17 January 2004 - North Korea Special Weapons News |
- JAPAN/NORTH KOREA VOA 17 Jan 2004 -- Japan's ruling coalition and the main opposition party are reported to have agreed on a law that would allow the government the ability to restrict cash remittances from Japan to North Korea. The remittances comprise a major source of the cash-strapped communist country's hard currency.
- U.S. Hit for Interfering in Internal Affairs of Korea KCNA 17 Jan 2004 -- It has been brought to light that the United States recently forced the south Korean authorities to adjust the process of improving the inter-Korean relations depending on the progress to be made in the discussion of the nuclear issue.
- KCNA Blasts Japan's Claim to Tok Islet KCNA 17 Jan 2004 -- Recently Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi openly asserted that Tok Islet is part of "Japan's territory", while Taro Aso, minister of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications, made provocative remarks at a ministerial meeting that Japan would "publish a stamp carrying Tok Islet", according to a news report.
- U.S. Invariable Ambition for Nuclear War KCNA 17 Jan 2004 -- The United States has brought high-tech weapons of mass destruction tested in Iraq and Afghanistan to areas south of the Demilitarized Zone in Korea, rendering the situation of the peninsula very acute.
- DPRK warns US not to waste time in resolving nuclear crisis PLA Daily 17 Jan 2004 -- Officials of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned that any delay in resolving the nuclear crisis will only give Pyongyang more time tobuild a nuke arsenal, former US expert on Korea Charles Pritchard told the press on Friday.
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