Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
20 January North Korea Special Weapons News
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- U-S/NORTH KOREA VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- The Bush administration Monday reaffirmed its commitment to pursuing a diplomatic solution to the problem posed by North Korea's repudiation of international nuclear agreements. Secretary of State Colin Powell took up the issue on the sidelines of a U-N Security Council meeting on terrorism
- NOKOR / CHINA / U-S VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- The top U-S official on arms control says China does not oppose taking the North Korean nuclear dispute to the U-N Security Council
- NOKOR/RUSSIA VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- A top Russian envoy says his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang was successful. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov is on a mission to get the United States and North Korea to talk to diffuse international concerns about North Korea's illegal nuclear programs
- US Offers Aid Incentive to NK: Hubbard Korea-net 20 Jan 2003 -- U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Thomas Hubbard said on Sunday the United States will provide North Korea with a wide range of aid if it abandons its nuclear weapons program
- DPR of Korea: UN envoy to report on talks with senior government officials UN News Centre 20 Jan 2003 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special adviser, Maurice Strong, has returned to Beijing after four days of talks with senior officials in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
- NORKOR/RUSSIA VOA 20 Jan 2003-- A Russian envoy has reportedly been meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang
- CHINA / NOKOR ASYLUM SEEKERS VOA 20 Jan 2003-- An international aid group says Chinese police have detained dozens of North Korean asylum seekers. "Doctors Without Borders" says they are among thousands who may face a "grim fate" if returned to North Korea.
- DPRK to react to unreasonable "countermeasure" with toughest stance KCNA 20 Jan 2003-- U.S. Secretary of State Powell said that the nuclear issue of the DPRK should be brought to the UNSC and "concrete countermeasures including economic sanctions would be seriously considered." This fully represented the hostile intention of the Bush administration to shift the responsibility for the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, which was authored and has been hyped by it, and the resultant serious developments on to the DPRK and use the un platform as was the case with the IAEA for internationalizing its campaign to pressurize, isolate and stifle the DPRK.
- U.S. shameless threat lambasted KCNA 20 Jan 2003-- Recently the U.S. bellicose elements blustered that the "nuclear issue" of the DPRK "should be brought to the UN Security Council" and "concrete countermeasures including economic sanctions against the DPRK would be considered there." In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a commentary it fully revealed the shameless nature and wicked intention of the U.S. to internationalize the DPRK's "nuclear issue" in a bid to brand it as a "criminal" and stifle it at any cost.
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