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North Korea Weekly (August 30 - September 5, 2004)

ROK National Intelligence Service

Inside North Korea

Kim Jong Il, accompanied by Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae, Pak Jae Kyong and Ri Yong Chol, inspected recruit training subunits of KPA units 363 and 833 (date unspecified) and instructed them to beef up combat capabilities and strengthen ideology education for new recruits (Sept. 4, Sept. 5, Central Broadcasting Station).

Pyongyang Broadcasting Service propagandized on Sept. 2, "A grand landscape is unfolding in which the Great leader exerts his supreme power and every creature on earth surrenders to the eternal life of the Great leader, as the nation, the political party and the army are all under his command, vision and leadership."

International Issues

Pyongyang Broadcasting Service (Sept. 3) stated that "the fact that the U.S. takes on the new air surveillance mission of detecting and tracking ballistic missiles by positioning the U.S. navy's warships in the seas around the Korean Peninsula under the pretext of countering a missile threat demonstrates that the U.S. clings ever more to its crazed attempts to militarily isolate and quash the DPRK. "

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK said of a recent terrorist act in Russia, "The DPRK strongly denounces the recent terrorist act in Russia and shows its solidarity in every effort of the Russian government and its people to ensure the lasting stability and territorial integrity of the country" (Sept. 5, Central Broadcasting Station)

Inter-Korean Issues

The Central Broadcasting Station (Sept. 2) denounced "the recent assertion of the Grand National Party that the pro-North and pro-Communist should be included among the targets of the probe into past crimes is far-fetched and absurd, and aims to brand pro-unification patriots as pro-North and pro-Communist elements."

Pyongyang Broadcasting Service (Sept. 3) announced that "although anti-unification activists struggle to maintain the Security Law, the obsolete can never conquer the new. Therefore, we need to pass stern judgment on the Constitutional Court of Korea's decision to uphold the Security Law."