Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
February 2003 - Japan Special Weapons News
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- JAPAN NOKOR REACTOR VOA 27 Feb 2003 -- Japan is expressing regret over North Korea's reported re-activation of a banned nuclear reactor. Both the Japanese and South Korean governments are trying to find out more precisely what is going on at the Yongbyon nuclear complex.
- JAPAN/POWELL-NOKOR VOA 23 Feb 2003 -- U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell has reaffirmed Washington's willingness to talk with North Korea about its weapons program, but only as part of a larger, multilateral dialogue. Mr. Powell, on a four-day Asian tour, also said a solution must be found for the problem of extreme poverty in the North Korea.
- Papers on missing of plutonium in Japan KCNA 22 Feb 2003 -- Japan should probe the nuclear-related crime and the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency should drop unfair double standards. Pyongyang-based papers today say this in a signed commentary on the missing of plutonium in Japan.
- POWELL-ASIA VOA 20 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell interrupts intensive diplomacy on the Iraq later today (Eds: Friday) as he begins a five-day mission to Asia where the focus will be on North Korea and its recent nuclear moves. He'll visit Japan and then China and complete the trip by representing the United States at the inauguration of incoming South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun.
- NOKOR/JAPANESE WIVES VOA 20 Feb 2003 -- The Japanese wife of a North Korean returned to Japan last month after a harrowing journey through China. Her plight is raising awareness of thousands of other Japanese women who followed their spouses to the North decades ago in search of a better life, only to find that their dreams were an illusion.
- Text: Powell To Visit Korea, Japan and China February 21-25 Washington File 19 Feb 2003 -- Following is the text of a February 19 State Department press release
concerning Secretary of State Colin Powell's planned trip to Asia,
February 21-25
- POWELL / ASIA VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell flies to Asia later this week for a three-nation trip ending with a stop in Seoul for the February 25th inauguration of incoming South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun. His talks in Japan, China and South Korea will be dominated by the North Korean nuclear issue.
- CHINA/JAPAN ASLYLUM SEEKERS VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- Japan's government has not decided the fate of four North Korean refugees who walked into a Japanese school Tuesday in Beijing asking for asylum in Japan. Tokyo is apparently concerned that granting asylum might spark a flood of North Korean refugees.
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