Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
18 March North Korea Special Weapons News
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- NORTH KOREA - WHAT'S NEXT? VOA 18 Mar 2003 -- North Korea's recent short range missile tests, its interception of a U-S surveillance plane and other moves seen as provocative by the United States all came as the prospect of a U-S led war with Iraq increased. Many observers believe North Korea might continue to escalate tensions, while the United States is preoccupied with Iraq.
- NK Shows No Signs of Nuke Reprocessing Korea-net 18 Mar 2003 -- North Korea has shown no signs of reactivating a nuclear reprocessing facility capable of producing nuclear weapons, a senior Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry official in Seoul said on Monday (March 17).
- North-targeted war exercises condemned KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- The struggle against the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises is going into high gear in Pusan, South Korea, according to a news report. Members of civic and public organizations in Pusan met at wharf no. 8 for exclusive use of the U.S. Forces at Pusan port on March 14 to protest against the port call of carrier Carl Vinson, which is to participate in the joint military exercises.
- U.S. hit for its ignorance of DPRK KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- The U.S. conservative hard liners are claiming that the threat posed by North Korea is a misbehavior and it is impossible for North Korea to get security guarantee and economic aid as regards the measures taken by the DPRK to cope with the U.S. efforts to isolate and stifle the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun today describes the claim as an expression of the ignorance of the DPRK.
- KCNA refutes Powell's remarks on religious freedom KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- U.S. Secretary of State Powell on March 5 listed six countries such as the DPRK, China, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar and Sudan as "countries arousing special concern" because of their suppression of religious freedom. Recalling that those countries were also listed as such last year, he claimed that "religious freedom has not improved in the countries since then".
- U.S. urged to stop groundlessly accusing DPRK KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- The U.S. recently warned Japan that the DPRK is preparing a ballistic missiles test fire to reach a certain part of the Japanese territory, but Japan informed that it has no data to confirm it, said a commentator of radio Voice of Russia on March 14.
- U.S. urged to respond to direct talks with DPRK KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- If the U.S. continues pressurizing the DPRK over its "nuclear issue", it may create an explosive situation between the DPRK and the U.S. which are technically at war. If the U.S. mounts a preemptive attack on the DPRK, the army and people of the DPRK will wipe out the aggressors to the last man.
- GNP's assertion blasted KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- The Grand National Party and some conservative media of South Korea have recently heaped accusations on the north, claiming its assertion about the issue of "special inspection" is "interference in S. Korea's internal affair". In this regard, Rodong Sinmun yesterday in a signed commentary dismissed it as a folly of political imbeciles.
- Self-reliance, Korea's mode of struggle KCNA 18 Mar 2003 -- Self-reliance is the Korean people's traditional mode of struggle. They have advanced victoriously, solving all problems with their own efforts and technology and under the motto of self-reliance in the whole course of the complicated and arduous revolutionary struggle.
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