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01 October 2004 - North Korea Special Weapons News

  • NOKOR REFUGEES VOA 10 Oct 2004 -- Chinese security forces have reportedly captured North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il's family doctor outside Beijing, after what was described as an attempt by the elderly physician to escape his Stalinist homeland.
  • BUSH KERRY DEBATE VOA 01 OCt 2004 -- President Bush and Senator John Kerry sparred over Iraq and other foreign policy issues in the first of their three campaign debates.
  • CHINA / NOKOR NUKE DIPLOMACY VOA 01 Oct 2004 -- China, long an ally of neighboring North Korea, has been a major diplomatic force in the effort to try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons programs. The Korean nuclear dispute highlights China's interest in exerting influence in global diplomacy.
  • KCNA Assails U.S. Massive Arms Build-up KCNA 01 Oct 2004 -- The United States is going to deploy a flotilla of the ultra-modern nuclear carrier John Stenis in the waters off the Korean peninsula, according to a press report.
  • Adherence to Juche Character and National Identity Urged KCNA 01 Oct 2004 -- Juche character and national identity must be firmly maintained in the revolution and construction, if all the moves of the imperialists and reactionaries are to be frustrated, the independent development of the country and the nation be achieved and the cause of global independence be accomplished, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed article Thursday.
  • Exhibits Showing Might of Koguryo KCNA 01 Oct 2004 -- The Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang is visited every day by some 1,000 people.
  • Kim Jong Il Greets Chinese Party and State Leaders KCNA 01 Oct 2004 -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, together with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, and Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Thursday sent a message of greetings to Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC and president of the People's Republic of China, Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC, Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC, and Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council of the PRC, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the PRC.




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