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21 April North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Talks With North Korea Begin April 23 Washington File 21 Apr 2003 -- Representatives of the United States, China and North Korea will hold talks in Beijing April 23 to 25 on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, says Richard Boucher, the State Department spokesman.
  • Koreas to Hold 10th High-Level Talks in P'yang Korea-net 21 Apr 2003 -- South Korea and North Korea will hold a 10th round of ministerial talks April 27-29 in Pyongyang, the first high-level talks since President Roh Moo-hyun took office Feb. 25.
  • US / NORTH KOREA VOA 21 Apr 2003 -- A U-S team headed by Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly is en route to Beijing for talks opening Wednesday with North Korea and China on the North Korean nuclear weapons program. U-S officials say that effort must come to a verifiable end before there can be talk of upgraded relations or aid to Pyongyang.
  • Struggle against U.S. and war called for KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- In order to remove the danger of war from the Korean Peninsula and create a peaceful atmosphere for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country it is necessary to realize national cooperation to protect the security of the country and achieve the reunification and prosperity of the nation by the concerted efforts of the nation, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article.
  • Imperialists' ideological and cultural poisoning under fire KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- The imperialists are resorting to ideological and cultural poisoning, the craftiest method of aggression, while perpetrating open military intervention, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
  • Japan urged to behave itself KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- The Japanese chief executive cited a threat from North Korea as a reason for his support to the U.S. Iraqi war and the director general of the Japan Defense Agency talked about "missile threat" from North Korea.
  • Message of thanks to Kim Jong Il KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- Kim Jong Il received a message from the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on April 16 thanking him for sending educational aid fund and stipends to the children of Koreans in Japan.
  • Japan urged to put its commitments into practice KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- A DPRK delegate to the 59th meeting of the UN commission on human rights referring to the issue of women's rights and violence against them on April 10 urged Japan to take measures to put into practice the apology for its past crimes and commitments it made in the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
  • First vice-chairman of DPRK NDC to visit China KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- First vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission Jo Myong Rok will visit the People's Republic of China from April 21 to 23.
  • 10th north-south ministerial talks proposed KCNA 21 Apr 2003 -- The head of the north side to the north-south ministerial talks today sent a telephone message through Panmunjom to the chief delegate of the south side as regards the 10th talks. In
  • N. Korea Proposes Ministerial Talks Korea-net 21 Apr 2003 -- North Korea, after rejecting inter-Korean talks for weeks, suggested to the South on Saturday (April 19) that the two countries hold their 10th ministerial talks from April 27-29 in Pyongyang.
  • Washington, Pyongyang, Beijing To Start Talks On Reducing Tensions RFE/L 21 Apr 2003 -- Beijing is due to play host this week to a first round of talks aiming at calming tensions on the Korean peninsula in the wake of North Korea's restarting of its nuclear program and unilateral withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
  • KOREAS TALKS VOA 21 Apr 2003 -- South Korea has accepted a proposal from Pyongyang to hold cabinet-level talks in the North in a week. Those talks will follow a meeting between North Korea and the United States in Beijing. Pyongyang seems to backing away from recent belligerent statements to make sure the meetings go ahead.
  • North Korea Issues 2003 New Year Joint Editorial Korea-net 21 Apr 2003 -- The Korean Workers' Party, Korean People's Army and the Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League published in their newspapers a joint editorial on New Year's Day, 2003, under the headline, ¡°Exert and Show [the world] the Republic's Dignity and Supreme Power on the Strength of the Military-first Drive.¡± The joint editorial, released through nationwide radio and television, defined 2003 as the ¡°Year of Brave Offensive and Ambitious Reform for the Construction of a Strong and Prosperous Nation.¡±




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