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10 June North Korea Special Weapons News

  • THE NORTH KOREA POLICY DEBATE VOA 10 Jun 2003 -- How do you deal with a reclusive regime that admits it has nuclear weapons and hints that it may export nuclear materials? That question has fueled a spirited debate in Washington. Some analysts say the Bush administration must talk directly with North Korea. Others say that would be giving in to nuclear blackmail.
  • Armitage Says North Korea Starving Its People for Weapons Washington File 10 Jun 2003 -- North Korea, in its quest for nuclear weaponry, is starving its people, according to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
  • Armitage Sees Possible Multilateral Talks on North Korea Washington File 10 Jun 2003 -- Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says "prospects are fair" that there will be multilateral talks including South Korea and Japan on North Korea's quest for nuclear weapons.
  • Central election committee organized KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Sunday published a decision on organizing the Central election committee for the election of deputies to the 11th-term SPA.
  • Japanese heavyweight's remarks under fire KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- A spokesman for the DPRK Measure Committee for Demanding Compensation to Comfort Women for the Japanese Army and the Victims of Forcible Drafting issued a statement on June 8, denouncing Taro Aso, chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, for his groundless remarks about the policy pursued by the Japanese imperialists during their military occupation of Korea under which they forced the Koreans to change their names into Japanese ones.
  • U.S. demand for increased "defense budget" denounced in S. Korea KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration on June 3 reportedly issued a statement titled "the U.S. unreasonable demand for increased defense budget is a plain interference in other's internal affairs".
  • U.S. styling itself "only superpower" can never destroy DPRK KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- Daniel Dediu, Chairman of the Romanian Workers' Association, in a statement on June 2 said that the U.S. is arrogantly behaving as if it were the "master of the world" as evidenced by its armed invasion of Iraq despite the opposition of the international community but this "only superpower" can never destroy socialist Korea, according to the 89th issue of the newspaper Romania Muncitoare.
  • KCNA on DPRK's nuclear deterrent force KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- The Bush government is escalating its moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK. As already reported, the DPRK put forward a bold proposal for smoothly solving all issues at the DPRK-U.S. talks with a view to fundamentally settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
  • DPRK to react against U.S. arms buildup plan by its effective method KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- The U.S. announcement of a plan to beef up its forces in South Korea which calls for spending 11 billion U.S. dollars comes under strong fire by a signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun today. The DPRK will strongly react against this move by an effective method of its style, it warns.
  • Rodong Sinmun on anti-U.S. independence and reunification KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea put forward militant calls on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK, calling upon all the fellow countrymen to wage a vigorous struggle to force the U.S. forces out of South Korea under the uplifted banner of independence against the U.S. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article says that the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops stationed in South Korea are chiefly responsible for the division of the nation and the root source of all misfortunes and disasters upon the Korean nation.
  • U.S. plan for arms buildup assailed KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- A spokesman for the Korean National Peace Committee issued a statement on June 9 in which he described the U.S. plan for arms buildup as an open declaration of war against the DPRK.
  • Inter-Korean contact made KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- The 5th working-level contact for the reconnection of the north-south rail and road links was made in Kaesong from June 7 to 9.
  • Japan hit for blocking way of humanitarian visits KCNA 10 Jun 2003 -- the Japanese authorities laid all of a sudden artificial and deliberate obstacles in the way of the call of the ship "Mangyongbong-92" at Japanese port.
  • Agreement on Connection of Inter-Korean Rails and Roads - Gaeseong ( June 09, 2003 ) Korea-net 10 Jun 2003 -- The following is an unofficial English-language translation of the text of agreement reached at the end of the fifth working-level inter-Korean contact on the connection of South-North railways and roads




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