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15 January North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Daily Press Briefing State Department 15 Jan 2003 -- Food Aid Delivery / Comments by USAID Administrator Natsios / World Food Program Monitoring of Food Aid / Possible Talks on De-Nuclearization with North Koreans / Discussions with Other Nations About North Korea / Assistant Secretary Kelly Visit to China / Under Secretary Bolton Travel to Asia and Europe / Meaning of "No Quid Pro Quo" Statement / Light Water Reactors / Discussions in Davos
  • KCNA holds U.S. chiefly responsible for nuclear proliferation and threat KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- Nowadays, the U.S. and some countries insist on the wrong assertions, expressing "concern" over the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula and saying that the DPRK should return to the NPT. Their argument contrary to truth and reason is intended to justify the unreasonable behavior of the IAEA, a servant of the U.S., and list the DPRK as "a criminal" charged with nuclear proliferation and threat and a target of international pressure. Then, who is chiefly accountable for nuclear proliferation and threat between the DPRK and the U.S, parties concerned responsible for the solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula? Proliferation of nuclear weapons in our planet was started by the United States. in 1945 the U.S. produced three a-bombs and tested one of them in its mainland and dropped the other two on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, inflicting nuclear holocaust on Japanese for the first time in human history.
  • Japan urged not to blindly follow U.S. KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- The DPRK stands in all-out confrontation with the U.S. imperialists to counter their increasing nuclear blackmail, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary. Japan's involvement in the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK only leads to self-destruction
  • DPRK FM spokesman on U.S. rumor about dialogue KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave an answer to a question raised by KCNA today as regards the rumor about " dialogue" with the DPRK spread by the united states recently in a bid to mislead the public opinion.
  • KERR KOREA VOA 15 Jan 2003 -- Last month Pyongyang threatened to re-activate a nuclear plant capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium. Today, Wednesday, North Korea rejected a U-S offer of talks to discuss the issue. However, North and South Korea agreed to hold Cabinet level talks in Seoul next week on nuclear development
  • CONGRESS N-KOREA VOA 15 Jan 2003 -- U-S lawmakers appear divided over the Bush administration's approach toward North Korea
  • NORTH KOREA TALKS VOA 15 Jan 2003 -- North Korean Foreign Ministry statement rejects President Bush's offer to consider aid to the country if Pyongyang renounces its nuclear programs. As V-O-A's Kate Pound Dawson reports, this follows several days of diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula
  • CHINA KELLY NOKOR VOA 15 Jan 2003-- A top U-S envoy held talks in China (Wednesday) aimed at encouraging Pyongyang's most important ally to help cool the North Korean nuclear crisis
  • CHINA KELLY VOA 15 Jan 2003-- Washington's top envoy for Asia held talks with North Korea's last ally, China, hoping to get Beijing's help in resolving the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang.
  • Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's withdrawal from NPT KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- The DPRK Government's recent decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was a self-defensive measure for safeguarding the whole nation against the U.S. reckless moves to stifle the DPRK and the partial behaviour of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), follower of the U.S. Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed commentary today.
  • U.S. obstructions to Korean reunification under fire KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- The U.S. imperialists are escalating the tensions on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to chill the daily growing desire of the Korean nation for reconciliation, unity, reunification, hamstring the implementation of the north-south joint declaration and thus bring the inter-Korean ties back to those of confrontation, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary. It continues:
  • KCNA accuses U.S. of mocking at UN and international community KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- The U.S. is scoffing at the UN and the international community over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and the IAEA and some countries are acting its spokesman and servant dancing to its tune. The U.S. is working hard to internationalize the nuclear issue of the DPRK in a desperate bid to misrepresent the cause of the issue and the responsibility for it and create the impression that it is the issue between the DPRK and the international community. Through this it seeks to cover up its criminal moves that spawned the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and craftily evade its responsibility for the solution of the issue.
  • KCNA refutes U.S. sophism about DPRK's decision KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- Some of the international community are reported to have made such unreasonable remarks as expressing "serious concern" and "regret" over the DPRK's decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The U.S. President, Vice-President and other senior U.S. officials let loose a whole string of sheer sophism misrepresenting the nature and cause of the grave situation.
  • U.S. frantic moves to stifle DPRK under fire KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- Recently the bush group spread a rumor that some economic difficulties in the DPRK are attributable to its wrong policy. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses it as a shrill cry of those who are upset by the might of the DPRK dynamically advancing to speed up the building of a powerful nation under the banner of the army-based policy.
  • DPRK, too, has option KCNA 15 Jan 2003-- If the U.S. and its followers respond to the DPRK's recent exercise of its option with new sanctions, blockade and pressure offensives, it will exercise the second and third corresponding options, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.




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