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29 May North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification -- Serial No. 645 (May 23 to May 29, 2003)
  • Vershbow Says Russia's Help Needed on Iran, North Korea Washington File 29 May 2003 -- Russia has "a major role to play" in the international community's efforts to fight terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), said U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow in Moscow May 26.
  • Congressional Delegation to Visit North Korea Washington File 29 May 2003 -- Representative Curt Weldon (Republican of Pennsylvania) is leading a bipartisan delegation of six lawmakers to North Korea on a fact-finding mission, according to a statement from Weldon's office.
  • EDITORIAL: ASIAN ALLIES AGREE ON NORTH KOREA VOA 29 May 2003 -- The U.S. and its key Asian allies will not tolerate North Korean development of nuclear weapons. At a meeting May 14th in Washington, President George W. Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun [NOH MOO HYUNH] said they are committed to the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons program through peaceful means based on international cooperation. And at a May 23rd meeting in Texas with President Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said that North Korea must promptly and completely dismantle its nuclear weapons development programs. Following the meeting, President Bush said that he and Prime Minister Koizumi "see the problem exactly the same way"
  • Struggle for peace against U.S. and war vowed KCNA 29 May 2003 -- The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) reportedly made public a resolution declaring an anti-U.S. struggle on May 18, starting the "May 18-July 27 anti-U.S. joint struggle".
  • War exercises to be staged in S. Korea KCNA 29 May 2003 -- The joint chiefs of staff headquarters of the South Korean forces announced that "Amnokgang" military exercise would be staged from may 26 to 31, according to MBC of South Korea.
  • Anecdote about Kim Jong Il KCNA 29 May 2003 -- Kim Jong Il looked round up-to-date machines and equipment made by local technicians with their own technique in June Juche 86 (1997).
  • U.S. war against Iraq dismissed as unjust KCNA 29 May 2003 -- The United States describes its Iraqi war as a war for "freedom" and "peace" but it can never justify the injustice and criminal nature of the war, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The article brands the Iraqi war as a war of aggression against independence and peace, a war unilaterally perpetrated by the U.S. in disregard of international law and the UN and typical state-sponsored terrorism in the 21st century.
  • Japan's attempt to adopt laws on "emergency" denounced KCNA 29 May 2003 -- Japan's move to enact laws on "emergency" means the green light to its reinvasion and clearly indicates that Japan, which has professed to be a "peace-loving state", declared its "peace constitution" invalid before the world to reveal its true colours as a warlike state.
  • Nationwide anti-U.S. struggle called for KCNA 29 May 2003 -- The propaganda department of the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea issued slogans for an immediate struggle on may 14, according to radio voice of national salvation from Seoul.
  • War gambles in S. Korea condemned KCNA 29 May 2003 -- The joint chiefs of staff headquarters of South Korea launched Hwarang, a "civilian, government and army" joint war exercise, in different parts of South Korea on Monday, allegedly to cope with somebody's "infiltration into the rear".
  • Strong anti-imperialist fighting spirit underscored KCNA 29 May 2003 -- All the servicemen and the people are called upon by an editorial of Rodong Sinmun today to resolutely foil the imperialists' moves to stifle the DPRK in staunch anti-imperialist fighting spirit so as to demonstrate to the full the might of the people's army and the people in the Songun era.
  • Official Spokesman for Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexander Yakovenko Replies to Questions from Russian Media on North Korea Problems Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 29 May 2003 -- " As strategic partners, Russia and China are closely collaborating on questions of settling the crisis on the Korean Peninsula by taking coordinated efforts in order to promote a solution to the "North Korean nuclear problem." This collaboration is based on the two countries' coincident approaches of principle to the situation in the region. We stand for the non-nuclear status of the Korean Peninsula and for the use of exclusively peaceful, political and diplomatic means and respect for the concerns of all the parties involved as solutions are worked out to the problems of ensuring security and stable development that exist there, problems that are not limited only to weapons of mass destruction."




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