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Weekly on North Korea No.881 (Mar. 3- Mar. 9, 2008)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

*During spring tree planting season in March and April, which starts with tree-planting day on Mar. 2, North Korea is encouraging its people to plant trees, holding tree planting rallies across the country.

*The Central Broadcasting Station and Pyongyang Broadcasting Services reported on Mar. 4 and 6 that many sectors of national economy have successfully implemented the plans for February.

*The spokesperson for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued a denunciation of the South Korean government’s discussion of North Korea ’s human rights issues in a keynote speech at the UN Human Rights Commission, reported Pyongyang Broadcast Services on Mar. 7.

* North Korea held a central reporting convention at People’s Palace of Culture on Mar. 8 to mark the 98th International Women’s Day.

Inter-Korean Affairs

*North Korea, through a statement by the spokesman for the North committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration, denounced the South Korean authorities’ arrest and detention of public safety offenders as an anti-reunification deed, reported Korean Central News Agency on Mar. 5.

*Pyongyang Broadcasting Services, in its report on Mar. 6 titled “National unification is the problem of our nation,” argued that no matter how good agreement the two Koreas make, it is nothing but a blank paper should the two countries depend upon foreign powers.

Foreign Affairs

* North Korea has strongly denounced U.S.-ROK joint military exercises, defining it as war games for the invasion of North Korea , in an interview with the spokesman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and reports of diverse state-run media including Rodong Sinmun and Pyongyang Broadcasting Services.

*Rodong Sinmun, in its editorial on Mar. 5 titled “Hard-line policy will not work on us,” denounced the U.S. conservative hardliners’ policies toward the North regarding delayed implementation of the points agreed at the six-party talks.