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Weekly Report on North Korea (March 2, 2007 - March 8, 2007)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

• The Central Broadcasting Station reported on March 5 that Chairman Kim Jeong-il visited the embassy of the People’s Republic of China in North Korea on March 4, according to the invitation by an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary.

• According to the report by the Central Broadcasting Station on March 8, Chairman Kim Jeong-il watched art performance ‘Blue Sky of My Country’.

• The office of public information of the Russian Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Oversight announced that North Korea and Russia agreed to hold North Korea Economic Community Meeting in Moscow from March 22 to 23.

• The Central Broadcasting Station reported on March 8 that the central reporting session commemorating the 97 th International Women’s Holiday at the People’s Palace of Culture on March 8, 2007.
• Sim Giyeop was proved to be appointed Minister of Fisheries.

• At the spring planting season(March~April), North Korea stimulated planting through planting rallies in several regions

• The Central Broadcasting Station and Pyongyang Broadcasting Services reported on March 7 that North Korea decided to award 313 factories and enterprises for excellent performing national economic planning 2006.

• Chosun Sinbo reported on March 5 that Kim Chaek University of Technology developed a new kind of wind generator suitable for domestic geomorphologic and meteorological conditions.

Inter-Korean Affairs

• The Central Broadcasting Station reported on March 4 that the spokesperson of the DPRK’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland announced a statement on March 3 to condemn the South Korean Grand National Party regarding past affairs.

Foreign Affairs

• The first Working Group Meeting for normalization of the US-North Korea relations was held behind closed doors in New York from March 5 to 6, 2007.

• The Working Group Meeting for normalization of North Korea – Japan relations was held in Hanoi from March 7 to 8, 2007.

• The rumor of North Korea ’s development of HEU is devised by the U.S. to rationalize its hostile policy towards the North and annul the agreements between the two nations, maintained Chosun Sinbo on March 5, 2007.

• The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a statement to denounce Japan for denying its crime regarding comfort women, reported Pyongyang Broadcasting Services on March 7, 2006.

• The Korean Central News Agency reported on March 7 that EU Troika delegation met Yang Hyungsub, vice-chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly in North Korea .