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22 July North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Bush Welcomes News of Deaths of Saddam Hussein's Sons / White House offers no guarantees to North Korea, condemns Liberia violence Washington File 22 Jul 2003 -- - Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were confirmed to be two of the four people killed in a July 22 military battle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, according to Coalition Ground Forces Commander Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez in Baghdad.
  • US Says No Guarantees for North Korea VOA News 22 Jul 2003 -- The Bush administration says it is standing by its refusal to make any concessions to North Korea, and will not be "blackmailed" in the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear development program.
  • BUSH / NORTH KOREA VOA 22 Jul 2003 -- The Bush administration Tuesday denied a published report that it was considering giving North Korea formal non-aggression guarantees, but it reiterated verbal assurances that there are no U-S plans to attack the reclusive communist state. The comments came as Chinese-led diplomatic efforts continued on convening new talks on North Korea's nuclear program.
  • CHINA/BLAIR/HONG KONG VOA 22 Jul 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived in Hong Kong, after voicing support for increased democracy in the former British colony. The visit follows a three-nation Asian tour focused on pressuring North Korea to end it nuclear weapons program.
  • North Korea Nuclear Talks Possible Within Weeks, says Tony Blair VOA News 22 Jul 2003 -- Chinese leaders have indicated that a new round of talks on North Korea's nuclear development program might take place within weeks.
  • U.S. urged to change its undesirable stand KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- These days some officials of the Bush administration, though belatedly, acknowledge the realistic nature of the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, referring to the unfeasibility of the U.S. policy that calls for "the scrapping of nuclear program first" and "pressure" upon the DPRK.
  • KCNA urges negotiations based on equality and trust KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- The DPRK and the United States are locked in tense confrontation at the crossroads of war and peace due to the extreme hostile policy of the U.S. toward the DPRK.
  • Great change in land management work KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- The land management work has been dynamically carried on in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In the last spring, 188 kilometer-long roads were constructed, over 2,000 kilometer-long roads renewed, 583 millions of trees planted, 12,630 dwelling houses built and a thousand and hundreds of kilometers of rivers and streams improved.
  • U.S. war scenario under fire KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- A spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council issued a statement on Monday accusing the U.S. of having worked out and published "Operation Plan 5030", a scenario for a war of aggression against the DPRK.
  • Voters' lists published KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- Voters' lists were published on July 19 by the constituency and sub-constituency committees for the election of deputies to the 11th Supreme People's Assembly and those to the provincial (municipal), city (district) and county people's assemblies.
  • Passage of new special inspection law flailed KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification reportedly denounced the Grand National Party for railroading a "new law on special inspection" single-handed through the "National Assembly" with its groundless assertion and conjecture, which it said is a head-on challenge to the trend of inter-Korean reconciliation, unity and reunification and a fraud to hoodwink the people.
  • U.S. drop of its "Operation Plan 5030" urged KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- The "Operation Plan 5030" worked out by the U.S. is a war scenario which has been elaborated to start the second Korean war on the basis of all the existing war plans and the "experience" it gained and the operation methods it employed in the Iraqi war. Papers here today say this in signed commentaries.
  • Kim Jong Il gives field guidance to power station construction KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the construction of the Orangchon Power Station in North Hamgyong Province.
  • KCNA on U.S. moves for preemptive attack on DPRK KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- The U.S. is reportedly contemplating deploying a carrier flotilla and one task brigade equipped with new types of transport planes and other strategic means in pearl harbor under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK.
  • U.S. urged to drop attempt at preemptive nuclear attack on DPRK KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- The U.S. Defense Department is contemplating the deployment of a task brigade in pearl harbor, an indication that the U.S. is implementing its military plan for a preemptive strike at the DPRK after listing it as a "dangerous terrorism sponsor." Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
  • Papers observe anniversary of DPRK-Russia Joint Declaration KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- Papers here today carry signed articles on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the DPRK-Russia Joint Declaration.
  • Foreign investigation groups and representatives here KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- Foreign investigation groups and representatives arrived here today to participate in the international conference for peace on the Korean peninsula and solidarity functions to be held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War.
  • World called upon to reject U.S. war scenario KCNA 22 Jul 2003 -- A spokesman for the Korea Anti-Nuke Peace Committee issued a statement today in which he urged the U.S. to roll back the reckless "Operation Plan 5030" and immediately stop its criminal racket for a war of aggression against the north and appealed to the world to reject and denounce this war scenario.
  • US Denies Report on North Korea Deal VOA News 22 Jul 2003 -- The Bush administration Tuesday denied a published report that it was considering giving North Korea formal non-aggression guarantees, but it reiterated verbal assurances that there are no U.S. plans to attack the reclusive communist state. The comments came as Chinese-led diplomatic efforts continued on convening new talks on North Korea's nuclear program.




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