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20 October North Korea Special Weapons News

  • U.S./North Korea: At APEC Summit, Washington Appears To Signal Softening Position RFE/RL 20 Oct 2003 -- The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit opened today in the Thai capital Bangkok, with the U.S.-led war on terror, economic issues, and North Korea expected to dominate discussions. Yesterday, U.S. President George W. Bush signaled a possible softening in Washington's position, saying the United States could give North Korea certain security guarantees if Pyongyang agrees to scrap its nuclear program.
  • Bush Ready to Move Forward with Six-Party Talks on North Korea Washington File 20 Oct 2003 -- President Bush, in a meeting in Bangkok with President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea October 20, said he is willing to move forward on talks with North Korea in the six-party framework, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told reporters.
  • CHINA/JAPAN/NOKOR VOA 20 Oct 2003 -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said the issue of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea is a matter that must be settled between the two countries.
  • NOKOR MISSILE VOA 20 Oct 2003 -- Japan and South Korea say North Korea has fired a short-range surface-to-ship missile. The launch does not appear to pose an immediate security threat, but adds urgency to the discussions North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
  • BUSH NORTH KOREA VOA 20 Oct 2003 -- The United States and South Korea say they will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea. Their joint statement follows a meeting in Thailand between President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
  • Joint Press Release of the 3rd Inter-Korean Working-level Contact on Shipping - Munsan ( October 12, 2003) ROK Ministry of Unification 20 Oct 2003 -- South and North Korea held their third working-level contact on shipping cooperation in Munsan (South Korea) on October 11-12.
  • Joint Press Release of the Third Meeting of Inter-Korean Working-level Consultations ROK Ministry of Unification 20 Oct 2003 -- The South and the North held the Third Meeting of their Working-level Consultations on Economic Cooperation Systems in Munsan from October 11 to 12, 2003.
  • DPRK Delegate Calls for Maintaining Fairness KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- The UN Security Council should maintain fairness with regard to the issue of the Korean peninsula, particularly the nuclear issue, the solution of which becomes the pressing issue in ensuring world peace and security.
  • Japan's Disgraceful Behavior Assailed KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces Japan for attempting to use the APEC summit meeting to be held in Thailand as a leverage to pressurize the DPRK.
  • South Side's Delegation Leaves KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- The south side's delegation led by Ro Song Dae, chairman of the south Korean Radio and TV Broadcasting Committee, left here today after participating in the north-south broadcasters' seminar.
  • U.S. Talk about "Peaceful Solution" to Nuclear Issue Dismissed KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- The U.S. talk about a "peaceful solution" to the nuclear issue while shelving the issues of the abandonment of its hostile policy towards the DPRK and the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK is nothing but a deceptive trick to detain the DPRK side in the conference hall to gain time and meet its own interests and to stifle the DPRK in the end, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
  • KCNA Urges Japan to Keep Its Promise KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- Recently Japanese Foreign Minister Kawaguchi at a meeting of the House of Representatives held to discuss the budget asserted that "Japan made no promise to north Korea to send back 5 abducted Japanese without fail."
  • GNP Representative Assailed KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- Choe Pyong Ryol, representative of the Grand National Party, addressing the "National Assembly" session recently, asserted that the "alliance" with the U.S. has served as a "mainstay of peace" on the Korean peninsula and an "important foundation of growth" for the last half a century.
  • Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on Its Nuclear Deterrent Force KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- The daily pronounced hostile policy of the Bush administration to stifle the DPRK and its increasing threat of preemptive nuclear attack compels the DPRK to opt for maintaining and increasing its nuclear deterrent force as means for just self-defence and consolidating the defense power of the country to the maximum.
  • North-South Broadcasters' Seminar Held KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- A north-south broadcasters' seminar was held at the People's Palace of Culture on October 18. Present there were officials, journalists, anchorpersons, editors and technicians in the field of broadcasting service in the north and the south and other officials concerned.
  • S. Korean Delegation Leaves KCNA 20 Oct 2003 -- A delegation of the south Korean Doctors Association led by its former President Sin Sang Jin left here today after participating in the 5th Pyongyang Medical Science Symposium of Compatriots at Home and Abroad.




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