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INSIDE NORTH KOREA
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North Korea's Pyongyang Broadcasting praised it's government's so-called `Military First' policy as a uniquely North Korean way of politics that allows a country `to run things as its sees fit, according to its unique circumstances', adding that it is `a basic mode of politics for our own special brand of socialist system' in a broadcast on Feb. 28th.
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In a broadcast dated March 4th, the Central Broadcasting reported that workers and students around the country planted a total of 2493600 trees and including pine nut trees, pines, acacias, and other plants in the country's various revolutionary sites, around historical monuments, parks, and other areas to commemorate North Korea's Arbor Day (March 02).
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FOREIGN RELATIONS
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The North Korean party organ, the Worker's Daily, lashed out at Japanese distortion and fabrication of history in their textbooks in its March 1st editorial, calling the move `a grave insult to Koreans and all other Asian peoples who have suffered from past Japanese aggression', and also describing it as `advance preparation and ideological mobilization for renewed expansionist aggression'.
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In a March 1st interview with Central Broadcasting, the spokesperson for North Korea's foreign ministry criticized classification of North Korea as `a human rights violator' in the US State Department's World Human Rights Report in the most caustic language possible, calling it `a wicked and nefarious policy of hostility against (North) Korea' by the US.
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INTER KOREAN NEWS
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The third exchange and meeting of separated families were held in Seoul and Pyongyang from 26th to the 28th of March. In other news, historians from South and North Korea assembled in Pyongyang on March 1st and adopted a joint statement condemning recent distortion of Japan's wartime past in the country's textbooks.
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WEEKLY NK NEWS (2001.2.26 - 3.4)
