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19 February North Korea Special Weapons News

  • UN / NOKOR VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- As tension builds on the Korean Peninsula, the United Nations Security Council is gearing up for a debate on North Korea's defiance of nuclear nonproliferation treaties.
  • Security Council refers IAEA letter on DPR of Korea to experts first UN News Centre 19 Feb 2003 -- The Security Council has referred a letter from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to its experts for further consultations before beginning any discussion of the matter, the President of the 15-nation body said today.
  • Powell Looks for Multilateral Talks with North Korea Washington File 19 Feb 2003 -- The United States will talk in the future with North Korea, but believes those talks will be more effective if they begin in a multilateral forum, Secretary of State Colin Powell says.
  • U.N. Security Council Takes Up North Korea Nuclear Issue Washington File 19 Feb 2003 -- The Security Council began working on a new nuclear weapons issue February 19 -- North Korea's nuclear program, as referred to it by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
  • POWELL / ASIA VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell flies to Asia later this week for a three-nation trip ending with a stop in Seoul for the February 25th inauguration of incoming South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun. His talks in Japan, China and South Korea will be dominated by the North Korean nuclear issue.
  • JOHN HOOG/N. KOREA NUKES VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- North Korea has threatened to pull out of the Korean War truce because of what it sees as possible U-S military sanctions. A statement published Tuesday by North Korea's official news agency accused the United States of planning to break the 1953 armistice by setting up a naval blockade around the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang says such a move comes just short of an open declaration of war. A White House spokesman says the North Korean threat is nothing new and part of what he called "a predictable pattern" of escalating rhetoric.
  • Spokesman for Panmunjom mission of KPA issues statement KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- The Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army is authorized to declare that the KPA side will be left with no option but to take a decisive step to abandon its commitment to implement the Armistice Agreement as a signatory to it and free itself from the binding force of all its provisions, regarding the possible sanctions to be taken by the U.S. side against the DPRK from anywhere after bolstering its forces in and around the Korean Peninsula to attack the DPRK as the AA-banned blockade against it.
  • Yang Hyong Sop meets Malaysian delegation KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- Yang Hyong Sop, Vice-President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with the delegation of the Malaysian trade unions congress led by its president Zainal Rampak at the Mansudae Assembly Hall yesterday. On hand were Ri Jin Su, vice-chairman of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, and other officials concerned.
  • U.S. urged to defuse nuclear crisis KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- The Anti-War and Peace Christian Solidarity grouping more than 20 religious organizations including the human rights committee of the council of Christian churches of South Korea reportedly held a press conference on Feb. 13 on the occasion of the international day of anti-war action at which it demanded the United States stop its moves for a nuclear war. At the press conference the organization issued a statement.
  • Foreign Minister leaves for Malaysia KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun and his party left here today to participate in a meeting of foreign ministers of non-aligned countries which will be held in Malaysia prior to the 13th summit meeting.
  • Japan's attempt to increase surveillance over DPRK blasted KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- The Japanese reactionaries are reportedly scheming to strengthen the alert posture toward the DPRK with radar and other sophisticated equipment under the cloak of coping with the "possible launch of ballistic missiles."
  • U.S. arms buildup in Japan KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- The U.S. is reportedly working hard to reinforce its armed forces in Japan, which is part of military moves to stifle the DPRK.
  • High vigilance against U.S. cynical ploy called for KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- Nowadays the U.S. rulers and spokesmen for the White House and the State Department peddled a false rumor to the effect that the U.S. is willing to have a "dialogue" with the DPRK over the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula and consider energy and food aid for the DPRK if Pyongyang ends nuclear weapons development. They also said that the U.S. has no plans to invade and may guarantee the security of the DPRK.
  • South side's delegation here KCNA 19 Feb 2003 -- A south side's delegation led by president of Songji University Kang Man Gil arrived here today to participate in the north-south joint exhibition of materials on the crimes related to the Japanese imperialists' forcible drafting of Koreans.
  • KOREAS NUKES VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- South Korea's president-elect says he opposes military action to force North Korea give up its nuclear programs.
  • CHINA/JAPAN ASLYLUM SEEKERS VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- Japan's government has not decided the fate of four North Korean refugees who walked into a Japanese school Tuesday in Beijing asking for asylum in Japan. Tokyo is apparently concerned that granting asylum might spark a flood of North Korean refugees.




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