Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
04 February North Korea Special Weapons News
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- Armitage Says Normal Relations Start With North Korea's End of "Self-Destructive" Ways AFPS 04 Feb 2003 -- An immediate cost to North Korea for normal relations with other nations is to stop
trying to commit suicide and blackmail, Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said today.
- CONGRESS / NORTH KOREA VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- A senior State Department official says the United States will hold direct talks with North Korea about its nuclear program, if the talks are held on an international platform.
- U.S. hit for false information KCNA 04 Feb 2003 -- U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton in a press interview during his recent tour of Japan claimed that the DPRK put into operation nuclear facilities to develop nuclear arms and not to generate electricity. He also asked why the DPRK withdrew from the NPT, adding that North Korea has worked in secrecy to become a nuclear weapon state for the last five years.
- DPRK's self-defensive measure supported KCNA 04 Feb 2003 -- The DPRK Government's statement was fully supported in Britain and Romania. The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the British Association for Friendship with Korea and the British Branch of the Internet Association for Friendship with Korea released a joint statement on Jan. 16. bitterly condemning the U.S. and its followers for their hostile policy toward the DPRK, it said that the DPRK's withdrawal from the NPT is a just self-defensive measure taken to defend its interests.
- U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK flailed KCNA 04 Feb 2003 -- The Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization issued a statement on Jan. 22 denouncing the U.S. hostile policy to stifle the DPRK. A grave situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the Bush administration's violation of the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, the statement said
- IAEA to Bring Nuke Issue to UNSC Korea-net 04 Feb 2003 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will likely bring the issue of North Korea's failure to comply with its international nuclear obligations before the United Nations Security Council, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Trade official said on Tuesday (Feb. 4).
- U.S. Willing to Have New Relationship With North Korea, Armitage Says Washington File 04 Feb 2003 -- The United States is prepared to "build a different kind of
relationship with North Korea," but first Pyongyang must change its
behavior, says Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
- North Korea Threatens the International Community, Kelly Says
Washington File 04 Feb 2003 -- The problems posed by North Korea's communist regime threaten not just
the United States and South Korea, but the international community as
well, according to Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs James Kelly.
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