Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Kim Jong Il, accompanied by Jong Ha Chol and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, attended a performance by the visiting State Academic State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of the USSR, the Moiseyev Dance Company, on July 2. Elena Scherbakova, head of the dance company, Andrei Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy staff members also attended the performance. (July 3, Central Broadcasting Station)

The Central Broadcasting Station reported on July 8, "The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces sponsored a public presentation on the greatness of President Kim Il Sung at the April 25 House of Culture on July 2, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his demise. The meeting was attended by Vice-Marshal of the Korean People's Army Jo Myong Rok; director of the General Political Department of the KPA, KPA Vice-Marshal Kim Yong Chun; chief of the General Staff of the KPA, KPA Vice-Marshal Kim Il Chol; and officials of the People's Armed Forces, among others."

Rodong Sinmun vehemently criticized the U.S. in its editorial titled "Outrageous claim by the Kingpin of Human Trafficking" for the "Report on Human Trafficking" recently published by the U.S., which lists the DPRK as a major human trafficking country and states that the DPRK does not abide by even the lowest standards for combating human trafficking. The editorial insisted that the accusation was entirely unfounded and that it is the U.S. that is the kingpin of human trafficking.

The Central Broadcasting Station insisted on July 2, "the U.S. imperialist is engaged in a malicious propaganda against the DPRK by spreading a rumor on the existence of the alleged Uranium Enrichment Program in the DPRK, which is totally ungrounded. In so doing, the U.S. aims to justify their attempt to launch an aggression war on the DPRK."

The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland slandered Seoul, saying, "South Korea's yielding to the U.S. and dispatching of troops to Iraq is an unpardonable act that betrays the nation. By taking side with the U.S.' unilateral war of aggression on Iraq at the expense of its own people's lives and safety, Seoul will bring about such consequences as war on the Korean peninsula." (June 28, Central Broadcasting Station)

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station criticized on June 30 that "in the new era ushered in by the June 15 Joint Declaration, although the activities of those working for unification and democratization of the nation such as Hancheongryun (the Korean Federation of University Student Councils) should be actively promoted and encouraged, the South Korean judicial authorities prosecute unification activists, including members of Hancheongryun, on the grounds of breaching the so-called National Security Law that has made so many democratic activists and patriots shed their blood."