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24 February North Korea Special Weapons News

  • NOKOR MISSILE VOA 24 Feb 2003 -- South Korean and international news media are reporting that North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea near the Korean Peninsula. If true, this is the latest escalation in a four-month dispute over North Korea's nuclear programs.
  • JAPAN / NOKOR / MISSILE VOA 24 Feb 2003 -- The South Korean military says North Korea test fired at least one anti-ship missile Monday that landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. News of the test-firing comes just before the South's new president takes office.
  • Powell Calls for Multilateral Approach to North Korea Washington File 24 Feb 2003 -- The problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons program is not just a bilateral U.S.-North Korean issue, but must be dealt with through a multilateral effort by interested countries, Secretary of State Colin Powell said at a briefing in Beijing February 24.
  • U.S. war moves denounced in S. Korea KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- More than 20 South Korean catholic organizations including the National Catholic Alliance for Justice and the Catholic Committee of Human Rights reportedly called a "press conference of Catholics to oppose the Iraqi war and condemn the threat to the peace on the Korean Peninsula" in Seoul on Feb. 14. A statement released there termed the Iraqi war to be unilaterally spearheaded by the U.S. an unpardonable horrible massacre.
  • Rodong Sinmun on revolutionary principle of Korean people KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- The army and the people of the DPRK are now devoting themselves to the struggle to glorify their idea, system and cause with a firm revolutionary principle, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article.
  • U.S. Forces' pullback from South Korea called for KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- There is an unprecedentedly strong call in the U.S. for the withdrawal of its forces from South Korea, an indication that this matter has become an urgent demand and an irresistible trend of the times, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
  • U.S. moves for war against DPRK assailed KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- The research department of the Socialist Unionist Party and the center for the study of the Juche Idea of Syria in a joint statement on Feb. 7 urged the U.S. imperialists to stop blocking Korea's reunification, immediately pull their aggressor forces out of South Korea, halt their moves for a new war and respond to the DPRK-U.S. talks.
  • KCNA ridicules western media's talk about DPRK's "brinkmanship tactics" KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- Some leading media in the western world are talking about the DPRK's "brinkmanship tactics" and "brinkmanship diplomacy" more often than not when commenting on the DPRK-U.S. relations. There are some points to be made clear before commenting on the viewpoints and stand of the western media and some parrots in Japan and South Korea who like to paint the DPRK's stand and attitude towards political, military and diplomatic confrontation with the U.S. as publicity stunts.
  • 100 More South Koreans Reunited With NK Kin Korea-net 24 Feb 2003 -- Another group of 100 elderly South Koreans made a three-day trip to Mt. Geumgang in North Korea Sunday for a reunion of their long-lost kin.
  • Reunion of separated families and relatives here KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- The 6th reunion of separated families and relatives took place at Kumgangsan resort on Feb. 20. Those from the north had a collective reunion with their kinsmen from the south under the agreement reached between the Red Cross organizations of both sides.
  • Projected large-scale U.S.-S. Korea joint military exercises under fire KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- The large-scale war manoeuvres to be staged by the U.S. and South Korean warhawks with at least 200,000 troops, aircraft carriers and other war means involved are a dangerous military provocation and escalated military action against the DPRK, observe papers here today in signed commentaries.
  • Senior U.S. officials' remarks refuted KCNA 24 Feb 2003 -- U.S. Secretary of State, Powell addressing a recent meeting in the U.S., claimed that the issue of the DPRK is not an issue merely concerned with the United States. Earlier, John Wolf, assistant secretary of state in charge of non-nuclear proliferation, said, when interviewed by Itar-Tass, that the problem is that North Korea backpedaled its commitment made to the world community.
  • Agreement at the Third inter-korean Economic cooperation Promotion Committee - Pyongyang ( November 09, 2002 ) Korea-net 24 Feb 2003 -- The third meeting of the Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee took place from November 6 to 9, 2002 in Pyongyang.
  • Joint Press Release of Inter-Korean Economic Promotion Committee - Seoul ( February 14, 2003 ) Korea-net 24 Feb 2003 -- Following is an unofficial translation of the text of a joint press release following an inter-Korean economic cooperation promotion committee meeting
  • CHINA/POWELL VOA 24 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell presented Washington's point of view on the world's two major crises, North Korea and Iraq, in conversations with China's leaders on Monday. Mr. Powell gave no indication that Beijing had changed its views significantly on either question.




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