UNITED24 - Make a charitable donation in support of Ukraine!

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


23 January North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification 30 Jan 2003 -- Serial No. 627 (January 17 to January 23, 2003)
  • Daily Press Briefing State Department 23 Jan 2003 -- International Atomic Energy Board of Governors Report / Pursuing Peaceful Solution/ Willingness to Talk to North Korea
  • KCNA detailed report on circumstances of DPRK's withdrawal from NPT KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- If the United States abandons its hostile policy and refrains from nuclear threat, the DPRK may substantiate through a special verification between the two countries that it does not manufacture nuclear weapons. The nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula should be settled peacefully through fair negotiations that call upon both the DPRK and the U.S. to clear each other of their concerns on an equal footing. This is the consistent stand of the DPRK Government
  • IAEA urged not to follow U.S. anti-DPRK policy KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article denounces the United States and its followers for letting loose a string of vituperation against the DPRK, upset by its step taken to withdraw from the NPT
  • KCNA describes U.S. as greatest threat to world peace KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- One third of the Canadian population in an opinion poll conducted by a newspaper of the country singled out the United States as the greatest threat to the world peace, according to VOA. The U.S. formally pulled out of the ABM treaty, a "cornerstone for the world strategic stability," last year, thus sparking a new nuclear arms race. The U.S. still refuses to ratify the 1996 comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty
  • Development of national defence industry called for KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- The Workers' Party of Korea considers it as an important requirement for economic construction in the era of the army-based policy to attach importance to the national defence industry and direct primary efforts to it. This is the most just policy to defend the sovereignty and vital right of the country and the nation and dynamically accelerate the building of a powerful nation. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
  • U.S. urged not to misjudge DPRK KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- The U.S. destroyed Afghanistan as it pleased but the DPRK is not Afghanistan and the U.S. will never be allowed to touch even a blade of grass and a tree there. Yun Song Sik, permanent member of the consultative council of former South Korean politicians in the north for the promotion of peaceful reunification, said this when interviewed by KCNA on Jan. 22
  • 9th North-South Ministerial Talks open KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- The 9th inter-Korean Ministerial Talks were opened in Seoul today. Present at the talks from the north side were the members of the delegation led by Kim Ryong Song, chief councillor of the DPRK Cabinet, and suite members and from the south side were the members of the delegation with Jong Se Hyon, Minister of Unification, as chief delegate and suite members
  • S. Korean delegation here KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- A south side delegation arrived here today by air to participate in the second meeting of the panel for the reconnection of north-south rail and road links.
  • Third North-South Red Cross Working Contact held KCNA 23 Jan 2003 -- The third North-South Red Cross Working Contact took place at Mt. Kumgang Resort from Jan. 20 to 22. At the contact both sides discussed such humanitarian issues as the issue of setting up a meeting place in Mt. Kumgang and the issue of the sixth reunion of separated families and their relatives
  • IAEA Board Meeting on NK Nuke Issue Put Off Korea-net 23 Jan 2003 -- The board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to discuss whether to refer the North Korean nuclear issue to the United Nations Security Council has been put off, according to a senior official at the Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry on Thursday (Jan. 23).
  • CHINA NOKOR ASYLUM VOA 23 Jan 2003 -- China has rejected a U-N refugee agency request not to send some North Koreans back to their starving homeland
  • CHINA - NORTH KOREA - UN VOA 23 Jan 2003 -- -S officials say the dispute over North Korea's nuclear weapons program could be presented to the United Nations Security Council within days. That could pose a problem for China, depending on what course of action the Security Council decides to pursue




NEWSLETTER
Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list