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17 July North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Conference Focuses on North Korean Human Rights Abuses Washington File 17 Jul 2003 -- A day-long conference hosted by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) sought to "shine a spotlight" on human rights abuses in North Korea.
  • U.S. Wants Diplomacy Before U.N. Action on North Korea Washington File 17 Jul 2003 -- The United States still has a proposed U.N. Security Council presidential statement on North Korea before the Council but prefers to give diplomatic efforts more time before asking the council to take action, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said July 16.
  • Lugar Calls for Resettlement of North Korean Refugees Washington File 17 Jul 2003 -- "Much of official Washington is worried, quite rightly, about the crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang's secret program to make bomb-grade uranium, its eviction of nuclear inspectors and its claims to have reprocessed spent reactor fuel for nuclear weapons pose direct threats to U.S. national security. I encourage President Bush to keep working with our friends and allies in the region to persuade North Korea to change course."
  • EDITORIAL: NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR WEAPONS VOA 17 Jul 2003 -- North Korea claims to have completed reprocessing some eight-thousand spent nuclear fuel rods into enough plutonium to make up to six nuclear weapons. And it is threatening to begin producing those weapons very soon. If true, these claims and threats constitute gross violations of North Korea's commitments under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the North-South Joint Denuclearization Agreement. Under those agreements, North Korea promised not to develop nuclear weapons.
  • U-S / CHINA / NORTH KOREA VOA 17 Jul 2003 -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo holds talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell and other Bush administration officials Friday on efforts to revive talks on North Korea's nuclear program. The Chinese envoy will report on his mission to Pyongyang earlier this week.
  • Chinese Diplomat to Brief Powell on N. Korea Talks VOA News 17 Jul 2003 -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo holds talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell and other Bush administration officials Friday on efforts to revive talks on North Korea's nuclear program. The Chinese envoy will report on his mission to Pyongyang earlier this week.
  • CHINA / NOKOR DIPLOMACY VOA 17 Jul 2003 -- China is intensifying diplomacy to resolve tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program - sending a top envoy to Washington just days after a visit to Pyongyang. China says the dispute is at a "critical" and "sensitive" stage.
  • KOREAS D-M-Z SHOOTOUT VOA 17 Jul 2003 -- North and South Korean soldiers traded fire Thursday at the heavily fortified frontier that divides the two rival nations. The shooting comes as the United States, China and other nations work toward resolving an escalating crisis over the communist state's nuclear ambitions.
  • North, South Korea Trade Gunfire Along DMZ VOA News 17 Jul 2003 -- North and South Korean soldiers traded fire Thursday at the heavily fortified frontier that divides the two rival nations. The shooting comes as the United States, China and other nations work toward resolving an escalating crisis over the communist state's nuclear ambitions.
  • China to Send Envoy to US For Talks on North Korea VOA News 17 Jul 2003 -- China is intensifying its efforts to be a key player in resolving tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons development program.
  • Soldiers Exchange Fire at Border Korea-Net 17 Jul 2003 -- South and North Korean soldiers briefly exchanged fire along the demilitarized zone early Thursday morning, but no casualties were reported from the South Korean side, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
  • U.S. anti-DPRK campaign under fire KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification on July 10 issued a statement denouncing the U.S. malicious propaganda against the DPRK, according to a news report.
  • Anniversary of inter-Korean declaration marked KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- The third anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was significantly marked in over 80 countries.
  • GNP's anti-north moves assailed KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- Papers here today dismiss the Grand National Party's act of linking the "experiment of detonating devices for a nuclear bomb" to the issue of "remittance to the north" as an absurd move of those who are steeped in flunkeyism and the idea of dependence on outsiders to the marrow of their bones and a madcap racket of those keen on north-south confrontation and anti-north operations.
  • U.S. urged to make switchover in its Korea policy KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- U.S. Secretary of State Powell described the DPRK's exercise of right to self-defence as "bad behavior", saying that the U.S. will not reward it.
  • Principle of independence, guarantee for reunification KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- The principle of independence put forward by President Kim Il Sung serves as a fundamental principle of national reunification based on the principle of the Juche idea and the Juche-oriented view on the nation, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
  • Chinese government to donate diesel oil to DPRK KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- The government of China recently decided to donate 10,000 tons of diesel oil to the DPRK.
  • International Conference for peace to be held KCNA 16 Jul 2003 -- An International Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula and Solidarity Functions will be held in Pyongyang from July 23 to 27 under the co-sponsorship of International Democratic Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War.




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