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10 March North Korea Special Weapons News

  • NOKOR / MISSILE TEST VOA 10 Mar 2003 -- North Korea has conducted its second missile test in two weeks. Officials in South Korea and Japan say they are not alarmed as Monday's launch was for a short-range anti-ship missile. But the missile tests are likely to increase tensions in the dispute over North Korea's banned nuclear programs.
  • Chinese FM calls for direct talks between DPRK and U.S KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- Tang Jiaxuan, Chinese Foreign Minister, on March 6 said that the "nuclear issue" of Korea should be settled at the direct talks between the DPRK and the U.S, according to Xinhua News report.
  • Bush administration censured KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- Over 100 days have passed since South Korean people staged an anti-U.S. candlelight procession in protest against the U.S. military court's declaration of the GIs who drove an armored car over the two girl students to death in late November last year not guilty.
  • U.S. dangerous air force strategy against DPRK under fire KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- The U.S. Defense Department is now examining its plan to dispatch a carrier into waters off the Korean Peninsula. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld issued an order to immediately deploy 24 B-52 and B-1 strategic bombers on Guam Island under the pretext of supporting the U.S. Forces present in South Korea.
  • DPRK ready to repel any U.S. military attack KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- The "plan for military strikes" at the nuclear facilities and military bases of the DPRK mapped out by the U.S. Department of Defense envisages not only cruise missile strikes and massive air raids, etc. but the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Minju Joson Sunday in a signed commentary says this "plan for military strike" presupposes a nuclear war.
  • U.S. call for "multilateral talks" under fire KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- U.S. State Secretary Powell during his recent visits to several countries insisted on his oft-repeated assertion that the only way of solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is to hold "multilateral talks", saying that the issue is not concerned with North Korea and the U.S. only but it affects whole Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
  • U.S. termed fascist and rogue state KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- Newspapers of progressive political parties in different countries in their articles disclosing the truth behind the U.S. reckless nuclear racket against the DPRK demanded the U.S. give up its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK and opt for the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S. Proretaren, organ of the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (r) in Sweden, said that the situation where the DPRK's sovereignty is exposed to a threat compelled it to withdraw from the NPT and restart its nuclear facilities.
  • Rodong Sinmun observes International Women's Day KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an editorial to the March 8 International Women's Day. All the women in the DPRK renew their firm determination to devote all their efforts to the building of a powerful socialist nation under the army-based revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 93rd International Women's Day, the editorial says
  • International Women's Day marked in DPRK KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- national meeting was held in Pyongyang today to mark the 93rd anniversary of the International Women's Day (March 8). Present were vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jung Rin and officials concerned and women from all walks of life and on invitation were wives of diplomats of foreign embassies here and other foreign women.
  • Food aid from EU KCNA 10 Mar 2003 -- The first ship carrying food anchored at Nampho port on Saturday according to the decision of the EU at the end of 2002 to provide more than 70,000 tons of food to the DPRK through the WFP.
  • NK Test-Fires 2nd Missile in 2 Weeks Korea-net 10 Mar 2003 -- North Korea on Monday (March 10) test-fired the second short-range anti-ship missile over the East Sea in two weeks, the Defense Ministry said




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