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President Kim Il Sung's Love for People

Date: 20/12/2023 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

One day in December Juche 47 (1958), President Kim Il Sung visited the then Onchon County General Shop.

While looking round the counters at the shop one by one, he asked if there were any heating facilities, saying that the shop was cold.

At that time the saleswomen were working at the cold shop because of poor heating conditions.

After learning about the situation, the President said with a very worried look that the shop is a place much frequented by people, so it is need to keep the shop warm.

Looking at the officials, he said that the saleswomen would have a lot of trouble to serve the guests at the cold shop and it would be good to make double doors. He also told the officials to supply the saleswomen with cotton-padded socks and cream.

Afterwards, the President visited the shop several times and showed warm love for the saleswomen.

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Yesterday's News from North Korea. Great Revolutionary Life Shining with Patriotic Devotion

Date: 17/12/2023 | Source: Uriminzokkiri (En) | Read original version at source

Chairman Kim Jong Il is a peerless patriot who performed unprecedented undying feats for the times and history while making ceaseless journey of patriotic devotion for the country and the people all his life.

During his revolutionary life, the Chairman visited more than 14 290 units across the DPRK, traveling the distance of 669 844 kilometers equivalent to going round the earth nearly 17 times.

The forced march for field guidance made by him with indefatigable energy for the beloved country and people was a great journey of patriotic devotion unprecedented in history.

Thanks to his field guidance, the country, revolution and socialism were firmly defended, many monumental edifices were built and such proud successes were made as the industrial revolution in the new century.

All the proud successes which serve as an eternal foundation for building a thriving nation were thanks to the patriotic devotion of Kim Jong Il.

Saying that he found pleasure in covering rough paths for the country and people, he made more than 2 400-km-long forced march in the blizzards to Jagang Province in January Juche 87 (1998) and made 400-odd kilometer-long journey to the Rakwon Machine Complex (at that time) in the west coastal area from the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex in the east coastal area in one night of February 2009.

In December Juche 100 (2011), the last period of his great life, he visited the Amusement Park of Kaeson Youth Park, the Hana Music Information Centre and the Kwangbok Area Supermarket.

The nobility of his revolutionary life lies in the fact that he set the goal of his life and struggle as a revolutionary and a human being to serve the country and the people and made so devoted efforts.

Indeed, his noble revolutionary life was a sacred one run through with the most ardent patriotism in the world and the love and devotion to the people.

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Yesterday's News from North Korea

Chairman Kim Jong Il 's exploits praised abroad

Date: 15/12/2023 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Personages of different countries highly praised the immortal exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il who led the socialist cause of Juche only along the road of victory.

The chairman of the Nepal Communist Party (United Socialism) and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh said that there are many countries and state leaders in the world, but there is no such outstanding leader as Comrade Kim Jong Il whose revolutionary leadership career spanning over half a century was adorned with heroic struggle and exploits of significance in human history.

The chairpersons of the Finnish Communists' League and the Ugandan National Executive Committee of the Pan-African Movement praised Kim Jong Il as an outstanding thinker and theoretician, a great master of independent politics and a peerlessly great sage as he instilled the faith in the victory of socialism into mankind through his rare writing activities and confidently led the cause of global independence.

The secretary general of the Lebanon Federation of Workers, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico and head of the Belarus Association for the Study of the Juche Idea said that the experienced and seasoned leadership of Kim Jong Il, who brought about unprecedented changes in the 5 000-year-long history of the Korean nation, put the DPRK on the position of an invincible politico-ideological and military power.

The chairman of the National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the chairman of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee lauded Kim Jong Il's noble virtue and view on the people.

The chairman of the Permanent Standing Committee of the Belarus National Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the chairperson of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party of Romania said that Kim Jong Il is a model indomitable revolutionary who set a noble practical example of how to defend and glorify socialism for the progressive mankind.

The chairman of the Guinean National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the national chairperson of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria and the chief of the Juche Idea Study Group of the Basque Provinces in Spain said that the august name of Kim Jong Il who led the socialist cause to victory despite the stern trials of revolution will be remembered by all people forever.

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Today's Date According to the Roman Calendar.

Modern Date : December 15th Market Day

The Consualia

This day (NP), is for special religious observance.

This also marks the beginning of the Halcyon Days, the seven days preceding and the seven days following the Winter Solstice. These were traditional days of peace and calm.

This day is sacred to Consus, the deity of Time, or who we sometimes personify as Father Time, whose exit we celebrate with the coming new year. The Temple of Consus is uncovered on this day and opened to public worship. Horse races and mule races were held in the Circus Maximus in his honor. As part of the ceremonies, the rex sacrorum would appear in full garb riding his horse-drawn chariot once around the Circus Maximus.

The emperor Nero, one of the most incompetent emperors ever to hold power, was born this day in 37 AD. He was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus at Antium (Anzio). Spoiled from birth, he was incapable of handling the affairs of state and spent his days languishing in feasts, orgies, and musical and poetic entertainment.

On this night about 10 PM, the constellation Taurus and the Pleiades will be on the meridian. Taurus the Bull was an ancient constellation to all the peoples of the ancient world. To the Greeks it represented Zeus in the form of the white bull who carried off Europa, for whom Europe was named. The Pleiades had special significance since they rising just before dawn heralded the planting season.

In Greece, on this day was held the Festival of Alcyone. Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, the guardian of the winds, and Aegiale. She married Ceyx of Trachis, son of Morningstar. Their happiness led to them being turned into kingfishers (halcyons or sea-hounds) by Hera. She is regarded as having the power to calm storms. Legend has it that she is the same Alcyone that leads the that leads the Pleiades. When the Pleiades rise in May, the seas are always calmed.

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Yesterday's News from North Korea.

Reckless Military Aid to Ukraine is Suicidal Act of Inviting Disaster: Int'l Affairs Analyst of DPRK

Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- Ro Ju Hyon, an international affairs analyst of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, released the following article titled "Reckless military aid to Ukraine is suicidal act of inviting disaster":

The Washington Post of the U.S. on Dec. 4 carried an article disclosing the fact that the amount of 155 mm artillery shells the U.S. supplied to Ukraine this year by taking over from the Republic of Korea (ROK) surpasses the amount of shells delivered by European countries by far.

According to it, the Biden administration of the U.S., faced with a difficult task of satisfying the Ukrainian demand for shells, calculated that about 330 000 155 mm shells can be delivered in 40-odd days by persuading the ROK and, on this basis, got down to negotiations on a full scale. As a result, the delivery of shells started from the beginning of this year.

This brought to light once again the truth behind the shameless fraud of the ROK which has insisted so far that it had never delivered lethal weapons to Ukraine.

In April last, puppet traitor Yoon Suk Yeol, in a press interview, made reckless remarks that south Korea can provide weapons to Ukraine in case of serious situation such as large-scale attack on civilians, massacre and violation of war laws, only to invite a backlash from Russia.

At that time, Russia gave a strong warning to the ROK that the offer of weapons to Ukraine would be regarded as an open hostility towards Russia, saying that a new enemy trying to help the enemy of Russia appeared.

Nevertheless, the ROK handed over a large quantity of shells to the puppet Kiev authorities, the amount of which exceeds the one provided by European countries. This is the top-class pro-U.S. act to put even the West, steeped in anti-Russia policy, into the shade.

The political and military gangsters of the ROK have resorted to all sorts of sleight of hand, claiming that they do not provide deadly weapons and that they are working hard to maintain friendly relations with Russia in a bid to cover up their criminal acts. But now that the truth has been brought to light again, world people are sternly watching how the ROK would try to mock the international community again.

It is a vivid manifestation of hostility towards Russia to render military support to the puppet Zelenskiy clique who is waging an unjust proxy war against Russia, a country of the fellow countrymen, as a faithful servant of the U.S. And it is also a war criminal act against peace that instigates the prolonged existence of the bloody Ukrainian crisis.

The international community clearly grasps the hidden intention of the puppet forces of the ROK trumpeting about "arms deal" and derides the dirty plot of the ROK to cover up their criminal nature of getting hell-bent on the military support to Ukraine as the running dog to the U.S.

The wrong choice of the puppet forces of the ROK will inevitably bring only catastrophic disaster and the worst consequences.

The just international community aspiring after global peace and security should frustrate all the anti-peace war moves of the U.S. and its minions by concerted effort

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Yesterday's News from North Korea. Production of Textbook Paper Fulfilled in DPRK

Date: 12/12/2023 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Officials and employees of the Sinuiju Chemical Fibre Mill of the DPRK successfully fulfilled their yearly textbook paper production plan.

The mill has firmly built up its own technical force and pushed ahead with the work for readjustment and reinforcement, while taking measures to timely supply raw and other materials.

True to the intention of the Party to increase the production of reed-made textbook paper, its officials mapped out a plan to attain the goal of paper production and launched a political and ideological offensive to arouse the masses to the drive for increased production.

The raw material shop showed high results every day in the preceding work for paper production.

The workers of the pulp shop carried out their daily plan at over 110 percent.

Workers of the daily necessaries shop have also made progress in improving the quality of products.

The boiler, maintenance, electric and purification shops contributed to fulfilling the plan.

The paper production is steadily increasing thanks to the efforts of officials and employees of the mill. -0-

www.kcna.kp (Juche112.12.12.)

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Yesterday's News from North Korea. Press Statement of Spokesman of Korean Jurists Committee

Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- The number of innocent civilian casualties is increasing as Israel has recently escalated its reckless military attack on the Gaza Strip gradually.

According to data available since the outbreak of the Middle East incident on Oct. 7, more than 8 000 Palestinians, including 3 000-odd children and 2 000-odd women, were killed and over 20 000 wounded in the Gaza Strip due to indiscriminate air raids and shelling by Israel. And the damage is expected to be further expanded in the future due to the humanitarian crisis.

Nevertheless, the U.S. is getting frantic with military support to Israel, far from making efforts to settle the situation, while continuing to connive at and foster Israel's killing of civilians.

After the outbreak of the incident, the U.S. has zealously instigated the attack on the Gaza Strip while increasing the degree of military support to Israel by dispatching two aircraft carrier strike groups, an amphibious assaulting ship, fighters and many other war hardware to the region, deploying missile defense and interception systems such as THAAD and Patriot and proposing to the Congress an omnibus aid plan including a $14.3 billion support to Israel, a spokesman of the Korean Jurists Committee said in a press statement issued on Friday, and went on:

This shows that although the U.S. is talking about the prevention of escalation of the situation, its real intention is to zealously patronize and back Israel's reckless military attack on the Gaza Strip.

The U.S. exercised veto at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the Middle East crisis on Oct. 18, talking about Israel's "right to self-defense" and also foiled the adoption of a resolution at a UNSC meeting on Oct. 26, calling for a "temporary truce", not an "immediate ceasefire". The fact goes to clearly prove that it has no interest in the protection of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

In particular, the U.S. has insisted that Israel is not to blame for the death of more than 500 civilians due to the attack on a Palestinian hospital, shamelessly claiming that the number of civilian deaths announced by the Palestinian health authorities cannot be confirmed directly on the spot and, accordingly, cannot be recognized. This fully reveals the U.S. cruelty and barbarity.

The U.S. loudly clamored about "humanitarian disaster", calling for the "protection of civilians" in Ukraine. But it is conniving at and encouraging Israel's hideous killings of civilians while keeping mum about this. This is the height of double standards.

Through large-scale protest demonstrations and rallies in different parts of the world, the international community is now strongly urging Israel, which does not hesitate to commit massacres of civilians, and the U.S., which is zealously patronizing, conniving and fostering them, to immediately stop the human slaughter.

A resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian purposes was adopted at the Oct. 27 special emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly with the approval of 120 countries. And a statement of the Middle East countries on putting an end to the war crimes of Israel against mankind and on making an immediate truce for the protection of civilians was made public on Oct. 28. They are an eruption of strong protest and anger of the international community.

The U.S. one-sided policy and reckless military support policy on Israel are hideous war crimes that cause the massacre of innocent Arabians. It is none other than the U.S. which should be brought to the International Criminal Court and ousted from the UN Human Rights Council.

To put an end to the double standards of the U.S. engrossed in high-handed and arbitrary practices in different parts of the world is a prerequisite for establishing a fair and just international order. -0-

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Today's Date, According to the Roman Calendar.

Modern Date : October 26th Market Day

ante diem VII Kalendas November

Seventh Day to the Kalends of November

This is one of the dies comitiales (C), when committees of citizens could vote on political or criminal matters.

In Egypt, this was the day of the goddess Hathor's Moon festival. Hathor was the Egyptian cow goddess and also the goddess of death. She was the patron of bodily love and the Egyptian counterpart to Venus. Hathor was appealed to by the Egyptians for assistance during childbirth. As a cow goddess she was envisioned as suckling infants. The Dance of Hathor involved groups of girls holding mirrors in one hand and rattles in the other.

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We are 8 billion today.

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“Don’t be afraid to love again. Not everyone is like your ex.”

— Unknown

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Yesterday's News from North Korea. Number of Volunteers Increases in DPRK​

Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- Admirable traits are steadily displayed among young Korean people.

More than 30 youths in North Hamgyong and Ryanggang provinces volunteered to work at the railway transport sector.

They have vowed to work at difficult posts of the railway transport sector by inheriting the preceding generations' noble mental world and tradition of struggle.

Young people in Kim Chaek City and Kilju, Myonggan, Unhung and Paekam counties joined the ranks of volunteers.

Meanwhile, more than 10 youths in Ryanggang Province, including a youth league official in Kim Jong Suk County and graduate students of Hyesan University of Agriculture and Forestry and Hyesan University of Medicine, petitioned to work at farms true to the Party's programme for the rural revolution and at other difficult posts.

Officials and young people of relevant units presented bouquets to those volunteers, giving warm send-off.

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Yesterday's News from North Korea Two-year Tunneling Plans Fulfilled by 60 Shock Brigades​

Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- Over 60 youth shock brigades in coal mines of South Phyongan Province of the DPRK have fulfilled two-year national economic plans.

The members of the youth shock brigades tapped internal reserves and ensured full operation of tunneling equipment though everything was in short supply, to honor two-year tunneling plans by the founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Many units joined the list of those who completed yearly plans amid the campaign of overtaking and learning from others and swapping experiences.

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Yesterday's News from North Korea Soybean Harvesting Finished​

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Agricultural workers in North Hwanghae Province of the DPRK finished the harvesting of the most of soybean.

Officials in the agricultural field of cities and counties in the province sensibly tackled problems arising in the farming processes while rationally allocating manpower and organizing work under detailed schedules.

Farms set the right order of harvesting depending on strains and ripeness to increase the yield and soybean sheaves were brought for threshing in good time with the help of vehicles in full-capacity operation.

They are now concentrating efforts on the grain threshing.

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