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15 July North Korea Special Weapons News

  • North Korean Report of Fuel Rod Reprocessing Concerns White House Washington File 15 Jul 2003 -- North Korean officials told the Bush administration the previous week that they had finished the reprocessing of nuclear fuel rods, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters at his early morning and midday briefings July 15.
  • NORTH KOREA VOA 16 Jul 2003 -- A special envoy to North Korea under the Clinton administration says he thinks the United States and North Korea are drifting toward war, possibly as early as this year. William Perry, who also was a Clinton defense secretary, tells the Washington Post he thinks the Bush administration is losing control of the North Korean nuclear crisis. And he says Pyongyang's nuclear program poses imminent danger to American cities. Mr. Perry says his conclusions result from meetings over the last few months with U-S, Chinese and South Korean officials. Micheal O'Hanlon, a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution will discuss the North Korean situation.
  • PENTAGON/NORTH KOREA VOA 15 Jul 2003 -- A top Pentagon official says the situation regarding North Korea's nuclear program is serious but a problem not just for the United States.
  • White House to Investigate N. Korean Nuclear Claims VOA News 15 Jul 2003 -- The White House says it is looking into claims North Korea has reprocessed enough used nuclear fuel to make several bombs. The Bush administration says it is concerned about North Korea's nuclear intentions, and wants to find out if Pyongyang is bluffing once again.
  • BUSH / NORTH KOREA VOA 15 Jul 2003 -- The White House says it is looking into claims North Korea has reprocessed enough used nuclear fuel to make several bombs. The Bush administration says it is concerned about North Korea's nuclear intentions, and wants to find out if Pyongyang is bluffing once again.
  • White House: North Korea Tells US About Nuclear Plans VOA News 15 Jul 2003 -- The Bush administration says North Korea has revealed that it plans to start producing nuclear weapons.
  • China Attempts to Stave Off Crisis Using Diplomacy with N. Korea VOA News 15 Jul 2003 -- China is stepping up diplomacy to resume talks aimed at cooling tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Those efforts include sending a presidential envoy to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
  • CHINA / NORTH KOREA UPDATE VOA 15 Jul 2003 -- China is stepping up diplomacy to resume talks aimed at cooling tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Those efforts include sending a presidential envoy to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
  • N. Korea Leader Meets with Chinese Envoy VOA News 15 Jul 2003 -- A Chinese presidential envoy has met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il amid growing tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. The meeting comes a week after South Korea's president appealed to China to use its influence with the North.
  • North Korea May Start Building Nuclear Weapons, says Report VOA News 15 Jul 2003 -- A published report says North Korea has told the United States it plans to start producing nuclear weapons.
  • Seoul Discounts NK Reprocessing Claim Korea-net 15 Jul 2003 -- South Korean diplomats and scientists are skeptical of a report that North Korea has completed reprocessing spent nuclear reactor fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium, a main component for atomic bombs.
  • Kim Jong Il registered as candidate for SPA deputy KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- The Central Election Committee for the Election of the Deputies to the 11th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a report concerning the register of leader Kim Jong Il as a candidate for a deputy to the 11th SPA.
  • Meeting of Central Committee of DFRF held KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- meeting of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland was held in Pyongyang on July 13 and discussed an issue of adopting an appeal of the DFRF central committee to all the Korean people on the occasion of the election of deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly.
  • One hundred per cent vote for all candidates called for KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland issued an appeal to all the Korean people on July 13 calling upon them to participate as one in the elections of deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly and those to the people's assemblies of provinces, cities and counties to be held on August 3 and all of them to vote for all the candidates.
  • U.S.-South Korea joint statement under fire KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- A joint statement published at the end of the talks between the U.S. and South Korean defence ministers is aimed to strengthen the U.S.-South Korea "military alliance."
  • Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's work observed KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to the 31st anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's historic work "Let Us Struggle Resolutely to Implement the Three Principles of National Reunification."
  • KCNA blasts burlesque of "defectors" from north KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- "Representatives" of so-called "organizations of defectors from the north" in South Korea were reported to have met the U.S. Ambassador in Seoul on July 7 and implored the U.S. to show concern over the human rights issue in the north and ways for its settlement.
  • Susok exhibition KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- The Pyongyang Susok (natural stonecraft) exhibition has been crowded with visitors these days.
  • Delegation of ministry of metal and machine-building industries leaves KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- A delegation of the ministry of metal and machine-building industries led by its minister Jon Sung Hun left here today to visit Russia and China.
  • GNP's assertion dismissed as sheer lie KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party in a statement issued on Monday accuses the Grand National Party of South Korea of working hard to fabricate a new "law on special inspection", deliberately linking the U.S.-provided misinformation about the "north's experiments on detonating devices for nuclear bombs" to the issue of "remittance to the north."
  • Kim Jong Il receives Chinese government's special envoy KCNA 15 Jul 2003 -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on July 14 received Dai Bingguo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is the Chinese government's special envoy, and his party on a visit to the DPRK.




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