Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
16 May North Korea Special Weapons News
|
- NOKOR / SOKOR RIGHTS VOA 16 May 2003 -- After meeting with President Bush on Wednesday, South Korean President Roh (pron: NO) Moo Hyun said the two would work closely to solve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. But some activists are upset about what the leaders did not say. They are threatening legal action against the South for preventing defectors from exposing human rights violations in the North.
- EDITORIAL: NORTH KOREA'S DRUG CONNECTION VOA 16 May 2003 -- On April 16th, a North Korean merchant ship landed a small boat on a remote beach in southern Australia. Its cargo: nearly fifty kilograms of heroin valued at some fifty-million dollars. Australian authorities arrested the drug dealers, the ship's captain, and twenty-nine crewmen. The North Korean vessel carried no legitimate cargo. It was fitted with extra fuel tanks and other equipment used by drug smugglers.
- 2nd anniversary of diplomatic relations between DPRK and EU observed KCNA 16 May 2003 -- Papers here Wednesday dedicated articles to the second anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and the European Union. The DPRK visit of the EU top-level delegation in may 2001 marked an important occasion in developing the relations between the DPRK and the EU.
- U.S. urged to drop its hostile policy towards DPRK KCNA 16 May 2003 -- The United States is still insisting on its old assertion that the DPRK should scrap its nuclear weapons program before dialogue, claiming that it will be an act of rewarding bad behavior to accept the new bold proposal advanced by the DPRK and Washington will not offer quid pro quo to Pyongyang.
- National symposium on Kim Jong Il's Songun revolutionary line held KCNA 16 May 2003 -- national symposium on the Songun revolutionary line of Kim Jong Il was held at the People's Palace of Culture yesterday. Present there were Choe Thae Bok and Jong Ha Chol, secretaries of the c.c., the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials concerned.
|
NEWSLETTER
|
|
Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list
|
|
|
