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North Korean propaganda boasted last week that the government was engaged in earnest efforts to prevent destruction of its woodlands, namely its purported work to replace 400 chungbo's of regular pine with a more `economical' Coulter's variety.
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On the diplomatic front, North Korea demanded compensation from the US for all economic losses it supposedly incurred by delays in the construction of the light water reactor, and Japanese concerns related to the North's ballistic missiles and possibilities of war in the Korean peninsula was dismissed as `a renewed attempt at militarism, prelude to another invasion'.
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In connection with the ongoing preparation for the inter-Korean summit, North Korea renewed its usual call for the withdrawal of the USFK, repatriation of non-apostate North Koreans in ROK prisons, and wholesale dismantlement of the National Security Law, National Intelligence Service, and the Ministry of Unification. The North claimed the measures would be a precondition to inter-Korean unity and reconciliation, in an apparent attack on ROK-US-Japanese cooperation concerning North Korea.
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The Korea Central News Agency, the North's main news organization, deliberately omitted the arrival of the Pyongyang Student Artistic Performance Company in Seoul for their week-long performance, reporting only brief reports of the teams departure from Pyongyang on May 24. The National Democratic Front (NK's main propaganda organization) broadcasts on May 27th described the Company's performance in Seoul as `a great success', conveying `the immediacy of unification to the South Korean audience'.
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WEEKLY NK NEWS (2000.5.22 - 2000.5.28)
