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Y'day "the entire Korean nation in the north and south and the rest of the world celebrated the birth of Generalissimo, the Shining Star and Sun of the 21th century, outstanding thinker and theoretician(...) Kim Jong-il", according to Rodong Shinmun.
 

 
And on occasion of this 'great day'(^^), the "Day of the Shining Star", Asia Times(HK) published y'day Kim Myeong-cheol's latest concoction, titled "Kim Jong-il as a guiding light":
- February 16 marks the 70th anniversary of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's birth. With a legacy matching founding father Kim Il-sung's, the Dear Leader lives on through his heir and through the people of Korea, north and south...
- In the eyes of the entire Korean population and the world, Kim Jong-il is arguably the greatest of national heroes...
- His most outstanding contribution to the peace and security of the world lies in adopting the military first policy and building a global nuclear-strike force...
- South Korea, the Japanese archipelago, Guam, Hawaii and the metropolitan US might have been turned into nuclear war theatres and bombed back to the Stone Age...

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Some 500 unionists of S. Korean broadcaster MBC have gone on general strike since last Monday(1.30), to demand the resignation on MBC president Kim Jae-chul over ('alleged', according to the S.K. bourgeois media) biased coverage of major social issues(*).

And now the strike gets the support of one of the most democratic trade unions on earth(^^) - the (North) Korean Journalists Union, as today's KCNA reported:

The trade union of MBC of south Korea went on a general strike for an indefinite period in protest against the Lee Myung Bak group's seizure of the broadcasting service.

A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea in a statement on Saturday said their strike is an eruption of anger and resistance of the south Korean media persons and all other people against the group of traitors abusing media for sycophancy and treachery, fascist rule, actions against reunification and confrontation with compatriots.

The statement accused the Lee group of making a retrogressive revision of laws on media to quell the public mind-set and opinion desirous of independence, democracy and reunification and planting ultra right vicious conservative elements among media and indiscriminately purging those media persons opposed to the moves to put media under government control after it came to power.

Having driven into an abyss of ruin, completely forsaken by the public, the group is setting all reptile media in motion in a last-ditch effort to escape a stern judgment in the upcoming elections through an unlimited false propaganda and spread of misinformation and thus stay in power come what may, the statement said, and went on:

It is quite natural that the fair-minded media persons of south Korea courageously turned out in the actions against the traitors' group to make the media serve it and reactionary, deploring the miserable reality of media reduced to a despicable servant for the puppet conservative group.

The media in the era of independent reunification should be a judge meting out punishment to the group of traitors keen on sycophancy towards the U.S. and confrontation against fellow countrymen and a bugler dynamically encouraging all Koreans in their general advance for independent reunification under the banner of "By our nation itself".

All the media persons in the DPRK are firmly convinced that the south Korean media persons will surely emerge victorious in their actions for bringing earlier an independent and democratic society and giving steady continuity to the trend of the June 15 era of reunification.

* More news/reports about the MBC strike you can read on LabourStart!

And here you can read the complete statement in Korean:

조선기자동맹 중앙위원회 대변인담화

최근 남조선의 《MBC》방송로조가 리명박패당의 방송장악책동에 항의하여 무기한 총파업에 돌입하였다.

이들은 리명박《정권》의 횡포한 언론탄압실상을 폭로하면서 진실을 외면하고 민심을 오도하는 불공정한 방송을 당장 중지하는 한편 언론인의 사명과 임무를 다해나갈것을 다짐하며 방송사 사장을 비롯한 어용분자들을 몰아내고 공정보도를 실현할 때까지 견결히 싸울 의지를 선언하였다.

남조선 《KBS》, 《YTN》(련합TV뉴스)을 비롯한 언론사의 로조들도 이들의 투쟁에 적극 합세해나서고있다.

남조선의 야당들과 진보언론들, 민주언론시민련합과 전국언론로조를 비롯한 각계는 이번 파업이 지난 4년간 지속되여온 괴뢰보수당국의 방송장악과 어용화책동에 파렬구를 내게 될 력사적인 방송거부투쟁이라고 하면서 적극 지지성원해나서고있다.

《MBC》방송로조의 파업은 언론을 사대매국과 파쑈통치, 반통일과 동족대결에 악용하고있는 역적패당에 대한 남조선언론인들과 광범한 민심의 분노와 항거의 폭발이다.

리명박패당은 집권후 자주, 민주, 통일을 지향하는 민심과 사회여론을 말살하기 위하여 언론관련법들을 개악하고 극우악질보수분자들을 언론계에 박아넣었으며 언론의 어용화를 반대하는 언론인들을 가차없이 숙청하는 폭거를 감행해왔다.

또한 역적패당은 미국과의 동맹강화와 반공화국대결책동, 미국산미친소고기수입, 룡산철거민학살, 부정부패행위 등 저들의 반민족적, 반인민적, 반민주적죄행에 대해 언론이 제대로 보도할수 없게 자갈을 물리고 반공화국모략선전의 나팔수로 내몰았다.

그리하여 오늘 남조선은 정의와 진리를 주장하는 량심적인 언론이 사멸되고 불의와 매국을 설교하고 외곡과 거짓을 일삼는 어용언론이 판을 치는 민주언론페허지대로 되였다.

파쑈독재의 꼭두각시로, 시녀로 완전히 전락된 《조선일보》, 《중앙일보》, 《동아일보》를 비롯한 극우보수언론들은 온 겨레의 지향과 념원, 북남공동선언들의 요구에 맞게 북남관계를 개선하고 평화번영을 이룩하려는 우리의 원칙적이며 정당한 립장과 성의있는 노력, 내외반통일세력들의 대결과 전쟁책동에 대처하여 우리가 취한 자위적조치들을 악랄하게 모독하다 못해 인간쓰레기들이 날조한 황당무계한 잡소리들을 퍼뜨리며 초보적인 리성과 분별마저 다 버리고 헛나발을 불어대고있다.

특히 민족의 어버이를 잃은 크나큰 상실의 아픔으로 몸부림치는 동족의 가슴에 칼질하고 가장 비통한 마음이 어린 추모의 눈물까지 악의에 차서 헐뜯는 보수언론들의 경거망동은 오늘 남조선언론이 어느 지경에 이르렀는가를 똑똑히 보여준다.

지금 민심을 완전히 잃고 파멸의 위기에 처한 역적패당은 어용언론들을 총동원하여 무차별적인 여론조작과 외곡보도로 올해 선거들에서 준엄한 심판을 모면하고 어떻게 하나 재집권의 야욕을 실현해보려고 최후발악하고있다.

남조선의 량심적인 언론인들이 괴뢰보수패당의 추악한 하수인으로 전락된 언론의 비참한 현실을 개탄하며 역적패당의 언론어용화, 반동화책동에 반기를 들고 용약 투쟁에 나선것은 지극히 당연한것이다.

언론은 정의와 량심, 민심의 대변자이고 진리와 애국의 전파자이며 시대의 선도자이다.

자주통일시대의 언론은 친미사대와 동족대결에 광분하는 역적무리에 파멸을 선고하는 철추가 되고 우리 민족끼리의 기치밑에 전진하는 겨레의 자주통일대진군을 더욱 힘차게 추동하는 우렁찬 나팔소리가 되여야 한다.

남조선언론인들은 시대와 민족, 인민앞에 지닌 자기의 무거운 사명과 책임감을 깊이 명심하고 보수패당의 더러운 정치시녀인 어용매문가들을 신성한 언론인대렬에서 당장 축출하여야 하며 붓대와 마이크, 촬영기로 리명박패당의 온갖 죄행을 만천하에 낱낱이 고발단죄하고 남조선각계층을 정의의 투쟁에로 적극 불러일으켜야 한다.

우리 공화국의 전체 기자, 언론인들은 자주화되고 민주화된 새 세상을 안아오며 6.15통일시대의 흐름을 힘차게 이어나가기 위한 남조선언론인들의 의로운 투쟁이 빛나는 승리를 이룩하게 되리라는것을 굳게 확신한다.

평양, 주체101년 2월 5일

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Only few hours ago Yonhap reported that "North Korea urged South Korea on Thursday to offer an apology over its attitude towards the death of its leader Kim Jong-il as a key condition of resuming stalled bilateral talks..."

Yonhap's newslet refers to the following "open questionnaire addressed to the south Korean authorities"(original: "공개질문장..." = "open interrogation..."^^), issued today(via KCNA) by the 'Policy Department of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK':

The Policy Department of the DPRK NDC solemnly urges them to answer following open questions as they loudly trumpets about resumption of north-south dialogue and improvement of relations.

1. Are the south Korean authorities ready to deeply repent of their crimes concerning the great loss to the Korean nation and make apologies for them?

2. Have they intention to make public the willingness to implement the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, its practical program?

3. Can they announce before the world that they would no longer hurt the DPRK over "Choenan" warship case and Yonphyong Island shelling incident?

4. Can they make political decision to stop all big joint military exercises targeted against the DPRK?

5. Are they ready to work for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, away from the wrong view on it?

6. Are they going to keep staging vicious anti-DPRK smear psychological campaign?

7. Do they have true willingness to resume north-south cooperation and exchange and keep them going on in the direction of promoting nation's peace and prosperity and common interests?

8. Can they positively respond to the DPRK's principled demand to replace the present armistice system by peace system?

9. Can they make a decision to repeal traitorous and anti-reunification evil laws such as "Security Law" with immediate effect?

Here you can read the same stuff in Korean:

조선민주주의인민공화국 국방위원회 정책국은 새해정초부터 남조선당국이 북남대화재개와 관계개선에 대하여 떠들어대며 접촉마당에 하루빨리 나와 달라고 하고있는것과 관련하여 2일 남조선당국에 보내는 공개질문장을 발표하였다.

정책국은 공개질문장에서 일단 남조선당국이 제입으로 북남대화재개와 관계개선을 바란다고 광고한 이상 다음과 같은 공개질문에 명백히 대답할것을 촉구하였다.

1.우리 민족의 대국상앞에 저지른 대역죄를 뼈저리게 통감하고 사죄할 결심이 되여있는가.

2.력사적인 6.15공동선언과 그 실천강령인 10.4선언을 전면리행할 의지를 내외에 공식 표명하겠는가.

3.《천안》호사건과 연평도포격전을 걸고 우리를 더이상 헐뜯지 않겠다는것을 세계앞에 공언할수 있는가.

4.우리를 과녁으로 삼고 벌리는 대규모적인 합동군사연습을 전면중지할 정책적결단을 내리겠는가.

5.조선반도의 비핵화에 대한 그릇된 견해를 버리고 비핵화를 위한 실천에 발을 잠글 결심이 되여있는가.

6.악랄한 반공화국심리모략전에 계속 매달릴 작정인가.

7.북남협력과 교류를 진정으로 민족의 평화번영과 공리공영을 도모하는 방향에서 재개하고 활성화할 용의가 있는가.

8.현 정전체제를 평화체제로 바꿀데 대한 우리의 원칙적인 요구에 호응해나설수 있는가.

9. 《보안법》을 비롯한 반민족적이고 반통일적인 악법들을 즉시 철페할 결단을 내릴수 있는가.

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Last Friday(1.20) Yonhap reported that "South Korea called today for North Korea to enter into dialogue to ease tensions as Pyongyang stepped up its accusations against South Korea's conservative president."
"South Korea expects North Korea to quickly restore stability and react positively to dialogue," Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik said in a meeting with 21 Seoul-stationed ambassadors of the European Union", the report continued.

And Pyeongyang's immediate reply, unsurprisingly: "F*ck you!!!"(summary^^)

Here the Pyeongyang's complete statement, published in KCNA(1.21):

The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors is now more noisily trumpeting about "dialogue" after rubbing salt into the wounds of fellow countrymen in the DPRK grieving over the great loss.

It is asserting that it would "make efforts to mend the fences with the north", talking about "door to an opportunity" and "removal of mutual mistrust."

It is highly ridiculous and shameless for the most hideous group of traitors to still vociferate about "dialogue" even after it received the DPRK's solemn declaration of no longer dealing with it.

How can the attitude the group took during the mourning over the great loss to the nation when even the sky and the land seemed to wail be interpreted as a simple ethical issue or a mistake of policy.

The group must be well aware that the DPRK has not made any concession nor shown any mercy over the issue related to the dignity of its supreme leadership.

The DPRK has never pardoned the Kim Young Sam's group of traitors for treachery it committed during the mourning over the passing of President Kim Il Sung and it will remain unchanged in its strong counter-action against the treachery.

This being a hard reality, the Lee group is brazen-faced enough to call for "dialogue" far from making even a single apology for its high treason.

This is touching off irrepressible resentment among the Korean people.

The DPRK will never regard the confrontation maniacs as a dialogue partner as they are groundlessly hurting the dignity of the DPRK and its system and insulting and slandering its people, denying the DPRK's reality in which the army and people are stepping up their general advance full of conviction with redoubled efforts by converting their sorrow into strength and courage.

It is foolish and preposterous for the group to try to calm down the resentment of all Koreans and divert elsewhere the south Koreans' attention on the point of eruption with the nonsensical story about "dialogue".

Its hypocritical wordplay is only triggering bitterer anger among compatriots.

The foe of the nation would be well advised to stop talking nonsense at once.

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As today's "weekend reading" I would like to suggest...

Two days ago Kim Myong-chol(a.k.a. Pyeongyang's "unofficial spokesman") published in Asia Times Online(HK) - once again - a really strange article(*).

The "highlights" of his treatise are doubtless the following:
 

1.) "To be precise, Kim Jong-eun is a heaven-sent sun-like entity as was Kim Jong-il, Kim Il-sung, and Jumong, the founder of a the ancient Korean kingdom Koguryo more 2,300 years ago, and Dankun, founder of ancient Korea 5,000 years ago..."

2.) "Supreme commander Kim Jong-eun is one click away from vaporizing US carrier battle groups in the Korean waters and the Pacific, military bases in South Korea, Japan, Hawaii and bases and metropolitan centers in the American mainland. As a matter of course, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles are sitting ducks for nuclear-tipped North Korean missiles..."

* The entire piece you can "enjoy"(MUST READ!) here:
☞ 'Supreme commander' is a Canny Fox (^^)
 

Have a nice, relaxing weekend!!

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This year's "Joint New Year Editorial", published in Rodong Shinmun(로동신문), Joseon Inmin-gun(조선인민군) and Cheongnyeon Jeonwi(청년전위) was yesterday's "top" story in the int'l media(*):

 
Here the concoction's full version:

Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding, true to the instructions of the Great General Kim Jong Il!

Having seen out the year 2011 in bitter tears of blood, the service personnel and people of Korea are now seeing in the New Year Juche 101 (2012).

It was a long-standing tradition of our people to extend best wishes for good health to the great leader Kim Jong Il on every New Year's Day and set out on the advance of that year. His august name and benevolent image were a banner of victory that instilled in our people confidence in sure victory and will to achieve it and a source of their mental strength. Now our service personnel and people, turning the great sorrow into one-thousand-fold strength and courage, are embarking on a grand march towards the goal of achieving prosperity in the new century of the Juche era, following the leadership of their supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

That we parted too suddenly and unexpectedly with the great leader Kim Jong Il last year was the greatest loss our nation had suffered in its 5 000-year-long history and the bitterest grief our Party and people had experienced.

The great Kim Jong Il was an outstanding ideologist and theoretician, peerless veteran statesman and brilliant Songun commander who led the revolutionary cause of Juche along the road of victory by dint of his profound ideas and theories and unexcelled leadership, and a great patriot and the benevolent father of the people, who dedicated his revolutionary life entirely to his country and his people. Thanks to his leadership our nation has greeted a golden age of its prosperity unprecedented in its 5 000-year-long history; the Juche idea and the Songun idea, the immortal ideas authored by President Kim Il Sung, have become the ideas guiding the era of independence, the revolutionary traditions of Paektu have been resolutely defended, and the might of our Party, army and country has attained the highest level.

When our revolution was undergoing worst trials and hardships, he steadfastly safeguarded the gains of socialism, valuable heritage the President had bequeathed, and consolidated the political, military and economic foundations for achieving prosperity for all the generations to come; this is shining as the greatest of his achievements in the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Having keenly felt how great the leader, whom they had upheld as the sun of the nation and their father in making the revolution, was, our service personnel and people are now filled with a firm determination to carry through his lifetime intentions and cause.

Last year was a year of victory, featured by radical changes and leap forward taken place in the building of a prosperous and powerful nation under the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il.

It was an ennobling intention of Kim Jong Il to celebrate the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung as the most auspicious and significant event, which would solemnly declare the victory in the Songun-based great upsurge. In order to bring about a proud victory in 2012, he displayed super-human energy in leading the all-people advance. He continued his on-site guidance tours, up until the last moments of his revolutionary life, to major fronts of the building of a thriving nation, the army posts at the front line and various other parts of the country, thus bringing the 100-year history of the Juche era resplendent with great victories and changes to a close.

Last year significant achievements were made in the great upsurge for improving the people's standard of living, and solid foundations laid for building the country into an economic giant in the 21st century.

Under the great General's tireless leadership, the torch of the industrial revolution in the new century was kindled and our national economy has entered the stage of building a powerful country with the knowledge-based economy. The Huichon Power Station and other monumental edifices to be dedicated to the grand festival in 2012 are being set up in many parts of the country, and the flames of Hamnam, the banner of a fresh grand march, are flaring up fiercely. Amidst the great upsurge for improving the people's standard of living, many light-industry factories were renovated and modern livestock and fish-farming bases and large-size fruit-farming bases, prototypes of their kinds in the new century, were built in various parts of the country; these are great products born of our Party's strategy for achieving prosperity. Today we are confident in saying that we, with a great pride in being a victor, are at the epochal point of opening the gates of a thriving country.

The overall appearance of the country has been transformed to be appropriate for a thriving country. True to the far-reaching plan of Kim Jong Il, building up Pyongyang into a world-class city has been undertaken full steam, and Ryongnim, Taehung, Hoeryong and many other parts have been turned into socialist fairylands. Monumental works of performing arts, like the drama "We Will Recollect Today", which represents the art and literature in the Songun era, have been created one after another, and a new golden age of the mass-based arts has been ushered in.

Last year witnessed the demonstration on an ennobling high of the traits of our people who are ready to take the road of the revolution to the end following the great Party.

The situation was tense and complicated, yet the sentiments of our people who were keeping in step with their leader in onward advance remained unstained and invariable.

The period of mourning over the death of the great Kim Jong Il proved that the ties between him and his people sealed in aspiration and emotion are eternal and unbreakable. The tears our service personnel and people shed with greatest sorrow were tears of the unity, unaffected and crystal-clear, and tears of their firm determination to follow the Party to the end of the earth. The ideological and mental virtue of our people, who are possessed of the most ennobling sense of moral obligation, makes the enemy tremble with terror and strikes the rest of the world with admiration.

As long as there are the Party, army and state, which Kim Jong Il developed to be invincible, as long as Kim Jong Un, successor to the revolutionary cause of Juche, leads us sagaciously and as long as there is an excellent people who support their leaders faithfully through generations, the cause of building a thriving country is sure to emerge victorious?-this is an iron truth inscribed in our hearts as we set out on a fresh march.

This year, Juche 101 (2012), is the year when Kim Jong Il's plan for achieving prosperity will bear a brilliant fruit, and the year of a grand march, when a new century of Kim Il Sung's Korea begins.

The march in the new century of the Juche era is the continuation of the revolutionary march that started up on Mt. Paektu. Steadfast is the will of our service personnel and people to adorn our revolution, pioneered by Kim Il Sung and whose victory after victory they won following Kim Jong Il, with eternal victory following the leadership of Kim Jong Un. The guide of hope in the march in the new century is the great revolutionary ideas of the great persons of Mt. Paektu, and the treasured swords for sure victory are the courageous mettle of the brilliant commanders of Paektu and their way of offensive. We must follow to the end the road of independence, the road of Songun and the road to socialism pioneered by Kim Il Sung, so as to ensure that the history of revolutionary activities of Kim Il Sung and the history of Songun-based revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il continue without interruption.

The centenary of the birth of Kim Il Sung is a major, important occasion for displaying the might of Korea, which is advancing bravely towards the world standards, and a grand revolutionary festival, which will demonstrate the steadfast continuity of the revolution in Korea, which stoutly carries forward one ideology and one bloodline. We must glorify this year as a year of grand general march for inheriting the history of great upsurge generation after generation under the leadership of the great guide, the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Today we are faced with the important task of scaling without fail the historical-stage targets of 2012 true to the lifetime instructions of General Kim Jong Il. By registering a brilliant success in this year's struggle for opening the gates of a thriving country, we must enter a new, high stage of building a thriving socialist country in an all-round way.

"Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding, true to the instructions of the great General Kim Jong Il!"?-this is the militant slogan the whole Party, the entire army and all the people should uphold this year.

We must increase our political and ideological might, the might of our unity, to the maximum.

The first and foremost national power of Kim Il Sung's Korea was, is and will be the might of ideology and unity. The year 2012 is a year of single-minded unity, a year of burning loyalty, when our political and ideological might which has been consolidated generation after generation following the great leaders and the great Party, will be given full play.

Our people are all the descendants of Kim Il Sung who inherited his ideas and cause, and the soldiers and followers of Kim Jong Il. We must demonstrate to the whole world the noble outlook on morality we have cherished as we have the peerlessly great men as our eternal fathers and teachers. We should fully display our loyalty in greeting the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung with high political and ideological enthusiasm and brilliant feats of labor.

The revolutionary achievements and behests of the great Kim Jong Il are the lifeline we should hold fast to forever and the eternal precious assets of the revolution. We should staunchly defend the revolutionary heritage bequeathed by Kim Jong Il, whatever the storm and stress. It is the steadfast determination of our Party that it will make no slightest vacillation and concession in implementing the instructions and policies he had laid out in his lifetime and that it will allow no change in this process. We should maintain a thoroughgoing view that the road to socialism which Kim Il Sung had pioneered and Kim Jong Il had led along is the most correct choice and the principled stand that we will defend the people-centred socialism of our own style however others may say what.

We must develop our single-minded unity without interruption into the solidest one which is carried forward generation after generation. Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of our Party and our people, is the banner of victory and glory of Songun Korea and the eternal centre of its unity. The dear respected Kim Jong Un is precisely the great Kim Jong Il. The whole Party, the entire army and all the people should possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human shields in defending Kim Jong Un unto death, and follow the great Party for ever. We must become true persons who keep pace with their leader and his true comrades who work untiringly to creditably realize his intentions however hard the times are.

We must vigorously launch an all-out drive to implement our Party's grand strategy for achieving prosperity.

Last year Kim Jong Il earnestly said that the whole Party, the entire nation and all the people should bring about great innovations and leap forward on all fronts of the revolution and construction following the banner of the industrial revolution in the new century and the flames of Hamnam. This instruction constitutes the most scientific and revolutionary policy he put forth on the basis of his incisive insight into the present undertaking to build a thriving nation and the inexhaustible potentials of the country. True to the pledge we took before the bier of General Kim Jong Il, we should devote all our energy, wisdom and enthusiasm to the struggle for translating into reality his plan of achieving prosperity.

The flames of Hamnam represent the banner of the general offensive for the great victory in 2012, a banner of fresh change. The flames embody the spirit of valiant offensive of accomplishing the tasks entrusted by the Party in the shortest possible period and on the highest possible level, the strong national self-respect of rising beyond the global standards by drawing on one's own strength, and the traits of a pioneer of opening before anybody else the gates of prosperity in one's own home town and at one’s own workplace.

The flames of Hamnam for great innovation should flare up more fiercely in the sectors of light industry and agriculture, the leading sectors for the building of a thriving country.

The sector of light industry should direct utmost concern to making the modern production bases, which are associated with our Party’s great care, pay off. It should produce in larger amounts quality goods which cater to people's tastes and are welcomed by them. The problem of raw and other materials necessary for this sector should be solved by relying on domestic resources, and the relentless drive be continued to develop the local industry.

At present, the food problem is a burning issue in building a thriving country. Today Party organizations' militant efficiency and officials' loyalty to the revolution will be verified in solving this problem. They should implement to the letter the Party's policy of agricultural revolution so as to radically increase the per-unit area yield of grain both in lowlands and highlands. It is important to achieve cyclic production between farming and stockbreeding, introduce the organic farming method of our style in a proactive manner and take timely measures to satisfy the demand for farming materials and machinery needed to hit the target for agricultural production. They should ensure that the modern bases for stockbreeding and poultry farming and large-size fruit and fish farms, all having an important share in the improvement of people's living standards, run at full capacity.

The vanguard sectors of the national economy, the sectors of basic industries, are charged with making breakthroughs in the grand onward march for the next 100 years following the flames of Hamnam. We should solve the problem of power shortage at all costs and on a priority basis. The sector of electric-power industry should continue to press on with the building of large-size hydropower stations and improve the operation of equipment and technical management at the existing power stations, so as to keep the generation of electricity going on a high level. The sector of coal-mining industry should direct its efforts to meeting the demands for coal from thermal-power stations and chemical and metallurgical factories, and actively develop new coal fields. The officials and working people in the sector of metallurgical industry should increase the capacity of the Juche iron production system, introduce the techniques of high-temperature air combustion which rely on domestic fuel, and accelerate the modernization of the rolled steel production lines. The sector of rail transport should give precedence to upgrading the railways of the country, increase rail transport capacity and consolidate its material and technical foundations. The sector of chemical industry should, while building up the Juche fertilizer production system, effect a radical increase in its capacity and normalize the production of vinalon and other chemical fibres and synthetic resins on a high level.

The industrial revolution in the new century, which is the grand strategic line of socialist construction advanced by our Party, is a sacred struggle for building ours into a powerful country with the knowledge-based economy of our style through the drive to break through the cutting edge.

We should raise the overall level of the technical equipment onto a new high with the pioneering spirit and creative spirit displayed by the developers at the Ryonha Machine in making a rapid progress in producing the latest CNC machine tools. All sectors and units of the national economy should drastically increase the capacity for developing new technologies and products of their own, and push forward in a far-sighted way the work of turning the national economy into a technology-intensive one.

Scientific research institutes should make greater efforts to develop the fields of core, basic technologies, including information and nano technologies and bioengineering, and promote technical engineering in major fields and produce more research findings that would beat the world. In developing science and technology, they should firmly establish the Juche-orientation, thoroughly apply collectivism, and bring science and technology close to production. Talents in the field of science and technology, precious assets of the country, should be given prominence and the conditions for their scientific research should be provided at the highest standard.

We should glorify our country as a highly civilized, socialist one.

It was a patriotic will of the great General and is a unanimous aspiration of our people to surpass the standards of the world civilization in all spheres of social life. The sector of education should ensure a high level of its contents and form, conditions and environment, as required by the era of knowledge-based economy. The sector of literature and the arts should thoroughly implement the Party's policy of conducting creation, editing and representation in our own way, and produce a larger number of masterpieces that are perfect in all respects. Activities of mass-based art lifelike, easy to understand and based on the reality of a great upsurge should be conducted briskly, and the conditions for the youth and other people to lead an affluent cultured and emotional life be better provided. The heated enthusiasm for sports should be encouraged further by enhancing social interest in physical culture and sports and making them part of people's every day life and habit.

The work of bringing into full bloom the most excellent culture and ethics of our nation and our way of life should be further intensified. We should wage an intense struggle to frustrate the manoeuvres of the imperialists' ideological and cultural infiltration and root up alien elements in the way of life, so that a revolutionary and sound atmosphere would pervade the whole society.

To improve the appearance of Pyongyang is an important project to greet in grand style the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's earnest behest. We should step up the construction in the Mansudae area and other major projects under construction on the highest level and effect a radical turn in urban management and landscaping, thus ushering in a new heyday of Pyongyang in the Songun era. Every province, city and county should sustain its local peculiarities in its designing and construction, and drastically improve the appearance of its urban and rural communities.

We should consolidate the national defence capabilities in every way under the unfurled banner of Songun.

The Korean People’s Army is the pillar and main force of the Songun revolution and the vanguard in the building of a thriving nation.

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Kim Il Sung and the 80th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army; in this meaningful year, the KPA should bring about a radical turn in all aspects of military and political work by pressing ahead with the movement for winning the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, and thus demonstrate its heroic mettle and invincible combat efficiency as the army of the leader and the Party.

The officers and men of the KPA should cherish an unshakable faith that the great Comrade Kim Jong Il will always be with them and a noble moral obligation to him, and firmly defend his achievements for army-building and add eternal glory to them by force of arms.

The entire army should place absolute trust in and follow Kim Jong Un and become human rifles and bombs to defend him unto death, holding high the slogan “Let us defend with our very lives the Party Central Committee headed by the dear respected Comrade Kim Jong Un!"

At this juncture, when the Juche-oriented cause of army building has entered a new historic phase, the KPA should intensify the Party political work aimed at thoroughly establishing the unified command system of Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of our revolutionary armed forces. True to the lifetime intentions of Kim Jong Il, it should take the lead in supporting faithfully the Songun-based revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Un, the brilliant commander born of Mt. Paektu, and establish throughout it the revolutionary climate of carrying out his orders and instructions to the letter, without reservation and even unto death.

The security of our country and people, heritage bequeathed by Kim Jong Il, and victory in the building of a thriving nation, rest on the arms of Songun. Under the slogan "Training is also a battle!" the KPA should conduct training in an atmosphere of actual battle as befits the revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu, so as to prepare all the officers and men to be a-match-for-a-hundred combatants who could implement independently and actively the operational combat tasks assigned to them, a death-defying corps for national reunification. They should be fully ready to deal prompt and merciless blows at the enemy and achieve national reunification, if they dare infringe upon our dignity and sovereignty.

By pushing ahead with the work of strengthening the command and management of units and creating military ethos, it should thoroughly establish across it steel-strong military discipline, and possess looks required of a regular army and noble moral traits. It should direct constant efforts to the strengthening of companies, thus making them all competent combat ranks and dear homes for rank-and-file soldiers.

True to the intention of our Party, which set this year for the KPA as a year for the people, it should make devoted efforts to bring their happiness into full bloom, thus implementing with credit Kim Jong Il's idea of army-people unity.

The service personnel should achieve brilliant feats of labor that would be remembered for all ages by fully demonstrating their mettle of "At a go" on major fronts of the building of a thriving nation and with the charging speed, a-match-for-a-hundred speed, of the heroic KPA, which has no word impossible in its vocabulary.

The enormous potentialities of the defence industry Kim Il Sung created and Kim Jong Il consolidated through his tireless Songun-based revolutionary leadership should be given fullest play.

To strengthen the Party and enhance its leadership role to the maximum is the decisive guarantee for unfolding a new era of prosperity true to the behests of Kim Jong Il.

At present our Party and revolution are in an important, responsible period, when the revolutionary cause of Juche is being carried forward. The present reality demands that the Paektu spirit of march, the spirit of uninterrupted revolution, to carry out the revolution firmly rallied behind Kim Jong Un run through the building and activities of the Party.

The key point in our Party work at present and in the future, too, is to thoroughly establish the monolithic leadership system of the Party. We should strengthen and develop the whole Party into an integrated whole of organizational and ideological unity, which is run through with the unanimous will to follow the leader's intentions unconditionally.

Party organizations should fully get acquainted with the public sentiments as required by the Party's mass line, and effect a fresh turn in the work with the masses. They should respect the opinions of the masses and intensify Party work accordingly, so as to make the greatness of our Party's benevolent politics, all-embracing politics, demonstrated to the full this year that marks the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.

The most powerful is a Party organization which translates into reality the lifetime wish of Kim Jong Il. Party organizations at all levels should concentrate their efforts on the struggle to make the flames of Hamnam flare up fiercely and push ahead with the industrial revolution in the new century. They should launch in a fresh and ambitious way the information and publicity work to inspire the people to live and work in the spirit and at the speed of forced march displayed by Kim Jong Il.

It is important to radically improve the way of work of officials and their leading abilities as required by the era of great upsurge.

What is important today for our officials is to actively learn from the militant temperament of the commanding officers of the KPA, who carry out the intentions of Kim Jong Un in a most swift and thoroughgoing way. Officials who buckle down audaciously and without any delay to what the Party is determined to do, who carry out any challenging task at lightning speed in a three-dimensional way and who finish any thing to be impeccable even in the distant future as a thing of lasting value?-the current age of great upsurge demand such officials.

"Let us do many more things for the benefit of the people!"?-this must be the slogan of action and conscience for our officials in supporting the intentions of the great Party. Officials should be deeply aware that they exist for the sake of the people, have the steadfast standpoint of launching all undertakings in keeping with the will and interests of the people, and acquire an open-minded attitude of verifying their loyalty to the Party in front of the people. They should thoroughly effect the intentions of our Party of considering people's conveniences to be absolute and the highest priority and making devoted services for them.

It is an important key to emerging victorious in the general offensive of this year to give fullest play to the mental strength of the masses of the people.

The mental strength of the masses decides everything. It is necessary to emulate the mental strength and executive abilities displayed by the people in South Hamgyong Province who have proudly manufactured state-of-the-art machinery by their own efforts with a firm faith that Korea does what it is determined to do. Mass movement and socialist emulation drive should be launched vigorously in all parts of the country to enlist the mental strength of the masses.

As Kim Jong Il said, when the working people's organizations are afire with enthusiasm, the whole country will be enveloped with the same atmosphere. The youth league organizations should train all their members to be genuine young vanguard of Songun that will creditably carry forward the traditions of performing miracles and innovations and the traditions of revolutionary optimism displayed in every period of the Korean revolution. Young people should perform feats of labor at all sites of the building of a thriving country, and build many more monumental structures in the Songun era to be named after youth, singing aloud "March of the Korean Youth". The women's union organizations should actively conduct various forms of do-good-thing movement, including the women’s union shock-brigade campaign, and render tangible contributions to making a revolutionary and sound way of life prevail throughout the country. All the working people's organizations should fully discharge their mission and duty as organizations for ideological education so as to encourage all their members to highly display their honor of being participants and victors in the drive to build a great, prosperous and powerful country.

We must thoroughly carry out the instructions of President Kim Il Sung, eternal sun of the nation, and the respected leader Kim Jong Il on national reunification.

The reunification of the country was the lifelong desire of the great persons of Mt. Paektu and the greatest national task assigned to our generation. General Kim Jong Il opened up a broad avenue for accomplishing Kim Il Sung's cause of national reunification by devoting his whole life. Today, the dear respected Kim Jong Un, another peerless patriot, stands in the van of the effort to carry out the cause of national reunification under the banners of the immortal three charters for national reunification and the north-south joint declarations. As solid foundations have been laid for national reunification and the whole of 70 million Korean people are burning with patriotic zeal, the long-cherished desire of the nation will be materialized without fail before long.

Last year, proceeding from a patriotic intention to open a new phase for reunification and prosperity, we proposed wide-ranging talks and negotiations to the south Korean authorities, and made consistent efforts to realize them. However, running against the trend of the times and the public sentiments, the conservative ruling forces in south Korea responded by further intensifying worship of other countries, including the United States, confrontation with the fellow countrymen in the north and war manoeuvres against the north. The acts contrary to morality and against the nation committed by the group of traitors in south Korea?neglecting the greatest national sorrow and hindering in every possible way the offering of condolence?triggered soaring indignation and denunciation on the part of all compatriots. The ruling forces have become an object of people's stern trial.

The developments of last year reaffirmed the truth of history that our nation's will for independent reunification, peace and prosperity can be broken by no force and the anti-reunification forces will surely be defeated.

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the October 4 Declaration, the action programme of the June 15 Joint Declaration.

In this meaningful year we must bring about a decisive turn in accomplishing the cause of national reunification as we hold high the slogan "Let all the compatriots open the gates of national reunification full of fresh confidence!"

The stand of national independence and putting the nation above anything else should be maintained in a thoroughgoing way.

Solving the problems of inter-Korean relations by rejecting aggressive foreign forces and pooling the efforts of our nation itself is the demand of the June 15 reunification era. All the fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad should open a broad vista for national reunification with the conviction that our nation should be of the first and foremost consideration and that they will have nothing they cannot do if they maintain the thoroughgoing stand of national independence. Marking the fifth anniversary of the publication of the October 4 Declaration, the atmosphere of supporting the north-south declarations and the will to implement them should prevail across the whole of the national territory. The south Korean people should wage a fierce mass struggle aimed at resolutely frustrating the schemes to sell the interests of the nation in collaboration with the foreign forces.

National reconciliation and unity is the precondition and guarantee for national reunification.

The common interests of the nation should be given top priority, and everything should be subordinated to them. Confrontation between fellow countrymen that is driving the inter-Korean relations towards catastrophe should be strongly opposed and rejected. Acts against reunification, acts that disgrace the dignity of the north and foster distrust and antagonism between the north and the south, cannot be tolerated in the slightest. All the fellow countrymen should wage a nationwide struggle to frustrate the anti-reunification policy hostile to compatriots pursued by the group of traitors, hindering national reconciliation and unity and escalating confrontation.

The prevailing situation urgently demands that the war moves of the bellicose forces at home and abroad be checked and frustrated.

The entire nation, under the unfurled banner of anti-war and peace, should smash every move of reckless military provocation, arms buildup and war exercises against the north. Constant vigilance against the danger of military collaboration of the bellicose forces within the country and without should be maintained, and the US aggressor forces, the main obstacle to peace in the Korean peninsula, should be pulled out from south Korea.

Today's struggle to implement the instructions of Kim Jong Il on national reunification is a patriotic one related with the destiny of the nation in the new century of the Juche era. All the Korean people in the north, south and abroad should unite closely under the banners of the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration and give further spurs to the reunification movement. By doing so, this year they should make a breakthrough for independent reunification.

The international environment was quite complicated last year, but the Korean revolution advanced invariably along the road of victory indicated by Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il was a defender of justice; for long, he conducted energetic external activities under the unfurled banner of anti-imperialist independence, remarkably enhancing the position and authority of Songun Korea in the international arena and rendering immortal services to promoting the cause of independence of mankind. The historic visits he made last year to China and Russia served as important occasions for achieving peace in the world and security in Northeast Asia and developing the traditional relations of friendship. Whatever a sudden turn the international situation may take and however frantically the imperialists may behave, nothing can arrest our advance towards socialism. We will, in the future, too, hold fast to our Party’s principles of independence, friendship and peace, and strive to develop relations of friendship with countries that respect our country's sovereignty.

As they have entered the new century of the Juche era, having overcome the pain of the greatest loss, our service personnel and people are filled with a grim determination and confidence in sure victory.

Inscribed in the hearts of our service personnel and people, who have turned out in the new onward march, are lifetime appearances of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. As Kim Jong Un, a peerlessly brilliant commander, is leading our revolution in the van and the powerful revolutionary army and people united single-heartedly support faithfully their guide, the Workers' Party of Korea, the revolutionary cause of Juche is sure to emerge victorious. The advance of our revolution that started on Mt. Paektu will continue without interruption as a vigorous march towards the victorious Songun revolution, towards prosperity.

Let us all glorify the new century of Kim Il Sung's Korea as an era of prosperity and proud victory under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of our Party, our state and our army.

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201201/news01/20120101-01ee.html

The complete Korean version you read here (but only if you're not residing in the 'democratic' ROK^^)!

* Some examples you can read here:
☞ North Korea's new year message declares era of prosperity (Guardian)
☞ N Koreans urged to defend new leader to death (al-Jazeera)
☞ N.Korean New Year’s statement... (Hankyoreh)


 

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Pyeongyang's New Year's greetings to the S. Korean people via (D.P.R.K.) Nat'l Defense Commission(12.30): 

"The sea of bloody tears from our military and people will follow the puppet regime until the end. Our tears will turn into a sea of revengeful fire that burns everything."

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On occasion of today's state funeral for "The Dear Leader", aka Kim Jong-il (the "Sun of the 21st Century", the "Illustrious Commander", the "Brillant Leader of the Korean Nation" etc.) a small tidbit from NK's gov't-run "news agency":

Two days ago North Korea's KCNA 'reported' the following: "This year progressive people of a total of more than 400 countries remembered the brilliant revolutionary career of President Kim Il Sung in humblest reverence and highly praised him..."

Yeah, what a great number!!

But there's only a bit of a problem: on OUR earth there're only 193 countries (as U.N. members)! CIA's 'World Factbook' lists 227 countries (incl. Greenland, Gibraltar, Guam, Faroe Islands, Taiwan etc.).

Well, as you can see, there's a mismatch...

But there's possibly an explanation of the mismatch: Although N. Korea (aka D.P.R.K.) is an U.N. member, it fancies itself in a parallel universe. And there are "more than 400 countries"...

And - of course - they're all following the (wise, brilliant, immortal, invincible etc.) leadership of the Juche Idea and Songun Policy!!!^^

Bottoms up!

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Once again: no comment!!(^^)

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No comment!!^^