North Korea Weekly (September 7 - 13, 2009)
ROK National Intelligence Service
[Inside North Korea]
o On September 8, Kim Jong-il watched a joint Russia-North Korea art performance at Mansudae Art Theater in Pyongyang. On the same day, North Korea held a central reporting rally commemorating the 61st anniversary of the establishment of the regime. The country reported that it would begin a 100-day battle following a 150-day battle on September 11.
[Outside North Korea]
o On September 8, the US Department of Secretary announced that it had additionally designated North Korea’s General Bureau of Atomic Energy and Tangun Trading Corporation as entities subject to sanctions on charges of involvement in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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