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19 August North Korea Special Weapons News

  • KOREAS / APOLOGY UPDATE VOA 19 Aug 2003 -- North Korea has reversed its earlier decision to boycott a sports event in South Korea, after the South's president expressed regret for recent anti-Pyongyang protests.
  • KOREAS / APOLOGY VOA 19 Aug 2003 -- South Korea's president has expressed regret for last week's anti-North Korean protests in Seoul. The conciliatory gesture comes after North Korea canceled plans to participate in college athletic games in the South this week.
  • Japan Urged to Sincerely Approach Six-Way Talks KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- The ultra-right conservative forces of Japan are talking nonsense that the issue of abduction should be discussed at the six-way talks expected to open soon to discuss the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. although it has nothing to do with the issue.
  • August 15 Grand Reunification March Held in Seoul KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- An August 15 grand reunification march for peace against war was reportedly held in Seoul on August 15 with more than 20,000 members of different organizations from across south Korea and citizens in attendance.
  • U.S.-South Korea Madcap Joint Sabre-rattling Denounced KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- The dangerous large-scale "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercise started by the U.S. imperialists together with south Korea under the simulated conditions of an actual war against the north is a grave challenge and an unbearable provocation against the DPRK which stands for dialogue, peace and reunification of the country, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
  • KCNA Urges U.S. to Show Will to Make Policy Switchover KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- The United States is building up public opinion on "written security assurances," "collective security assurances," "early inspection," etc. inside and outside the country in the run-up to the six-way talks.
  • Acceleration of Revolution and Construction Urged KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls for accelerating the revolution and construction with high class consciousness under the great banner of Songun and thus powerfully demonstrate the ever-victorious spirit of heroic Korea.
  • Joint War Game Flailed KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- A spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) in a statement on Aug. 16 denounced the large-scale "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military manoeuvres to be staged by the U.S. warhawks with the south Korean military as a test nuclear war and a preliminary war aimed at rounding off its plan of preemptive nuclear strike at the north.
  • Rodong Sinmun on Ideological Foundation of Single-Hearted Unity KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- The Juche idea serves as the ideological foundation of our single-hearted unity as it correctly reflects the demand of the times flowing toward independence and indicates the way of most staunchly defending in practice the independent demand and fundamental interests of the popular masses, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today.
  • North to Strictly Deal with Issues Arising in Inter-Korean Relations KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- We are compelled to strictly deal with all the issues arising in the inter-Korean relations with the highest degree of vigilance as there occurred in the heart of Seoul in broad daylight such extreme and reckless provocation as seriously hurting the dignity and the prestige of the DPRK and malignantly insulting it, declared a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement on August 17.
  • High-level Military Delegation of China Arrives KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- A high-level military delegation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army led by Colonel General Xu Caihou, director of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who is member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and member of its Central Military Commission, arrived here today.
  • Jo Myong Rok Meets Chinese Military Delegation KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Jo Myong Rok, first vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and director of the KPA General Political Department, today met and had a conversation with the high-level military delegation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army led by Colonel General Xu Caihou, director of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who is member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and member of its Central Military Commission.
  • International Book Exhibition Opens KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- -- The 3rd Pyongyang International Scientific and Technological Book Exhibition opened at the Gymnasium of Kim Il Sung University today.
  • KCNA Assails Japanese Heavyweights' Visits to "Yasukuni Shrine" KCNA 19 Aug 2003 -- Several Japanese heavyweights reportedly visited the "Yasukuni Shrine" on August 15.




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