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05 March North Korea Special Weapons News

  • White House Report, March 5: North Korea, Israel, Papal Envoy Washington File 05 Mar 2003 -- WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS POLICY ON NORTH KOREA / BUSH CONDEMNS TERROR ATTACK IN ISRAEL / BUSH WELCOMES PAPAL EMISSARY TO WHITE HOUSE
  • Sen. Brownback Condemns North Korean Sponsored Kidnappings Washington File 05 Mar 2003 -- In a March 5 press conference, which included the families of Japanese abducted by North Korea, Senator Sam Brownback (Republican of Kansas) harshly criticized the Pyongyang regime.
  • Expert Panel Urges U.S. to Begin Direct Talks with N. Korea Washington File 05 Mar 2003 -- Former top U.S. officials urged the Bush administration to drop its multilateral approach for resolving the nuclear weapons crisis with North Korea and to begin direct talks with officials in Pyongyang instead.
  • JAPAN / KIDNAP VICTIMS VOA 05 Mar 2003 -- Families of Japanese citizens believed kidnapped by North Korea met with U-S lawmakers Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The visitors appealed for support in determining the fate of family members still in North Korea, and spoke to members of a congressional committee about human rights conditions in the North.
  • CONGRESS NORTH KOREA VOA 05 Mar 2003 -- The Republican-led U-S Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on North Korea's nuclear ambitions Thursday, as Senate Democrats step up their criticism of Bush administration policy toward that country.
  • KOREAN PROVOCATIONS VOA 05 Mar 2003 -- Rising tensions surrounding North Korea are pushing aside Iraq, at least for now, on U-S newspaper editorial pages. The potential impact of an encounter between North Korean military jets and a U-S surveillance plane and the North's restart of a nuclear power station are the focus of many columns.
  • PENTAGON/KOREA VOA 05 Mar 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the U-S decision to move a force of heavy bombers to within striking of North Korea should not be considered hostile.
  • Meeting of activists in movement for title of O Jung Hup's Seventh Regiment of KPA KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- A meeting of activists in the movement for the title of O Jung Hup's Seventh Regiment of the Korean People's Army was held here between March 2 and 3. This movement is a mass movement for ideological innovation aimed to firmly protect the headquarters of our revolution, inheriting the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters' spirit of devotedly defending the leader and a mass onward movement to increase the KPA's combat preparedness and capability in every way in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.
  • KCNA refutes S. Korean conservatives' anti-north burlesque KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- The General Freedom Federation and other ultra-right conservative organizations in South Korea held "Citizens' Rally for Freedom and Reunification on the Occasion of March 1" in Seoul on March 1 at which they demanded "opposition to the cut down in the U.S. Forces and their redeployment and the north's nuclear development," according to South Korean KBS.
  • Rodong Sinmun on March 1 National Meeting in Seoul KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- national meeting jointly held by the north and the south to mark the anniversary of the March 1 Movement, a nation-wide anti-Japanese patriotic resistance, was an eruption of the common desire of all the Koreans to achieve independence, peace and reunification with the concerted efforts of the nation in the spirit of the March 1 Movement. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.
  • Minju Joson on "Foal Eagle" exercise KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- The danger of armed conflict is growing owing to the "Foal Eagle" exercise which will continue for nearly one month, involving over 200,000-strong forces including the U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, U.S. reinforcements from overseas, and the South Korean army as well as latest military equipment. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
  • Shameless impostors' remarks blasted KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- U.S. President Bush said in an official speech on national policy that "North Korea was deceiving the world and developing nuclear weapons and impaired its system, describing it as a "lawless regime". Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary that his remarks are a sophism of a political illiterate and a shameless impostor who has dull senses of the times.
  • U.S. urged to conclude non-aggression treaty with DPRK KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- A meeting was sponsored by the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification in Mexico on Feb. 20, denouncing the U.S. nuclear racket and supporting the Korean people's struggle. Speeches were made at the meeting.
  • U.S. hit for falsifying truth KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- U.S. officials are spreading the misinformation that the DPRK's just self-defensive steps taken as regards the showdown with the U.S. were just aimed to "preserve its system" and "get economic reward" in a bid to twist the nature of the situation and build up a world public opinion.
  • U.S. sinister plot for development of nukes of next generation flailed KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- The United States is contemplating a secret meeting for the development of nuclear weapons of the next generation in august this year, according to a foreign press report. It will discuss at length the issue of putting into practice the "Bush doctrine" that calls for U.S. preemptive nuclear strikes at the "rogue states," the report added.
  • Director of UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office arrives here KCNA 05 Mar 2003 -- Mehr Khan, director of the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, and her party arrived here today.
  • NOKOR / U-S VOA 05 Mar 2003 -- Pacific allies - the United States, South Korea and Japan - say they remain committed to diplomacy to end a dispute over North Korea's banned nuclear programs. But Seoul and Tokyo are increasingly worried as the United States beefs up its regional military presence and has begun publicly acknowledging it will consider all options to resolve the matter.




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