US open to bilateral talks with N Korea: official
BY LEE CHI DONG
Seoul — The United States is willing to talk bilaterally with North Korea for the purpose of “facilitating the six-way denuclearization process,” a senior South Korean government official said Wednesday after consultations with U.S. and Russian nuclear envoys here. Read more…
N Korea aims for $2,500 per capita income by 2012: scholar
Seoul — North Korea aims to raise its per capita income to US$2,500 through its ongoing campaign to build a “prosperous” nation by 2012, an expert here said Wednesday, citing recent remarks by North Korean scholars at a forum in China. Read more…
Pyongyang — General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed a joint performance given by the visiting Orchestra of the 21st Century of Russia and the State Academic Unaccompanied Chorus Named after Yurlov, the Unhasu Orchestra of the DPRK and the State Merited Chorus of the Korean People’s Army at the Mansudae Art Theatre Tuesday. Read more…
Pyongyang — General Secretary Kim Jong Il, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly Kim Yong Nam and Premier of the Cabinet Kim Yong Il received a message of greetings from President of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress Wu Bangguo and Premier of the State Council Wen Jiabao on Tuesday on the occasion of the 61st birthday of the DPRK. Read more…
Pyongyang — A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Tuesday to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Present there were senior party, army and state officials, the chairperson of a friendly party, deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly, Read more…
BY NAM CHON UNG, Minju Joson
Pyongyang — These days the U.S. is hell-bent on the production of Bunker-Busters for destroying underground structures. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force Command asserted that the U.S. is seriously concerned about underground nuclear facilities in north Korea or Iran. Read more…
BY KANG CHOL SU, Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang — The imperialists are now persisting in their aggression and plunder of other countries, developing countries, in particular. But they will only precipitate their own doom. Read more…
MOTHER AND ANECDOTE (6)
Pyongyang — On a spring day of Juche 35 (1946), Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese heroine, was told by the director of the then Yangdok Railway Hospital of South Phyongan Province that a young worker got hurt seriously in his leg and was in a critical condition. Read more…
Pyongyang — The national flags of the Republic are fluttering in streets and residential quarters of the DPRK on the occasion of its 61st founding anniversary (September 9). Read more…
Pyongyang — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, founded on September 9, Juche 37 (1948), is demonstrating its dignity and might all over the world as a socialist political and military power. Read more…