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13 March North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification -- Serial No. 634 (March 07 to March 13, 2003)
  • NORTH KOREAN PROVOCATION VOA 13 Mar 2003 -- North Korea test-fired another missile into the sea of Japan. It was one of a string of provocative acts meant to ratchet up tensions in the region. Just days before, North Korean fighter jets buzzed a United States reconnaissance plane that was flying in international airspace. The Communist regime of Kim Jong Il maintains a massive army, while the country's population teeters on the brink of mass starvation. After breaking an agreement to shelve its plans for nuclear weapons, North Korea has restarted its nuclear plant at Ygonbyon. The plutonium produced there could give Kim Jong Il half a dozen nuclear bombs by the end of the year. The U-S has resisted demands by North Korea for bilateral talks to negotiate an end to the provocations. Instead, President George W. Bush has called on leaders from the region to get together in multilateral talks to resolve the impasse.
  • Lugar Says Don't Rule Out Bilateral Talks With North Korea Washington File 13 Mar 2003 -- Multilateral diplomacy is the best approach to resolving the North Korean nuclear situation, but bilateral talks are better than nothing at all, according to Senator Dick Lugar (Republican from Indiana), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
  • KCNA blasts U.S. decision to send carrier to S. Korea KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- The U.S. reportedly announced that it would soon dispatch its carrier Carl Vinson, now operating in the west pacific, to a South Korean port. The U.S. plan to send this super-class carrier dubbed "Golden Eagle" to South Korea to let it play a major role in the Foal Eagle joint military exercise betrays its operational intention to carry out the biggest-ever joint military exercise targeted against the DPRK.
  • S. Korean police criticized for violating human rights KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- The south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) reportedly called a press conference in front of the Ministry of Unification on March 4 to denounce the South Korean police authorities for illegally kidnapping and keeping in custody Sin Chang Gyun, its honorary chairman. Ra Chang Sun, chairman of the south headquarters of Pomminryon, said that the recent arrest is a police violation of human rights and an intolerable violence inciting division and the Cold War at a time when people in the south and the north visit each other.
  • U.S. plan to bomb DPRK blasted KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- Members of the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration, the Society of People Working for Peace and Reunification and the Council for National Reconciliation and Independent Reunification reportedly held a press conference in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on March 7 in denunciation of U.S. "plan to bomb the north".
  • "Plan" of commander of U.S. Forces in S. Korea rebuffed KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- The headquarters of the People's Movement for the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces reportedly rejected the "plan for making a good neighbor" publicized by the commander of the U.S. Forces in South Korea on March 6, talking about the "improvement of relations" with the South Korean people.
  • DPRK delegate on principle of UN peace-keeping operation KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- The UN peace-keeping operation should in any case be conducted on the principle of respect for sovereignty, non-interference in other's internal affairs and impartiality if war and conflict are to be averted and lasting peace and security are to be ensured which are the most urgent tasks common to all countries and nations, said a delegate of the DPRK at a meeting of the special committee on un peace-keeping operation held on March 4.
  • Japan urged to mind its own business KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- Some time ago, Japanese Foreign Minister Kawaguchi said that it is the basic policy of the Japanese Government to settle the abduction issue and the issue of nuclear development, etc. in the direction of normalizing the relations between Japan and the DPRK.
  • Rodong Sinmun on army-based policy KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article proves that the army-based policy of the Workers' Party of Korea is based on the Juche idea, a great revolutionary doctrine.
  • Independent economy of Korea KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- The independent national economy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has steadily developed in spite of the persistent economic sanctions and blockade of the United States and its allies.
  • Kaesong Railway Station KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- Kaesong Railway Station is 200 kilometers south of Pyongyang Railway Station in the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
  • Working talks held between Athae and Hyundai Asan KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- Working talks were held in Pyongyang today between the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (Athae) and Hyundai Asan of South Korea.
  • 4th north-south working contact held KCNA 13 Mar 2003 -- The 4th working contact for the project of reconnecting rail and road links in the east and west coastal areas between the north and the south was made in Kaesong from March 10 to 12.
  • NOKOR / U-S SURVEILLANCE VOA 13 Mar 2003 -- The United States says it is restarting reconnaissance flights off the North Korean coast. The flights are the first since the second of March, when four North Korea fighter jets intercepted a U-S Air Force spy plane over the Sea of Japan. The announcement comes amid Japanese media reports that the North could soon test fire a ballistic missile.




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