Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

The North Korean government hosted `The Second Chollima Pioneer's Assembly' at the April 25th Cultural Palace on Nov. 3rd and 4th with Speaker of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam and other ranking members of the party and government in attendance, along with 6000 `model workers' selected from their respective fields, and presented their calls for the mobilization of the populace.

Mongolian Premier Ranchinyawin Amarjalgal arrived in Pyongyang on the fourth for a state visit and met with Speaker of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam and Prime Minister Hong Sung-nam. In addition, North Korea signed the Treaty for Cooperation in Public Health and Medical Sciences with China on Nov. 5th.

The National Front and the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland reiterated in a joint statement their calls for the cessation of joint ROK-US military exercises and abolition of the National Security Law, repeating the statement issued last Feb. 03 as preconditions to high-level talks between the two Koreas.

The Association for the Unification of the Tangun-Nation blasted opposition by a few organizations in the south to Tangun, the ancestor of the Korean nation, as `traitorous acts of crime in denial of our heritage.'