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03 July North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification -- Serial No. 650 (June 27 to July 03, 2003)
  • S-N Ministerial Talks to Take Place Next Week Korea-net 03 Jul 2003 -- South and North Korea will hold a new round of ministerial talks in Seoul next week, despite the tension over the North's nuclear weapons program.
  • Separated Families Bid Farewell Korea-net 03 Jul 2003 -- A group of 472 South Korean separated family members bid farewell to 100 elderly North Korean relatives on Wednesday (July 2) after a three-day reunion at Mt. Geumgang.
  • U-S/CHINA/IRAN VOA 03 Jul 2003 -- The United States has imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies and a North Korean state enterprise for sales to Iran that could help that country's weapons-of-mass-destruction programs. The action was announced as a senior Chinese official ended a Washington visit that included U-S criticism of China's recent human-rights record.
  • US Imposes Sanctions on Chinese, N. Korean Companies Following Weapons Sale to Iran VOA News 03 Jul 2003 -- The United States has imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies and a North Korean state enterprise for sales to Iran that could help that country's weapons of mass destruction programs. The action was announced as a senior Chinese official ended a Washington visit that included U.S. criticism of China's recent human rights record.
  • Powell: US Will Not Be Deterred by N. Korean 'Rhetoric' VOA News 03 Jul 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says the Bush administration will not "blink" in the face threatening rhetoric from North Korea, and will continue building international diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program. He spoke Wednesday as senior U.S. officials held strategy meetings in Washington on North Korea with Japanese and South Korean diplomats.
  • US Unmoved by North Korean Threats, Says Powell VOA News 03 Jul 2003 -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says the Bush administration will not be deterred in the face of threatening rhetoric from North Korea. Mr. Powell also said in an ABC radio interview Wednesday that Pyongyang should realize that its weapons program is depriving the country of economic aid.
  • Powell: North Korea Failing in its Strategy of 'Rhetorical Excess' VOA News 03 Jul 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says the Bush administration will not "blink" in the face threatening rhetoric from North Korea, and will continue building international diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program. He spoke Wednesday as senior U.S. officials held strategy meetings in Washington on North Korea with Japanese and South Korean diplomats.
  • CHINA KOREA VOA 03 Jul 2003 -- China says it is pressing hard to solve the dispute over North Korea's outlaw nuclear-weapons programs and is holding high-level talks with Seoul, Moscow and Washington. China's comments come just hours after Beijing helped block a U-S effort to condemn North Korea in the United Nations.
  • KCNA urges U.S. to stop talking about human rights issues KCNA 03 Jul 2003 -- U.S. President Bush in a "statement" on June 26 accused several countries including the DPRK of "human rights abuses." He made this unprecedented groundless mud-slinging at the DPRK after the U.S. State Department spread a sheer lie about human rights abuses in the DPRK through its "2002-2003 Report on Human Rights and Democracy" on June 24.
  • "Results of investigation" in S. Korea refuted KCNA 03 Jul 2003 -- A spokesman for the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee in a statement on July 1 dismissed the "final results of investigation into the issue of remittance to the north" recently carried out in South Korea as a sheer lie.
  • U.S. anti-DPRK campaign denounced KCNA 03 Jul 2003 -- U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher in a news briefing a few days ago made public some "information" related to the DPRK's export of missiles, noting that other countries should refrain from military cooperation with North Korea.
  • DPRK side responds to U.S.-proposed talks on GI remains KCNA 03 Jul 2003 -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA today as regards the talks on excavating remains of U.S. soldiers proposed again by the United States.
  • Nigerian President refers to Korea's nuclear issue KCNA 03 Jul 2003 -- Nigeria fully supports the DPRK's stand on its nuclear issue. It should be settled in a peaceful way through dialogue between the DPRK and the U.S. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said this on June 26 after receiving credentials from Kim Pyong Gi, newly appointed DPRK Ambassador to that country.
  • Pullback of U.S. forces from S. Korea urged KCNA 03 Jul 2003 -- The Asian Regional Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association and the Indian Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification in a joint statement on June 24 demanded the withdrawal of the U.S. military bases and forces from South Korea on the occasion of the Month of Anti-U.S. Joint Struggle (June 25-July 27).




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