Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


October 2004 South Korea Special Weapons News

  • Force Realignment in Korea to Benefit Both Countries, Powell Says AFPS 27 Oct 2004 -- A plan to realign the U.S. troop presence and consolidate U.S. bases in South Korea promises to be a win-win for all parties concerned, while ensuring "a consistent and robust deterrent capability" on the Korean Peninsula, Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters in Seoul Oct. 26.
  • U.S. Moves to Hush Up S. Korea's Nuclear Case under Fire KCNA 27 Oct 2004 -- The south Korean authorities are getting frantic in their moves for nuclear weaponization to destroy their fellow countrymen while paying lip-service to "reconciliation" and "cooperation."
  • Halt to Arms Build-up against Fellow Countrymen Demanded KCNA 27 Oct 2004 -- The south Korean warmongers would be well advised to stop acting rashly, cogitating over the serious consequences to be entailed by their moves for confrontation with the north and arms build-up which would only push the inter-Korean relations to catastrophe in total breach of the June 15 joint declaration.
  • United States Seeking Closer Ties with South Korea, Powell Says Washington File 26 Oct 2004 -- The United States is seeking closer ties with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and wants to raise the level of strategic dialogue "to a new level," says Secretary of State Colin Powell.
  • Truth about S. Korean Development of Metal Uranium Disclosed KCNA 26 Oct 2004 -- It has been disclosed afresh that the south Korean Atomic Energy Institute developed metal uranium for depleted uranium warheads from 1983 to 1987, creating quite a stir, south Korean KBS reported.
  • KOREAS / DMZ BREACH VOA 26 Oct 2004 -- South Korean troops are on high alert after guards found a hole cut in the barbed wire fence along the border with communist North Korea. The discovery comes just as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell visits South Korea to discuss Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
  • POWELL/ASIA VOA 26 Oct 2004 -- South Korea and the United States have reaffirmed a desire to bring North Korea back into negotiations over its nuclear ambitions. The communist state is saying such a meeting is impossible for now.
  • Truth behind S. Korea's Development of Nukes Disclosed IRNA 25 Oct 2004 -- The National Reunification Institute released a lengthy memorandum on Thursday, in which it laid bare the truth behind the secret nuclear experiments in south Korea, the real state of its nuke development and the true aim sought by the United States in encouraging, patronizing and conniving at it.
  • S. Korean Authorities' Moves to Build Nuclear Submarines under Fire KCNA 25 Oct 2004 -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland Saturday in its information bulletin No. 890 brands the south Korean authorities' moves to build nuclear submarines as grave crimes as they are intended not only to throw a stumbling block in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula but wreck peace in Korea and spark off a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.
  • U.S. Crafty Moves behind S. Korea's Nuclear Weaponization Exposed KCNA 21 Oct 2004 -- The United States is keeping mum about the experiments for nuclear weapons development made by south Korea. This offers another occasion for disclosing the crime of the U.S. in helping south Korea realize its nuclear weaponization.
  • KOREAS RELATIONS VOA 13 Oct 2004 -- China is working to get stalled talks about North Korea's nuclear weapons development back on track. This comes as South Korea's military is on the lookout for North Korean submarines that may have entered the South's waters.
  • Foreign Ministry Spokesman Demands Clarification of S. Korea's Nuclear Issue KCNA 07 Oct 2004 -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Wednesday in connection with the snowballing suspicion of south Korea's secret nuclear experiments raised in the process of the recent inspection of them
  • S. Korea's Moves for Nuclear Weaponization under Fire KCNA 07 Oct 2004 -- South Korea's double-dealing nature as regards the nuclear issue has been laid bare by the recent disclosure of a series of its secret nuclear experiments. It is now arousing protest and condemnation at home and abroad.
  • U.S., Republic of Korea Reach Agreement on Troop Redeployment 06 Oct 2004 -- The Department of Defense announced today that after several months of close consultations, the United States and the Republic of Korea have reached final agreement regarding the June 2004 U.S. proposal to redeploy 12,500 U.S. troops from Korea. Throughout these consultations, the United States has made clear that it remains committed to the defense of the Republic of Korea, to the security and stability of the region and to a strengthened Republic of Korea-U.S. Alliance. The future of the alliance is strong and will be adaptive to change and responsive to the needs of the Korean people.
  • SOKOR/US TROOPS VOA 06 Oct 2004 -- South Korea and the United States have agreed that U.S. troop strength in the Asian country will be reduced at a much slower pace than originally announced. VOA's Steve Herman reports from Tokyo that the change came after intense pressure from Seoul.