Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- January 22 marks the 97th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's start of his 250-mile journey for national liberation.

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- "Ilsongrok" is one of the national classics of Korea.

The book, compiled between 1785 and 1910, the period of feudal Joson dynasty, has 2 375 volumes.

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Recorded in the history of Japan's aggression on Korea is a hideous crime of poisoning Emperor Kojong of the feudal Joson dynasty (1392-1910).

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Yonan, Chongdan and Paechon counties in Yonbaek plain of South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK have stepped up their preparations for this year's farming.

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Officials and working people in different parts of the DPRK supplied thousands of tons of scrap iron to metal factories in the first ten days of the year.

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Chairman Kim Jong Il published the immortal classic work "On Juche Literature" on Jan. 20, Juche 81 (1992).