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North Korea Weekly (May 14 - May 20, 2007)

ROK National Intelligence Service

o Inside North Korea

(May 14) The North Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS) reported, “The 10th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair opened at the Three-Revolution Exhibition Hall with Vice Premier [of the DPRK] Ro Tu-chol and Minister of Foreign Trade Rim Kyong-man present, among others.”

(May 18) North Korea’s Rodong Shinmun contended, “Having an illusion of US-style bipartisan democracy is [walking] a path toward national ruin, thus advanced nations and peoples around the world should be wary of US-style democracy and never allow it.”

(May 18) North Korea’s KCBS announced that “in accordance with a decree by the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly on May 18, Comrade Pak Ui-chun has been appointed foreign minister.”

(May 20) The North’s Rodong Shinmun propagandized, “Rabbit meat is a good food that is tasty, tender, nutritious and easy to digest and absorb.”

o Outside North Korea

(May 15) North Korea’s Rodong Shinmun denounced, “The [motto] ‘building a beautiful country’ advocated by Japan’s Abe is aimed at establishing a mechanism for war and building a war state,” and added, “The Japanese imperialists are conspiring in a sinister plot to bring about the disaster of war.”

(May 15) A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK remarked, “As soon as the remittance of [North Korea’s] funds in BDA [Banco Delta Asia in Macao] is realized, [the nation] intends to take measures to stop the operation of its nuclear facility as per the February 13 agreement, to immediately invite a working-level delegation from the IAEA, and to engage in in-depth discussions with the US on follow-up measures to be taken after the suspension of the operation of our nuclear facility.”

o Inter-Korean Issues

(May 14) North Korea’s Rodong Shinmun insisted, “The construction of a new US military base in Gunsan [South Korea] is an anti-national and anti-unification act that fuels the US imperialists’ maneuvers to prepare for aggression against the DPRK and to reduce South Korea to a war base for US imperialist aggressor forces.”

(May 17) The North Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported, “With Kim Yong-sam, [North Korean] Minister of Railways, Lee Yong-sup, South Korean Minister of Construction and Transportation, and other related people present, pilot train operations took place between the North and South on both the east and west coast on May 17.”

(May 19) North Korea’s Pyongyang Broadcasting Service stated, “At the negotiating table to forge a free trade agreement between the US and South Korea, the US vividly revealed [the fact] that it is an evil and cruel ruler and bald-faced looter, and the South Korean people should therefore turn out in a dynamic drive to put an end to the US imperialists’ forcible occupation of South Korea.”