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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il urged increased production of ship engines for freighters and fishing vessels during his visit to the Pukchung General Machinery Company in North Pyongan province, and also conducted on-site inspection at reclamation sites for Uiju, Kwaksan, and Chongju.
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The `Civil-Military Commemorative Assembly for the Completion of Land Reclamation in North Pyongan Province' was held in Sinuiju, North Pyongan province, with KPA politburo chief Cho Myong-rok, deputy prime minister Kwak Beom-ki, and 100000 soldiers and locan residents in attendance.
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In foreign policy news, the spokesperson for North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland blasted the bombing accidents at USFK's Kooney Firing Range in Maehyang-ri on May 8th as a `criminal act beyond redemption and an intolerable affront to the people of South Korea'. The organization also criticized claims of North Korean kidnappings of Japanese citizens as `boldfaced attempt by Japan to gain the upper hand at the North Korea-Japan Talks'.
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North Korea's media simply reported that a fifteen-article working agreement was adopted at the Fifth Preparatory Meeting to the inter-Korean summit, but North Korea's propaganda organ The People's Democratic Front chose to engage in diatribe instead, condemning discussions for the maintenance of cooperation throughout the summit process, held during a tripartite Korea-Japan-US Policy Review Commission, as an attempt to hinder the inter-Korean talks.
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WEEKLY NK NEWS (2000.5.15 - 2000.5.21)
