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INSIDE NORTH KOREA
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In an editorial published on March 6th, North Korea's official party organ, The Worker's Daily. outlined the merits of the so-called Seed Theory, explaining that the theory consists of 'detailed and specific action plans' that will allow the Stalinist State to 'attain the utmost in the least amount of time', and that the theory should be made manifest in every aspect of the country's 'ongoing process of revolution and socialist reconstruction', urging its public to accelerate North Korea's transformation into a socialist superpower.
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North Korea's Central Broadcasting declared the government's calls for a 'radical and ideological reconstruction of humans' to be the most critical aspect in the state's revolution and socialist reconstruction, and workers and party members alike should work to emulate the party's achievement in the 'human reconstruction', on its report broadcast on March 10th.
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FOREIGN RELATIONS
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North Korea established formal relations with Luxemburg (March 05), Greece (March 08), and Brazil (March 09).
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In an interview with the official Korea Central News Agency on March 6th, the spokesperson for the North Korean foreign ministry reacted to his country's inclusion in the US State Department's Annual Drug Traffic Control Report as a `drug producer and trafficker' and therefore subject to monitoring, an `outright slander'.
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INTER KOREAN NEWS
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North Korea's Central Broadcasting reported on the arrival of South Korean minister of culture and tourism Kim Han-kil in Pyongyang (March 10).
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Central Broadcasting also reported on March 10th that `opposition to foreign intervention and independent resolution of the unification issue constitutes the core of the North-South Joint Declaration' and emphasized that 'the Korean people must strive for strict adherence to and implementation of the joint declaration, the marker pointing the way to the unification of our fatherland in the twenty-first century'.
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WEEKLY NK NEWS (2001.3.5 - 3.11)
