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March 2000 - North Korea Special Weapons News

  • NORTH KOREA DIPLOMACY Voice of America 29 March 2000 -- Italy's Foreign Minister is to wrap up a two day visit to North Korea Wednesday, as the reclusive state continues it efforts to broaden its international contacts
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service March 20, 2000 - March 26 2000
  • PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 24 March 2000 -- The United Nations should establish a tribunal to investigate "massacres" committed by United States troops during the Korean War.
  • JAPAN - NORKOR TALKS Voice of America 22 March 2000 -- Japan says talks about establishing normal ties with North Korea are to be held in early April.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service March 13 - March 19 2000
  • COHEN - KOREA Voice of America 18 March 2000 -- Korean Minister of National Defense Cho Seong Tae says there is a `high possibility' of some kind of North Korean military provocation in the near future.
  • CHINA KOREA Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- The commander of U-S Forces in Korea says U-S intelligence is watching North Korea with special care in case Pyongyang tries to launch any surprise military action while Washington is preoccupied by the tensions between neighboring China and Taiwan.
  • Text: International Relations Chair Gilman on N. Korea 16 March 2000 -- North Korea is a threat to U.S. interests despite a six-year effort to engage that regime and $1,000 million in aid, says Representative Ben Gilman, chairman of the House International Relations Committee. A three-stage Taepo Dong II "would be capable of delivering a several-hundred kilogram payload anywhere in the United States."
  • Text: U.S. State Department Statement on U.S.-DPRK Bilateral Talks 15 March 2000 -- The United States and North Korea concluded bilateral talks held in New York with both sides agreeing to schedule further talks.
  • U-S / NORTH KOREA Voice of America 16 March 2000 -- The U-S State Department is denying suggestions of a breakdown in talks with North Korea -- though the two nations have yet to agree on terms for a historic North Korean visit to Washington.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service March 6 - March 12 2000
  • JAPAN / N. KOREA Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- The Japanese government says it will resume food aid to North Korea as well as negotiations on establishing diplomatic ties.
  • Text: Briefing by Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Forces 07 March 2000 -- "I think the North Koreans are probably working on everything that doesn't violate existing commitments or can't be detected," Blair said. "I think they're churning away inside their laboratories doing the things they can do without testing," he said.
  • Text: Korea Forces Commander on Korean Peninsula Security 07 March 2000 -- North Korea remains a contradiction as well as a threat to the United States, according to General Thomas Schwartz, commander-in-chief United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command and Commander, United States Forces Korea. Their ballistic missile inventory now includes over 500 SCUDs of various types. They have produced munitions stockpiles estimated at up to 5,000 metric tons of several types of chemical agents.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service February 28 - March 3 2000
  • Text: State Department on Upcoming U.S.-North Korea Talks 01 March 2000 -- Delegations from the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will meet in New York beginning March 7 to finalize preparations for a DPRK high-level visit to Washington in roughly one month.



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