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Weekly Report on North Korea No. 920 (December 1 to December 7, 2008)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

• North Korea ’s state Korea Central News Agency reported two days in a row from November 30 to December 1 the movements of Kim Jong-il who visited military units and the Central Zoo.

• The DPRK reported that the demand for Eunhasu cosmetics produced in the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory had shown a sharp increase.
• Chosun Shinbo , December 2

• North Korea has recently stepped up its efforts to prevent AIDS/HIV, holding events to mark Worlds AIDS Day on December 1.
• Chosun Shinbo , December 4

• After completing autumn harvest, North Korea reported that people in rural area throughout the country were preparing for farming next year.
• Korean Central News Agency, December 7

Inter-Korean Affairs

• North Korea criticized the responses from the South Korean government and the Grand National Party to the drastic measures by the North as another provocation through the report of the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland on December 6.
• Korean Central News Agency, December 6

Foreign Affairs

• The DPRK criticized the U.S. ’s efforts to prepare for possible sudden change of situation in North Korea as a movement intended to launch pre-emptive attacks on the North and the efforts of South Korea and the U.S. for strengthening their alliance as a catastrophic movement which raises the military tension on the Korean peninsula.

• The Spokesperson for the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted at the press conference with Korean Central News Agency on December 6 that it would not acknowledge Japan as a participant in the six-party talks. It also claimed through a commentary published in Chosun Shinbo on December 6 that the key agenda of the next round of the six-party talks should be the completion of economic compensation.

• North Korea criticized Japan ’s hostile policy toward the North including extension of sanction and urged its neighboring country to correct distorted history upon the 67 th anniversary of the outbreak of the Pacific War.