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October 2003 - Japan Special Weapons News

  • JAPAN NOKOR ASYLUM VOA 28 Oct 2003 -- For years, North Koreans have sought asylum outside their impoverished country. But now the Pyongyang government is saying that a Japanese woman has gone the other way and is seeking asylum in North Korea.
  • JAPAN CAMPAIGNING VOA 28 Oct 2003 -- Campaigning officially began in Japan Tuesday for the first general election in more than three years. It will determine whether Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gets to stay in his job. Candidates across the country are appealing to the voters and polls are showing that almost half of the electorate has not decided for whom to vote.
  • Japan Urged to Swim with Global Trend KCNA 22 Oct 2003 -- It has become a global trend to strive to redress wrongs committed against humankind in the past, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
  • APEC/JAPAN VOA 21 Oct 2003 -- Speaking at the APEC meeting in Bangkok, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says he is concerned about North Korea, from its kidnapping of Japanese citizens to its nuclear ambitions. The Japanese leader also urged Burma to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
  • JAPAN/CHINA MUSTARD GAS- VOA 20 Oct 2003 -- Japan will pay nearly three million dollars to China after poisonous gas from old Japanese chemical weapons killed one man and injured dozens in August. The poisonous gas was left in barrels in China by the Japanese Imperial Army after World War Two. Japan is working to remove from China all remaining 700-thousand chemical weapons.
  • KCNA Assails Japan's Decision to Dispatch Troops to Iraq KCNA 15 Oct 2003 -- The Japanese government recently decided to dispatch its ground "Self-Defense Force" to southern Iraq within December on the basis of the so-called "law on the special measure to help rehabilitate Iraq".
  • Japan Urged to Drop Its Base Diplomatic Posture KCNA 15 Oct 2003 -- The DPRK government through a statement released by a spokesman for its Foreign Ministry on Oct. 7 branded Japan as a disturber of the settlement of the nuclear issue and decided not to allow it to interfere in nuclear negotiations. It was a right action. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
  • JAPAN/ABDUCTEES VOA 15 Oct 2003 -- Wednesday marks one year since five Japanese - abducted by North Korean agents - returned to Japan. While they have started new lives, they are frustrated that family members still in North Korea have not been able to join them.
  • Japan's Moves for Overseas Aggression Assailed KCNA 14 Oct 2003 -- The Japanese ruling quarters are getting over-heated in the moves to establish the missile defense system, making much ado about "missile threat" from the DPRK in a bid to realize their ambition for military power and overseas expansion, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary.
  • JAPAN / POL VOA 10 Oct 2003 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the lower house of parliament Friday in preparation for a general election in November. Propping up the world's second largest economy will be the central topic of the campaigning and the election.
  • Japan Urged to Stop Anti-DPRK and Anti-Chongryon Moves KCNA 10 Oct 2003 -- The Korean people will never tolerate the Japanese reactionaries' moves against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) but will certainly force them to pay dearly for their moves, warns Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
  • Lockheed Martin Signs $59 Million Contract with Mitsubishi Corporation for Antisubmarine Weapon Lockheed Martin 07 Oct 2003 -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that Japan has purchased a seventh lot of Vertical Launch Antisubmarine rockets (VLA) valued at $59.8 million. Lockheed Martin will deliver the VLAs to Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo, in 2005 for transfer to Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force for use on Kongo- and Murasame-class ships.
  • Spokesman for DPRK FM Demands Japan Halt Its Anti-Chongryon Campaign KCNA 07 Oct 2003 -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in a statement today urged the Japanese government to face up to the trend of history and the times, halt at once its dastardly acts against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), apologize for all the damage done to all its institutions and Koreans and take a step to restore them to their original state.



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