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Press releases received from the Embassy of the DPR of Korea in London. Posted unedited, and generally without comment

DPRK on the US terrorism list and verification

13-Oct-08

DPRK on the US terrorism list and verification

Just received from the DPRK embassy in London Foreign Ministry Spokesman on DPRK's Will to Cooperate in Verification of Objects of Nuclear Disablement Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Sunday as regards the U.S.'s delisting the DPRK as "a state sponsor of terrorism": The DPRK-U.S. talks were held in Pyongyang from Oct. 1 to 3. At the talks the two sides had an in-depth beneficial discussion on the issue of overcoming the obstacles and difficulties lying in the way of fulfilling the commitments to make political and economic compensation under the October 3 agreement and reached a series of agreements. According to them, the U.S. administration took the final ...
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DPRK’s Decision to Suspend Activities to Disable Nuclear Facilities

27-Aug-08

DPRK’s Decision to Suspend Activities to Disable Nuclear Facilities

It has been a while since one of these press releases was circulated from the DPRK embassy in London. This was distributed today. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday in connection with the stumbling block laid by the United States in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula by refusing to implement the October 3 agreement of the six-party talks. The statement said: Under the October 3 agreement stipulating the practical measures to be taken at the second phase for the implementation of the September 19 joint statement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula the DPRK was committed to presenting a nuclear declaration and the U.S. was also committed to writing the ...
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DPRK new year editorial

03-Jan-08
A Joint New Year Editorial of the leading DPRK newspapers, recently forwarded by the DPRK embassy. Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi today released the joint New Year editorial "Glorify This Year of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK as a Year of Historical Turn Which Will Go Down in the History of the Country" on the occasion of the New Year, Juche 97 (2008). Today we are greeting the New Year Juche 97 (2008) with a great ambition and optimism in the hope-filled future of socialist Korea. The New Year Juche 97 (2008) is a year of gigantic struggle, a year of jubilation in the national history, when a great change will be ...
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DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts Anti-Chongryon Campaign in Japan

03-Jul-07
An interesting prelude to the two talks at Chatham House this week... A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK on Sunday issued the statement : Japan has taken harsh actions against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan such as forcible search of its facilities and their houses, assaults and arrests of them last year and this year. Not content with this, it is working hard to force upon Chongryon the sale of the plottage and building of the Hall of its headquarters through the Resolution and Collection Corporation. The Abe group instructed the corporation to raise an extremely discriminative and unfair demand to Chongryon, persistently turning down its sincere and reasonable proposals to redeem debts. It has thus unilaterally hamstrung ...
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DPRK Foreign Ministry comment on UNDP withdrawl

19-Mar-07
Just received Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- The United Nations Development Program recently announced that it would suspend its country program for the DPRK and, accordingly, withdraw the staff members of its office from Pyongyang. A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tuesday answered the question raised by KCNA in this regard. The responsibility for this abnormal thing that happened in the cooperative relations between the DPRK and the UNDP, which have favorably developed for the past several decades, rests with the U.S. and Japan and some circles inside the organization, who took this discriminative action against the DPRK only, yielding to the pressure of the above-said two countries, the spokesman said, and continued: The U.S. has spread sheer lies about ...
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DPRK Joint New Year Editorial

06-Jan-07
Just received from the DPRK embassy Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi today released a joint editorial under the title "Usher in a Great Heyday of Songun Korea Full of Confidence in Victory" on the occasion of the hope-filled New Year. The DPRK has never seen in the annals of the protracted and arduous Korean revolution such year as 2006 in which the position of the country was justifiably raised to the level of powerful one and the dignity of the Korean nation was vigorously demonstrated, the editorial says, proudly reviewing the epoch-making events and historical victories gained last year. We must glorify this year greeting the 95th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as a ...
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UN anti-DPRK resolution

21-Nov-06
Received from the DPRK embassy on 21 November 2006 A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on 20th Nov. 2006 gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Monday as regards the adoption of a "human rights resolution" against the DPRK at the third committee of the UN General Assembly: The anti-DPRK "human rights resolution," a product of the collusion and tie-up among hostile forces including the U.S. and the EU was railroaded through a meeting of the third committee of the 61st UN General Assembly on Nov. 17. The resolution fabricated by hostile forces, toeing the U.S. line, is full of sheer lies that can convince no one as was the case with the similar one adopted last year. For this ...
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DPRK Foreign ministry statement on six party talks

02-Nov-06
Received from the embassy on 2 November Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on Resumption of Six-Party Talks A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA on Nov. 1 as regards the bilateral and multi-lateral contacts made in Beijing with main emphasis on the DPRK-U.S. contact: The DPRK recently took a self-defensive counter-measure against the U.S. daily increasing nuclear threat and financial sanctions against it. Bilateral and multi-lateral contacts took place in Beijing on Oct. 31 with main emphasis on the contact between the DPRK and the U.S. Discussed there were issues of seeking ways for the resumption of the six-party talks. The DPRK decided to return to the six-party talks on the premise that the issue of ...
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DPRK e-bulletin: New measure to bolster war deterrent

05-Oct-06
Just received from the London DPRK embassy Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following statement Tuesday solemnly clarifying the DPRK stand on the new measure to be taken by it to bolster its war deterrent for self-defence: The U.S daily increasing threat of a nuclear war and its vicious sanctions and pressure have caused a grave situation on the Korean Peninsula in which the supreme interests and security of our state are seriously infringed upon and the Korean nation stands at the crossroads of life and death. The U.S has become more frantic in its military exercises and arms build-up on the peninsula and in its vicinity for the purpose of launching ...
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DPRK e-bulletin: American sanctions

09-Sep-06
Another e-bulletin which arrived recently: DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Demands U.S. Lift of Financial Sanctions Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a statement on August 26 accusing the United States of more persistently escalating its financial sanctions against the DPRK. It said: In the wake of the publication of Bush's statement calling for cutting off the financial channels of "rogue states", the U.S. Department of Treasury dispatched its deputy secretary to Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam, urging them to stop all sorts of financial dealings with the DPRK. In the meantime, it is tracing the accounts opened by the DPRK in banks of at least 10 countries including some Southeast Asian countries and Mongolia and Russia. This ...
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DPRK e-bulletin: “Ulji focus lens” exercises

09-Sep-06
Apologies for the delay in posting this and the following e-bulletin from the London embassy of the DPRK: KPA Panmunjom Mission Terms "Ulji Focus Lens" War Action Panmunjom, August 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army issued a statement Tuesday condemning the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises that started in south Korea on Monday at a time when the U.S. has become ever more undisguised in its hostile policy towards the DPRK and its moves to isolate and stifle the latter and the stand-off between the DPRK and the U.S. has reached an extreme phase. The statement said: The KPA side can not but draw serious attention to the fact that these joint military exercises ...
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DPRK E-bulletin: UN resolution

19-Jul-06
Three posts today. I won't be keeping this pace up. I had forgotten that I had lined up the brief mention of Kim Jong-il's book on cinema for posting today; while if I don't report on my SamulNori evening classes promptly I'm going to get behind. And I like to post these DPRK UK embassy e-bulletins as soon as I get them. This one I received yesterday through the grapevine, and it's dated 17 July. DPRK Foreign Ministry Refutes "Resolution of UN Security Council" Pyongyang, July 16 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued today the following statement vehemently denouncing and totally refuting the "resolution" of the UN Security Council against the DPRK, a product of ...
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DPRK e-bulletin: missile tests

08-Jul-06
Received 7 July 2006 from the Embassy of DPR of Korea in London: DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Its Missile Launches Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Thursday as regards the missile launches in the DPRK: In the wake of the missile launches by the Korean People's Army the U.S. and some other countries following it, including Japan, are making much ado about a serious development. They are terming them "violation" and "provocation" and calling for "sanctions" and "their referral to the UN Security Council." The latest successful missile launches were part of the routine military exercises staged by the KPA to increase the nation's military ...
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DPRK e-bulletin: DPRK religious delegation to US

01-Jul-06
The second e-bulletin received today (issued 26 June from the embassy in London). The attempted visit by the DPRK delegation coincides with the global week of prayer for North Korea. U.S. Blasted for Having Blocked DPRK's Religious Delegation's Entry into U.S. Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- The U.S. authorities barred a delegation of the Korean Christian Federation from entering the U.S. to participate in the 217th meeting of the U.S. Presbyterian Church slated for late June at the official invitation of the Church. A spokesman for the KCF Central Committee in a statement issued on June 22 in this regard denounced this as a hostile action against the DPRK and demanded they officially apologize for this. Recalling that the U.S. authorities prevented the ...
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DPRK e-bulletin: Joint military exercises

01-Jul-06
Two e-bulletins received today (issued 26 June 2006). The first one follows: DPRK's Stand on Projected RIMPAC-2006 Clarified Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -. A spokesman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland declared this in a statement issued on Friday in connection with the U.S.-led large joint military exercises RIMPAC -2006 to be staged in the waters of Pacific from June 25 to July 29. The statement said: As a matter of fact, the exercises targeted against the DPRK are more provocative and dangerous than the previous ones in terms of their scale and aggressive nature. The U.S. fixed June 25, the day the U.S. started the Korean War in the last century, as the date for launching the exercises. This once ...
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DPRK: Japan and the abduction issue

14-Jun-06
It's been a while since I last received a copy of the DPRK e-bulletin. Here's the latest one. The related BBC story is here. DPRK FM Spokesman Exposes Japan's Moves to Internationalize "Abduction Issue" Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on June 13 as regards the fact that the Japanese authorities are driving the DPRK-Japan relations to the worst phase in history by persisting in their moves to internationalize the "abduction issue" already resolved between the DPRK and Japan. This year alone, in April and May, they made a big fuss, deciding to beg countries having diplomatic ties with the DPRK for official cooperation in the settlement of the issue and sending Megumi ...
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DPRK embassy 21 April 2006 e-bulletin

22-Apr-06
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- The people's security institution in the DPRK tasked to protect by law the socialist system, the life and soul of its people, tightly holding the arms for state security, is following with a high degree of vigilance all sorts of dastardly plots and operations of the enemy's intelligence and plot-breeding bodies against the DPRK. It will regard any involvement in them in any form as an infringement upon the sovereignty and security of the DPRK and force their perpetrators to pay a high price for their crimes. A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of People's Security declared this in a statement issued Wednesday in connection with the fact that forces hostile to the DPRK including ...
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DPRK embassy e-bulletin 7 April 2006: Dokdo

08-Apr-06
DPRK Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Slams Japan's Claim to Tok Islet Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement issued on April 6 accused the Japanese authorities of recently allowing the description of Tok Islet as part of Japan's territory in the history textbooks for high schools after instructing the same thing as regards textbooks for middle schools last year. Branding such behaviour as an unpardonable shameless act peculiar to Japan, the statement said: It admits of no argument that the islet belongs to Korea's territory from the historical point of view and in the light of international law. Nevertheless, the Japanese authorities have obstinately insisted that the islet belongs to Japan's territory. Obviously this is prompted ...
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