Third Anniversary of Death of Chairman Kim Jong Il

Three years have passed since Chairman Kim Jong Il of the DPRK National Defence Commission passed away on December 17, 2011. Those years were the days of boundless yearning of the Korean people for the Chairman and those of unfailing and noble sense of moral obligation to him.  

The Korean people have held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal NDC Chairman and added brilliance to his exploits.

Reflecting the desire of the Korean people the Chairman is preserved in his lifetime appearance in the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung, founder of socialist Korea, lies in state. Statues of him and mosaic murals of his beaming image were built on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang and other places across the country, and portraits of his beaming image hung in rooms of all the institutions, enterprises and families. The Korean people are wearing the badges bearing his image.

The fourth conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the fifth session of the 12^th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK that were held in April 2012 decided on holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem as eternal General Secretary of the WPK and Chairman of the DPRK NDC.

For the exploits he had performed for the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence he was awarded the titles of Hero and Generalissimo of the DPRK, and Order of Kim Il Sung and Kim Il Sung Prize, highest decorations of the DPRK. He was also awarded in July 2013 the commemorative order which was newly instituted to mark 60^th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (1950 – 1953).

February 16, his birthday was designated as the Day of the Shining Star, and Order of     Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Il Prize, Kim Jong Il Youth Honour Prize, Kim Jong Il Children Honour Prize, and the watch bearing his autographed name were newly instituted. Many documentaries about his revolutionary career and exploits were produced and screened, while Kim Jong Il’s Complete Works that comprehensively embody his great ideas and instructions being published. Literary works in reverence for him are continuously created and published.

All these manifest the noble sense of moral obligation and loyalty of the Korean people to Chairman Kim Jong Il: He developed the Juche idea and the Songun idea into the guiding ideologies in the era of independence and brilliantly implemented them in all realms of the Korean society; he achieved the single-hearted unity of the whole society in which its every member is united into one socio-political integrity; he built up the DPRK into an impregnable political and military socialist power, which manufactures and launches artificial earth satellites and possesses nuclear capabilities; he made an epochal change in developing the country into a prosperous and powerful one; and he rendered distinguished services to the cause of the independence of mankind.  

The Korean people stepped up their vigorous advance to implement his lifetime wishes in all fields and sectors, thereby bringing about gigantic changes.

Scientists and technicians succeeded in launching the artificial satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2 on the occasion of the first anniversary of his death and brilliantly carried out his lifetime instruction that the first applications earth satellite should be launched in 2012 that would mark the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung. Such construction projects that he had proposed and paid special attention as Changjon Street and People’s Theatre in downtown Pyongyang, Rungna People’s Recreation Ground, Ryugyong Health Complex, People’s Open-air Ice Rink, Pyongyang Folk Park, Breast Tumour Institute of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and others were completed at the highest level.

Other major projects now under way in the DPRK, including those of power stations in tiers on the Chongchon River and livestock farming bases in the Sepho area, are all geared to translate his lifetime wishes and intentions into reality.

It is an inflexible faith and unshakeable will of the Korean people to realize Kim Jong Il’s plans and instructions without fail.

At present valuable seeds of prosperity sown by the Chairman are coming to fruition in the DPRK.

A sea of apple trees at the foot of Chol Pass, another socialist paradise in the country, is a good example.

In the mid-1990s when the imperialist allied forces concentrated anti-socialist offensives on the DPRK, the Chairman held higher the banner of Songun in defence of socialism and embarked on his journey of Songun. While continuously inspecting the units of the KPA, he crossed the rugged Chol Pass more than ten times to visit frontline army posts. When crossing the pass he looked down at a fruit farm at the foot of the pass and initiated expanding the production capacity of the fruit farm in order to ensure that people were supplied with greater amounts of fruit. Therefore, in Kosan at the foot of this pass was built a large-scale fruit farm, covering an area of 2 200 hectares which is two times greater than the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm in a suburb of Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, which won an international fame a few years ago as a “world-ranking model fruit farm.” The Kosan Fruit Farm with vast expanses of orchards full of apple tree blossoms in spring and the trees laden heavily with apples in autumn is a socialist paradise   Kim Jong Il had wished so ardently in his lifetime.

The DPRK is now witnessing rapid progresses in the development of science and technology in the fierce flames of breaking through the cutting edge, as he had wished. Many factories and enterprises in the metallurgical, machine-building and other economic sectors have been upgraded, while steady increase in production in light industry and agriculture bringing about remarkable improvements in the people’s living standards. Thanks to a great heyday in construction, such cultural, sports and recreational establishments for the people as the Munsu Water Park, Mirim Riding Club and Masikryong Ski Resort, as well as medical service facilities including Okryu Children’s Hospital and Ryugyong Dental Hospital were splendidly built in the country. Unha Scientists Street, apartment buildings for educationists at Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology, and Wisong Scientists Dwelling District made their gigantic appearances, and cities and villages across the country are being turned into socialist paradises, adding remarkable successes to the building of a civilized socialist nation.

The Korean people’s vigorous grand march to materialize the lifetime plans and wishes of Chairman Kim Jong Il is led by their supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

 DPRK Foreign Ministry on Feats Performed by Kim Jong Il for Country's Reunification

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The Disarmament and Peace Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Friday issued a report on the study of the distinguished contribution leader Kim Jong Il made by advancing the three charters for national reunification as a reunification programme common to the nation on the occasion of the third anniversary of his demise.

The report said:

Kim Jong Il's formulation of the three charters for national reunification is the immortal ideological and theoretical feat performed in the struggle for the country's reunification to be specially recorded in the Korean nation's history of the movement for national reunification.

The fundamental principle clarified by the three charters is the principle of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.

The three charters for national reunification is the programme for reunification common to the nation truth and realistic nature of which have been proved through the movement for national reunification.

Kim Jong Il formulated and systematized ideologically and theoretically the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung for national reunification and, on this basis, wisely led the Korean people in their efforts for implementing the three charters for national reunification with rare ability to implement them.

Kim Jong Il, through his untiring patriotic devotion, brought about such epochal events as two north-south summits for the first time in the history of national division and published internally and externally the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing it.

The publication of the historic north-south joint declaration brought about such exciting events as brisk dialogue and contacts between the north and the south, relinking of once severed railways and roads, repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners to the DPRK, reunion of separated families and relatives from the north and the south, the establishment of the Kaesong Industrial Zone symbolic of the north-south economic cooperation. They clearly proved the vitality of the three charters for national reunification which has been cherished by all Koreans as their common charter for reunification.

The "unification" touted by the Park Geun Hye regime of south Korea is the "unification through absorption", a replica of German-style unification and, in essence, a theory of confrontation against peace and unification.

The present regime of south Korea is crying out for making a "charter for unification". This is because the principle of independence and the proposal for achieving reunification by federal formula, the core of the charter for reunification common to all Koreans, do not meet its ulterior purpose.

If the south Korean regime has even an iota of the will to atone for its crimes before the nation and history, it should, before anything else, bring life to the spirit of By Our Nation Itself and retake sovereignty over the issue of inter-Korean relations and reunification issue.

It should respect the three charters for national reunification confirmed as a programme for reunification common to the nation through the inter-Korean agreement and respond to the nationwide discussion on their implementation.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Accuses U.S. of Its Human Rights Abuses

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued the following statement on Friday as regards the fact that the human rights abuses systematically committed by the U.S. were revealed again:

On December 9, the U.S. Congress made public some parts of the report that exposed inhuman acts of torture applied by the CIA against suspects of international terrorist groups.

Those inhumane, medieval tortures have been committed systematically, premeditatedly and extensively under the approval and protection of the U.S. president. This makes it obvious that the U.S. is the kingpin of human rights violation and tundra of human rights.

The revealed acts of torture by the CIA this time are nothing new nor is it in all. They are a piece of the innumerous crimes against humanity the U.S., a sample state of human rights violation, has committed all over the world in the past.

The whole world is shocked at such atrocious tortures, and international human rights organizations and groups and all the countries are unanimously condemning them.

The kingpin of such human rights violation is pointing its finger at other countries over their human rights records, and this is the height of hypocrisy.

If the UNSC is truly interested in the settlement of human rights issue, it should not discuss the fictitious "human rights issue" of the DPRK framed up by a few human scum but, from the viewpoint of setting an example, put into question the century-old heinous human rights violations self-revealed in the U.S., a permanent member of the UNSC, and bring before the court those who are responsible for such acts.

The world will judge the impartiality of the UNSC through its attitude towards the DPRK's just stand on the protection and promotion of human rights and towards the serious human rights records in the U.S.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Slams Israel's Military Attack on Syria

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Dec. 12 gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the fact that Israel recently made air raids on Syria:

On Dec. 7 Israel illegally conducted air raids on the airport in Damascus and its vicinity.

Such gangster-like military attack is a wanton violation of Syria's sovereignty and international laws.

The U.S. is behind the escalated tension and instability in the Middle East. It has zealously encouraged and patronized Israel's armed attacks and military threats to its neighboring countries while resorting to all means and methods to topple the Syrian people's legitimate government.

The DPRK strongly condemns the recent air raids and all other aggressions and interventions that make the situation complicated.

It extends full support and solidarity to the Syrian people in the just struggle to reject the outside pressure and interference and protect the sovereignty and security of their country