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Major Weekly Developments in North Korea (Feb. 20 - Feb. 26, 2006)

ROK National Intelligence Service

Inside North Korea

The Josun (Chosun) Central News Agency reported (Feb. 21), “The Environmental Impact Assessment Act, comprising a total of five articles and 33 clauses, was recently enacted.”


The Josun Central News Agency reported (Feb. 23-25), “Kim Jeong-il visited KPA units 120 and 226 (dates and venues unreported) and called upon each serviceperson to become a match for one hundred fighters and to become invincible.” It further reported that Kim gave field guidance (date unreported) at the Muncheon Geumgang Smelter (Muncheon, Gangwon Province) and called for the increased production of non-ferrous metals needed for socialist economic construction.

Outside North Korea

The Pyongyang Broadcasting Service contended (Feb. 22),”Following the designation of February 22 as ‘Takeshima Day’ by the Shimane Prefecture of Japan in March last year, Japan has published, since January 18, 260,000 copies of books of up to 24 pages that carry claims to Dokdo Island, which demonstrates Japan’s brazen distortion of history and its maneuvers toward territorial expansion.”


In a commentary titled “The US should be brought to trial in a court of human rights,” the Rodong Shinmun contended (Feb. 23), “The progressive people of the world must expose each and every infringement upon the sovereign rights of other countries and human rights abuses committed by the US imperialists.”


The Central Broadcasting Station reported (Feb. 24), “An agreement on air service was concluded by the governments of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) in Damascus on Feb. 20.”

Inter-Korean Issues

The Pyongyang Broadcasting Station propagandized (Feb. 21), “The grand solidarity of the entire people is a basic requirement for the achievement of national independence and peaceful reunification. Even as obstacles lie ahead on the path toward peace and reunification as a result of war maneuvers waged by belligerent maniacs both within and outside of Korea, the entire people of Korea will move forward with the grand task of independent reunification with the strength of national solidarity and cooperation.”


The Pyongyang Broadcasting Station lashed out (Feb. 25), saying, “Should South Korea continue to blindly follow the maneuvers of the United States, including agreeing to the ‘strategic flexibility’ of US forces in Korea, it has no choice but to face the ravages of a nuclear war.”