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Press review

Date: 15/01/1997 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) -- Rodong sinmun today
carries news that the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il sent
messages to foreign heads of state in reply to their
messages of greetings on the occasion of the 5th anniversary
of his election as supreme commander of the Korean people's
army.
Comrade Kim Jong Il sent thanks to officials and farmers
including the secretary of the Songgwan-ri party committee
in Songwon county, jagang province, says the paper.
The paper informs the readers that the zimbabwean
preparatory committee for celebrating the 55th birthday of
comrade Kim Jong Il was formed.
Papers devote much space of their first pages to news of
the struggle of South Korean people including the general
strike of more than 600,000 workers of over 3,000 workshops
under the "Federation of Korean trade unions" against the
revision of the "Labour laws" and the "Law on the agency for
national security planning".
Under the fixed title "They always worked together for
the people" Rodong sinmun edits an article titled "Looking
up to greatmen who indicate future of our fatherland" with
a photo of the great leaders president Kim Il Sung and
comrade Kim Jong Il seeing containers and refrigerators
(April 1984).
Minju joson runs an editorial titled "Let us
conduct more dynamic movement for reunification under the
three charters of national reunification".
Papers introduce preparations for this year's farming on
cooperative farms.
Given in the press is an account of meetings held at
factories, enterprises, cooperative farms and schools in all
parts of the country to carry through tasks set forth in the
joint new year editorial.
Papers inform the readers that a mass meeting was held in
Pyongyang to welcome a South Korean Paek Hung Ryong and his
wife who have come over to the northern half of Korea.
Papers carry news that the Korean student committee sent
a letter to the South Korean students in support of the
massive struggle of South Korean workers and other people
against the "Law on the agency for national security
planning" and the "Labour laws" revised by the Kim Young Sam
fascist clique.
Rodong sinmun in a commentary denounces the traitor Kim
Young Sam's remarks justfying the secret passage of the evil
laws.
It runs an article exposing the crime of the traitor Kim
Young Sam in driving the South Korean economy into
bankruptcy.
It carries an article titled "The independent stand
against imperialism is the consistent position of the DPRK".
Minju joson runs an article titled "Aggression and
plunder are imperialists' way of existence."

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