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North Korea Weekly (October 18 - October 24, 2004)

ROK National Intelligence Service

Inside North Korea

The Central Broadcasting Station (Oct. 20) reported that the National Economic Propagation meeting was held at the People’s Palace of Culture on the 19th of October. Relevant officials and members, including Jong Ha Chol and Choe Ik Kyu, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, attended in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Kim Jong Il’s everlasting classic work titled “On the Execution of the Economic Propagation Project.”

The Central Broadcasting Station (Oct. 24) reported that the meeting of the National Korean Democratic Women’s Union (KDWU) was held at the People’s Palace of Culture on the 24th of October, and was attended by Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK along with relevant officials and members of the KDWU central, provincial, city, and county regions.

International Issues

The KCNA, in its editorial titled “The Bush Administration’s Criminal Act of Unilaterally Annulling NK-US Agreements,” asserted that “it is our firm resolution to respond to confrontation with confrontation, preemptive strikes with preemptive strikes, and we will take more powerful political and military measures corresponding to the severity of the U.S.’ hostile policies.” (Oct. 21, Central Broadcasting Station)

The Central Broadcasting Station (Oct. 20) emphasized that "the government of the People’s Republic of China has decided to provide free assistance to North Korea, and this free assistance from the Chinese government will strengthen the struggle of our people who are charged with building North Korea into a major power.”

The Central Broadcasting Station (Oct. 23) condemned “the current Japanese ruler for making reckless remarks justifying his visit to the Yaskuni shrine, a symbol of militarism, despite vocal protest and denunciations inside and outside the country.”

Inter-Korean Issues

Pyongyang Broadcasting Service (Oct. 19) criticized “the proposal made by the South’s Uri Party to amend criminal law. It is a proposal to replace the provisions in the National Security Law concerning anti-national parties by adding provisions on the organization of a group with the aim of a rebellion to a relevant crime of the criminal law. The setting forth of such a proposal is an intolerable act mocking the South Korean population that is demanding the abolition of an evil law.”

The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland criticized the South, saying, “The reason South Korea was fingered as a target for attacks by Al-Qaeda was the South’s forced dispatch of troops to Iraq, surrendering to the urging of the U.S. despite strong opposition from its people.” (Oct. 22, Central Broadcasting Station)