North Korea News Round-up 12/4

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North Korea News Round-up - Dec 4, 2001

 US, North Korea Accuse Each Other of Military Threats;
 US policy on Korea Termed Anachronistic; 
 Japanese Reactionaries Assailed by Pyongyang


AFP via Times of India - December 4, 2001
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=1320918018

N Korea threatens military build-up against US 

SEOUL: North Korea warned on Tuesday of a military response against
what it said was a series of US moves to escalate tension on the
Korean peninsula.

Rodong Sinmun, the ruling Workers' Party newspaper, accused the US
government of pursuing the hardline policy against North Korea. "The
strong-arm US policy can never work on the DPRK (North Korea)," the
paper said in a commentary monitored here.

"The escalated US policy intended to stifle the DPRK compels the DPRK
to increase its military capabilities for self-defense to cope with
it."

The North's foreign ministry on Thursday issued a statement
threatening to take unspecified countermeasures unless the United
States changed its hostile policy toward Pyongyang.

But neither of the verbal threats specified what actions would be
taken. Rodong cited a recent US military reinforcement in South
Korea, home to some 37,000 American troops deployed to deter any
attacks from the North.

The United States and South Korea said the extra deployment of
fighter jets was to fill the gap caused by a US aircraft carrier's
relocation for the war in Afghanistan.

The North's official newspaper branded a US proposal to resume
rapprochement talks as merely lip service, echoing the foreign
ministry statement of last week.

US President George W. Bush proposed to hold new talks with North
Korea in June and to discuss cuts in its 1.2-million-strong armed
forces.

The North has not officially responded to the US offer yet.

Last week Bush called on North Korea to permit foreign inspectors to
verify that it is not producing weapons of mass destruction, and
warned Pyongyang to halt foreign missile sales.

The Korean peninsula is the world's last Cold War frontier with an
uneasy truce in place since the 1950-53 war.( AFP )

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KCNA News, Pyongyang - Dec 4, 2001
http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/04.htm#1


U.S. moves to pose military threat condemned

Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- The United States has decided to
deploy anti-missile radars in South Korea in the near future and
strongly urged the latter to purchase its fighters of the next
generation to be developed by it. The fact proves once again that the
U.S. is the very one who constantly poses military threat to the
Korean peninsula. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.

It is due to the U.S. unchanged policy to stifle the DPRK by force of
arms that such moves for arms buildup are getting more undisguised,
the commentary notes, and goes on:

In particular, the bush administration, which appeared in the U.S.
this year, has desperately pushed forward its moves to stifle the
DPRK as part of its major foreign policy.

The recently disclosed U.S. projected arms buildup, too, is mainly
intended to escalate its military threat to the DPRK.

The U.S. has massively deployed missiles and other war equipment in
South Korea, threatening the DPRK militarily.

Nevertheless, it argues that the DPRK should "reduce missiles and
conventional armed forces". This is no more than a gangster-like
logic.

It has no right to make such argument, the commentary says, and goes
on: The prevailing situation compels the DPRK to be in full readiness
to cope with the U.S. military threat which is getting more
pronounced as days go by.

The U.S. should stop such military threat at once and rectify its
anachronistic Korea policy, if it does not want to suffer the same
disgraceful defeat before the world as it did in the past.

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KCNA News - Decebmer 4, 2001 http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/04.htm#1


U.S. Korea policy termed anachronistic

Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- Abnormal relations between the DPRK
and the United States have not yet improved though over half a
century has passed since its occupation of South Korea. It is totally
attributable to the U.S. anachronistic policy toward the DPRK. Rodong
Sinmun today says this in a signed article. Calling for "dialogue"
with the DPRK, the U.S. is conducting only deeds of rubbing the DPRK,
its dialogue partner, the wrong way, the article notes, and says:

Some time ago, U.S. President Bush made reckless remarks against the
DPRK while grossly distorting the truth about "resumption of
dialogue." Such imprudent and rude remarks unsuitable for his
position as "president of the superpower" do not go with the U.S.
call for unconditional "dialogue" with the DPRK.

What is more grave is the U.S. dangerous military movements. The U.S.
is massively reinforcing its armed forces in South Korea, inciting
war atmosphere. Allegedly to "cope with emergency" on the Korean
peninsula, it has put its troops in South Korea on "high alert" while
forward-deploying there its task force and war equipment from its
mainland.

What is urgently needed for the Korean nation at present is an
atmosphere for national reconciliation and unity, not lethal weapons.

The U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK remains unchanged in the new
century, too.

In the new century it has set it as a main link in its reactionary
world strategy to implement the new military strategy with its stress
put on Asia with the Korean peninsula as its focus.

This is evidenced by the fact that the bush government is still
pursuing the hardline policy to contain the DPRK though it calls for
the "resumption of dialogue without any precondition."

However, this policy toward the DPRK is nothing but an anachronistic
delusion.

The U.S. strong-arm policy can never work on the DPRK.

The peaceloving people of the world are rejecting such anachronistic
policy of the U.S. imperialists.

The U.S. should courageously renounce that outdated policy. If it is
truly willing to resume dialogue with the DPRK, it should take a
proper attitude toward dialogue and build atmosphere and confidence
for it. But it is failing to do so.

The U.S. escalated policy intended to stifle the DPRK compels the
DPRK to increase its military capabilities for self-defense to cope
with it.

The U.S. is well advised to clearly know who is its opponent, before
making any action.

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http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/04.htm#1

Anti-Chongryon, anti-DPRK campaign under fire

Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries searched
the central headquarters of the General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan (Chongryon), the Tokyo metropolitan headquarters
and the western Tokyo headquarters of Chongryon and arrested the
former director of the financial department of the Chongryon central
standing committee on a groundless charge at the end of November.
This was the first intentional political suppression of Chongryon
since its inauguration. Minju Joson today says this in a signed
commentary. It goes on:

The financial crisis of the Korean bank is attributable to the
depression of the overall Japanese economy. Though the Japanese
authorities are well aware of this, they resorted to a political
suppression of Chongryon on false charges.

The Japanese reactionaries' political suppression of Chongryon was a
vivid manifestation of their wild ambition for overseas expansion to
stifle the DPRK.

The Japanese reactionaries have escalated their political suppression
of Chongryon and stretched the claws of the crackdown to its central
standing committee, taking advantage of anti-terror war. This is a
clear indication that they are keen to undermine Chongryon in case of
"emergency" when they are conducting an operation against the DPRK.

The DPRK government and people will never tolerate the
anti-Chongryon, anti-DPRK campaign the Japanese reactionaries have
launched while brandishing their swords for reinvasion instead of
redeeming their crime-woven past.


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