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06 March North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification -- Serial No. 633 (February 28 to March 06, 2003)
  • POWELL / NORTH KOREA VOA 06 Mar 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell told Senators Thursday the United States is not resigned to the idea of a nuclear-armed North Korea and is pursuing a number of quiet diplomatic efforts to get a dialogue going with Pyongyang, but on a multi-lateral basis.
  • NORTH KOREAN WORRIES VOA 06 Mar 2003 -- North Korea's provocative acts are helping to worsen relations with the United States. Recently a nuclear reactor that can produce fuel for bombs was restarted, and North Korean air force jets harassed a U-S reconnaissance plane in international airspace. The American press is divided over how best to deal with the situation.
  • NORTH KOREA / PROVOKING WAR? VOA 06 Mar 2003 -- The Bush administration is deploying long-range bombers closer to North Korea as a deterrent, and it still wants to use diplomacy to resolve the dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. But some Korea analysts say diplomacy is no longer a viable option, and they fear an armed conflict may be unavoidable.
  • CONGRESS NORTH KOREA VOA 06 Mar 2003 -- U-S lawmakers are keeping the pressure on the Bush administration to begin talks with North Korea to resolve the stand-off with that country. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee examined ways the United States could approach such dialogue.
  • Byliner: Under Secretary Bolton on North Korea, Iraq Washington File 06 Mar 2003 -- North Korea is a problem the United States didn't ask for and didn't create. When we confronted the North Korean regime in October with knowledge of its clandestine nuclear activities, we hardly expected it to break with tradition and brazenly admit to developing a uranium-enrichment programme.
  • Text: Sen. Lugar Backs Resumption of Bilateral Talks with N. Korea Washington File 06 Mar 2003 -- Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on the Bush administration March 6 to resume a bilateral dialogue with North Korea in order to manage "the potential for miscalculation that could lead to a deadly incident or broader conflict."
  • SPA to meet KCNA 06 Mar 2003 -- The Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly issued a decision to convene its session.
  • U.S. urged to accept DPRK's proposal for concluding non-aggression treaty KCNA 06 Mar 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary accuses the United States of describing the DPRK's proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty as "brinkmanship tactics" to get a sort of "reward" from it.
  • U.S. test nuclear war against DPRK flayed KCNA 06 Mar 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the United States for starting together with the South Korean military the provocative Foal Eagle war exercise under the simulated conditions of war against the DPRK on March 4.
  • S. Korean GNP castigated for insisting on introduction of special inspection system KCNA 06 Mar 2003 -- Assemblymen from the South Korean Grand National Party recently rushed a "bill on special inspection system" by themselves through the "National Assembly" on Feb. 27, seeking for the north-south confrontation and incriminating the normal economic dealings between non-governmental organizations.
  • Rodong Sinmun on Korean people's spirit of devotedly defending their leader KCNA 06 Mar 2003 -- Though the U.S. imperialists are resorting to every conceivable means and method to destroy our single hearted unity and stifle socialism, they can never break and undermine the revolutionary will and spirit of our army and people who have made the spirit of devotedly defending their leader their physical quality.
  • LEON SIGAL VOA 06 Mar 2003 -- The United States is sending 24 long-range bombers to Guam in an effort to contain any possible North Korean aggression. Pentagon officials say the decision is not related to Sunday's intercept of a U-S spy plane by four North Korean fighter jets near the Korean peninsula.




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