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Kim Jong-il's inspection schedule for the military continued this week as he visited island
defense units and KPA Unit 1224 with ranking members of the party and the military. His
weekly tour also included a trip to witness the opening of the Kwangmyungsung (Brilliant Star)
Salt Factory in Kumya County, South Hamkyung, on the twelfth, and urged increases in the
production of salt. |
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Quotes from Kim Jong-il's thesis < The Fundamental Issues Concerning Construction of
Revolutionary Party Organization > were broadcast by Pyongyang Broadcasting on the tenth to
commemorate the forty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the workers' party, warning of
`ideological dissolution' among the elites, in particular to the rise of `individualism among
party members' and also `factionalism' at the cadre level. |
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The spokesperson for North Korea's foreign ministry expressed opposition to inclusion of
issues concerning Korea in plans for a multilateral security organization for Northeast Asia
(6-party talks), adding that initiation of such discussion was much too early. |
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North Korea also declared it would `issue receipts for American imperialist crimes against the
people' and threatened their price of blood `must be repaid,' in caustic rhetoric concerning US
massacre of Korean civilians at Nokeun-ri during the Korean War, in addition to calling for the
withdrawal of the USFK. |
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North Korea's National Reconciliation Council convened in Pyongyang for its third plenary
session and called for a `joint struggle' by North and South Korea, along with Koreans
overseas, for the abolition of the national security law. |
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Weekly on North Korea (99. 10.11 - 10.17)
