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06 January North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Daily Press Briefing State Department 06 Jan 2003 -- TCOG Status, Schedule, and Overview / North Korean Requests for Non-Aggression Pact / Compliance With International Atomic Energy Agency Inspections / International Atomic Energy Agency Board Statement / Violation of 1994 Agreements / U.S Non-Proliferation Interests and South Korea / Potential Involvement of U.N. Security Council / Channels of Communication With North Korea / U.S. Food Aid to North Korea, Monitoring and Verification / North Korean Energy Imports, Conventional Forces
  • IAEA board calls for DPR of Korea to comply with safeguards, readmit inspectors UN News Centre 06 Jan 2003 -- Warning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that its continued defiance would render it in non-compliance with international nuclear safeguards, the governing board of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today adopted a resolution calling for Pyongyang to cooperate and readmit international inspectors
  • BUSH NORTH KOREA VOA 06 Jan 2003-- President Bush continues to defend his approach to dealing with the dispute over North Korea's nuclear program, reiterating he has no plans to invade and wants a diplomatic solution.
  • IAEA Statement on North Korea "Appropriate," Bush Says Washington File 06 Jan 2003-- President Bush views "as the appropriate course of action" the resolution on North Korea approved unanimously January 6 by the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at a meeting in Vienna, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters.
  • IAEA Gives North Korea Chance to Come into Safeguards Compliance Washington File 06 Jan 2003-- North Korea must take first step, IAEA says
  • U-S-NORTH KOREA VOA 06 Jan 2003-- The United States is hailing the International Atomic Energy Agency's adoption of a resolution demanding that North Korea comply with its international nuclear obligations. The Vienna based I-A-E-A acted as senior South Korean and Japanese diplomats began two days of meetings in Washington with their U-S counterparts on the North Korean nuclear issue
  • I-A-E-A / NORTH KOREA VOA 06 Jan 2003-- The International Atomic Energy Agency is giving North Korea one last chance to allow international supervision of its nuclear program
  • FOSTER-CARTER KOREA VOA 06 Jan 2003-- South Korean diplomats begin talks in Washington today (Monday), trying to resolve the crisis over North Korea's plans to re-start a nuclear power plant capable of making weapons-grade plutonium. The South Korean delegation meets today with Japanese envoys and U-S Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, who will travel to South Korea for further consultations next week. Aidan Foster Carter is a North Korea expert at Leeds University in Britain
  • Text: Compliance, Not Defiance Only Solution for North Korea, IAEA Says Washington File 06 Jan 2003-- Declaring that North Korea's actions clearly present "an unsustainable situation" and set "a dangerous precedent," the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said January 6 that non-compliance with international non-proliferation obligations cannot be tolerated, but he urged that the matter be resolved through dialogue.
  • Text: IAEA Governors Call for North Korean Nuclear Cooperation Washington File 06 Jan 2003-- The 35-member Board of Governors of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed by consensus January 6 a resolution that calls on North Korea to "cooperate urgently and fully" on nuclear safeguards.
  • NORTH KOREA MISSILES VOA 06 Jan 2003-- North Korea has lashed out at the United States for developing a missile defense system it says shows intent to attack the Asian nation. North Korea has repeatedly said it feels threatened by Washington and says that gives it the right to have nuclear weapons - despite its non-proliferation pledges
  • U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK bound to go busted KCNA 06 Jan 2003-- The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is an issue that should be settled through DPRK-U.S. dialogue as it is a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK. The DPRK, therefore, has consistently proposed dialogue with the U.S. without preconditions and conclusion of a non-aggression treaty with the U.S. there is no change in the DPRK stand to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful way.
  • U.S. is to blame for present situation KCNA 06 Jan 2003-- The DPRK took a measure for lifting the nuclear freeze since the United States unilaterally suspended its duty to supply heavy oil to make up for the loss of electric power, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary today. Therefore, it stresses, the U.S. is entirely to blame for the present complicated situation. To peacefully resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is the consistent stand of the DPRK. Thus it proposed to conclude a non-aggression treaty with the U.S., the commentary notes, and goes on:
  • Nuclear issue on Korean Peninsula should be settled between DPRK and U.S. KCNA 06 Jan 2003-- The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula can never be a matter of international character in any case because it can be settled when the U.S. gives a legal guarantee of security such as the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK. Pak Ui Chun, DPRK Ambassador to Russia, said this at a press conference at the embassy on Dec. 31.




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