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July 2000 - North Korea Special Weapons News

  • KOREA MEETING, Voice of America, 31 July 2000 -- The two Koreas have agreed to reopen border liaison offices and reconnect a major inter-Korean rail line.
  • KOREA - MEETINGS, Voice of America, 30 July 2000 -- North and South Korea have agreed to hold regular high-level discussions and have proposed reopening their suspended border liaison offices, following talks in the South Korean capital.
  • Report: North Korea would OK U.S. presence as 'peacekeeper', Stars and Stripes, 30 July 2000 -- Pyongyang would accept the long-term assignment of U.S. troops to South Korea in the role of "neutral peacekeepers," according to a Chinese government publication.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service July 24 - July 30, 2000
  • Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Press Stakeout Following Bilateral Meeting With DPRK Foreign Minister Paek, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 28 July 2000 - "My meeting today with Foreign Minister Paek constitutes a substantively modest but symbolically historic step away from the sterility and hostility of the past and towards a more direct and promising approach to resolving differences and establishing common ground. I remain realistic in expectations and firmly committed to coordination with our allies. I'm also somewhat more hopeful than before about the prospects for long-term stability on the Korean peninsula and throughout the region."
  • NORTH KOREA EMERGENCE, Voice of America, 28 July 2000 -- Since North and South Korea promised to end a half century of Cold War hostility during last month's historic summit in Pyongyang, the communist North has begun to emerge from decades of isolation.
  • US / NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 28 July 2000 -- The United States and North Korea have held their highest level meeting in more than five decades.
  • ASEAN - SECURITY, Voice of America, 27 July 2000 -- North Korea has made its debut appearance at an Asia regional security meeting in Bangkok.
  • U-S / NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 26 July 2000 -- The United States says it will hold its highest level meeting ever with North Korea in Bangkok Friday when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets her North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam-Sum, on the sidelines of an Asian security conference.
  • Press Briefing, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 26 July 2000 -- Secretary Albright will meet with North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun in Bangkok on Friday afternoon. This is the first meeting at the ministerial level with North Korea. This is an introductory meeting but nonetheless a historic one. She looks forward to discussing bilateral relations and the progress being made on issues of concern to the United States.
  • Media Availability with Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and Minister of Defense Serzh Sarkisyan of Armenia, U.S. Department of Defense, 24 July 2000 -- The reported offer by North Korea as described by President Putin to abandon entirely its missile program if it gets international assistance in launching space satellites, does that influence in any way your thinking about the need for national missile defense?
  • Fao, Wfp Release Special Report On Democratic People's Republic of Korea, UN Press Release, 24 July 2000 -- According to a special report on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea published today by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), there are encouraging signs that the relaxation of trade and economic sanctions imposed on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and prospects of greater economic interaction with other countries in the region will undoubtedly have a positive impact on longer term food security in the country.
  • NORTH KOREA / U-S, Voice of America, 24 July 2000 -- North Korea says it is will hold the highest level of talks to date with the United States.
  • N. KOREA - U-S MEETING, Voice of America, 23 July 2000 -- North Korea says the country's Foreign Minister and the U-S secretary of State will hold talks next week in Bangkok.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service July 17 - July 23, 2000
  • CLINTON-NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 22 July 2000 -- President Clinton - in Okinawa for the G-Eight summit -- says a reported North Korean offer to scrap its missile program in exchange for help with space launches is worth exploring, but administration officials are skeptical.
  • NORTH - SOUTH KOREA, Voice of America, 22 July 2000 -- North Korea has accepted a proposal from the South for high level talks in the South Korean capital, later this month.
  • Readout To The Travel Pool By Jim Steinberg, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 22 July 2000 - Q: Jim, can you offer any kind of readout on the reaction of the other leaders to the proposal that President Putin talked to the President about?
  • Remarks By The President And Prime Minister Mori In Photo Opportunity, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 22 July 2000 - Q: Mr. President, what is your assessment of North Korea's offer to curb its missile program in exchange for space exploration assistance? Is there any reason to believe that's credible?
  • Background Briefing By Senior Administration Officials On Presidents Clinton And Putin Bilateral, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 21 July 2000 - Q: On North Korea, did the President have a specific discussion of North Koran leader Kim Chong-Il's proposal of stopping ballistic missile research in exchange for access to other nations' rockets. And did you get any more of a sense of whether you now view that offer as any more sincere or likely to actually be carried out?
  • Landmark event in DPRK-Russia history, The People's Korea, 21 July 2000 -- The declaration signed by Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and President V. V. Putin of the Russian Federation in Pyongyang on July 19 deals with the bilateral relations and international issues of mutual concern.
  • G8 - CLINTON-PUTIN, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- U-S officials at the G-Eight summit in Okinawa are skeptical about a reported North Korean offer to scrap its ballistic missile program in exchange for outside help in launching satellites.
  • PUTIN / NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 20 July 2000 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his way to Okinawa (has arrived in Okinawa) for a major international summit, following his unprecedented trip to North Korea.
  • DoD News Briefing, U.S. Department of Defense, 20 July 2000 -- Has this Putin announcement that the North Koreans are ready to give up their missile program, has that created problems, created questions about this whole thing?
  • Press Briefing, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 20 July 2000 -- QUESTION: What do you think of the Pentagon comments that they'd be willing to help the North Koreans with their space program if it didn't have anything to do with missiles? Do you have any?
  • DPRK-Russia joint declaration released, The People's Korea, 19 July 2000 - The text of the joint declaration signed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il and President V.V. Putin of the Russian Federation
  • Press Briefing, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 19 July 2000 -- QUESTION: Do you have anything more to say about North Korea? Have you guys had a look at what President Putin had to say?
  • NORTH / SOUTH KOREA TALKS, Voice of America, 19 July 2000 -- The South Korean government has proposed the two Koreas hold a high-level meeting next week - to follow-up on agreement signed at the first inter-Korea summit last month.
  • NORTH KOREA / MISSILE DEFENSE, Voice of America, 19 July 2000 -- North Korea has denounced U-S plans to build a proposed national missile shield - which Washington says is designed to defend against attacks from countries such as North Korea.
  • PUTIN / NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 19 July 2000 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, following a state visit to Beijing.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service July 10 - July 16, 2000
  • KOREA MISSILES, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- U-S envoy Robert Einhorn has been holding talks with South Korean officials this week on a possible deal to allow Seoul to produce missiles with longer range capabilities.
  • US / SOKOR MISSILES, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- Senior U-S and South Korean officials are discussing a possible deal that would allow Seoul to build missiles that could strike any where in North Korea.
  • U-S/NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- Talks between the United States and North Korea over the communist nation's missile program ended in stalemate Wednesday.
  • PRESERVING KOREA'S D-M-Z, Voice of America, 12 July 2000 -- As North and South Korea try to build on the goodwill from their recent summit, the two countries are looking to increase economic cooperation and arrange reunions of divided families.
  • Press Briefing, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 12 July 2000 - "I think it's important to make very clear that we think the North Koreans should not be compensated for agreeing to stop conducting activities that they shouldn't be conducting in the first place."
  • G-8 / NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 11 July 2000 -- Foreign ministers from the world's seven most industrialized nations and Russia, known as the G-8, are expected to endorse Wednesday North Korea's moves to improve relations with South Korea and the international community.
  • DoD News Briefing, U.S. Department of Defense, 10 July 2000 -- Q: Do you believe that North Korea is going to have intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2005 or has any information come up that would make you question that time-frame?
  • U-S - NORTH KOREA TALKS, Voice of America, 10 July 2000 -- The United States and North Korea have opened another round of talks about North Korea's missile program.
  • U-S - NORTH KOREA Voice of America 09 July 2000 -- Talks are due to resume tomorrow (Monday) in Malaysia between the United States and North Korea concerning Pyongyang's missile program.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service July 3 - July 9, 2000
  • NORTH KOREA / ECONOMIC AID Voice of America 07 July 2000 -- South Korea says it is sending much more aid to poverty-stricken North Korea this year than it did last year.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service June 26 - July 2, 2000



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