Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
19 May North Korea Special Weapons News
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- DEALING WITH NORTH KOREA VOA 19 May 2003 -- With the end of the war in Iraq, U-S papers are taking a new look at another threat: North Korea. The "Hermit Kingdom" may possess nuclear weapons and is developing, an untested, long-range rocket. That makes its neighbors, as well as the United States nervous, but the press agrees, dealing with Pyongyang is not easy.
- U-S / NORTH KOREA VOA 19 May 2003 -- An independent panel of scholars and former diplomats is recommending the United States engage in direct negotiations with North Korea to try to end that country's nuclear weapons program. The Council on Foreign Relations task force on Korea warns in a report (issued Monday) that, without urgent action, the world could face a fully nuclear-armed North Korea.
- 5th Inter-Korean Economic Talks Open Monday Korea-net 19 May 2003 -- The two Koreas are to hold the first meeting after the South Korea-United States summit last week at the 5th Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee Meeting starting Monday in Pyongyang.
- Works of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il hailed KCNA 19 May 2003 -- The international community is expressing full support and sympathy with the works of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il indicating the way of putting an end to the sufferings of the national division and achieving the reunification of Korea.
- U.S. dangerous military moves under fire KCNA 19 May 2003 -- It was disclosed on May 8 that the U.S. decided to keep in South Korea its troops, which had been involved in the Foal Eagle joint military exercises staged in march last, timed to coincide with the U.S. 8th army command's order to extend the stay of officers and men of U.S. forces in South Korea even after the expiration of their term.
- U.S. forces in S. Korea accountable for massacre of one million civilians KCNA 19 May 2003 -- The truth about the massacre of prisoners in Jonju prison in South Korea in the past was recently clarified by documents and photos of the U.S. government and witnesses testified to the U.S. imperialists' mass-killings of civilians from different parts of South Korea.
- Japanese reactionaries' wrong use of name of DPRK denounced KCNA 19 May 2003 -- Japanese media are more persistently resorting to diatribes against the dignified Democratic People's Republic of Korea, defaming and wrongly using its name as "North Korea" and "Hokusen" in Japanese.
- DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman denounces passage of bills in Japan KCNA 19 May 2003 -- The house of representatives of Japan passed three bills to cope with "emergency" on May 15. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Saturday issued a statement in this regard.
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