Nice, cheery news.....
Banquet Given on DPRK Birthday
Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) government arranged a banquet at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday evening in celebration of the 56th anniversary of the DPRK. Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, said at the banquet that President Kim Il Sung founded the DPRK on the basis of the tradition of building people's power established in the crucible of the anti-Japanese revolution under the banner of the Juche idea....
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N Korea denies explosion had nuclear links
(The Telegraph, UK 12/Sept/2004)
...The latest blast took place in Kimhyungjik county near the Chinese border on Thursday last week, when North Korea marked the 56th anniversary of its founding.