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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il visited KPA Unit 1321 with Deputy Marshal Chun Jae-sun and Party Secretary Kim Yong-soon, around the time of the sixty-eighth anniversary of the founding of the KPA.
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Chairman of the Standing Committee of the North Korean Supreme People's Assembly Kim Young-nam and Chief of the KPA Politburo Cho Myung-rok were among those on hand for the grand report session to commemorate the sixty-eight anniversary of the founding of North Korea's armed forces. Defense Minister Kim Il-chul emphasized at the session that the KPA would stand by its revolutionary principles and vigilance, in the face of political conditions changing around them.
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The editorial for the Worker's Daily claimed that reconciliation currently in progress would offer the US forces in Korea a `face-saving way out', and issued criticism at Japanese efforts to tie the ballistic missile problem to talks between North Korea and Japan, saying that it harbored a `hidden agenda'.
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North Korea's media made swift reporting of the Second Preparatory Talks (April 27) and schedule for the third, due to be held in May 3rd. However, the South Korean Defense Minister's statements that the talks were the fruition of Sunshine Policy combined with redoubled vigilance of the ROK armed forces (April 28th) elicited diatribe from the North Korea propaganda organization, the National Democratic Front, which referred to the statements as `utter nonsense' that `distorted the truth' and `deep-froze' an atmosphere of reconciliation that was just warming up.
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WEEKLY NK NEWS (2000.4.24 - 2000.4.30)
