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03 October North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Nuclear Weapons Will Not Make North Korea More Secure Washington File 03 Oct 2003-- The United States and North Korea's neighbors "will continue to try to make sure that the North Korean side understands that the best way to security in the future is not through nuclear weapons," Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly said in remarks to the press in Tokyo October 1.
  • KCNA Dismisses Story about DPRK's "Drug Smuggling" as Political Plot KCNA 03 Oct 2003-- U.S. President Bush in a recent statement reportedly expressed "concern about north Korea's drug smuggling", calling for increased efforts to check it. This is an undisguised expression of foolish and shameful move of the U.S. administration to charge the DPRK with "drug smuggling" in a bid to isolate it internationally.
  • Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's Nuclear Deterrent Force KCNA 03 Oct 2003-- The United States is raising a hue and cry over the DPRK's nuclear deterrent force, asserting with concern that it poses a big problem. But the DPRK does not intend to threaten others with the nuclear deterrent force. It is a self-defensive means to cope with the U.S. ever more pronounced moves to stifle the DPRK with nukes. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.
  • U.S. Outcries over "Missile Threat" under Fire KCNA 03 Oct 2003-- Highly placed officials of the U.S. administration are these days cooking up a potage of rumor about "DPRK's missile threat", letting out terrific outcries that it has developed a new-type intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking at the whole of the U.S. mainland and it would pose a greater threat if the missile were tipped with a nuclear warhead. This only discloses its own hostile intention toward the DPRK. So says Minju Joson in a signed commentary today. It goes on:
  • DPRK to Continue Increasing Its Nuclear Deterrent Force KCNA 03 Oct 2003-- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement Thursday as regards a rumor afloat in the international arena that the nuclear facility in Nyongbyon stopped its operation and the six-way talks on the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. will resume in October or November. Dismissing this as totally groundless, he continued:




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