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Weekly Report on North Korea No. 923 (December 22 to December 28, 2008)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

• North Korea reported, “We achieved tangible results from the technical development for modernizing production process in the light industry of Pyongyang .”
• Pyongyang Broadcasting Services, December 23

• On December 23, the DPRK held a central reporting convention on the 17 th anniversary of crowning Kim Jong-il as the supreme commander of North Korean People’s Army on December 24 in 1991.
• Central Broadcasting Station, Korean Central News Agency and Central Broadcasting TV, December 23

• Chosun Shinbo , the house organ of the central committee for the General Association of North Korean Residents in Japan announced the top ten events of North Korea in 2008.
• Chosun Shinbo , December 24

Inter-Korean Affairs

• In the so-called “Bill of Indictment of the National Unification Institute, North Korea made a harsh criticism against the ROK government’s North Korea policy, arbitrarily quoting South Korean media reports.
• Korean Central News Agency, December 24

Foreign Affairs

• The DPRK criticized that the U.S. ’s efforts to modernize its nuclear weapons encouraged arms race and that the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise in 2008 could be considered as an evil-minded maneuver with double purposes.

• North Korea criticized Japan ’s movement to expand outward such as approval of Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law. It also criticized Japan ’s insistence on resolving the issue of abduction first.