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LEADING ARTICLE 2017 witnesses great events in DPRK’s history Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, news instilled great optimism delivering his New Year Address for the future in the people with on the first morning of the year greater impact. 2017, recalled that all the people The stirring year of 2017 used to sing the song We Are the went by accompanied by lots Happiest in the World, feeling of auspicious events that filled optimistic about the future the hearts of the Koreans with with confidence in President extraordinary pride and self- Kim Il Sung and Chairman confidence. Kim Jong Il, and pledged to Ryomyong Street was work with devotion to ensure inaugurated on the threshold that the past era does not remain of the 105th anniversary of the as a moment in history but is birth (April 15) of President re-presented in the present era Kim Il Sung and the Sepho and to become a truly faithful area livestock farming base was servant of the Korean people who completed in October. loyally supports them with a pure The Koreans finished the street conscience. in a matter of nine months by The year 2017 in the DPRK giving full play to the might of began with the solemn vow he self-reliance and self-development made to his country and people in the face of the imperialists’ and ended with his translating it vicious sanctions and moves to into practice. isolate and stifle the DPRK. It is a grand monument in the era of the Putting pledge into Workers’ Party epitomizing the reality highest quality of civilization and PHOTOS BY KCNA a symbol of great leap forward The 105th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung’s birth was highlighted with a military and The Koreans attentively listened of great Kim Jong Un’s Korea. civilian parade in on April 15 last year. to the pledge the Supreme Leader And the world’s leading animal and nuclear buildup, and the ICBM Hwasong 14 on July 4, new models of tractors and made to his country and people husbandry base built in less than drill of Hwasong artillery units Independence Day of the US. lorries at Kim Il Sung Square with deep emotion. five years after the start is another of the Strategic Force of the They proceeded to conduct the in Pyongyang. Before the excitement miracle which was wrought by Korean People’s Army to launch test-fire of another Hwasong 14 Chollima-804 tractors, Sungni subsided, they saw through the Korean service members and ballistic rockets in February and and the test of hydrogen bomb for lorries and Chungsong-122 TV the beaming image of their people who are firmly united March last year. He was greatly ICBM, thereby demonstrating tractors moved forward through leader inspecting the Pyongyang around their leader and which satisfied with the birth of another the inexhaustible strength of the square as if doing a march- Bag Factory. Seeing various would be specially etched in the powerful means of nuclear strike socialist Korea. And the complete past. Viewers were so excited kinds of bags being mass- history of the country. of the DPRK that added more to success in the test-fire of ICBM they dubbed the thrilling scene produced at the factory, he said Through the world-startling its might. After seeing the static Hwasong 15 capable of loading a “parade of self-reliance”. his heart was filled with pride as leaps and miraculous events, the firing test of high-thrust engine super-heavy nuclear warhead in The launch ceremony of the he had done another worthwhile Korean people visualized their developed by the Academy of November declared to the whole invaluable vehicles the Koreans thing, although it was not an rosier future when they would Defence Sciences, he said that the world the accomplishment of the created in the Mallima era by easy job to produce quality bags continue to sing the song We day when a great leap forward was historic cause of the perfection overcoming all difficulties as well as uniforms, notebooks Are the Happiest in the World. made in the development of the of the national nuclear forces and on the strength of firm unity and textbooks by domestic rocket industry was an eternally the cause of building a rocket around their leader was a parade efforts and to provide children Guarantee unforgettable day, a historic day power. of victors who advance proudly with them. towards a socialist power The creation of happiness is that can be termed the “March 18 The days when the DPRK He proceeded to provide backed up by the great military not everything. You should be revolution”. came to have great might which on-the-spot guidance to the further enhanced its strategic capability with the nuclear able to defend the happiness That day was another stirring Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk status were the days when it forces as the backbone. you have secured. Only then day for the Korean service Silk Mill to inspect the newly personnel and people who were provided itself with a sure 2017 was a year of heroic established quilt production can you be proud of yourself. out in the building of a powerful military guarantee for achieving struggle and great victory when line from which quilts cascaded It is the truth taught by the socialist country. the cause of building a powerful the Korean people set up an down incessantly and the bloodshed and refugee crisis Much upset by the Koreans’ socialist nation. indestructible milestone in the newly built workers’ hostel, caused by the imperialists’ high- history of building a powerful handedness and arbitrariness dynamic advance, the US and its the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory Confidence socialist country with the which was turned into a model around the world. minions made every attempt to That is why Kim Jong Un check the advance of the DPRK as In December last year when spirit of self-reliance and self- and standard of the country’s development as the dynamic kimchi makers and other oversaw the test-fire of the they adopted a UN resolution on the DPRK was still brimming force, and a momentous year industrial establishments to ground-to-ground intermediate- unprecedentedly harsh sanctions with joy and excitement over make sure that they turned out range strategic ballistic missile against the country. the “great event of November” that promised them a more large quantities of products badly Pukkuksong 2, the precious fruition To the desperate moves of that would be etched in the prosperous future. needed for the improvement of the line of simultaneously the hostile forces, the Koreans national history, there took of the people’s livelihood. The promoting economic construction responded with the test-fire of place a launch ceremony for By Ri Sung Ik PT

New models of tractors and lorries line up in Kim Il Sung Square to leave A herd of goats graze on the grassland at the Sepho area animal husbandry base. for their destinations. Sat, January 27, Juche 107(2018) Page 3 MEETING Joint meeting calls for making a breakthrough in reunification movement

Representatives of the DPRK Kim Yong Dae, chairman of government, political parties the Central Committee of the and organizations got together Korean Social Democratic at the People’s Palace of Culture Party, and Pak Chol Min, in Pyongyang on January 24 to first secretary of the Central discuss the way to carry out the Committee of the Kimilsungist- tasks of national reunification Kimjongilist Youth League. put forward by Supreme Leader They said that the Supreme Kim Jong Un in his New Year Leader put forth important tasks Address. to be tackled for improving The participants included inter-Korean relations and senior government and making a breakthrough for Party officials Yang Hyong independent reunification in Sop, Kim Yong Chol, Ro this significant year both for the Tu Chol and the leader of a north and south. friendly party, and officials Referring to the need to from social organizations, create a peaceful environment the North Committee for on the Korean peninsula this the Implementation of the year, they noted that the south June 15 Joint Declaration, Korean authorities should Pan-National Alliance for permanently discontinue the KCNA Korea’s Reunification, North joint war exercises with the US A joint meeting of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations takes place at the Headquarters of the Pan- and refrain from any acts of People’s Palace of Culture. National Alliance of Youth bringing in nuclear problems arising in the north campaign for defending peace that marks the 70th anniversary and Students for Korea’s armaments and aggressive and south by national effort. against war in order to frustrate of the historic joint conference. Reunification and National forces from the US, and all The meeting adopted an the US reckless nuclear war Calling for foiling the moves Reconciliation Council. the Koreans should launch a appeal to all the Koreans at provocation. of the anti-reunification forces The joint meeting discussed courageous campaign against home and abroad. The north and south need to at home and abroad and opening the agenda item “On the the DPRK-targeted war moves The appeal called on all the promote bilateral contact, travel, a new phase for reunification assignments of the DPRK of bellicose forces at home and Koreans to turn out like one in a cooperation and exchange on under the banner of national government, political parties and abroad holding up the slogans nationwide effort for improving a broad scale and establish a independence, the banner of By organizations to carry out the of Korean nation first, national inter-Korean relations and climate favourable for national Our Nation Itself, it said that all tasks of national reunification independence and peace against making a breakthrough for reconciliation and reunification, the fellow countrymen should set forth by Supreme Leader war to suit the prestige of reunification, true it said, adding that they should subordinate and concentrate Kim Jong Un in his New Year nation which was changed along to the Supreme Leader’s noble demonstrate to the world the will everything on the great cause of Address”. with the DPRK’s perfection of intention of loving the country of the Korean nation to reunify national reunification, the cause Yang Hyong Sop, vice- the national nuclear forces. and people. the country independently by of the whole nation, from the president of the Presidium They stressed the need to give Underlining the need to holding fast to and carrying on standpoint of giving priority to of the DPRK Supreme impetus to improving north- conduct brisk activities so as to the spirit of the joint conference the nation and national unity and People’s Assembly, made a south relations and hot up the ease the acute military tension of representatives of political launch a vigorous campaign of keynote speech, followed by atmosphere for reunification between the north and south and parties and public organizations justice to destroy the obstructive other speakers including Ri by promoting active contact create a peaceful environment in north and south Korea and moves of the anti-reunification Son Gwon, chairman of the and travel between the north on the Korean peninsula, it holding joint national events forces at home and abroad. Committee for the Peaceful and south and keep a firm stand said that the whole Korean with splendour on different Reunification of the Country, and viewpoint to solve all the nation should rise up in the occasions in this significant year Compiled from KCNA

ECONOMY transport organization and route maintenance efficiently. control scientific and rational The Hamhung Railway and making the most of the Bureau manages and operates Economic sectors see existing capacity. carriages properly and arranges The Ministry of Railways has timetables in good time to send established a well-organized more materials faster to the sites robust growth system of guidance at every of major construction projects. railway bureau to give unified The Kaechon, Chongjin and Different economic sectors electricity as of January 19. In spite of unfavourable weather guidance to all processes from Rason railway bureaus have are registering good results. The Tukjang Area Coal- conditions, builders are speeding train composition to departure reduced the time of checking, Hydropower stations are mining Complex which has up the erection of structures by and arrival. repairing and maintaining stoking the flames of increased secured sufficient coalfields by applying advanced construction The West Pyongyang passenger and freight trains and power generation. giving precedence to tunnelling methods, while reducing the Locomotive Corps under the carried on on-route check-up of The Suphung Power Station is concentrating manpower on time of the assembly and Pyongyang Railway Bureau engines with sufficient tools, has introduced efficient mining to turn out more coal manufacturing of equipment by runs trains at full capacity by thereby ensuring accident-free operational methods to produce than planned every day. conceiving rational methods. introducing rational driving increased transport. more electricity with less water Many other coal mines The rail transport sector is methods in keeping with railway and stepped up preparations for including the Tokchon Area increasing transport by making conditions, while conducting on- By Choe Kwang Jin PT the overhaul of equipment as C o a l - m i n i n g part of the efforts for increased Complex, Pukchang production. Area Youth Coal- In the wake of increasing mining Complex the efficiency of turbines, the and Sunchon Area Ryesonggang Power Station Youth Coal-mining is working on the technical Complex are also upgrading of all generating registering better facilities so as to maximize their production results operating rate. than the same period The Wonsan Army-People of last year. Power Station overfulfilled its The chemical monthly power production plan industry sector is by 25 percent as of January pressing ahead with 17 and Sodusu Power Station the project for the Unit 3 generated hundreds of establishment of the PAK CHANG BOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES thousands of kWh of more C1 chemical industry. The Pyongyang Railway Bureau takes the lead in freight transport. Page 4 Sat, January 27, Juche 107(2018)

STEEL INDUSTRY URBAN PLANNING Steel works updates Design office plays part production processes in urban construction The Urban Planning Institute up designs related to the The Hwanghae Iron and Steel in Rason, which is located in plan for the disposition Complex is increasing production the northeastern part of Korea, of buildings in downtown by scientifically running all provides designs needed to Rason in accordance with the the processes of the Juche iron develop the Rason Economic city’s master plan for urban production by oxygen-blast. and Trade Zone into a world- construction and planning. The complex monitors dozens level special economic belt It undertakes informatization of processes in real time from and improve the people’s of the construction of feeding of raw materials to livelihood in the city. administrative districts in tapping by improving the IT It maintains the principles Rason and topographical, land level of production control. In of paying primary attention and other surveys in the zone. particular, it supplies enough to convenience, aesthetics It also works out various raw materials and fuel needed for and infrastructure in urban kinds of architectural, normal operation of the oxygen- planning, creating structures landscaping and construction blast furnace while coordinating embodying the national designs in the forms of joint processes to ensure increased character and originality, and venture and collaboration with production. preserving the characteristics local and foreign partners. The control room fixes the of the city on the basis of To improve the scientific mixing ratio of raw materials to applying plastic arts and and IT level of designs, it suit the grades of concentrated artistic technique to structures developed and introduced ores and scientifically operates on the highest level. many IT-based design the overall production processes “In the past 20-odd years products such as the urban including the state of oxygen and since its inauguration, our planning design support compressed air, temperatures in institute designed over system Kusang based on the the furnace, ventilation and dust 200 public buildings, geographical information collection systems. welfare service facilities system technology, thereby Scientists and technicians of the and dwellings for the winning the IT model complex have refashioned the old city including the Rason unit prize at the 2017 large oxygen plant and increased Revolutionary Museum, national exhibition of IT its capacity to help the new Rason Schoolchildren’s achievements. anthracite-based melting method Palace, Rason Middle School Designers of the institute prove effective. As a result, it for Orphans, Rason Rest were awarded trophies, produces tens of thousands of Home for War Veterans diplomas and certificates cubic metres of quality oxygen and wading pool of the on over ten occasions by per hour to be supplied to the Haean Park,” said director presenting hundreds of melting process. KIM CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES Ri Ju Il. He added they have architectural drafts and IT- Technicians and workers The Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex is alive with the contributed to reenergizing based design products to the in charge of the body of the production of Juche iron. the development of the zone annual May 21 architecture furnace positively contribute to percent by rationally resetting the enables the complex to produce by jointly working with festival. increasing Juche iron production angle of upper oxygen blowing thousands of kW electric power partners to make the designs The institute is working hard by introducing valuable hole. per hour regularly and operate the of foreign-invested tourist to produce more architectural technical innovation plans. They Rational technical innovation hundreds of thousands of cubic resorts and industrial and mock-ups to which zero lengthened the life of furnace plans have been employed metres per hour dust collection development zones including energy, green technology body and the repair cycle of while abiding by the standard and ventilation system at full the Rason International and other latest architectural equipment by developing a regulations of operation in capacity. Supermarket and the Rason technologies are applied. new fireproof coating material, running the power generating Tumangang Hotel. while improving productivity 20 equipment by wasted heat, which By Choe Kwang Jin PT The institute draws By Yang Ryon Hui PT

LEISURE but more attractive is the “Children nag us so much that rooting of the “cheering group” it has become a fixed routine of in swimsuits. my family to go to the Munsu Saunas for medical treatment Water Park on holidays. As soon Swimming in midwinter are also a must-visit. as I enter the park, I am drawn After hours of playing in water into juvenile mentality. I am so or in between, visitors go to the indulged in playing with the a great relish room for forestry bathing to children that I can hardly realize relish fresh air of nature, to salt, how time passes,” said Jong Sun China’s Xinhua once described bathing suits under the snow- always a full house. earth, hard charcoal and agate Ae, mother of two children and the Munsu Water Park on the capped roof of the Munsu Water The games between saunas and to oxygen and ice worker of the Songyo Knitwear banks of the Taedong River as a Park is a spectacle to behold. “independent players” on table rooms to have medical treatment Factory. “world’s first-rate water park”. Maybe to go swimming in tennis, volleyball, trampoline by sweating and cooling their The Munsu Water Park is a cold midwinter is a common and tennis courts are interesting, bodies. By Han Ryo Gyong PT favourite haunt of the Korean wish of people who want to people, especially Pyongyang defy the challenge of nature. citizens, in all four seasons. People having a shower Foreign visitors also said, bath with water cascading “We have visited many down the exact replica of the countries, but never seen such a mysteriously-shaped cliffs in big and wonderful water park. It scenic attractions, young men really beggars expression” and and women swimming against “I think it is the most wonderful the high waves as if to become water park my wife and I have “conquerors” of sea, children ever seen. I want to advise my gliding down the water slides friends to go and enjoy at the of all shapes into water with Munsu Water Park if they have cheers, old people enjoying a chance to visit the DPRK.” supersonic wave massage “Have you ever been to the in seawater pools—all these Munsu Water Park?” was once a remind visitors of a bathing buzzword in Pyongyang and now resort in midsummer. it goes beyond the DPRK border. The indoor gymnasium HAM YONG SOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES People playing in water in adjacent to the wading pools is The Munsu Water Park is a favourite haunt of schoolchildren during the winter vacation. Sat, January 27, Juche 107(2018) Page 5

VACATION ANTI-FLU FIGHT Children conduct lively Nation on alert for activities during vacation influenza spread Seasonal flu has rapidly been Those who have a cold and Nowadays, schoolchildren longest. and straight, sitting, scowling or spreading in different countries fever are kept separate from are on winter vacation. Girls played rope skipping smiling. They are excited to see and regions across the world, others immediately, any contact During this annual holiday, zealously as if they competed their different looks. claiming many lives. with patients is prohibited they try to spend every day with the boys. Looking at their ever- According to statistics published and people are warned against meaningfully with a plan to The roller skating game in changing appearances by the World Health Organization meeting and moving in group. make them more cheerful and which contestants were required reflected on the mirror created at the end of last year, more than Family doctors conduct worthwhile than last year. to perform stunts was played in by facial and full- and half- 650 000 people are killed by medical examinations to find They consolidate what they a competitive atmosphere amid length effects, they have a respiratory diseases caused by out people who have low fever learned at school with study enthusiastic cheers of their side-splitting laugh. seasonal flu every year. and cold in time and give group members, while helping classmates. They then go to the electronic It is said that it took the lives medical treatment according to each other, and conduct a recreation hall. of 35 people in Punjab, Pakistan, their symptoms. variety of sporting and leisure Laugh-filled quarters They feel pleasure in piloting in a month recently and people Medical examination and activities. The hall of laughter and planes, riding cars and horses, are infected with its virus and quarantine of travellers abroad electronic recreation hall at the or hunting ferocious animals in are suffering from it in Macao, have been intensified at airports, Folk games Rungna People’s Recreation tropical forests. Japan, Albania, Germany and ports, customs and border The Pothonggang Sports Park Ground on the banks of the In the three-dimensional other countries. railway stations. on the banks of the Pothong picturesque Taedong River space with rhythmic and cubic The DPRK government has Research into vaccines and River is always packed with are favourite haunts of effects, they experience different taken emergency measures to production of general preventive young holidaymakers. schoolchildren. feelings of delight, tension and prevent its outbreak. medicines are encouraged and A few days ago, there was a At the hall of laughter, thrill to their heart’s content and The Central Hygienic and anti-viral medicine is supplied sports and folk game contest schoolchildren assume different are lost in reverie. Anti-epidemic Centre vigorously to residents at hospitals and of first graders at Pothonggang postures in front of over ten conducts hygienic information clinics to combat flu. Junior Middle School in mirrors—standing sideways By Pang Un Ju PT activities to raise public awareness Pothonggang District, of its symptoms and riskiness. By Yun Kyong Il PT Pyongyang. In the kite-flying game PRODUCTION to decide who fly higher the kites in different shapes including butterfly Small, but and squid, Song Jin Hyok in 1-3 class was placed first as he skilfully a big name controlled the kite-string in accordance with the The Pyongyang Jonghyang and decorative effects and stains direction of the wind. Building-Materials Factory is on the surface painted with them Boys flaunted their top- a developer and producer of can be washed away. At present, spinning and shuttlecock modern building materials. they are efficiently applied to skills in the eyes of The concrete additives include objects in humid places that are schoolgirls. Some of them those that accelerate hardening, frequented by many people like whipped tops to make retard setting, prevent freeze and hospitals and bathhouses. them spin uninterruptedly, reduce water. These additives are Pearly and stone-decoration while others competed KIM CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES excellent in both water-reducing paints are made with various in shuttlecock game to Schoolchildren at Pothonggang Junior Middle School in Pyongyang and concrete hardening properties, natural materials and acrylic see who kicks the shuttle conduct sporting activities during the winter vacation. prevent the corrosion of concrete- resin as the main raw materials reinforcing bars in structures and used for high-quality and increase early and long- decoration. R&D term strength 1.5 times. Their The patented permeable stone application to concrete mixture anti-fouling paint and sound saves the tamping process and absorbent are also well-liked by Researchers develop makes possible large shuttering- users. In addition, the factory based construction and pressure develops and produces many feed. Water and oil paints are green building materials such as devices and materials acrylic resin ones that have great light burned magnesia plywood, covering and adhesive power and inorganic heat insulator and Scientists and researchers of A field sounding balloon resources and monitoring and preserve the original colours for fireproofing agent. the State Academy of Sciences developed by researchers in controlling production processes a long time. Coating materials More than ten products of the have achieved successes in their the agricultural sector helps in real time. for interior and exterior come factory were awarded the top research for different economic monitor crop nutrition, growth Researchers of the chemical in lustreless, lustrous and semi- prize at the exhibition of finishing sectors. and yield and predict blight. industry sector developed a lustrous ones and they are highly materials for building Samjiyon Their new-type cold storage Such a device is badly needed new type of polyvinyl chloride resistant to water. Especially, County held last year. has a large freezing capacity and in cereal and fruit farming. material. The shoe sole made of lustrous and lustreless ones for short freezing time and consumes And a soil moisture measuring this material is as soft as rubber interior are superb in whiteness By Choe Kwang Jin PT less power than previous instrument made by researchers sole and is better than previous facilities. The sophisticated in the environmental protection ones in terms of resistance to electronic product consists of sector makes it possible to wear. The developers confirmed hundreds of electronic devices manure and cultivate lawn the physical properties and which are all domestically scientifically according to characteristic indexes of the produced, including a weather conditions. new material and established a temperature and humidity sensor Those of the fish farming process for its mass-production. and radio signal converter and sector completed an integrated Other research hits include repeater. It is also equipped manufacturing system capable an unmanned raw material with a rational operating system of controlling in real time the carrying vehicle conducive for automatically measuring water temperature, oxygen to automating production and recording temperature and content and pH in fish pond processes, an integrated humidity in the cold storage and feeding time and simulating information management and a scientific goods shipment various production and planning system for multipurpose indoor system based on that. Therefore methods. It is equipped with the stadium and a high-density it is widely introduced into systems for automating fish colour LED screen. KIM CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES fishery and animal husbandry farming processes, managing Quality paints for interior decoration are produced at the sectors. production, planning business By Chae Hyang Ok PT Pyongyang Jonghyang Building-Materials Factory. Page 6 Sat, January 27, Juche 107(2018)

VIEW JAPAN’S SINFUL PAST Reconciliation should be Poisoning of achieved for reunification Korean Emperor

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un farmers, intellectuals, youth north’s participation”. Japan committed innumerable said in his New Year Address and students and successfully Those who go wild crazy crimes unheard-of in the world that a climate favourable arranged joint reunification- for power, in disregard of the history of aggression during its for national reconciliation oriented events in the north and nation’s destiny and desire, military rule over Korea. and reunification should be south, with the result that the should be punished in the name One of them is poisoning of established. Korean peninsula brimmed with of the nation. Emperor Kojong on January 22 It is a firm will of the DPRK the zeal for reunification. And The south Korean authorities 1919. to ease the acute tension now is the time to draw on the have to strive to create He was the 26th king of the between the north and the south precious experience. conditions and environment feudal Joson dynasty who and achieve a breakthrough It is needed to thoroughly favourable for promoting reigned when the Korean nation for improved relations and reject the act of casting a chill national reconciliation and was falling into total ruin due independent reunification this over the atmosphere of inter- unity, unlike the previous to the imperialist powers that year. Korean fence-mending and conservative regimes that kept disturbed the world situation by To this end, both sides should reunion. people from all walks of life fighting wars of aggression. not be antagonistic and hostile Particularly, it is imperative from making contact with Though he curried favour to each other, but be reconciled to eradicate such acts of getting northerners and travelling to the with outside forces while with each other as partners on the nerves of other side north on unreasonable pretexts advocating the open-door policy for reunification and create a and exacerbating discord and and by dint of draconian legal in the turbulent period, he tried Emperor Kojong, who was to maintain national stand, if dethroned by the Japanese climate favourable for reunion. antagonism among the fellow and institutional mechanisms imperialists. It is evident that everything countrymen. and that repressed the tendency not in a thoroughgoing way, as will go well when a favourable Whenever the north toward alliance with the north the destiny of the feudal Joson murdered than Japan announced climate is established. and the south showed a and reunification. dynasty was at stake. that he died of cerebral apoplexy, It is also important for sign of reconciliation and As evidenced by the When Japan cooked up the but the truth of the murder was authorities of both sides to fulfil improvement of relations in southerners’ steady fight to Ulsa five-point treaty in 1905 clearly disclosed. their responsibility and role. the past, separatist forces tried abolish the “national security and the Jongmi seven-point It was also revealed that Korea’s reunification issue desperately to reverse the wheel law”, the NSL is denounced as treaty in 1907 to deprive Korea Kojong’s aides who had is not a political fight to of reunification letting loose an evil law against the nation of its rights to diplomacy and examined his body were defeat other side, but an issue a spate of abuse and sophism and reunification as lots of home administration, he stoutly subjected to rigid investigation vital to the existence of the against the DPRK. democratic figures fall victim to denied them and refused to put by the Japanese for the reason homogeneous nation, an issue At present, too, when both sides it, groaning in jails as prisoners his signature and royal seal that they asserted he was to realize national sovereignty are taking a giant step towards of conscience. on them. After the Japanese killed by poison as many red on a nationwide scale. That is improved relations thanks to The so-called law completely declared the conclusion of the spots were found on his whole why both authorities need to the magnanimous initiative conflicts with improved inter- Ulsa treaty, he saw to it that body soon after his death. The discharge their duties as the proposed by the north on New Korean relations as it specifies the Koreans waged the anti- diary of Kuratomi Yuzaburo motive force of reunification on Year’s Day, the Liberal Korea the DPRK as “enemy” and Japanese volunteers’ struggle who had been a senior official behalf of the nation. Party and other conservative illegalizes alliance with the against it and sent his letters of the agency of imperial The north and the south should forces in the south are reviling north and reunification. carrying his signature and seal household of Japan in the year also promote bilateral contact, the overtures as a “scheme to The south Korean authorities to the sovereigns of nine powers of Kojong’s death contains a travel, cooperation and exchange incite discord between south should show their determination to assert its nullification. In passage that Terauchi, Japan’s on a broad scale to remove Korea and the US”, “a play to improve relations by removing June 1907, he dispatched first governor-general of Korea, mutual misunderstanding and for time for the completion of such legal and institutional three emissaries to the Second ordered Hasegawa, commander distrust. nuclear weapons” and “thinly- mechanisms as the NSL that International Peace Conference of the Japanese forces in Korea, If they sincerely wish for camouflaged peace offensive”. prevent north-south reconciliation in The Hague, the Netherlands, to poison Emperor Kojong as he national reconciliation and And as to the north’s projected and fence-mending, as demanded in a bid to have the illegality did not recognize the Ulsa five- unity, they should have wide- dispatch of its delegations to by the people. and invalidity of the treaty point treaty. ranging dialogue, contact and the Winter Olympic Games When a climate favourable for proclaimed to the world. As seen above, the Japanese travel involving ruling and including rooters, sportspersons reconciliation and reunification Taking this incident as an did not hesitate to perpetrate opposition parties, organizations and artistes, they are clamouring is established by the proactive opportunity, the Japanese forced any crimes to implement their and individual personages of all against “any backdoor deals with efforts of both authorities, Kojong to abdicate in favour of policy of aggression against backgrounds. the north” and “overlooking of bilateral relations will improve Crown Prince Sunjong by dint of Korea. In the June 15 reunification era the north’s veiled provocation and the day of reunification will all kinds of threats and confined This is part of Japan’s history early in the 2000s, both sides held design behind sports exchange” come earlier as desired by all him to the Toksu Palace. of aggression of Korea which high-level talks, realized bilateral while arguing that “international the Koreans. Kojong placed great is consistent with illegality and travel and contact among people cooperation in anti-north expectations on the 1919 Paris injustice, cruelty and brigandish of all strata including workers, sanctions may be shaken by the By Kim Rye Yong PT Peace Conference, dazzled nature. by the deceptive “theory of The Korean people will never national self-determination” tolerate Japan’s past crimes, but COMMENT of US president Wilson, and exact thoroughgoing apology the Japanese hatched a plot to and reparations from it. poison him. Sincerity needs No sooner had he been By Song Jong Ho PT

Backbiters are clearly those many people describe their sincere approach who are not of Korean stock. behaviour as a revelation of They are steeped in impure scheme to curry favour Improper noises are heard in players, delegation, cheerers Phyongchang Olympics” and confrontational concept and lost with the US and advertise the south Korea at a time when north- and pressmen with sporting “they will closely consult with in a wild fancy that they will climate favourable for the inter- south working-level contacts are apparatuses and living expenses the international community be OK only when their wild Korean reconciliation as their held one after another for the is in violation of sanctions, and including the UN sanctions ambition is realized, without administrative record. successful holding of the 23rd some of topsiders who are likely committee and the US”. caring whether a great event The south Korean authorities Winter Olympic Games and to visit Phyongchang are on the Obviously, all the measures conducive to demonstrating the need to take a sincere approach Paralympics in south Korea. list of sanctions. the DPRK has taken for spirit of the nation to the world to sincerity. South Korea’s conservative The problem is that the the successful opening of goes well or not. They should keep in mind media and experts let loose south Korean authorities the 23rd Winter Olympics The south Korean authorities, that everything is merely in the nonsensical remarks that the use take a noncommittal attitude and Paralympics are the however, are behaving initial stage and that “violation of passenger liner Mangyongbong towards them, noting that manifestation of its stand that arrogantly. It is a foolish act of of sanctions” and other rash 92 or Koryo airliner by the north “they will make sure that any the north and south are the binding themselves hand and speech and behaviour may put during the Games is contrary to argument about violation of homogeneous nation and its foot and a shameful act bereft out a spark for improved north- the independent sanctions of the the anti-north sanctions will sincere intention to jointly of courtesy as the one hosting a south relations. US and south Korea. They also not arise in connection with celebrate a happy event of great ceremony. said that the assistance of northern the north’s participation in the southerners and help them. It is quite natural that By Han Jong Chol PT Sat, January 27, Juche 107(2018) Page 7 REMEMBRANCE What the Pueblo tells the Americans

The crew of the US armed spy ship Pueblo after being captured by the KPA Navy while on espionage activities against the DPRK.

Having been captured 50 years ago, the Pueblo is docked on the Pothong River in Pyongyang. (left) KCNA On January 23 1968 the US provoker was resolute. ideological might which is threats by the US and prevent it armed spy ship Pueblo was President Kim Il Sung in more powerful than nuclear from committing adventurous captured red-handed in the his historic speech on February weapons. military provocation. territorial waters of the DPRK 8 1968 clarified the firm Later on, the US has If the current US rulers by the seamen of the Korean and principled stand that the continued to fail in lots of persist in war moves against People’s Army on regular Korean people would retaliate military provocations against the DPRK in disregard of the patrol. for the “retaliation” of the US the DPRK. reality, the whole of the US The seizure of the ship which imperialists and return all- Last year, the DPRK territory will be engulfed in was conducting espionage out war for all-out war, and in accomplished the historic flames. activities was the just exercise hearty response to his call all the cause of perfecting its nuclear This is the lesson the Pueblo, of sovereignty of the DPRK service members and people of armed forces in the efforts to which has stayed bound on the and a due punishment of the the DPRK turned out in a do-or- cope with the US’ decades- banks of the Pothong River in US which was threatening die fight against the Americans. long nuclear threat. Pyongyang for long, tells the global peace. The US was finally compelled At present its nuclear younger generations of the The map of the Pueblo crew to give in to the DPRK. capability serves as a powerful US. was marked with the DPRK’s It could not but admit its deterrent which is able to The captain of USS Pueblo military bases and the log was crime of aggression under the thwart and cope with any war By Song Jong Ho PT writes a confession. recorded in detail with the weight of irrefutable evidence spying acts the Americans including the confessions committed by intruding into of the crew, and signed the the DPRK waters on several “surrender document” assuring occasions after departing that it would never again from Sasebo Port in Japan on violate the DPRK’s territorial the order of their superior in waters. December 1967. The USS Pueblo lies Shamelessly, however, the at anchor in the DPRK US threatened to reduce to permanently as material ashes the DPRK’s major cities evidence of US aggression and unless it returned their ship the DPRK’s trophy. and crew, claiming the Pueblo Over the historic event, was captured in international the world people extolled the A letter of apology from the US waters and it did not commit country, saying “the DPRK government, in which it gave firm espionage acts. has humbled the arrogant US assurance that no US ship would The whole world termed in the eyes of the world and intrude again into the territorial waters US Army Major General Gilbert H. Woodward signs the situation in the Korean it is a country that does not of the DPRK. the letter of apology. peninsula, which was know empty talk”, while the worsening in the wake of its Americans cried out that “the seizure, a “Caribbean crisis in Pueblo incident is the greatest the Orient”. failure in the US history of The US dispatched a large intelligence activities”. task fleet consisting of such The DPRK’s victory warships as aircraft carrier, over the US, which is cruiser and destroyer, and a incomparably bigger in the huge air force and reserve size of territory, the number forces en masse to the environs of population and military of the Korean peninsula, capability, is attributed to the and it sent to the DPRK an wise leadership of President ultimatum that it might use Kim Il Sung, an ever-victorious, nuclear weapons unless the iron-willed commander who Pueblo was sent back. had led the two wars against the Such US misbehaviour was US and Japanese imperialists motivated by its fear that the to victory in his time, and the secrets of the ship equipped firm unity around him of the with sophisticated espionage Korean service personnel and facilities and its aggressive people fully loaded with the acts would be revealed fully spirit of safeguarding their and its cunning intention to country. recover its prestige that hit the Even the US with the bottom due to the capture of world’s greatest military the ship by the small country. capability could not overpower KCNA But the DPRK’s reply to the the DPRK’s political and Young people are told how the US spy ship has been captured. Page 8 Sat, January 27, Juche 107(2018)

SPORTS SPORTS Civil servants show Schoolchildren’s skills in annual games games start The 23rd Paektusan Prize followed by the one between the with the former 23-23. Games of Civil Servants which Daesong Bank and Kumgang In the seesaw battle of the opened on January 22 are in Guidance Bureau in Group C fourth round players of both full swing at the stadiums and on January 24 at the Basketball teams showed a series of gymnasiums in Pyongyang Gymnasium in Chongchun thrilling scoring scenes. The current games embrace Street. The game ended with the such events as basketball, The Daesong Bank led the Kumgang Guidance Bureau’s volleyball, badminton, Kumgang Guidance Bureau in win. Taekwon-Do, shooting, tug-of- the first and second rounds by In another group the Korean war and amusement games and means of fast break and lay-ups Central News Agency beat the take place in four groups on a based on two- or three-person Physical Education Publishing knockout basis. combination. House 65-42 by changing game The opening basketball In the third round the latter tactics to suit the situation to match between the Myohyang changed its tactics to man-to-man raise points continuously. Guidance Bureau and the defence and scored more points On January 23-24 there were External Construction Guidance with rebounds, fast counterattack Taekwon-Do team pattern and KCNA Bureau on January 22 was and long-distance shots, tying men’s and women’s individual A basketball match between Kang Pan Sok Senior Middle School and Kim Ju Hyok Senior Middle School in Mangyongdae pattern competitions at District, Pyongyang. the Taekwon-Do Hall. They attracted The 44th Jongilbong Prize youth league officials and particular interest of national schoolchildren’s games schoolchildren. opened. Pak Chol Min, first secretary the spectators as they Over 10 000 young qualifiers of the Central Committee of drew many winners in from city, county and provincial the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist the past events. preliminaries will take part in Youth League, said in his The players performed the annual event to compete in opening address that all the every movement 19 events including Taekwon- participants should fully perfectly by ensuring Do, ssirum (Korean wrestling), demonstrate the proud looks correctness and unity basketball, swimming and of them who are preparing of movement, speed skiing. themselves to be the masters and strength, balance An opening ceremony took place of prosperous Korea by giving and rhythm, winning at the Basketball Gymnasium on full play to the high skills they tumultuous applause Chongchun Street, Pyongyang, honed through training, noble from the spectators. on January 23. moral qualities and spirit of

PAK CHANG BOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES It was attended by Choe collectivism in all matches. A scene from the men’s Taekwon-Do pattern. By Jong Tang Song PT Hwi, vice-chairman of the After the opening ceremony, Central Committee of the there was a basketball game Workers’ Party of Korea who between Kang Pan Sok Senior HISTORY is also chairman of the National Middle School and Kim Ju Sports Guidance Committee, Hyok Senior Middle School in Kim Kyong Ho, chairman Mangyongdae District. Koguryo’s mural painting of the Korean Taekwon-Do Committee, relevant officials, Compiled from KCNA The Koguryo Kingdom that The tomb is large in scale of the cardinal points—blue existed between 277 BC and and unique in structure and dragon, white tiger, phoenix and and Japan. in the theme and content and AD 668 left an indelible mark pictures were drawn on well- tortoise-serpent—also typifies Tamjing, Koguryo’s Buddhist concise, graceful, luxurious and on Korean history as it made trimmed stone walls. Its murals Koguryo’s tomb murals. priest, was invited to Japan refined in terms of elements of remarkable progress in various are more diverse and richer than Characterized by compact in 610 and painted murals in composition and depiction and fields. other tomb murals in the theme composition, powerful lines, the Golden Hall at the Horyu technique as well. It broke out new horizons in and content. They depict the vivid colours and glossy paint, Temple, and Jamaryo, another the development of Oriental art king dealing with state affairs, the picture gives a mystical Koguryo painter, went to Japan Ryang Tae Hun, researcher by bringing about an upswing in aspects of life in the palace, a impression and is rightly claimed and became one of the pioneers at the History Institute of the such fields as painting, sculpture large procession and the like. to be a masterpiece representing of Japanese painting. And a tomb Academy of Social Sciences and industrial arts. The painting of the large such painting of the East in the with murals which Typical of the painting procession portrays over world’s medieval art history. was discovered in heritage left by the ancient 250 persons by proficiently The top-ranked ones of such China’s Liaoning Korean state are tomb murals employing a bird’s-eye view paintings are those portraying Province was that preserve the vivid colour technique. The image of the the blue dragon and tortoise- recognized as the and brushstrokes even after well leading male and female figures serpent in the large tomb in tomb of a Koguryo over a thousand years. More managing state affairs was Kangso and those showing the n o b l e m a n . than a hundred Koguryo tombs drawn with concise and vivid phoenix and white tiger in the These show with murals have been known brushwork and the painting in middle-sized tomb in Kangso. that Koguryo’s so far. general was done mainly in red Decorative patterns were painting occupied Their themes are classified colour to make the cosy mood employed to make the interiors an important mainly into three kinds: figure in the room go well with the of tombs look luxurious and position in the and genre, figure and four colours of the apparel of the mysterious by adorning the development of guardians, and decorative figures. These clearly show a spaces between main murals, the Eastern culture patterns. comparatively high level of the ceilings and corners in at the time. The figure and genre paintings Koguryo painting techniques. various forms. Like this, belong to the tomb murals at Tomb murals on the figure The painting art of Koguryo Koguryo’s tomb their early stage portraying and genre theme also include constituted the groundwork for murals belong people and their manners and those showing a hunting scene the development of the Korean to the world customs. in the Yaksu-ri tomb, dancing nation’s painting and its origin cultural heritage World-famous murals in Anak Tomb No. 1, acrobatic and had a marked impact on r e p r e s e n t a t i v e in the Mausoleum of King stunt in the Susan-ri tomb and the development of painting in of the medieval Kogugwon, or Anak Tomb No. ssirum, or Korean wrestling, Paekje, Silla, Kaya and other Eastern art 3, can be claimed to be a typical and a battle in other tombs. countries of the same ancestry as they were The picture of Masahui in Tokhung-ri example. The picture of the guardians and different Chinese kingdoms varied and rich tomb mural.

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