30 January 2004 - North Korea Special Weapons News |
- Inter-Korean Trade Rises 12.9 Percent Last Year ROK Ministry of Unification 30 Jan 2004 -- Two-way inter-Korean trade totaled $724 million last year, up 12.9 percent from a year earlier, according to monthly data released by the unification ministry.
- Timetable for six-party talks still not fixed: Chinese FM PLA Daily 30 Jan 2004 -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said here Thursday that the timetable for a second sound of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue has still not been fixed.
- U.S. Move to Vandalize Cultural Treasure of Korean Nation Assailed KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the United States for pressurizing the south Korean authorities to offer the site of the Toksu Palace for the construction of its embassy building and flats for the staff members from the beginning of the year as it did last year.
- Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Marked KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an article to the 1st anniversary of the publication of leader Kim Jong Il's work "The Songun Revolutionary Line Is the Great Revolutionary Line of Our Times and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution."
- Japan's Claim to Tok Islet Assailed KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- The DPRK Lawyers' Society issued a white paper Wednesday disclosing the illegal nature of Japan's claim to Tok Islet and proving that the islet is part of the inviolable territory of Korea.
- Anti-U.S. Struggle Called for KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- The appeal of the joint meeting of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations which called upon the 70 million Koreans to turn out in the anti-U.S. patriotic struggle to protect the wellbeing and peace of the nation is entirely just as it reflects the requirements of the prevailing situation on the Korean peninsula, says Minju Joson in a signed commentary today.
- KCNA on U.S. Projected Massive Deployment of Air Force in Asia-Pacific KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- The U.S. Defense Department is reportedly contemplating launching a massive deployment of mainland-based air force including strategic bombers in Guam and Okinawa Bases and other military bases in Asia in the foreseeable future.
- Pacesetters in Potato Farming Meet KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- A meeting of pacesetters in bringing about a signal turn in potato farming was held at the People's Palace of Culture between January 27 and 28.
- Co-presidium of Pomminryon Meets KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- A meeting of provisional co-presidium of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) was held in the north and the south and abroad, Seoul and Tokyo Thursday by way of exchanging facsimile messages.
- Inter-Korean Meeting and Contact KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- The Second Meeting of the Working Panel for North-South Transaction on the Basis of Settlement of Accounts and the first working contact for north-south arrangements-making for economic cooperation were held in Kaesong from Jan.27 to 29.
- Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit KCNA 30 Jan 2004 -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected KPA Unit No. 844.
- Armitage arrives in Beijing for talks on North Korea, Iraq PLA Daily 30 Jan 2004 -- Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage arrived in China for a visit that the US embassy said would focus on the year-long North Korean nuclear crisis and Iraq reconstruction.
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