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North Korea Weekly (November 8 - November 14, 2004)

ROK National Intelligence Service

Inside North Korea

Regarding the death of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), the Central Broadcasting Station (Nov. 12) reported that “the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) decided to designate November 15-17, 2004 (the 93rd year of Juche) as a period of mourning, during which several agencies will fly their flags at half-mast.”

Through a political argument titled Solidarity is Victory and Victory is Solidarity, the Central Broadcasting Station (Nov. 19) emphasized that “the solidarity we are referring to today is based on our conviction in the military; the very pavilion of our solidarity is the military armed with guns; and the basic spirit and basic motto of our solidarity are the death-defying solidarity among the leaders of the revolution.”

The Central Broadcasting Station (Nov. 12) stressed and propagated that “the reporters and discussants of the National Youth Alliance Exemplified Workers’ Conference held at the Central Youth Hall on the 11th pointed out ‘each organization and worker of the National Youth Alliance has motivated the youth to politically and ideologically safeguard with their lives General Kim Jeong-il, the sun of the 21st century and the extraordinary spiritual leader of the military.’”

International Issues

Through a newspaper editorial titled Unacceptable Intervention Maneuvers, the Central Broadcasting Station (Nov. 11) asserted, “if the US continues to hinder the construction of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, inter-Korean economic cooperation projects will come to a full halt and the confrontational relations seen before June 15, 2000 will be brought back.”

The Foreign Ministry claimed in a statement made by a spokesperson at a press conference that “although some members of the US press are misleading the public to believe that the six-party talks are not being realized due to our insistent calls for bilateral DPRK-US talks, this is merely a sophistic argument that inverts the truth.” (Nov. 13, Central Broadcasting Station)

The Central Broadcasting Station (Nov. 13) expressed criticism that “while the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are plotting maneuvers to launch a new comprehensive electronic espionage system so as to strengthen its activities of espionage and spying against other nations, the Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun reported on the 5th that ‘the comprehensive electronic espionage system, the basic duty of which is intelligence gathering in the Northeast Asian region, will be put into operation in Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture in year 2008.’”

Inter-Korean Issues

The Pyongyang Broadcasting Service (Nov. 8) alleged that “the issue of reducing US Forces occupying Korea is merely an instrument to pressure or a snare to further strengthen its grip on South Korea,” and argued, “the South Korean authorities should abandon as soon as possible their submissive attitude toward the US and assume the standpoint of self-independence of the nation.”

The Pyongyang Broadcasting Service (Nov. 9) contended that “the international terrorist group Al Qaeda recently designated South Korea as a target, which is a serious consequence of South Korea’s answering to the US’s compulsion with toadyism and submission and dispatching numerous soldiers to Iraq.”