary and Italy. Tito did not initially respond to Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia on Stalin's orders because the Soviet leaders's foreign affairs manager, Molotov, had signed the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact [source needed]. After Germany attacked the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941), Tito called (July 4, 1941) a Central committee meeting, was named Military Commander and issued a call to arms and communist revolution. Tito Josip Broz Partizan Jugoslavija Yugoslavia SFRJ communism Croatia Hrvatska YU chetniks cetniks cetnici komadant sava neretva draza mihajlovic ustasa ustase ante pavelic milan nedic racunajte na nas avnoj bratstvo i jedinstvo jajce revolucija stalin hitler nazi ivo lola ribar KOREA KOREJA COREA SEOUL SEUL NORTH south
	"HEADLINES" Ms. Judith Alegre Hernandez (making a noise on South Korean's arena.) SEE HER SPEAK AND FINALLY FIND OUT THE TRUTH AND THE BIG DIFFERENCE FROM WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ALREADY ABOUT HER IN THE OTHER MEDIAS... A Filipina or pinay is making history in South Korea for being a candidate outside Korean lineage in the National Assembly similar to being a Congressman history in the Philippines. Being the first foreign born candidate, Judith Hernandez from Cavite is making a noise on South Korean's arena. Ms. Judith has run under the Republic of Korea Party last election April 09, 2008. It is a new party established by former presidential candidate Mr. Kook-Hyun Moon. Ms. Judtith arrived in South Korea when she got married more than 16 years ago. As a Korean Citizen, she became active on her community in Seongnam by making programs for foreign spouses and their children and by improving the welfare of migrants workers.
	Ms. Judith Alegre Hernandez PART1 Actual Interview SEE HER SPEAK AND FINALLY FIND OUT THE TRUTH AND THE BIG DIFFERENCE FROM WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ALREADY ABOUT HER IN THE OTHER MEDIAS... A Filipina or pinay is making history in South Korea for being a candidate outside Korean lineage in the National Assembly similar to being a Congressman history in the Philippines. Being the first foreign born candidate, Judith Hernandez from Cavite is making a noise on South Korean's arena. Ms. Judith has run under the Republic of Korea Party last election April 09, 2008. It is a new party established by former presidential candidate Mr. Kook-Hyun Moon. Ms. Judtith arrived in South Korea when she got married more than 16 years ago. As a Korean Citizen, she became active on her community in Seongnam by making programs for foreign spouses and their children and by improving the welfare of migrants workers.
	Election of Deputies to Local Power Bodies in DPRK Results of Election of Deputies to Local Power Bodies Released Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- The Central Election Guidance Committee for the Election of Deputies to the Provincial (Municipality Directly under Central Authority), City (District) and County People's Assemblies of the DPRK issued a report on the results of the election on July 30. The election was successfully carried out at all constituencies across the country in accordance with the law on election of deputies to people's assemblies at all levels on July 29, according to the report. The report says: According to the information available from the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county election committees, 99.82 percent of all the voters registered on the list of voters participated in voting and 100 percent of them voted for the candidates for deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies registered at all the constituencies. Those who are staying in foreign countries or those who are working in seas far away from the land could not take part in the election. 27,390 officials, workers, farmers and intellectuals were elected deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies. The election of deputies to the local power bodies marked an important occasion in reinforcing as firm as a rock the revolutionary government of the DPRK led by Kim Jong Il and further increasing the function and role of the people's power by electing persons of ability, who have devotedly worked for the Party and the leader, the country and the people, to the local power bodies. Election of Deputies to Local Power Bodies Begins in DPRK Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The election of the deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies of the DPRK began at 09:00 Sunday across the country simultaneously. Kim Jong Il Participates in Election of Deputies to Local People's Assemblies Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il Sunday visited the Chusang Co-op Farm in Hamju County, South Hamgyong Province to participate in the election of deputies to the provincial, city and county people's assemblies of the DPRK. He received ballots from the chairman of Sub-Constituency No. 36 of Constituency No. 85 for election of deputies to the South Hamgyong Provincial People's Assembly and cast them for Choe Sun Hui, sub-work team head of the Sangjung Co-op Farm of Hamju County, who is candidate for deputy to the South Hamgyong Provincial People's Assembly and Ho Kum Suk, chairperson of the Management Board of the Chusang Co-op Farm of the County, who is candidate for deputy to the Hamju County People's Assembly. Then he conversed with the candidates. After voting, he acquainted himself with the farm work there and the rural construction. He highly appreciated the achievements made by the party members and other working people of the farm, expressing satisfaction over the fact that they have built the village into a socialist fairyland and brought about a signal boost in the agricultural production through a dynamic drive to fully implement the tasks given by President Kim Il Sung while visiting the farm in March, 1959. He expressed expectation and belief that the agricultural workers of the farm would bring about a new surge in turning out agricultural products by fully displaying patriotic devotion, fully aware of their responsibility for the agricultural production. He was accompanied by Secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK Kim Ki Nam and Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Pak Nam Gi. Election of Deputies to Local Power Bodies Goes on Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The election of deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies of the DPRK is going on. According to the information available from the Central Election Guidance Committee, 80.05 percent of registered voters took part in the election as of 12:00. The election goes on. Party and State Officials Take Part in Election of Deputies to Local Power Bodies Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- Party and state officials of the DPRK Sunday took part in the election of deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies of the DPRK at different polls together with other voters. They cast ballots for candidates for deputies to the local power bodies. They met voters and expressed the belief that they would perform their duties as citizens of the DPRK in the all-out advance for the Songun revolution to accomplish the cause of building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation in all fields. All Voters Participate in Election of Deputies to Local Power Bodies Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The election of the deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies of the DPRK is going on with success. According to the information available from the Central Election Guidance Committee, all the registered voters except those who are staying in foreign countries or those who are working in seas far away from the land took part in the election as of 18:00 Sunday. Those who were not able to go to the polls due to old age, illness, etc. cast ballots into mobile ballot boxes. All the voters across the country took part in the election with ardent revolutionary enthusiasm to fully demonstrate once again the might of the people's government signally strengthened under the Songun leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea and the invincible spirit of socialist Korea dynamically advancing toward a great prosperous powerful nation under the banner of Songun. Foreigners and Overseas Koreans Visit Polls Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- Diplomatic envoys of Britain, the Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden and foreign guests including delegations of the Juche idea study groups on a visit to the DPRK visited polling stations in Pyongyang to elect deputies to city and district people's assemblies on Sunday. They visited Sub-Constituency No. 134 of Constituency No. 60 and Sub-Constituency No. 97 of Constituency No. 92. They went round the polls there and met and conversed with the candidates for deputies. Meanwhile, overseas Koreans staying in the socialist homeland visited Sub-Constituency No. 5 of Constituency No. 140 in Pyongyang on the same day.
	Banquet Given for Nong Duc Manh Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea hosted a banquet at the Mokran House Tuesday in honor of Nong Duc Manh, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam on a visit to the DPRK. Present there on invitation together with Nong Duc Manh were Pham Gia Khiem, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the Communist Party of Vietnam who is also deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and Tran Van Hang, chairman of the Commission for External Affairs of the Party Central Committee, Ngo Van Du, chief of the General Office of the Party Central Committee, and Hoang Tuan Anh, minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, who are members of the Party Central Committee, Le Van Cu, Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK, and other suite members and members of the Vietnamese embassy here. On hand were Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Pak Nam Gi and Ri Kwang Ho, department directors of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Ui Chun, foreign minister, Kang Nung Su, minister of Culture, Ma Chol Su, DPRK ambassador to Vietnam, and leading officials of party, armed forces and power organs, ministries and national institutions. Kim Yong Nam made a speech at the banquet. He said that the Vietnamese people are now steadily advancing socialism as intended by President Ho Chi Minh despite the intensified moves of the imperialists and reactionaries and striving to enhance the influence and position of the country in the international arena under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam headed by Secretary General Nong Duc Manh. The WPK and the Korean people follow this with deep attention and sincerely wish the Vietnamese people greater success in the work to implement the decision of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and realize the industrialization and modernization of the country at an early date, he noted. It is the common aspiration of the two peoples at present to develop the friendly relations between the two parties and two countries based on the particular comradely bonds of the revolutionary forerunners as required by the new century, he said, expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two parties and two countries would grow stronger thanks to their joint efforts. Nong Duc Manh spoke next. He expressed the sincere thanks of the Vietnamese people to the fraternal Korean party, government and people for supporting and encouraging the struggle for the independence, freedom and reunification of the country in the past period and the present cause of building and defending Vietnam, the socialist country. We always set store by the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two parties, two countries and two peoples of Vietnam and the DPRK personally provided by President Ho Chi Minh and President Kim Il Sung and give assurances that we will make every effort to steadily consolidate and develop them, he noted, and went on: Vietnam has consistently supported the desire of the Korean people for the peaceful reunification of the country and hails the recent progress made at the six-party talks and the results of the second meeting of the top leaders of the north and the south of Korea. And it is ready to positively contribute to promoting peace, stability and cooperation on the Korean Peninsula and supports the expansion of cooperation between the DPRK and ASEAN and its member nations. We highly appreciate the results of the current high-level talks between Vietnam and the DPRK and believe that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two parties, two countries and two peoples of Vietnam and the DPRK would enter into a new phase of stable, realistic and effective development thanks to the efforts of both sides. The banquet took place in a friendly atmosphere. An art performance was given by the State Merited Chorus of the Korean People's Army at the banquet.
	Japanese Rescue Team Arrives in China CHEN: After days of refusing foreign relief workers, China has accepted offers from four countries to send in rescue teams. Japan's emergency rescue team headed for China yesterday as the first foreign team to help out with the aftermath of China's massive earthquake. STORY: The team's departure came immediately after the Chinese Communist Party announced they have accepted Japan's offer of sending trained earthquake rescue specialists. The first group consisting of 30 rescue professionals and paramedics arrived in Chengdu this morning. They are taking state-of-the-art rescue equipment, including radars that can detect people buried under rubble. Tokyo plans to dispatch another 30 rescuers today, and then a team of 20 medics to the worst-hit areas. [Osamu Hara, Head of Rescue Squad]: "Of many foreign countries, Japan was chosen to be the first country to send a rescue team to China. We hope to meet their expectations." No military personnel is accompanying the rescue teams. The devastating earthquake has killed nearly 20,000 and left tens of thousands of others missing. The Chinese Communist party has also accepted help from Russia, South Korea and Singapore but has refused specialist help from many other countries. The late arrival of specialist help greatly reduces the chance of survival for many trapped victims.