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Weekly Report on North Korea No. 915 (October 27 to November 2, 2008)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

• North Korea held the August 3 National Exhibition of Consumer Goods from October 21 to 25 at the exhibition building of the Ministry of Light Industry which exhibits samples of light industrial products.
• Chosun Shinbo , Obtober 28

• Park Sung-chul, the honorary vice-chairman of the standing committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly, deceased on October 28.

• China and the DPRK signed the record of conversation on the floodgate construction cooperation of the Yalu River and the Duman River .
• Pyongyang Broadcasting Services, October 29

• North Korea reported that the national science and technology expo of information science was held from October 27 to 29 at the Grand People’s Study Hall.
• Central Broadcasting Station, October 30

• North Korea held ground breaking ceremony on October 31 for high power electric furnaces newly developed by Chollima Steel Complex.
• Central Broadcasting Station, November 1

• In the report about the closing of the 11 th People’s National Athletic Meet, Korea Central News Agency reported on November 2 that Kim Jong-il attended a soccer game played by North Korean People’s Army.

Inter-Korean Affairs

• The DPRK expressed its military’s hard-line attitude on the distribution of leaflets and the allegedly preemptive action by South Korea in a commentary titled “The Spokesperson for North Korean Representatives of inter-Korean Military Consultations Answers to the Questions of the Journalist for the Korean Central News Agency.”
• Korean Central News Agency, October 29

• North Korea criticized the 2008 military defense exercise conducted from October 30 to November 8 in the “Report of the Secretary of Office of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland” on October 31.
• Pyongyang Broadcasting Services, October 31

Foreign Affairs

• The DPRK criticized that the U.S. was taking hostile military policies against Korea as it had established the missile defense system and agreed to promptly dispatch reinforcements in the case of emergency of the Korean peninsula at the Security Consultative Meeting between South Korea and the U.S.

• North Korea criticized that Japan was taking hostile policies against the North as it claimed to address the issue of abductees first and decided to prolong its sanction on North Korea .