North Korean newspaper to come out in Russian in Far Eastern regions.

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VLADIVOSTOK, August 25 (Itar-Tass) -- The North Korean newspaper
Pektusan will soon come out in the Russian language in Russia's Far
Eastern regions, journalists were told during a reception at the North
Korean Consulate General in the city of Nakhodka on Tuesday.
The newspaper will highlight the developments in North Korea and the
life of Russian Koreans, said the paper's editor-in-chief, historian and
journalist Gennady Astakhov. According to Astakhov, the paper was named
after the three-kilometre high dead volcano Pektusan, a most vivid natural
symbol of the Korean peninsula. The paper will be publishes on eight pages
with the circulation of 999 copies. It will be distributed free of charge
in the Amur and Sakhalin regions, and the Primorsky and Khabarovsky
territories.
The reception at the North Korean Consulate General was dedicated to
the 50th anniversary of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's Songun political
philosophy, or the so-called "Songun-based leadership."
The Songun-based leadership of Kim Jong Il started on August 25, 1960,
50 years ago, when he, a 18-year-old young man, visited the Seoul Ryu
Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People's Army.
Songun is North Korea's "Military First" policy, which prioritizes the
Korean People's Army in the affairs of state and allocates national
resources to the army first. "Military First" has been playing many roles,
including that of "Military First Politics" serving as a political system,
that of "a line of Military First Economic Construction" acting as an
economic system, and of "Military First Ideology" making it the new
guiding ideology of North Korea.
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