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August 2000 - North Korea Special Weapons News

  • NORTH KOREA, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 31 August 2000 -- Ambassador Sherman had good meetings in Russia, is now in Korea. Will have trilateral with South Korea and Japan tomorrow. US thinks it important to follow up North Korean offer.
  • KOREAS / TALKS, Voice of America, 31 August 2000 -- North and South Korea have agreed to arrange more family reunions and to boost economic cooperation.
  • NORTH KOREA / U-S TROOPS, Voice of America, 30 August 2000 -- South Korean President Kim Dae-jung says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has agreed to a continued U-S troop presence on the Korean peninsula - even after reunification.
  • KOREAS TALKS, Voice of America, 30 August 2000 -- South Korea has proposed to North Korea that they set up a military hotline and hold top-level security talks between the two countries.
  • KOREA TALKS, Voice of America, 29 August 2000 -- Delegations from North and South Korea are set to open a new round of ministerial talks in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
  • KOREAS / D-M-Z MINES, Voice of America, 29 August 2000 -- North and South Korea say they will start work in mid-September on a groundbreaking rail and highway projects that will connect the two Koreas for the first time in 50 years, but the biggest obstacle builders face is the array of landmines that need to be cleared from the border area before construction can begin.
  • Hot line is on the agenda for next round of Korea talks, Stars and Stripes, 29 August 2000 -- South Korean officials hope to begin smoothing over 50 years of military tension between the two Koreas when they meet with North Korean officials in Pyong-yang on Tuesday in the second round of ministerial talks.
  • NORTH KOREA MARKET OPPORTUNITES, Voice of America, 28 August 2000 -- The new thaw is relations between North and South Korea is stirring interest in the global business community.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service August 21 - August 27, 2000
  • S. Korean leader: Peace treaty key to better relations with North, Stars and Stripes, 26 August 2000 -- Replacing the Korean War armistice with a peace treaty is essential to developing better relations on the peninsula, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung told cabinet ministers Thursday.
  • Kim Jong-il's Trip to Moscow, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 24 August 2000 -- How much does this have to do - the trip to Moscow - have to do with Putin's meeting with Kim Jong-il and his supposed offer of scrapping the missile program in exchange for money and space satellites?
  • JAPAN-NORKOR TALKS END, Voice of America, 24 August 2000 -- Japan and North Korea remain at odds after a another round of talks aimed at setting up diplomatic ties. As Bickers reports from Tokyo, sources say there was virtually no change from previous rounds, in the two sides' negotiating positions.
  • NORTH / SOUTH KOREA RAIL ROAD, Voice of America, 24 August 2000 -- North and South Korea have agreed to build a four-lane highway and reconnect railroad tracks that will cross the heavily armed border dividing the two countries.
  • U-S NORTH KOREA JOINT VENTURE, Voice of America, 23 August 2000 -- A small U-S based mining firm says it has become the first American company to conclude a business deal in communist North Korea.
  • JAPAN /NOKOR TALKS OPEN, Voice of America, 22 August 2000 -- Negotiators from Japan and North Korea have reopened normalization talks Tuesday after a four month hiatus.
  • Friendship, cooperation bywords on Korean Peninsula these days, Stars and Stripes, 22 August 2000 -- As relations continue to warm between the two Koreas, President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea is studying how to amend laws forbidding South Koreans from speaking too kindly of their northern neighbor.
  • North Koreans: Exercise threatens contacts with South, Stars and Stripes, 22 August 2000 -- North Korea has threatened to stop all contacts with South Korea if the Ulchi Focus Lens 2000 military training exercise is held.
  • USA/ROK Joint Military Exercises, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 21 August 2000 -- The North Koreans are saying [the exercises] should be called off or else it could affect reconciliation between the two Koreas. Does the US have an opinion and would you cover whether such activities 50 years after the Korean War, in light of what's going on between the two Koreas, still makes sense?
  • SOKOR / US MILITARY EXERCISES, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- South Korea and the United States have opened an annual 12-day military exercise, despite warnings from North Korea that the war games could scuttle warming inter-Korean relations.
  • KOREAS / SPY REPATRIATIONS, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- Two North Korean spies, set free by South Korea after disavowing communism, are demanding to be sent back to North Korea.
  • JAPAN / NOKOR TALKS, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- Japan and North Korea will reopen talks Tuesday in Tokyo on normalizing relations.
  • KOREAN FAMILIES, Voice of America, 20 August 2000 -- The head of the South Korean Red Cross says there may be further reunions between separated family members from the two Koreas and that a permanent meeting place for divided families is being considered.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service August 14 - August 20, 2000
  • JAPAN / NORTH KOREA, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- The Tokyo government and Japanese media are giving conflicting reports of what concessions, if any, Japan will make to North Korea when the two sides meet next week for the second round of talks to normalize diplomatic relations.
  • KOREAS REUNIFICATION, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- The reunion of long-separated families engulfed North and South Korea this week as several hundred people met for four days after some 50 years apart.
  • KOREA REUNION ENDS, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- The reunion of 200 divided Korean families came to a bittersweet end on Friday.
  • KIM JONG IL FEVER, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- Suddenly and surprisingly, South Koreans are rediscovering a passion for all things North Korean.
  • NORTH KOREA COVERAGE / REUNIONS, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- South Korea's Unification ministry says North Korean broadcasters have provided unusually in-depth coverage of this week's reunions of families separated since the Korean War.
  • KOREAS REUNION SECOND DAY, Voice of America, 16 August 2000 -- The reunion of 200 members of separated Korean families continued for a second day Wednesday.
  • U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, , 15 August 2000 -- And if I can ask a question on North Korea, there are reports that the President of North Korea now says he was just kidding when he had talked to Putin about stopping their missile program.
  • KOREAS / DEFENSE, Voice of America, 15 August 2000 -- South Korean President Kim Dae-jung says he will propose a meeting between the defense ministers of South and North Korea to seek ways to reduce military tensions on the Korean peninsula.
  • KOREAS REUNION, Voice of America, 15 August 2000 -- A plane carrying 100 North Koreans arrived in Seoul Tuesday for a four-day reunion of long-lost relatives separated by the Korean War.
  • US / NORTH KOREA, AMY BICKERS, Voice of America, 8/14/2000 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says his nation would consider establishing diplomatic ties with the United States if Washington removed it from a list of states which sponsor terrorism.
  • KOREAS REUNION PREVIEW, AMY BICKERS, Voice of America, 8/14/2000 -- Two-hundred people from North and South Korea will participate in a family reunion that starts Tuesday in Seoul and Pyongyang.
  • KOREAS / LIAISON OFFICES, AMY BICKERS, Voice of America, 8/14/2000 -- North and South Korea have reopened liaison offices in a village located in the no man's land between their heavily armed border.
  • U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, Philip Reeker, Department of State, 8/14/2000 -- Was Kim Jong-il only kidding when he offered to stop North Korea's missile program?
  • Kim Jong-il's Dialogue with South Korean Media Heads Chosunilbo (English Edition) 13 August 2000 -- The North Korean government has been engaged in rocket engineering in a bid to promote science development. A rocket launch costs US$200 to US$300 million. I told Russian President Putin that we will stop developing rockets when the United States comes forward and launches our satellites. I don't know what the new U.S. administration would say on this issue, as Clinton is due to step down soon. North Korea has been moving ahead with launching the satellite and it costs US$900 million for about two to three satellite launches a year. It is vastly uneconomical for my country to launch twice a year. North Korea has been selling rockets to Surinam and Iran. It is a ridiculous to claim that North Korea will be able to beat the U.S. by developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and blasting them off to the U.S. but Washington has been picking on North Korea's research for satellite technology. Certainly it will be a headache for the U.S. because the country will hate to give money freely to us on one hand, and on the other, the U.S. must stem our scientists research on satellite technology.
  • US / NOKOR TALKS, Voice of America, 09 August 2000 -- US and North Korean officials, scheduled to meet in Pyongyang Wednesday and Thursday, will discuss what North Korea must do to be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. The US delegation is being led by counter-terrorism coordinator Michael Sheehan.
  • Weekly On North Korea ROK National Intelligence Service July 31 - August 6, 2000
  • North, South Korea agree to reopen liaison offices, Stars and Stripes, 01 August 2000 -- Seoul and Pyongyang have agreed to reopen liaison offices at Panmunjom, giving rise to hope that the 1991 Basic Agreement between the once-bitter enemies finally will be implemented.



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