Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
01 April North Korea Special Weapons News
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- LIMITED RSOI/FE 03 ASSETS TO TEMPORARILY REMAIN IN REPUBLIC OF KOREA US Forces Korea News Release 01 Apr 2003-- In agreement with the ROK Government, U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea selected a limited number of forces, including personnel and equipment, to remain in the Republic of Korea after the conclusion of RSOI/FE 03. The primary purpose of this decision is to extend familiarization training.
- Excerpt: Human Rights Norms Are "Alien Concepts" in North Korea Washington File 01 Apr 2003 -- The dictatorship that rules the People's Democratic Republic of Korea
(DPRK) views international human rights norms, particularly individual
rights, as "illegitimate, alien, and subversive to the goals of the
State and Party," according to the State Department's 2002 Human
Rights Report on North Korea.
- U.S. Imposes Penalties on North Korean, Pakistani Entities Washington File 01 Apr 2003 -- The State Department released a statement April 1 explaining penalties
imposed March 24 on North Korean and Pakistani entities under U.S.
missile sanctions law.
- RUSSIA/NOKOR VOA 01 Apr 2003 -- The top security adviser to South Korea's president is wrapping up a two-day visit to Moscow aimed at reviving efforts to find a solution to the standoff over North Korea's nuclear program. Russian officials believe the answer to the dispute lies in direct negotiations.
- NOKOR/MISSILE VOA 01 Apr 2003 -- Japan's defense agency has retracted an earlier statement saying that North Korea had fired a ground-to-ship missile, saying it was still trying to confirm its information. The retraction came after South Korea said there was no evidence of a North Korean missile launch.
- Japanese reactionaries' moves under fire KCNA 01 Apr 2003 -- The Japan Defense Agency set up the "headquarters for emergency measure" right after the U.S. start of the Iraqi war in a bid to support the U.S. military forces participating in the attacks on Iraq and intensify alert and watch on the DPRK, Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.
- KCNA refutes Japan's sheer sophism KCNA 01 Apr 2003 -- A Japanese delegate addressing the 59th UN meeting on human rights held in Geneva on March 19 let loose the sheer sophism that the Japanese government has done its utmost to settle the issue of abduction of Japanese, but the DPRK has refused to "cooperate" with it, arguing that North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese was a serious human rights abuse.
- People's life bonds in DPRK KCNA 01 Apr 2003 -- The DPRK will issue people's life bonds. The bonds are aimed to fully meet the great demand for funds necessary for the building of a powerful nation on the basis of the Korean people's noble patriotism and their awareness as citizens.
- Korean army ready to cope with war KCNA 01 Apr 2003 -- Korean servicemen are angered by the Iraqi war the U.S. imperialists started and military manoeuvres they are staging in South Korea with the South Korean bellicose forces against the DPRK, regardless of world public denunciation.
- Rodong Sinmun on national cooperation KCNA 01 Apr 2003 -- All the Koreans should tide over the dangerous situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula in the do-or-die spirit that peace and security of the Korean nation should be kept by its concerted efforts.
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