• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

North Side Delegation Arrives at Jeju Island

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- The north side delegation headed by Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the National Reconciliation Council who is chairman of the north side preparatory committee of the Sports and Cultural Festival for National Reunification and Peace, arrived at Jeju Island, south Korea, on Oct. 23 to participate in the festival. It was greeted at the airport with compatriotic feelings by Representative of the People's Party for Reform Kim Won Ung and Chairman of the Sports Society of south Korea Ri Yon Thaek who are co-chairmen of the south side organizing committee of the festival, U Kun Min, governor of Jeju Island, and members of the organizing committee.
    It was warmly welcomed by Jeju islanders along the route.
    The spokesman for the north side delegation issued a statement upon its arrival at the airport.
    The statement said the festival would give the participants an opportunity to keenly feel in every fibre of their beings emotional moments when the north and the south that have remained separated unite as a greater one. We will bend all efforts to deepen the feelings of kinship with the south Korean compatriots and make the festival successful, it added.
    That day the south side organizing committee of the festival hosted a reception in honor of the delegation.