21 June 2004 - North Korea Special Weapons News |
- NORTH KOREA / DEFECTOR / URANIUM VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- A 1994 agreement between the United States and North Korea led to a freeze of the North's plutonium-based nuclear-weapons program. As part of the agreement, the United States promised to help North Korea build reactors that relied on nuclear technology that could not be used to make weapons. But not long after, North Korea began pursuing another path to produce nuclear weapons, acquiring technology from Pakistan to process highly enriched uranium.
- POWELL / NORTH KOREA VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell Monday rejected suggestions the United States is being inflexible in its approach to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, which have resumed in Beijing. Mr. Powell discussed the issue with the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed el-Baradei.
- South Korea's Relief Aid for the Victims of the Train Explosion in Ryongchon ROK Ministry of Unification 21 Jun 2004
- NOKOR TALKS WRAP VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Delegates of six nations have held their first day of working-level discussions on North Korea's nuclear-weapons programs in Beijing. The consultations are a prelude to Wednesday's opening of a third round of high-level negotiations on the contentious issue.
- Rodong Sinmun on Era of Independence and Reunification KCNA 21 Jun 2004 -- It is a clear proof of the tremendous vitality of the June 15 joint declaration that the banner of the spirit of "By our nation itself" is fluttering over the land of three thousand-ri and the national reunification movement has been put on the orbit of independence, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed article carried in connection with the fact that the historic day, the 4th anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, was significantly observed.
- Celebration Meetings Held in Local Areas and at KPA Units KCNA 21 Jun 2004 -- Meetings were held in all provinces, cities and counties across the country and at units of the three services of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on Friday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
- DPRK FM Spokesman Refutes U.S. Much Ado about "Flesh Traffic" KCNA 21 Jun 2004 -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Saturday gave an answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the U.S. renewed accusation against the DPRK over the "issue of flesh traffic."
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