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09 January North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification 22 Jan 2003 -- Serial No. 625 (January 03 to January 09, 2003)
  • US Willing to Talk to NK on Nuke Issue Korea-net 09 Jan 2003 -- The United States has clarified it will begin dialogue with North Korea even before the North fully complies with obligations stipulated by various international nuclear agreements.
  • KCNA calls for implementation of inter-Korean declaration KCNA 09 Jan 2003 -- The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration will as always remain a banner our nation should hold high in the movement for national reunification and the stand and attitude toward the declaration is a touchstone that distinguishes between patriotism and treachery, said the joint editorial of newspapers Rodong Sinmun, Josoninmingun and Chongnyonjonwi released on the occasion of the New Year, 2003. The publication of the historic declaration in June 2000 marked an event of special significance as it opened a turning phase in the history of the movement for the reunification of the Korean nation
  • Daily Press Briefing State Department 09 Jan 2003 -- Gov. Richardson (D-NM) and Reports of Special Envoy Status/Travel / Communiqué and Obligations / UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to N. Korea's Meetings / Sequencing of Obligations/Non-Compliance of International Obligations / Hostile vs. Aggressive Intent / Denuclearization of the Peninsula / International Community's Outlook on Inspections and Obligations
  • North Korea U.N. Envoy Contacts Former U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Washington File 09 Jan 2003-- Han Song Ryol, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, has contacted Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration, saying that he wants to visit with him, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters at his midday briefing January 9.
  • U-S / NORTH / SOUTH KOREA VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- After months of insisting it would not engage in dialogue with North Korea until Pyongyang halted the reactivation of its nuclear weapons program, the United States now says it is willing to talk to North Korea to help it find ways to meet its international obligations. Was the U-S announcement prompted by pressure from South Korea, which has begun playing a larger diplomatic role in the North Korean issue?
  • U-S / NORTH KOREA POLICY VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- The Bush administration says it is willing to resume direct talks with Pyongyang, although it is refusing to characterize them as "negotiations." Some newspapers around the world see this as a concession to what they are calling North Korea's latest nuclear blackmail, while others are pleased that a way around what looked like a diplomatic impasse has been found
  • U-S-North Korea VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- The Bush administration says it has cleared the way for a meeting between diplomats from North Korea's mission to the United Nations and former President Bill Clinton's diplomatic trouble-shooter Bill Richardson, who's now the New Mexico state governor. U-S officials say the North Koreans may be carrying a response to this week's U-S overture for talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program
  • E. HAN KIM, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, WILLIAM DAVIDSON INSTITUTE; DIRECTOR EAST ASIA MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- The Bush administration is prodding the North Korean government to engage in direct talks, but stresses the end result has to be North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons development program. E. Han Kim says, there needs to be less public posturing by both sides, and more serious talk going on behind the scenes. He is a senior research fellow at the William Davidson Institute and director of the East Asia Management Development Center at the University of Michigan
  • CHINA / FRANCE / NORTH KOREA VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- China says it is maintaining frequent and close contact with all parties on the North Korean nuclear issue. But Beijing still refuses to say if it will pressure ally Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program
  • EDITORIAL: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREA VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- The United States supports the January 6th resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding recent actions by North Korea. The agency deplored the Pyongyang regime's acts to remove and disable surveillance equipment at North Korean nuclear facilities, and the expulsion of agency inspectors
  • RUSSIA/JAPAN VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is holding talks in Moscow, in hopes of securing Russia's help in resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis. The Korea issue is expected to be at the center of Mr. Koizumi's talks Friday with President Vladimir Putin
  • CONGRESS / DEMOCRATS-KOREA VOA 09 Jan 2003 -- Democrats in the House of Representatives say the Bush administration should attempt to stay "within the spirit" of the 1994 Agreed Framework (accord) with North Korea, in any talks with Pyongyang
  • NORTH KOREA TALKS VOA 09 Jan 2003-- North Korea has says it will hold high-level talks with South Korea this month - but a week later than offered. At the same time, the North has not yet acknowledged a U-S offer to discuss the Pyongyang's illegal nuclear programs.
  • KCNA accuses U.S. of increasing danger of nuclear war in Korea KCNA 09 Jan 2003-- There is an increasing danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula due to the U.S. criminal policy toward the DPRK. The U.S. is deliberately spreading a false rumour about the DPRK's "nuclear issue", in particular, in a bid to vitiate the atmosphere of inter-Korean reconciliation and unity and foster confrontation among Koreans.




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