Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

The Central Broadcasting Station exhorted listeners on December 6 "to turn all the people into revolutionary combatants with a character as forceful as that of the armed forces, in order to smash imperialist schemes and defend and keep up the achievements of Socialism."  

On December 4, party senior officials in charge of provincial, municipal and county enterprise complexes were mobilized for a visit to the Ranam Coal Mining Machinery Complex. Following the visit, the Central Broadcasting Station propagandized on December 6 that "all the people must become one in mind and spirit to follow the example set at Ranam, in order to build an economically powerful nation."

The Rodong Sinmun argued in its December 9th commentary that, "If the United States continues to corner us as a terrorism-sponsor and seeks to turn the peninsula into another Afghanistan, we will strike back the invaders with all possible means and with a vengeance beyond anyone's imagination."

In its December 4th commentary on current issues, the Central Broadcasting Station blasted Japan: "With the final approval by the Japanese Diet (November 30) of the proposal to dispatch Self Defense Force units to the Indian Ocean, Japan has finally cleared the path for legalized overseas aggression."

On December 3, the malicious anti-South-Korea propaganda media outlet, Democratic National United Front Broadcasting, exhorted South Korean farmers "to never let the authorities get away with their scheme to lower grain purchase prices," and "to launch nationwide struggles to secure appropriate purchase prices."

On December 7, Democratic National United Front Broadcasting propagandized, "The stalemate and delays in the implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration are the results of the criminal collusion between South Korea, the United States and Japan. All the Korean people must join forces to smash this three-way collusion and bring about national unification."