LEADER KIM JONG IL AND KOREA TODAY
Leader Kim Jong Il and Korea Today
Monument to Party Founding.
The Monument to Party Founding in the capital city of Pyongyang is a historic monument erected in October 1995 marking the 50th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea to hand down to posterity the exploits of the WPK which led the Korean revolution to victory under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung and the leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, on the platform of the military parade held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
Military parade of the three services of the Korean People’s Army, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards takes place with splendour on Kim Il Sung Square on October 10, 2005, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
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s of the military parade march past in fine array demonstrating the great might of the Korean People’s Army. 
200,000-odd Pyongyang citizens warmly welcome the participants in the military parade.
The national meeting in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the WPK is held in grand style at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang in the presence of the leader Kim Jong Il.
Scenes from the grand mass gymnastics and artistic performance “Arirang”, a winner of Kim Il Sung Prize, which took place to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the WPK in the presence of the leader Kim Jong Il.
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Evening entertainment and torchlight procession of youth and students are held on Kim Il Sung Square in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
The Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia exhibition in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the WPK is held at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition House.
On display are over 20,000 potted Kimilsungias and Kimjongilias grown at home and abroad.
National exhibitions and shows of books, photos and art are held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
The photo shows a scene of the national book exhibition.
Meetings, artistic performances, joint meetings and sports festivals of working people are held all over the country in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
The photo shows an art performance given by the kindergartners from all over the country.
Greeting the 60th anniversary of the WPK, officers and men of the Korean People’s Army and working people of all social strata lay floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the statues of President Kim Il Sung with reverence.
The photo shows officers and men of the KPA and working people visiting the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill.
Greeting the 60th anniversary of national liberation, officials of the Party, the army and the state, officers and men of the KPA and people of all walks of life visit the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay homage to President Kim Il Sung.
The television stage in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the country’s liberation highly praises the exploits of President Kim Il Sung who won the anti-Japanese war and achieved the cause of national liberation.
Working people look around the national art exhibition held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the country’s liberation.
The television get-together with participants in the meeting of according praise to the great persons of Mt. Paektu held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the country’s liberation.
Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il acquaints himself with the performance of duties at a Korean People’s Army unit.
Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il looks after the life of the People’s Army soldiers.
Fliers of an air unit strengthen their fighting efficiency in every way to cope with the enemy’s attempts to provoke another war.
Seamen at leisure.
In Korea servicemen stand in the van in difficult and arduous work to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation under the slogan “Let’s take charge of both national defence and socialist construction!”
The photo shows soldiers who took charge of the construction of a large hydropower station and completed it as a monumental structure.
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The leader Kim Jong Il gives on-the-spot guidance to the September Integrated Ironworks. He highly praises the labour achievements of the workers and technicians of the works who have brought about innovations in steel production by introducing ultrahigh-voltage electric furnaces. 
The dam of the Nyongwon Power Station completed on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
Various kinds of high-quality electric wires are produced at the Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory. The photo shows a view of its branch factory producing various connecting lines of electronic appliances.
Storage batteries produced at the Taedonggang Battery Factory are popular at home and abroad.
The leader Kim Jong Il sees bicycles produced at the Pyongyang Bicycle Joint Venture Factory.
Various types of high-quality bicycles are mass-produced at the Pyongyang Bicycle Joint Venture Factory commissioned last year.
Spinners at the Pyongyang Textile Mill.
More than 10,000,000 quality glass bowls will be produced annually at the Huichon Hard Glassware Factory inaugurated on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
Winter shoes are produced at the Pyongyang Shoemaking Factory.
When he gives on-the-spot guidance in the Miru plain in North Hwanghae Province, the leader Kim Jong Il gives important instructions to bring about a radical turn in agriculture.
Army men and people throughout the country give active help in farm work upholding the call of the WPK to concentrate every effort on farming.
Output of meat and dairy products greatly increases at stockbreeding farms built in different parts of the country in accordance with the policy of the government on raising herbivorous domestic animals in large numbers.
The photo shows goat-raising at the Phyongsong City Goat Farm.
The Paekma-Cholsan Waterway, a gravitation-flow waterway, was commissioned last year.
Hundreds of millions of cubic metres of water stored in the Paekma Reservoir flows down to the vast farmland in six cities and counties through 270-odd-kilometre waterway.
The photos show the dam of the Paekma Reservoir and part of the waterway.
The Paektusan Architectural Academy is an authoritative base for research and creation of architectures which makes designs for monumental structures of national importance.
A view of the Pyongyang Potato-tissue Culture Factory.
Part of the Kim Chaek University of Technology.
Talents brought up at the university give a good account of themselves in the development of the economy and science and technology of the country.
Ryongchon County town in North Phyongan Province which was severely damaged by an unexpected accident in April 2004 has been rebuilt beyond recognition and its people lead a stable life thanks to the assistance of the state.
The photo shows children of the Ryongchon Primary School at a natural history lesson.
Doctors in charge of certain regions and families regularly examine and look after the health of the residents under the free medical care system.
Some 60 kinds of Koryo medicines efficacious for maintaining the people’s health and youth are produced and supplied to them by the Mannyon Health Corporation.
The Moranbong Theatre has been reconstructed along modern lines.
The State Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1946, is a celebrated musical troupe loved by people.
New puppet plays that give delight and amusement to people are produced at the Pyongyang Puppet Theatrical Troupe.
Kye Sun Hui has become a triple world women’s judo champion by winning first place in the women’s 57-kg category at the 2005 World Judo Championships.
Pro women boxers Kim Kwang Ok and Ryu Myong Ok won successively at many recent games by overpowering their rivals and thus retain the championships of the International Female Boxing Association and World Boxing Council of Females.
The photo shows Kim Kwang Ok beating the Japanese opponent at the WBCF championships held in Pyongyang in June last year.
A tug of war, a national sports game.
Specialists strive to retain the superiority of traditional national costumes and develop them to meet the beauty sense of the modern times.
Ceremony of completion of the reconstruction of the Ryongthong Temple in Kaesong. The temple is one of the historical and cultural legacies widely known as a sanctuary of Buddhism from the period of the Koryo Dynasty, the first unified state of Korea.
Present at the ceremony are Buddhists, scholars and specialists on historical and cultural relics from the north and the south and personnel concerned with Buddhism from the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
An all-people campaign is vigorously conducted to plant trees in response to the WPK’s call for greening the whole country.
Every year large numbers of pheasants, roe deer and other useful animals are raised and set free to thickly-wooded mountains in many parts of the country.
There are many celebrated mountains and sights in Korea.
The photo shows the Kuryong Falls of Mt. Kumgang. Known as one of the three celebrated waterfalls in Korea, it is 74 metres high.
The leader Kim Jong Il meets the delegation of the south side’s authorities that took part in the grand national reunification festival in commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The opening ceremony of the grand national reunification festival is held with splendour at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The national reunification meeting in commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
As part of the grand national reunification festival in commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, meetings of workers, farmers, youth and students, women, teachers and politicians of the north, the south and abroad take place.
The photo shows the meeting of members of the North-South National Reunification Consultation.
The 10th reunion of families and relatives separated in the north and the south takes place in 2005.
The August 15 grand national festival for independence, peace and reunification in 2005 held in Seoul.
Koreans in China celebrate the birthday of the leader Kim Jong Il.
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At the invitation of Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the WPK and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC and president of the PRC, makes an official goodwill visit to the DPRK from October 28 to 30, 2005.
Hundreds of thousands of Pyongyang citizens give a warm welcome to General Secretary Hu Jintao along 40-ri route.
Talks are held between Kim Jong Il and Hu Jintao.
Hu Jintao visits many places during his visit to Korea.
The photo shows Kim Jong Il and Hu Jintao visiting the Taean Friendship Glass Factory.
High-quality glass of varied kinds is produced in quantities at the Taean Friendship Glass Factory built by free aid of the Chinese party and government.
The photo shows a view of the factory.
The leader Kim Jong Il receives a PRC government delegation headed by Wu Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC and vice-premier of the State Council of the PRC, in October 2005.
In October 2005 the leader Kim Jong Il receives K. B. Pulikovski, presidential representative to the Far East Federal District of the Russian Federation, and his party, on a visit to Pyongyang, and he is awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Laws of the Far East State University of Russia by them.
A world conference in support of the independent peaceful reunification of Korea is held in grand style in Pyongyang in August 2005.
International march for Korea’s reunification and peace by the participants in the world conference in support of the independent peaceful reunification of Korea.