Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Kim Jong Il, accompanied by Kim Yong Chun, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, and senior officials of the party and the military, attended a concert of the Wangjaesan Light Music Band (date unreported), and stressed the importance of revolution education of party members and workers through art activities.

The Central Broadcasting Station reported on June 19, "On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Comrade Kim Jong Il's joining the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, a national rally took place at the April 25 House of Culture on June 18. Officials and members of the Korean Democratic Women's Union also held a meeting to dedicate artillery named after the union to the Korean People's Army at Jonsung Square on June 18." (June 19, Central Broadcasting Station)

With regards to G8 leaders' adoption of an action plan for the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program, a spokesperson for the DPRK foreign ministry claimed, "G8 leaders adopted an action plan that stipulates forcible inspection of North Korea's nuclear program in order to pressure us to abandon nuclear activities, which reveals their intent to trigger a war on the Korean peninsula, as in Iraq." (June 14, Central Broadcasting Station)

The Central Broadcasting Station criticized Tokyo on June 19, saying, "On June 14, the Japanese Diet enacted seven bills designed to supplement Japan's war contingency legislation, which would allow Tokyo to mount a war of aggression again. The bills include the Act on the Protection of Nationals, which allows the mobilization of the state and all local governments in the case of a war, and the Act on Facilitating U.S. Military Operations in the Event of an Attack or Imminent Attack on Japan, enabling the Self-Defense Forces to supply provisions to the U.S. forces, among others." (June 19, Central Broadcasting Station)

A foreign ministry spokesperson commented on the U.S.' 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report: "In the DPRK, whose socialist system is based on the human-oriented principle of Juche ideology, there is no place for human trafficking to exist." (June 20, Central Broadcasting Station)

Rodong Sinmun insisted on June 15 that "the escalation of anti-American sentiment among the South Korean people and other positive changes in the wake of the adoption of the June 15 Joint Declaration are all attributable to the brilliant leadership and extraordinary insights of Comrade Kim Jong Il." (June 15, Pyongyang Broadcasting Service)

Pyongyang Broadcasting Service propagandized on June 19, "People across the nation wish to express their deepest admiration and gratitude to our great General, who is the invincible leader, for having steadfastly defended our nation, armed with his Songun spirit, from the military provocation of the U.S. imperialist." (June 19, Pyongyang Broadcasting Service)