Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
12 November North Korea Special Weapons News
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- North Korean Defector VOA 12 Nov 2003 -- When Hwang Jang Yop (PRON: HWAHNG CHAHNG YAWP) requested asylum at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing in 1997, he became the highest ranking official ever to defect from North Korea. After six years of house arrest in South Korea, he has finally been allowed to travel.
- NORTH KOREA/TALKS VOA 12 Nov 2003 -- South Korea on Wednesday hinted that a new round of multilateral talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis is likely next month. Seoul's comments echo similar statements from Washington and Beijing.
- Japan Urged to Make Formal Apology KCNA 12 Nov 2003 -- The DPRK government proposes Japan to hold the DPRK-Japan inter-governmental talks at the earliest possible date to discuss the issue of compensating the Korean victims of human rights abuses so far investigated and confirmed, proceeding from the viewpoint that it is rather a humanitarian issue than a political issue to apologize and compensate the Korean people for human losses caused to them.
- Heightened Alert against Japan Urged KCNA 12 Nov 2003 -- The Japanese chief executive cried that the capabilities of the "Self-Defense Forces" should be increased to cope with "terrorism and missile attack".
- Dialogue and Military Pressure Can Never Go Together KCNA 12 Nov 2003 -- The United States continues threatening and blackmailing the DPRK even after its official announcement that it would seek a negotiated settlement of the standoff between the two countries, vitiating the atmosphere of dialogue, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
- Korea Rakyon Joint Corporation KCNA 12 Nov 2003 -- The Korea Rakyon Joint Corporation produces calm worms and inedible shellfish as baits.
- DPRK-Japan Inter-Governmental Talks Proposed KCNA 12 Nov 2003 -- The DPRK government proposed Japan to hold inter-governmental talks as early as possible to discuss the issue of compensation to the Korean victims of human rights abuses who have been investigated and confirmed so far from the viewpoint that it is rather a human rights issue than a political issue for Japan to apologize and compensate for the human losses caused by Japan to the Korean people.
- DPRK Not to Allow U.S. to Take out Equipment before Its Payment of Penalty KCNA 12 Nov 2003 -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA as regards the U.S. attempt to raise a new problem, taking issue with the step taken by the DPRK against the U.S. decision to suspend the construction of light water reactors (LWR)
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