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25 July North Korea Special Weapons News

  • On 50th anniversary of Korean armistice, Annan urges resolution to nuclear issue UN News Centre 25 Jul 2003 -- Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean War's truce agreement, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan stresses that resolving the conflict, and the related nuclear and security issues, should remain a top priority.
  • U-S-North Korea-Yemen VOA 25 July 2003--The United States is imposing new trade sanctions against North Korea stemming from a shipment of Scud missiles bound for Yemen intercepted at sea last December. Yemen was allowed to take possession of the missiles and will not be penalized for its role in the transaction.
  • U.S. blockade scheme against DPRK under fire KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- The United States recently brought together riff-raffs to discuss ways of completely blockading the DPRK on the sea and in the air. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary raps at the U.S. moves to blockade the DPRK as an illegal criminal act that has no ground in view of international law.
  • Koreans vow to defend country with utmost resolution KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- Fifty years have passed since the Korean people defeated the U.S. imperialists who were boasting themselves to be "the strongest" in the world. The monument to Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was erected in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to convey the lofty spirit of the heroic soldiers who defended the country at the cost of their lives in the revolutionary war for the freedom and independence of the country.
  • KPA Panmunjom mission issues memorandum KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- The Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army issued a long memorandum today on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement (AA). Citing facts, the memorandum indicts the United States for violating all key articles of the AA which stipulates the prevention of the outbreak of another war in Korea and a peaceful solution to the Korean issue and exposing the Korean Peninsula to a nuclear threat and a constant danger of war. Paragraph 60 of the AA stipulates that "in order to insure the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, the military commanders of both sides hereby recommend to the governments of the countries concerned on both sides that, within three months after the armistice agreement is signed and becomes effective, a political conference of a higher level of both sides be held by representatives appointed respectively to settle through negotiation the questions of the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, etc." But the U.S. left no means untried to prevent the political conference from being held, the memorandum says,
  • Pyongyang international conference opens KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- The International Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula was opened here Wednesday with splendour amid the great expectation and concern of the peace-loving progressives of the world on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. It is a grand international gathering convened in response to an appeal released at a joint meeting of international democratic organizations and Asian regional organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in February.
  • U.S. indicted by Pyongyang int'l tribunal KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- The Pyongyang International Tribunal was opened today under the sponsorship of the Democratic International Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People to indict the U.S. for its crimes against Korea. The Joint International Prosecution Team of the gPyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. Crimes in Korea,h authorized by the Democratic International Organizations, progressive anti-war peace organizations, justice-loving individual figures and lawyers, brings this indictment against the following persons, in their official and individual capacities, for the crimes committed on the Korean Peninsula by the U.S. administration, the U.S. military and other persons under their command (hereinafter referred to as the U.S.),
  • International tribunal opens KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- The Pyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. crimes in Korea was held on July 24 under the co-sponsorship of International Democratic Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People. The tribunal will give a relevant decision upon the U.S. after prosecuting it for all kinds of crimes including the most barbarous aggression, plunder, massacre and destruction in human history it has ceaselessly committed in the Korean Peninsula, bringing the Korean people indescribable misfortune and pain for over a century.
  • U.S. escalated moves to increase tensions will lead to its self-destruction KCNA 25 Jul 2003-- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today issued a statement to the press 50 years after the conclusion of the Korean Armistice Agreement
  • Seoul, Auckland Agree to Peaceful NK Solution Korea-Net 25 Jul 2003-- South Korea and New Zealand on Friday (July 25) agreed to closely cooperate to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing standoff over the North Korean nuclear program.
  • Seoul Expects 6-Way Talks Next Month Korea-Net 25 Jul 2003-- The format of the much-disputed multilateral talks on the North Korean nuclear standoff will most likely become a six-way dialogue including South Korea, North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, according to Seoul officials on Friday (July 25).




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