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22 August North Korea Special Weapons News

  • U-S / KOREA NUCLEAR VOA 22 Aug 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell conferred by telephone with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing Friday as U-S officials prepared for the six-party talks to be hosted by China next week on North Korea's nuclear program. U-S officials are cautioning against expectations of a break-through in the three days of meetings opening next Wednesday.
  • Multilateral Talks Offer North Korea Important Opportunity Washington File 22 Aug 2003 -- Upcoming multilateral talks in Beijing will give North Korea "an important opportunity ... to reassure its neighbors and the international community about its intentions and its role in the future," says a senior State Department official.
  • CHINA/NOKOR REFUGEES VOA 22 Aug 2003 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists is demanding that China release two South Korean journalists arrested in Shanghai this month. The two were detained while covering an attempt by North Korean refugees to gain asylum.
  • Military Pressure Will Never Work on DPRK KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- -- The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and other heavyweights of the U.S. hard-line forces let loose a string of bellicose remarks that the agreement to hold the six-way talks would change nothing and the U.S. and south Korea should be ready for the second Korean war including the military attack despite the projected talks.
  • U.S. Urged to Make Clear Its Stand KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- If the U.S. truly wants a final solution to the nuclear issue through the successful progress of the six-party talks, it should draw a lesson from its unreasonable acts in the past days and refrain from all the moves spoiling the atmosphere of the talks arranged with so much effort.
  • Simultaneous Actions Called for KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The nuclear issue between the DPRK and the United States should be settled by actions, not by talking, that is, by simultaneous actions on the part of both sides.
  • Russian Diplomats Visit Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- Russian embassy officials here including Oleg Davydov, charge d' affaires ad interim, visited the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway on August 20 on the occasion of the first anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's visit to the Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation.
  • Japan's Moves to Repeat Its History of Aggression Blasted KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The Japanese militarist forces' moves to repeat their history of aggression doggedly denying the crimes committed by them against humanity in the last century have entered the phase of their implementation, after going beyond the danger line.
  • Paekma-Cholsan Waterway Makes Headway KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The Paekma-Cholsan waterway project is making headway in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
  • Letter to Kim Jong Il KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- Leader Kim Jong Il today received a letter from the participants in the third Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair.
  • Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair Closes KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- A closing ceremony of the third Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair that opened on August 18 took place at the Gymnasium of Kim Il Sung University today.
  • U.S. to Blame for Search of DPRK Cargo Ship in Taiwan KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The Taiwanese authorities forcibly searched the DPRK-flagged trading cargo ship Pegaebong that called at Kaohsiung Port on August 7 and confiscated the cargo on board though it carried the legally allowed cargo under a normal transport agreement, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport of the DPRK answering a question put by KCNA today.
  • Anti-North Rowdyism of S. Korean Ultra-Rightists Castigated KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The Grand National Party and other ultra-right conservative forces in south Korea staged what they called "August 15 people's rally" in Seoul on August 15, at which they did nasty acts against the sacred flag of the DPRK and went to the lengths of defiling the system in the north, crying for "complete stop to aid to the north" and "halt to the north's nuclear development".
  • Brilliant Life Dedicated to Cause of National Reunification KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- August 15 is not only the day of Korea's liberation but also the day of the country's division.
  • Pyongyang International Commodity Exhibition KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The 6th Pyongyang International Commodity Exhibition was held as an annual event with the participation of some 110 companies of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, China, Germany and other countries and regions.
  • Japanese Militarists' Farce under Fire KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- The Japanese prime minister visited the Cemetery of War Dead and then attended a national memorial service for the war dead on August 15. Timed to coincide with this, officials of the Koizumi Cabinet and Dietmen officially visited the "Yasukuni Shrine".
  • FM Meets UN Official KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met and had a conversation with Richard Bridle, representative of the United Nations Children's Fund in Pyongyang, who paid a farewell call on him today.
  • Protocol Signed between DPRK and China KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- A protocol of the 39th meeting of the Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation was signed with due ceremony between the governments of the DPRK and China in Pyongyang today.
  • Notices Exchanged between North and South KCNA 22 Aug 2003 -- Notices on the effectuation of the agreements on the protection of investment, the avoidance of double taxation on income, the settlement of accounts and the procedures for the settlement of business dispute between the north and the south of Korea which had been signed and adopted at the Fourth Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks were exchanged through Red Cross liaison officials of the north and the south in Panmunjom today.
  • Inter-Korean Transportation Talks Begin Korea-net 22 Aug 2003 -- Officials of the two Koreas on Thursday (Aug. 21) started working-level talks in the North Korean city of Gaeseong to work out details on the reconnection of railways and roads across the border.
  • Koreas March Together at Universiade Opens Korea-net 22 Aug 2003 -- Athletes from South and North Korea marched hand-in-hand before a boisterous crowd as the 22nd Summer Universiade got underway on Thursday in a colorful opening ceremony in Daegu.




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