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North Korea Weekly (February 23- 29, 2004)

Inside North Korea

Rodong Sinmun propagandized on Feb.23, "To drive economic development based on the Songun Politics is for the military and all people to be united in a struggle to build the nation's economy with the spirit of the revolution."

The Central Broadcasting Station said on Feb. 25, quoting a Rodong Sinmun editorial, "Addressing agricultural issues appropriately is a complex challenge with historical significance in the socialism. As one of very critical affairs of the nation, building the nation's agriculture lays the groundwork for the nation and people's prosperity as well as solidifies the socialist system and thus one very important political task that can highlight the excellence of the socialism. "

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International Issues 

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a KCNA briefing on Feb. 29 regarding the recent six-way talks held in Beijing, Feb.25-28,  "the U.S. put a stumbling bloc in the talks, by once again insisting its old way of demanding that the DPRK first scrap nuclear program." 

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station (Feb.27) reported, "Japan has passed the amendment to the Foreign Exchange law which is designed to pose economic sanction against the DPRK, without any words of apology for its unprecedented war-time atrocities during the colonial days."

Inter-Korean Issues

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station(Feb.23) claimed, "Washington's recent pressure to block the inter-Korean relations on the pretext of the nuclear issue is obvious attempt to seek a plausible excuse for provoking nuclear wars on the Korean peninsula. If the U.S. continues to stand in the way of reconciliation of the two Koreas, and escalate tension on the Peninsula, no wonder the situation will escalate into further confrontation and war."

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station propagandized on Feb. 24, "If people of the North and the South join forces with each other to drive the movement to unify the Korean peninsula, we will be able to overcome any challenge. The National cooperation is the very way to advance the self-reliant reunification as well as co-prosperity of the nation."




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