KOREA TODAY No. 7, 2015 51 http://www.naenara.com.kp Order of the Republic 1st Class President Kim Il Sung received the Order of the Republic 1st Class, Indonesia, from President Sukarno of the Republic of Indonesia in April 1965. 52 KOREA TODAY No. 7, 2015 KOREA TODAY Monthly Journal (709) Printed in English, Russian and Chinese C O N T E N T S Everlasting Banner ·············································································································3 By Creating Original Tactics ································································································ 6 The First Distinguished Military Service Medal ······································································ 7 To a Decisive Battle············································································································· 8 Tradition of Victory Continues ·····························································································10 Dear to the People··············································································································12 Really Impressive ··············································································································13 I Knew Admiration of the Koreans Better··············································································13 For the liberation of the country Confronted by Hundreds of Thousands of “Punitive” Troops ·····················································14 On the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea Motherly Party ··················································································································16 KOREA TODAY No. 7, 2015 1 National Tree of the DPRK·······················································17 Guaranteeing the Beauty ·························································18 High Sense of Responsibility·····················································20 Pioneers·················································································21 Mushroom Researchers····························································22 Teacher with Many Nicknames ·················································23 Improving Quality of Education ················································24 Front Cover: Paying homage at the Fatherland “Let Us Learn for Korea!” ·························································26 Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery Far From Dream·····································································28 Photo by Ra Phyong Ryol Doctors Pressed for Time··························································29 Sweeping Enthusiasm for Exercises···········································30 School Famed for Basketball·····················································31 Keeper of National Tradition ····················································32 The Benevolent System ···························································34 The Changed View of Lake Yonphung ········································35 Traditional Dishes of Korea (1)··················································36 I Can Give Even a Little Help to My Country ······························38 Short Story After Many Years ···································································39 Korean Industrial Arts (3) ························································41 Cliffs of Fantastic Shapes in Mt. Paektu ····································42 Back Cover: A scene from the An Jung Sik and Association of Painters military parade and the Py- ongyang citizens’ demonstra- and Calligraphers ···································································44 tion held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the victori- Why Are They Denying Facts? ··················································45 ous Fatherland Liberation War Photo by Ra Chung Ryol Abuses of Children and the Aged in South Korea ·························46 Debtor to International Law ·····················································48 13502 ㄱ-58216 © The Foreign Language Address: Sochon-dong, Sosong District, Magazines 2015 Pyongyang, DPRK E-mail: [email protected] 2 KOREA TODAY No. 7, 2015 Everlasting Banner Raising cheers for the victorious war. T IS 62 YEARS SINCE moment quite a few people were that victory for his people was I fireworks were set off in the at a loss to know how the war had certain, and that he was confident sky over Pyongyang in celebration broken out and what it was aimed that their just struggle for the of the victory in the Fatherland at. There were even people who country and the people would Liberation War. You cannot find were fooled by the imperialist triumph. wounds of the war any more in aggressors and their stooges who (As a matter of fact, the Ko- the land where everything was were making propaganda that it rean war was an aggressive war reduced to ashes. There have been was a “war the north started to that had been prepared by the US changes in the mountains and make south Korea communistic.” imperialists for a long time in a rivers and the population, but one When a variety of opinions planned way. The American jour- thing remains as it was. That is and unsound waves began to nal Life for July 1950 revealed the admiration of the nation for sweep the world, Kim Il Sung, that as far as war was concerned, President Kim Il Sung who led leader of the Democratic People’s no war had ever been prepared so the Fatherland Liberation War to Republic of Korea, made a historic completely as the ongoing Korean victory. radio speech entitled Go All out war since the beginning of the Following is a paragraph from for Victory in the War to the en- American history.) an article carried by Rodong tire Korean nation on June 26, The radio address of the Sinmun, organ of the Central 1950. In the address he said that national leader implanted confi- Committee of the Workers’ Party on June 25 the army of the puppet dence in victory in the minds of of Korea, immediately after the government of the traitor Syng- the Korean service personnel and end of the war: “The august man Rhee launched an all-out other people and aroused their name of the great leader Comrade offensive along the 38th parallel readiness to turn out in the sacred Kim Il Sung is the most glorious (The parallel meant the demarca- war for national defence. For the and valuable to the Korean peo- tion line between the north and previous five years since their ple. It is closely associated with the south of Korea after the coun- country was liberated from the all the victories, honours and try was divided by the US imperi- military occupation of the Japa- struggles that were decisive of the alists) against the DPRK, that the nese imperialists in August 1945, destiny of the Korean people.” Government of the DPRK, having the Korean people had enjoyed discussed the situation, had or- their life under the people’s gov- Sacred war to defend the dered the People’s Army to start ernment established and led by Korean nation decisive counteroffensive action Kim Il Sung. The government and wipe out the enemy’s armed had given the people genuine On the early morning of June forces, that the history of man- democratic right and freedom and 25, 1950 when it was drizzling, kind shows that a people that provided them with a new life. It the US imperialists and their defies death and rises in the gave land and rights to work, south Korean puppets started a struggle for freedom and inde- learn to their heart’s content and war against the Democratic Peo- pendence is always victorious, have medical care. Whether they ple’s Republic of Korea. At the that theirs was a just struggle, were workers, peasants, women, ► KOREA TODAY No. 7, 2015 3 KPA soldiers fight valiant defence battles based in tunnelled positions. ► youths or students, they were all overflowing with dreams and hopes for the future, their life filled with songs. In a word, the north of the Korean peninsula was a land where they could enjoy a genuine life worth a human being, relishing optimistic and hopeful life; it was a wonderful country that realized their centu- ries-old desire. That was why the Korean people turned out as one in the struggle to defend their beneficial social system that en- abled them to live a proud and worthwhile life, their country that had fulfilled their hope and brought true life. Members of an aircraft A KPA sniper. Wilfred Burchett, an Austra- hunters’ team. lian writer who used to be a war correspondent during the Korean way he won the strong rival. alone ready to go to war at the war, wrote in his pamphlet that in C o n c l u d i n g t h e t a l e, Korean front. It hurled into the the first six weeks after the be- Kim Il Sung said that physical small area of the Korean front its ginning of the war 1.2 million strength is not almighty and that modernly equipped forces— one young people joined the volun- it was essential to grasp the weak third of its ground force, one fifth teers’ units of the Korean People’s points of the enemy correctly and of its air force and most of its Army or guerrilla units. Four apply a proper tactical method. Pacific Fleet—and forces of 15 of hundred thousand of them came Over the whole years of the its vassal nations, the south Ko- from the south. war the leader, seeing it as a rean puppet army and the Japa- matter of crucial importance for a nese militarists, which totaled Strategic and tactical victorious war to maintain strate- more than two million