The Marxist-Leninist Daily

Toronto
Public Forum to Commemorate 60th Anniversary of the DPRK's Founding
Wednesday, September 17 -- 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Cumberland Room, International Student Centre, University of Toronto
33 St. George Street (just north of College on east side of St. George)

The meeting will launch a year of activities to raise the profile of the DPRK in Canada and step-up the level of support for the just struggles of the Korean people for peace, independence, self- determination and reunification in the face of the ongoing provocations of U.S. imperialism against the DPRK and the Korean nation. The main presentation will be followed by a short video presentation, discussion and a cultural program.

Organized by Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
Co-Sponsored by: Korea Truth Commission (Canadian Chapter) and Corean Federation in Canada
For more information: (416) 570-3377

Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK! Support the Struggles of the Korean People!

September 9, 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). On the Korean Peninsula, as well as abroad, the Korean people are marking this Diamond Jubilee with revolutionary enthusiasm. The founding of the DPRK in 1948, was an event of great historical significance for the Korean people and the peoples of the world. It enabled Koreans to bring forth a dignified, independent nation, carving out their own destiny for the first time in their 5,000-year-long national history.

For 60 years since its founding, the DPRK has had an arduous road to travel, but at the same time a road that has been marked by great victories and contributions to humanity's struggle for peace and progress. Its unflinching struggle against U.S. imperialism and U.S. military occupation of south Korea continues to be an inspiration to all the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world.

Emerging from the victorious struggle to end Japanese occupation in Korea and playing a decisive role in the defeat of the Axis powers in World War Two, the Korean people were met with the invasion of U.S. imperialism that divided the nation by force. The U.S. established military rule in the south and put in place a puppet state. The U.S. provoked a civil war and waged its 1950 to 1953 war of aggression in which more than three million Korean civilians we killed and massive destruction caused to the economy and infrastructure. This was done under the auspices of the UN, based on the lie of intervening in an international conflict. The DPRK, though still in its infancy, defeated the U.S. in the war and successfully defended the independence of the country and sovereignty of the nation.

DPRK leader President Kim Il Sung said at the time: "The victory of our people in the Korean War was a victory of the revolutionary people over the imperialist forces, a victory of the revolutionary army over the aggressive forces of imperialism. It proved that the people who rise up for freedom, independence and progress, taking their destiny into their own hands under the leadership of a Marxist-Leninist party, will never be conquered by any imperialist forces of aggression. It also exposed the vulnerability and corruptness of U.S. imperialism, demonstrating to the oppressed nations of the world that U.S. imperialism is by no means an unconquerable enemy and that they too can definitely fight and defeat it."

Pyongyang, September 9, 2008. Top: Koreans gather to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the DPRK's founding. Centre: military formations parade through Pyongyang. Bottom: A parade of Korean youth use torchlight to spell out the names of President Kim Il Sung (left) and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

The DPRK then and now has been able to overcome the most severe trials placed before it with the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, led first by President Kim Il Sung and now by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

The July 25, 1953 victory over the U.S., like the many decades since, have shown the DPRK to be a bulwark against U.S. imperialism, itself a profound contribution to world peace. The U.S. today is as active as ever in pursuing its efforts to conquer the whole of the Korean peninsula so as to dominate all of Asia. Standing firm against the might of the U.S. military empire -- known for its use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons worldwide -- the DPRK continues to affirm not only the right of all nations to self-determination and self-defence, but its confidence in victory against any aggressive force.

In its conduct in the Six Party Talks to Denuclearize the Korean Peninsula which began in 2003, the DPRK has been broad-minded and principled in working together with Russia, China, Japan, south Korea, and the U.S. to achieve the denuclarization of the Korean peninsula peacefully despite the intransigence and treachery of the U.S. and its main ally in the Far East, Japan, to sabotage and scuttle this important diplomatic initiative to secure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and East Asia.

It is the DPRK and its leadership that have led the movement for Korean reunification. All initiatives and proposals for the reunification of Korea since 1945 have been inspired by the leadership of the DPRK which has put forward the principle that Korean reunification can only be achieved by the Korean people, by their own efforts, peacefully and without outside interference.

That the struggle of the Korean people brings great honour and dignity to them as a people, and to all of humanity, is also seen in the bright prospect which continues to be opened by their protracted efforts to achieve the peaceful, independent reunification of the nation. As expressed in the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration of 2000 and in the October 4, 2007 Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity, the Korean people, north, south and worldwide, are united as one people, one nation, irrespective of ideological or other considerations, in achieving reunification through peaceful means and through their own efforts, without outside interference.

Pyongyang, September 9, 2008: Korean youth use torchlight to make "6.15" referring to the June 15, 2000 joint declaration between north and south for reunification. The two female figures joining hands are twin sisters representing the unity of the two Koreas.

On this occasion, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) salutes the struggles of the Korean people and the principled and resolute stand of the DPRK in defence of the national rights to independence, sovereignty and self-reliance. The heroic advances of the Korean people have shown repeatedly that it is the peoples, not the imperialists and their wars, which are decisive in making history. In this spirit, as One Humanity engaged in One Struggle for Our Rights, we reiterate our immediate demands:

U.S. Troops Out of Korea!
Reparations Now for U.S. Crimes Against the Korean People!
Sign a Non-Aggression Pact Now!

Toronto Public Forum on 60th Anniversary
Launches Year of Activities

The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) working along with the Korea Truth Commission (Canadian Chapter), the 6.15 Declaration Committee (Canadian Chapter) and others will launch a year of public events including forums and meetings, a film series and other activities beginning on September 17, 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and to call on the Canadian government to normalize relations with the DPRK by establishing a DPRK embassy in Ottawa and a Canadian Embassy in Pyongyang to facilitate fraternal relations between the peoples of the two states.

The year-long program is also to inform the Canadian people about the DPRK and the struggles of the Korean people for independence, peace and reunification and enlist their support for the just struggles of the Korean people. It is also to smash the disinformation campaign waged by the U.S. and the monopoly media including in Canada to isolate the DPRK and criminalize it in order to advance U.S. imperialist interests to occupy the whole of the Korean peninsula and establish a nuclear staging ground to wage wars of aggression against Russia and China, and to dominate Asia and the world. Details of events will be posted on TML and everyone is welcome to participate.

New DPRK Ambassador to Canada
Presents Credentials

On July 2, 2008, His Excellency Mr. Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in New York, presented his credentials as the new Ambassador of the DPRK to Canada to the Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean. Mr. Sin, who will do double duty as the DPRK's Permanent Representative at the UN as well as Ambassador to Canada, is a career diplomat having served the DPRK internationally in serveral posts. He has the distinction of being the first foreign diplomat to greet Nelson Mandela when the latter was released from prison.

Despite having established diplomatic relations with the DPRK on February 6, 2001, the Canadian government has yet to establish an embassy in Pyongyang nor has it facilitated the building of a DPRK embassy in Ottawa, both of which would promote the normalization of relations between the two countries as well as bilateral trade, cultural and other relations between the Canadian people and the people of the DPRK.

Currently, Ted Lipman, Canada's Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (south Korea) and based in Seoul, also serves as Ambassador to the DPRK.

Resolutedly Denounce U.S. War Exercises in Inchon!

On September 6, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) carried a report denouncing the U.S.-backed south Korean regime's army of planning to carry out a massive military exercise to commemorate the U.S. landing in Inchon during the Korean War. This military exercise was planned to coincide with the the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK on September 9. Given that the south Korean military is under the command of a U.S. general, this is an attempt to create war hysteria against the DPRK and the Korean people, the KCNA pointed out. The report in KCNA states:

"The south Korean puppet army was reported to have planned to organize a 'commemoration event' on Sept. 9 as a repetition of the landing operation in Inchon conducted by the U.S forces during the last Korean war.

"The 'event' involving large transports, landing craft, scores of landing armored cars and planes and huge troops is, in actuality, a landing operation exercise of the puppet navy. It is a grave act of treachery for the south Korean puppet army to replay the landing operation in Inchon, a synonym for aggression and genocide, as it was a military operation directly commanded by MacArthur and other top brass of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces. GIs indiscriminately killed at least 1,300 innocent peaceable people on the very day they landed in Inchon in mid-September of 1950. They arrested, imprisoned, tortured and killed at least 75,000 civilians in Seoul alone.

"Half a century has passed since then but the soul of more than 1.2 million people brutally killed by the U.S. imperialists in south Korea during the Korean war seems to call for revenge.

Protesters shout slogans during an anti-war and anti-U.S. rally denouncing the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) exercise, a joint military drill between South Korea and the U.S., in front of the South Korea-U.S. War Command Centre TANGO in Seongnam, south of Seoul, August 18, 2008.

"The above-said commemoration event is projected by the south Korean authorities at a time when the south Korean people and the international community are becoming increasingly vocal condemning the monstrous crimes committed by the U.S. forces against humanity through their intrusion into Inchon. This is a hideous atrocity little short of committing double crimes against so many slain civilians.

"This is nothing but an open praise of aggression and massacres perpetrated by the U.S. forces present in south Korea. It brings to light the treacherous nature of the Lee Myung Bak clique as running dogs of the U.S. in carrying out its adventurous scenario for aggression against the DPRK and its war servant.

"Warmongers keen on sycophancy toward the U.S. and dependence on foreign forces are getting more desperate in their moves to block national reconciliation and unity and ignite a new war at its instigation.

"They are exerting efforts to stoke hostility toward fellow countrymen in the north and establish a 'view on the principal enemy' while putting spurs to boosting the combat readiness of the three services of their army and beefing up their armed forces.

"They staged the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises, a replica of the Ulji Focus Lens aimed at 'the overall examination and improvement' of the readiness to launch a war against the DPRK, and are escalating various forms of espionage against the DPRK in the land and sea and air and intrusions into its territorial waters. These undisguised military provocations are creating a tense situation reminiscent of the eve of war.

"They are also busy ensuring the transfer and expansion of the U.S. military bases. They have expanded the area of the Mugon-ri drill ground in Phaju City, Kyonggi Province to reach millions of phyong (one phyong equals 3.954 sq yds) and offered it to the U.S. forces as their exclusive drill ground. The U.S. forces base in Phyongthaek has been enlarged and the construction of a base for the U.S. Apache unit in Kunsan and a naval base on Jeju Island is now under way.

"The reality goes to prove that the Lee Myung Bak bellicose forces' moves for confrontation with the DPRK and compatriots have reached an extremely grave phase.

"The Lee group is sadly mistaken if it calculates it can get something by whipping up war hysteria through such landing operation exercise, etc.

"Such confrontation with fellow countrymen and war moves would only lead the Lee group of traitors to final destruction."

Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman
on Six Party Talks

A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on August 26 in connection with the stumbling block laid by the United States in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula by refusing to implement the October 3 agreement of the six-party talks.

Under the October 3 agreement stipulating the practical measures to be taken at the second phase for the implementation of the September 19 joint statement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula the DPRK was committed to representing a nuclear declaration and the U.S. was also committed to writing the DPRK off the list of the "state sponsors of terrorism."

The DPRK has honored its commitment by presenting the nuclear declaration on June 26. But the U.S. failed to delist the DPRK as a "state sponsor of terrorism" within the fixed date for the mere "reason" that a protocol on the verification of the nuclear declaration has not yet been agreed upon. This was an outright violation of the agreement.

No agreements reached among the six parties or between the DPRK and the U.S. contain an article which stipulates the verification of the nuclear declaration of the DPRK as conditionality for delisting it as a "state sponsor of terrorism."

As far as the verification is concerned, it is a commitment to be fulfilled by the six parties at the final phase of the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula according to the September 19 joint statement.

It should be verified that there are no U.S. nuclear weapons in and around south Korea and that there has been neither new shipment nor passage of those weapons. This verification and the verification of the DPRK's fulfillment of its commitments should be done at the same time. This is the principle of "action for action."

All that was agreed upon at the present phase was to set up verification and monitoring mechanisms within the framework of the six parties.

The U.S., however, raised all of a sudden an issue of applying an "international standard" to the verification of the nuclear declaration, abusing this agreed point. It pressurized the DPRK to accept such inspection as scouring any place of the DPRK as it pleases to collect samples and measure them.

The "international standard" touted by the U.S. is nothing but "special inspection" which the IAEA called for in the 1990s to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and caused it to pull out of the NPT in the end.

The U.S. is gravely mistaken if it thinks it can make a house search in the DPRK as it pleases just as it did in Iraq.

The U.S. insistence on the unilateral inspection of the DPRK is a brigandish demand for unilaterally disarming the DPRK, the other belligerent party, by discarding its commitment to the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula the core of which is to remove the U.S. nuclear threat according to the September 19 joint statement.

The DPRK's intention to denuclearize the peninsula is to remove the nuclear threat from the Korean nation, not to have a bargaining over the DPRK's nuclear deterrent.

For whom is the six-way structure necessary if the six-party talks are reduced to a platform for a big country to trifle with a small country as it does at present?

This time the U.S. postponed the processs of delisting the DPRK as a "state sponsor of terrorism" under the pretext of verification even after officially declaring internally and externally that the DPRK is not a "state sponsor of terrorism."

This is little short of admitting that the list is not related to terrorism in actuality.

The DPRK dose not care whether it continues remaining on the list of "those countries which are disobedient to the U.S."

Now that the U.S. breached the agreed points, the DPRK is compelled to take the following countermeasures on the principle of "action for action."

First, the DPRK decided to immediately suspend the disablement of its nuclear facilities that had been underway according to the October 3 agreement.

This step took effect on August 14 and the parties concerned have already been notified of this.

Second, the DPRK will consider soon a step to restore the nuclear facilities in Nyongbyon to their original state as strongly requested by its relevant institutions.

Chronology of Korean Revolutionary History

The Korean people, under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, defeated the Japanese invaders and achieved the historic cause of Korea's liberation in August 1945. The period of building a new Korea took place from August 1945-June 1950, by building of the Party, state and army and Korea's peaceful reunification movement.

This was followed by the period of the Korean war, June 1950-July 1953, against the American invaders and imperialist allies.

November 1970-October 1980 was the period of developing the three revolutions -- ideological, technological and cultural.

October 1980-July 1994 was the period of modelling the whole of society on the Juche idea and defending and advancing the socialist cause, related to the efforts of the DPRK leaders to successfully lead the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence.

July 1994 to the present is the period of building a thriving and powerful socialist nation by the Songun-based revolutionary leadership.

In the Spirit of Self-Reliance

The Korean people are bringing about national prosperity in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.

The spirit was created during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and its vitality has been proved in the whole process of the Korean revolution.

Having advanced the idea that the decisive factor in victorious revolution lies in one's own revolutionary ranks, Kim Il Sung led revolutionaries and people to solve all problems by their own efforts during the anti-Japanese revolution.

The revolutionary forerunners armed themselves with weapons they seized from the enemy to conduct the armed struggle and produced bombs, uniforms, food and medicines by themselves.

Under the leadership of Commander Kim Il Sung they overcame all difficulties in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude and finally achieved the historic cause of national liberation.

Even after liberation, a multitude of hardships were in their way, but the Korean people held higher the banner of self-reliance and displayed great perseverance.

During the Korean war the U.S. invaders reduced towns and rural areas to ashes, but they defended the country heroically.

Workers overhauled a destroyed cupola furnace and turned out molten iron to produce hand grenades and the old and women undertook grain production in farms. On the war debris the Korean people restored or rebuilt factories and improved their living standard to be better off than before the war.

A great surge was brought about in socialist construction in the late 1950s when working people made miraculous achievements throughout the country.

In October 1958 President Kim Il Sung visited the then Tokchon Automobile Repair Factory and told workers and technicians about the necessity of lorries. He encouraged them, saying that they could manufacture trucks if they worked in the spirit the revolutionary forebears had displayed in making bombs to beat the enemy. Workers of the factory and the then Kiyang Farm Machine Factory disassembled a lorry and a tractor to draw up the designs of their parts and manufactured them. As a result, the first tractor was produced after 35 days and a truck after 40 days.

Factories in Ragwon, Pukjung, Ryongsong and other parts of the country turned out excavators, bulldozers, electric locomotives and large machine tools one after another.

At the time the Korean people made advances at the rate of Chollima, a legendary winged horse that runs 100 kilometres a day, and completed the industrialization of the country in a matter of 14 years.

With the determination to build a thriving nation sooner they performed great exploits in every period of socialist construction. They demonstrated the vitality of self-reliance by damming up the sea to build the West Sea Barrage spanning eight kilometres in the 1980s. Structures of lasting value across the country manifested the might of unity of the Korean people and the vitality of self-reliance.

They steadily held aloft the banner of self-reliance in the hard times of the 1990s, when the imperialists went to extremes in the anti-DPRK moves and natural disasters persisted. Scientists and technicians made a satellite by their own efforts and technology and ensured its successful launch.

The banner of self-reliance held up by the Korean people at present is the one that is based on latest science and technology and that ensures profitability.

Farmlands have been consolidated into large fields of standardized shapes and sizes, factories and farms conducive to the improvement of the people's living standard have been built across the country and cities and rural villages have been spruced up.

The reality shows that self-reliance serves as dynamics of the overall development of the independent economy and guarantees the eternal prosperity of the DPRK.

Smashing All Acts of Provocation

The six-decade history of the DPRK are the annals in which the Koreans have defended their sovereignty by dint of Songun in the showdown with the U.S.

The tradition of Songun was established in the first half of the 20th century.

The reality of Korea at the time when it was deprived of its sovereignty by the Japanese taught a lesson that if a nation has the strong military power it would be able to shape its destiny and in case it has not it would not be able to do so.

In the early period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle Kim Il Sung pointed to the need to take up arms in order to win back national independence and set forth the slogan "Weapons are our life and soul! Oppose armed force with armed force!" before founding the army. By dint of the army he defeated the Japanese invaders and achieved the cause of the country's liberation in August 1945.

The Songun tradition established during the anti-Japanese revolution enabled the DPRK to ward off the U.S. invasion to nip the country in the bud and win victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953).

The Americans' attempts to invade the DPRK never ceased. Actually, they regard the Korean peninsula as an area of strategic importance.

To protect national sovereignty from the U.S. aggression the DPRK takes it as its consistent policy to build up the economy and national defence simultaneously in socialist construction.

The country built up its defence capability to mercilessly punish those who infringe on its sovereignty.

The Navy of the Korean People's Army captured the U.S. armed spy ship Pueblo that intruded into the waters of the DPRK in January 1965. The Americans announced they would take military retaliatory measures unless the Koreans returned the ship and its crew, dispatching the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise and other forces of the 7th Fleet to the East Sea of Korea and two squadrons in Okinawa to south Korea and issuing an emergency mobilization order to U.S. troops in south Korea and to the south Korean troops.

The U.S. military also ordered the pursuit planes under the strategic air command to be on a full alert.

The world focused its attention on the DPRK which was one seventy-eighth of America in size of its territory and a tenth in terms of population.

The DPRK stated that it would return retaliation for retaliation and all-out war for all-out war.

In April 1969 the U.S. spy aircraft EC-121 which intruded into the airspace of the DPRK was shot down by the KPA.

In August 1976 there was an incident in which two American officers who attempted to cut down a tree in the northern portion of the joint security area at Panmunjom were killed.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the Koreans have defended their national sovereignty firmly.

In 1994 when they were in national mourning over the death of President Kim ll Sung the imperialist allied forces intensified their moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and recurrent natural disasters took their toll on them.

The Western media made an "early collapse" of the DPRK a fait accompli. They said the DPRK would fall soon, north Korea suffering from extreme economic difficulties plus food shortage is like a persimmon tree with ripe and soft fruit and a slight touch of its stump with an axe is enough to let the persimmons fall.

Leader Kim Jong Il held up the banner of Songun at this crossroads: the Koreans would remain independent people or be the slaves of outsiders.

His inspection tour to a KPA unit on New Year's Day in 1995 showcased the DPRK's conviction and will to defend its dignity and sovereignty by dint of Songun.

The Korean people, firmly united around the leader, held aloft the banner of Songun which brought victories to the DPRK.

Their strivings to defend national sovereignty were made both in national defence and socialist construction.

They successfully launched satellite Kwangmyongsong 1 on the threshold of the 50th anniversary of the DPRK.

The Korean people say the DPRK's might lies precisely in its military capability and single-minded unity. The Korean army and people, united single-mindedly around the Party and leader, overcame all hardships to build a powerful war deterrent.

The imperialists are still trying to infringe on the sovereignty of the DPRK. But their attempts are doomed to failure due to the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il and the single-minded unity of the leader, Party and people.

Mass Movements Push Socialist Construction

The annals of the DPRK are filled with various forms of mass movements that greatly contributed to the country's prosperity.

President Kim Il Sung grasped the role played by the mass movements in the revolution and construction, proposed launching the mass drives in line with the requirements of each period and stage of the revolution that was developing and led them wisely.

After the country's liberation he put forward the idea that as long as there is backwardness in ideology, technology and culture left over from the old society a new society where people can enjoy a full range of independence cannot be built. By giving free rein to the patriotic zeal of the people and on analysis of the requirements governing the development of history, he ensured that the general ideological mobilization movement for nation building, increased production emulation drive and anti-illiteracy campaign were launched.

The movements, the first of their kind in the DPRK, constituted the beginning of the three revolutions -- ideological, technological and cultural.

The nationwide campaigns provided a solid foundation for building a new Korea and brought about bright prospects for the country.

Kim Il Sung was always among the people and valued their resourcefulness and strength. The war started by the U.S. in 1950 played havoc with the economy. He worked out a policy of bringing about a surge in socialist economic construction in a bid to rehabilitate the war-torn economy and quickly improve the deteriorated livelihood of the people.

At the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea held in December Juche 45 (1956) he specified the correct way to overcome hardships, paving the way for effecting a surge in the socialist construction and launching the Chollima movement. To bring about an upsurge in all fields of socialist construction he put forth the slogan "Charge at the speed of Chollima!" and called on the people to give full rein to their revolutionary enthusiasm.

He made his way to the then Kangson Steel Plant and told the workers about the difficulties the country was experiencing and the intention of the Party. He said that if they produced 10 000 tons of rolled steel more, it would greatly help the country. He discussed with the steel workers how to increase production.

To live up to his trust and expectations they vowed to roll 90 000 tons of steel bars at the blooming mill with a rated capacity of 60 000 tons by making collective innovation. In actuality, they turned out 120 000 tons of rolled steel and kindled the torch of the Chollima movement.

Chollima is a legendary winged horse that gallops 400 kilometres a day. Korean ancestors liked to use the word as a synonym for running fast. In the 1950s the Korean workers named their mass movement after Chollima and brought about a surge in the socialist construction.

The workers at the then Kim Chaek Iron Works turned out 270 000 tons of pig iron from the furnace with an annual capacity of 19 000 tons. In 1957 gross industrial output increased by 44 per cent and crop yield saw a 12-per cent rise as compared with the previous year.

The Chollima movement served as the basic dynamic of socialist construction. Gross industrial output registered an annual average increase of 36.6 per cent between 1957 and 1960.

The Korean people carried out the uphill task of industrialization in a matter of 14 years by racing against time at the speed of Chollima.

As the people's ideological level and enthusiasm for increased production grew science and culture made rapid progress.

The world's people which saw the DPRK advancing rapidly by making world-startling achievements called it the land of Chollima.

It is the lawful requirement of the socialist construction to create more material and cultural assets by giving full play to the people's enthusiasm and creative initiative.

The movement is a higher level of the mass drive for speeding up the socialist construction by carrying out the three revolutions -- ideological, technological and cultural.

The Komdok Mine (now the Komdok Mining Complex) and the Chongsan Cooperative Farm kindled the flame of the movement and took the lead in carrying out the three revolutions.

As a result of giving priority to the ideological revolution and pushing the technological and cultural revolutions simultaneously great changes were made in the people's ideological and spiritual qualities, working manner and way of life. The unity of the whole of society in ideology and purpose reached a high level, and remarkable achievements were made in the economic and cultural development.

The mass movements that aroused the people's creative enthusiasm wrote glorious chapters in the 60-year history of the DPRK.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the three-revolution red flag movement is gaining momentum and the number of standard-bearers of the movement is on the rise.

Over a year and half since the third national meeting of pacesetters in the three-revolution red flag movement 17 units won the thrice three-revolution red flag, over 290 units the twice three-revolution red flag and more than 1 360 units the three-revolution red flag.

The reality in the DPRK shows that launching the three-revolution red flag movement on a nationwide scale constitutes a push to the socialist construction.

In Pyongyang there is the Three Revolution Exhibition built on an area of 100 hectares. In the compound of the exhibition there stands a monument to the three revolutions and its platform bears the handwriting of President Kim Il Sung.

The three revolutions are the general line of the socialist construction in the DPRK.

Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK! Support the Struggles of the Korean People!

Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK! Support the Struggles of the Korean People!

Toronto Public Forum on 60th Anniversary Launches Year of Activities

New DPRK Ambassador to Canada Presents Credentials

Resolutedly Denounce U.S. War Exercises in Inchon!

Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Six Party Talks

Chronology of Korean Revolutionary History

In the Spirit of Self-Reliance

Smashing All Acts of Provocation

Mass Movements Push Socialist Construction

Toronto Public Forum on 60th Anniversary
Launches Year of Activities

New DPRK Ambassador to Canada
Presents Credentials

Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman
on Six Party Talks