Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
19 April North Korea Special Weapons News
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- N. KOREA / NUCLEAR VOA 19 Apr 2003 -- There are mixed messages coming from North Korea about whether it has actually begun processing nuclear fuel that could be used to make nuclear weapons. U-S officials suggest there may have been a translation error in the North Korean statement. Meanwhile, North Korea has sent an invitation to South Korea concerning renewed economic talks.
- Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on expected DPRK-U.S. talks KCNA 19 Apr 2003 -- The Iraqi war teaches a lesson that in order to prevent a war and defend the security of a country and the sovereignty of a nation it is necessary to have a powerful physical deterrent force only. As we have already declared, we are successfully reprocessing more than 8,000 spent fuel rods at the final phase as we sent interim information to the U.S. and other countries concerned early in march after resuming our nuclear activities from December last year.
- U.S. nuclear racket against DPRK under fire KCNA 19 Apr 2003 -- The Indonesian Soekarno Foundation for Education and the Indonesia-Korea Association for Friendship and Cultural Exchange released a joint statement on April 7 in denunciation of the U.S. unreasonable nuclear racket against the DPRK.
- Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's work marked KCNA 19 Apr 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to the 5th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation".
- Former U.S. President's junket to Seoul denounced KCNA 19 Apr 2003 -- Members of the Council for National Reconciliation and Independent Reunification and the Democratic Workers' Party reportedly staged a demonstration in the vicinity of Chongwadae and in front of the "government" building on April 14 denouncing former U.S. President Bush's junket to Seoul.
- EU-proposed anti-DPRK "resolution" assailed KCNA 19 Apr 2003 -- The European Union brought up a "draft resolution" on the "human rights situation" in the DPRK for discussion at the 59th meeting of the UN commission on human rights now underway in Geneva. Cuba, China, Syria, Russia, India and many other countries dismissed the EU's recent motion as a sinister political provocation.
- 21st April Spring Friendship Art Festival closes KCNA 19 Apr 2003 -- The 21st April Spring Friendship Art Festival which was opened in Pyongyang on April 10 before capacity audiences on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, was closed.
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