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18 January North Korea Special Weapons News

  • NORTH KOREA/ DIPLOMACY VOA 18 Jan 2003 -- Top international diplomats say North Korea and the United States must start talking and resolve their nuclear dispute and also start addressing a looming humanitarian crisis. Envoys stopped in Beijing on their way to and from high level talks with North Korea
  • U.S. nuclear blackmail slammed KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- It is a foolish miscalculation for the U.S. imperialists to attempt to bring the DPRK to its knees with nuclear blackmail. The bellicose forces of bush should cool their heads obsessed with nuclear war fever and drop their hostile policy towards the DPRK. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
  • GNP's sophism over "nuclear issue" flayed KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- The secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued its information bulletin no. 834 on Jan. 16, denouncing the Grand National Party of South Korea (GNP) for letting loose a string of sophism over the DPRK's "nuclear issue." On Jan. 15 a spokesman for the GNP in a commentary on the "north's nuclear issue" blustered that the "north should scrap its nuclear development at once."
  • Implementation of June 15 joint declaration called for KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- The independence of the nation is the basic spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and its principle serves as a touchstone that distinguishes between the line of reunification and that of division and between patriotism and treachery, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. No one should deviate from the principle of national independence because the north and the south pledged to solve the issue of the country's reunification independently by the concerted efforts of the nation in the June 15 joint declaration.
  • KCNA urges U.S. to sincerely approach dialogue KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- James Kelly at a press conference on Jan. 13 during his visit to South Korea as a special envoy of the U.S. President said that the U.S. is willing to consider energy aid for North Korea and have "multi-faceted dialogue" with it if it ends "nuclear weapons development". In this regard, some of the international community describe his remarks as some sort of change made by the U.S. to peacefully settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. This is, however, a wrong understanding of the U.S. black-hearted intention
  • Anti-U.S. rallies held KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- Rallies have been held in provincial seats in the wake of the rally of more than one million people in Pyongyang to support the DPRK Government's statement on the country's withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ralliers have voiced hatred against the U.S. infringing upon the sovereignty of the Korean nation and the security of the state
  • U.S. urged to stop making fuss about nuclear issue KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- Prof. Mohamad Abubakar at Malay University of Malaysia, when interviewed by the central television of Malaysia on Jan. 3, denounced the unreasonable U.S. nuclear racket, asserting that North Korea's restart of its nuclear facilities would not be a threat to the U.S. and its neighboring countries
  • DPRK Government statement supported KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- The Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in a statement on Jan. 14 said that the statement of the DPRK Government is not only an expression of its firm will not to tolerate the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK and its nuclear blackmail even a little but the most just self-defence step to defend the supreme interests of the state and protect the sovereignty, the right to existence and dignity of the country and the nation
  • U.S. is chiefly to blame for worst situation in Korea KCNA 18 Jan 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun yesterday carried an article entitled "The U.S. is Chiefly to Blame for the Worst Situation on the Korean Peninsula."
  • THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR CRISIS VOA 18 Jan 2003 -- North Korea now appears to be openly pursuing its nuclear weapons program. The regime of Kim Jong-il withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty after throwing out inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. North Korea has said it will restart a plutonium reactor that was shut down as part of a 1994 agreement with the United States. The North Koreans are also threatening new ballistic missile tests. President George W. Bush has called for international diplomacy to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions. President Bush said "I view this as an opportunity to bind together nations in the neighborhood and around the world to make it clear to the North Koreans that we expect this issue to be resolved peacefully and we expect them to disarm." How will this crisis be resolved?




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