Top 10 News Stories on North Korea, April 7, 2004



Top 10 News Stories on North Korea, April 7, 2004[1]

, April 7, 2004 Wednesday

HEADLINE: NKorea denounces Japan's annual diplomatic report

North Korea on Tuesday denounced as a political plot an annual diplomatic report by Japan describing the Stalinist state as a key regional and global security threat.

Asahi News Service, April 7, 2004 Wednesday

HEADLINE: BILL ON N. KOREAN SHIPS DRAWS FLAK

In an attempt to press Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue, ruling party lawmakers on Tuesday submitted a bill to the Diet to allow the government to refuse port calls by North Korean ships.

The Australian, April 7, 2004 Wednesday All-round Country Edition

HEADLINE: Tardy US lets North stockpile weapons

THE US is giving North Korea more time to build nuclear weapons by its "lugubrious and languorous" handling of the rogue state's nuclear threat, former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans said this week.

BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific – Political, April 7, 2004, Wednesday

HEADLINE: North Korean paper defends "tough stand" against US

(Text of report in English by North Korean news agency KCNA)

Pyongyang, 7 April: The United States is now getting over-heated in its attempts to stifle the DPRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea by military force, openly revealing its bandit-like nature. The DPRK will answer this with a super-tough measure.

European Report, April 7, 2004

HEADLINE: EU/NORTH KOREA: KEDO HEAD WARNS OF CONTINUED NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREAT

North Korea can probably make unlimited quantities of nuclear weapons from its own plutonium stocks, the head of a consortium that until recently was building nuclear power stations there told the European Parliament in Brussels on April 5. "I feel very confident that their plutonium programme is now in full operation and it's one that can produce almost unlimited quantities of nuclear weapons", Charles Kartman, Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO) told the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy.

Sydney Morning Herald, April 7, 2004 Wednesday

HEADLINE: Good Relations Come At A Price, Pyongyang Told

Australia has again told North Korea it cannot expect any warming of relations without it agreeing to scrap its nuclear weapons programs in a way the world can see.

Taiwan News, April 7, 2004

HEADLINE: TOKYO MOVES TO TOUGHEN STANCE ON PYONGYANG

TOKYO The ruling coalition submitted legislation in Parliament yesterday allowing North Korean boats to be barred from Japanese ports, a move to toughen the nation's stance against the reclusive regime.

Taiwan News, April 7, 2004

HEADLINE: CHINA MAY EASE PASSAGE FOR SOME NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS

SEOUL, South Korea China may start easing passage for some North Korean defectors trying to escape to South Korea, a South Korean official said yesterday.

Taiwan News, April 7, 2004

HEADLINE: TOKYO MOVES TO TOUGHEN STANCE ON PYONGYANG

TOKYO The ruling coalition submitted legislation in Parliament yesterday allowing North Korean boats to be barred from Japanese ports, a move to toughen the nation's stance against the reclusive regime.

Taiwan News, April 7, 2004

HEADLINE: CHINA MAY EASE PASSAGE FOR SOME NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS

SEOUL, South Korea China may start easing passage for some North Korean defectors trying to escape to South Korea, a South Korean official said yesterday. The move comes amid a rising tide of defectors fleeing hardline communist North Korea, mostly through China.

Top 10 Newletter Articles on North Korea, March 29 to April 7, 2004

European Report, April 7, 2004

HEADLINE: EU/NORTH KOREA: KEDO HEAD WARNS OF CONTINUED NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREAT

North Korea can probably make unlimited quantities of nuclear weapons from its own plutonium stocks, the head of a consortium that until recently was building nuclear power stations there told the European Parliament in Brussels on April 5. "I feel very confident that their plutonium programme is now in full operation and it's one that can produce almost unlimited quantities of nuclear weapons", Charles Kartman, Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO) told the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy.

Business Daily Update, April 5, 2004

HEADLINE: GUANGDONG NUCLEAR POWER ENGINEERING SET UP

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. has been established in Shenzhen, a boomtown in South China's Guangdong Province, to improve management over existing nuclear power plants and speed up construction of new ones in the province. It is the first professional administrative company in China's nuclear power plant construction sector.

Gulf News, April 4, 2004

DRAW WITH KOREA WAS AS GOOD AS A WIN

UAE soccer coach Jean Francois Jodar has hit out at his critics following the team's goalless drawn in their Asian 2004 Olympic qualifier in North Korea on Wednesday.

Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week, April 4, 2004

HEADLINE: BIOTERRORISM: NIOSH approves mask for protection from biological, chemical, and nuclear attack

The first gas mask intended to protect emergency personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents was approved by the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on Friday.

Africa Analysis, April 2, 2004

HEADLINE: THE WEAPONS OF WIDER DESTRUCTION

There may be no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but there are weapons a-plenty. That is outside of the small arms sported by almost every Iraqi man.

Periscope Daily Defense News Capsules, April 2, 2004

HEADLINE: USA - NORTH KOREAN ATTACK CAN BE REPULSED, SAYS GENERAL APR 02/AFP.[2]

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE -- The U.S. general in charge of troops in South Korea said American forces can repel any attack from North Korea even if Pyongyang has nuclear weapons, Agence France-Presse reports.

Regulatory Intelligence Data, April 1, 2004

Headline: North Korea Threatens Northeast Asian, World Security

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2004 - Mercurial North Korean leader Kim Jong-il heads the world's fifth-largest military and continues to act as if he might use it to subjugate his southern neighbor, the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea told the House Armed Services Committee here March 31. [3]

Renewable Energy Today, March 30, 2004

HEADLINE: South Korea to Develop New Nuclear Power Stations.

Reuters recently reported that South Korea plans to develop 10 new nuclear power plants by 2015, as government officials maintain that the use of such environmentally friendly, but less available, alternative power sources as liquefied natural gas (LNG) or renewable energy would prove cost-prohibitive.

Asian Political News, March 29, 2004

HEADLINE: Chinese Foreign Minister Li leaves for N. Korea.

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing departed for North Korea on Tuesday for a three-day state visit that will include discussions about six-nation talks on the North's nuclear programs.

Asian Political News, March 29, 2004

HEADLINE: China cool to Nakagawa's N. Korean refugee camp idea.

Chinese officials expressed no support Tuesday for a suggestion to set up a refugee camp in China for North Koreans fleeing their homeland, an opposition member of Japan's House of Representatives said after meeting with Foreign Ministry and Communist Party officials specializing in foreign affairs.

Sampling of Titles

The following are publications on Lexis that carried stories that were indexed at 91% or higher concerning North Korea in the week of April 1 to April 7, 2004. This lists represents only the tip of the iceberg; LexisNexis carried well over 3,000 news stories on North Korea in that particular week..

AFX

Agence France Presse

Asahi News Service

Asian Political News

Associated Press

Associated Press Online

Associated Press Worldstream

Atlantic Monthly

The Australian

BBC Worldwide Monitoring

Biloxi Sun Herald

Boston Globe

Channel NewsAsia

Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)

CTK National News Wire

Czech News Agency

Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)

Financial Times (London, England)

Frontrunner

In These Times

International Herald Tribune (Herald Asahi)

Japan Economic Newswire

Japan Policy & Politics

Japan Times

Jiji Press Ticker Service

KOREA HERALD

Los Angeles Times

Mercury (Australia)

Moscow Times

National Journal

New York Times

Pakistan Press International Information Services Limited

Regulatory Intelligence Data

Sydney Morning Herald

Taiwan News

TASS

United Press International

Variety

World Markets Analysis

Xinhua

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[1] Top 10 References to Smart Index term “North Korea” rated at 94% or higher, as of 6:00 AM EDT.

[2] Full transcript of hearing also available on Lexi

[3] Full transcript of hearing also available on LexisNexis

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