Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
05 June North Korea Special Weapons News
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- Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification -- Serial No. 646 (May 30 to June 05, 2003)
- N. Korea's Economy Only 1/28 of S. Korea's Korea-net 05 Jun 2003 -- Communist North Korea posted gross national income (GNI) of 21.33 trillion won in terms of the South Korean currency in 2002, up 5.1 percent from a year ago. The figure represents only 3.6 percent, or one-28th, of South Korea's GNI of 596.88 trillion won, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.
- Natsios Says Regime Exerts Absolute Control Over North Korean Society Washington File 05 Jun 2003 -- "No totalitarian regime of the last century has exercised a greater
degree of absolute control over its society than the North Korean
government," says Andrew Natsios, administrator for the U.S. Agency
for International Development. "North Korean refugees have often
described their country as one massive prison."
- Election of deputies to 11th Supreme People's Assembly of DPRK to be held KCNA 05 Jun 2003 -- A decision of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly on holding the election of deputies to the SPA of the DPRK was made public on June 3.
- NDFSK calls for coming out in anti-war and anti-U.S. resistance KCNA 05 Jun 2003 -- The patriotic people from all walks of life, aware of the reality, should turn out as one in a nationwide anti-war and anti-U.S. death-defying resistance to foil the reckless nuclear war moves of Bush group and defend the dignity of the nation irrespective of ideology, political view, religious belief, class and strata, men and women of all ages, under the uplifted banner of national cooperation. A spokesman for the NDFSK (National Democratic Front of South Korea) said this in a statement on May 31.
- Senior U.S. official's remarks rebuffed KCNA 05 Jun 2003 -- U.S. deputy defense secretary Wolfowitz addressing a recent meeting held in Singapore asserted that North Korea poses threats to peace and security in Northeast Asia and the world. He also prattled that putting pressure on the North Korean economy would help settle the North Korean nuclear crisis and the U.S. considers it as the most important leverage to find a solution to the issue.
- U.S. moves to beef up its forces under fire KCNA 05 Jun 2003 -- Recently the United States announced its plan to beef up its forces stationed in South Korea which called for replacing some of the forces of the U.S. second division by a rapid deployment brigade armed with the latest equipment and introducing new type sophisticated war means.
- Japanese chief executive's remarks under fire KCNA 05 Jun 2003 -- The Japanese chief executive addressing a recent meeting of the House of Councillors said it is natural to consider the Japan "self-defence forces" (SDF) as an army, calling for revising the present constitution so that the SDF may rightly be called an army.
- Mass killings by GIs in South Korea KCNA 05 Jun 2003 -- It was recently made clear by archives and photos of the U.S. government that prisoners at the Jonju prison in South Korea were massacred by the U.S. troops in the past.
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