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31 July North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Weekly on North Korea ROK Ministry of Unification -- Serial No. 654 (July 25 to July 31, 2003)
  • NK Looks to Smooth Inter-Korean Relations Korea-net 31 Jul 2003 -- North Korea announced it would stop airing the anti-South Korean broadcast "Voice of National Salvation" beginning Friday (Aug. 1), ending a 33-year run that began in 1970.
  • U-S / Korea Talks VOA 31 Jul 2003 -- The State Department said Thursday it is very encouraged by reports that North Korea may be ready to accept the Bush administration's proposal for multi-lateral talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program. U-S officials say the discussions could be held in Beijing in late August or September.
  • Bolton Says Talks with N. Korea Will Be Multilateral Washington File 31 Jul 2003 -- The United States remains committed to multilateral talks to resolve concerns over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, says John Bolton, under secretary of State for arms control and international security.
  • THAILAND/NOKOR REFUGEES VOA 31 Jul 2003 -- A group of ten people thought to be North Koreans entered the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok [Thursday] seeking asylum. South Korea has indicated it will accept the ten as refugees, provided their identities can be confirmed.
  • NOKOR/NUCLEAR VOA 31 Jul 2003 -- The top U-S arms negotiator has issued a stern reply to months of bellicose language from North Korea, saying Washington will not bow to nuclear blackmail by the Stalinist state U-S Undersecretary of State John Bolton also made an explicit attack on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
  • Anniversary of Law on Sex Equality observed KCNA 31 Jul 2003 -- The Korean women should become true women revolutionaries who are glorifying the Songun era. Papers here today say this in editorials dedicated to the 57th anniversary of the promulgation of the Law on Sex Equality.
  • KCNA blasts U.S. war outcries KCNA 31 Jul 2003 -- U.S. belligerent forces are now letting loose a string of war outcries to contain the DPRK by force.
  • Cancellation of plan for sabre rattling against DPRK urged KCNA 31 Jul 2003 -- The United States and the South Korean belligerent forces should cancel at once the plan for the provocative war exercises "Ulji Focus Lens", properly judging the readiness of the Korean people to fight the enemy in a do-or-die spirit and their resolution to annihilate the enemy.
  • Efforts focused on two-crop farming in DPRK KCNA 31 Jul 2003 -- The agricultural sector of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea puts particular stress on two-crop-a-year farming in a bid to boost crop yield, taking into consideration the nation's disadvantage of limited farming acreage.
  • North-south exhibition and symposium held KCNA 31 Jul 2003 -- A north-south exhibition and symposium on the art of colorful painting were held at Mt. Kumgang Resort on July 29 under the co-sponsorship of the Central Committee of the Korean Buddhist Federation and the Headquarters for the National Community of the Buddhist Chogye Order of South Korea.




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