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The North Korean delegation for the First South-North Minister-Level Talks, headed by the North's cabinet councillor Chun Keum-jin, visited ROK president Kim Dae-jung at the Blue House.
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Chairman of the North Korean National Defense Commission Kim Jong-il was in North Hamkyung province and personally supervised the province's industrial policies and activities for the first two days of August, accompanied by Supervising Secretary for North Hamkyung Lee Keun-mo, Party Secretary Kim Kuktae, State Planning Commission Park Namki, and the Worker's Party Deputy Bureau Chiefs Park Song-bong, Lee Yong-chol, Chang Song-taek, in addition to relevant officials and personnel.
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The Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the North Korean Worker's Party announced a new nationwide `slogan' for all members of the party, KPA, and the citizenry on July 31st. The announcement was followed by a mass rally in Pyongyang as a show of resolution to bring the announcement's objectives to fruition (Aug. 06).
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The GOP's initial platform, announced on July 28th, stipulating preventing all aggressive action in the Korean peninsula, blocking proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction, and creation of a missile umbrella, brought hostile diatribe in response from North Korea's Central Broadcasting. The North's official broadcasting establishment denounced the platform as `an attempt at military imperialism and to monkey-wrench the reduction of tensions currently in progress in the Korean peninsula'.
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North Korea's Public Announcement Commission and the central committee of its Reporters' League hosted a banquet on Aug. 5th for the visiting South Korean media delegation, and arranged visits to the Worker's Daily building, North Korea's Central Broadcasting Commission, and the Arch of Triumph.
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WEEKLY NK NEWS (2000.7.31 - 2000.8.6)
