Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
22 March North Korea Special Weapons News
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- NOKOR/UN ENVOY VOA 22 Mar 2003 -- A United Nations envoy says North Korea is watching the U-S-led attack on Iraq with unease, and is concerned about Washington's intentions toward Pyongyang. His comments come as North Korea postpones talks with the South, because of what it says is Seoul's heightened military alert.
- Special envoy of UN Secretary General asserts DPRK-U.S. direct dialogue KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- Moris Strong, special envoy of the UN Secretary General, on March 18 underlined the need for the DPRK and the U.S. to hold direct talks, noting that there is no possibility of peacefully settling the "nuclear issue" of Korea without dialogue, according to a news report.
- KCNA dismisses large-scale U.S. war maneuvers as alarming development KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- The large-scale joint military exercises being staged by the U.S. and the South Korean warhawks have created such a tense situation on the Korean Peninsula that a nuclear war may break out there any moment. What merits a serious attention is that the DPRK targeted saber-rattling is being staged in real earnest, timed to coincide with the U.S. attack on Iraq.
- Protest message to chief delegate of south side KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- The head of the north side to the north-south military working-level talks sent a message to the chief delegate of the south side on March 21 in protest against the anti-north loudspeaker propaganda intensified by the South Korean army in the frontal line area.
- CPRF spokesman on S. Korean authorities' anti-DPRK confrontation moves KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- A reckless confrontation campaign against the DPRK was launched in South Korea, timed to coincide with the U.S. start of a war of an aggression against Iraq
- Rodong Sinmun on army-based policy KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a lengthy editorial article captioned "army-based idea is an invincible banner for the cause of independence in our era." The army-based idea of Kim Jong Il, a recognized trend of the times, serves as a guiding principle of the revolution in our era as it indicates the road of struggle for independence and socialism.
- Kim Yong Nam meets special envoy of U.N. Secretary General KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a conversation with Moris Strong, special envoy of the U.N. Secretary General, and his companion at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
- Truth behind abduction of Japanese spouses and Korean returnees KCNA 22 Mar 2003 -- A spokesman for the Korean Lawyers Committee issued a statement on March 20.
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