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Weekly Report on North Korea No. 1010 (August 23 to August 29, 2010)

ROK Ministry of Unification

Internal Affairs

Kim Jong-il’s public activity

North Korean media reported Kim Jong-il’s public activities for two times from August 23 to August 29 in 2010.

North Korea holds elections in relation to the Workers Party Delegates’ Conference.

North Korea held party elections for counties, districts, cities, and provinces related to the Party Delegates’ Conference. (Korean Central Television, Rodong Sinmun on August 26~29)

NK activities related to the 50th anniversary of the “Songun Revolutionary Leadership”

North Korea held a series of congratulatory events, including a national meeting, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s “Songun Revolutionary Leadership.” (Korean Central Television, Korean Central News Agency, Rodong Sinmun on August 11~25)

Inter-Korean Affairs

NK criticizes President Lee’s 8.15 congratulatory speech.

North Korea criticized President Lee for proposing the “unification tax” in his congratulatory speech on August 15. The North insisted that the idea was “very unsavory” because it was aimed at preparing for a sudden collapse of the North Korean regime or unification by absorbing the North. (Rodong Sinmun, Korean Central News Agency on August 23~29)

NK evaluates the first half of President Lee’s five-year term.

North Korea blasted that the first half of President Lee’s five-year term was  a long nightmare to South Korean people and the days filled with  disillusion and indignation to all Korean people. (Rodong Sinmun, Korean Central News Agency, Korean Central Television on August 27)

Foreign Affairs

Former U.S. President Carter visits North Korea

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited the North from August 25 to 27. He met with Kim Young-nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly to win a release of a detained American citizen, Aijalon Gomes and came back to the U.S. with him.  (Korean Central Television, Chosun Shinbo on August 25, 27)

North Korea continues to blame Japan in relation to the “Korea-Japan annexation treaty”

North Korea blamed Japan on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the “Korea-Japan annexation treaty” through a joint appeal of the “Korean Social Democratic Party” of the North and the “Democratic Labor Party” of the South, a spokesperson’s statement of the “DPRK Committee for Investigation of Damage Caused by the Japanese”, and a joint declaration of the “Committee for Implementation of the 6.15 Joint Declaratio,” and so on. (Korean Central Television on August 22~30)