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Weekly Report on North Korea No. 916 (November 3 to November 9, 2008)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

• North Korea reported that the 6 th National Apparel Exhibition at the Central Youth Center in Pyongyang from November 4 to 7.
• Chosun Shinbo , November 10

• North Korea ’s state media Korea Central News Agency reported news about Kim Jong-il making an on-site inspection at military units and watching music performance.

• The DPRK reported its land organizing achievements that hundreds of thousand of jeongbo (1 jeongbo equals to 9.917.4 square meter) of land had been organized for the past decade, producing thousands of jeongbo of new land. Additionally, following the dying injunction of the departed Kim Il-sung, thousands of jeongbo of tideland had been reclaimed along the coastline of the West Sea .

Inter-Korean Affairs

• North Korea criticized the comments that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade made during the hearing at the National Assembly on October 22 as a presumptuous and rash behavior. The Minister said that there was a possibility to put sanction again on the North.
• Rodong Sinmun , November 5

• Chosun Shinbo raised the possibility on November 7 that the North intended to connect to the U.S. and contain South Korea after the U.S. presidential election had ended in an article titled “Confrontational Attitude Causing a Dangerous Situation.”

Foreign Affairs

• The DPRK criticized the U.S. ’s movement to build up its military strength such as the efforts to establish headquarters for nuclear operation and demanded to dissolve them around the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command.

• North Korea criticized the Japanese government for presenting the U.S. Resolution on North Korean Human Rights and suppressing Chongryun, the General Association of North Korean Residents in Japan .