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

Top 10 News Stories on North Korea, April 7, 20041

AFX.COM, 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.

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

Adam Dietz, Research Consultant [email protected] 202-857-8207 or 1-800-253-4183 ext 78207 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.

Adam Dietz, Research Consultant [email protected] 202-857-8207 or 1-800-253-4183 ext 78207 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.

2 Full transcript of hearing also available on Lexi

Adam Dietz, Research Consultant [email protected] 202-857-8207 or 1-800-253-4183 ext 78207 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.

3 Full transcript of hearing also available on LexisNexis

Adam Dietz, Research Consultant [email protected] 202-857-8207 or 1-800-253-4183 ext 78207 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 Japan Economic Newswire Agence France Presse Japan Policy & Politics Asahi News Service Japan Times Asian Political News Jiji Press Ticker Service Associated Press KOREA HERALD Associated Press Online Los Angeles Times Associated Press Worldstream Mercury (Australia) Atlantic Monthly Moscow Times The Australian National Journal BBC Worldwide Monitoring New York Times Biloxi Sun Herald Pakistan Press International Information Services Boston Globe Limited Channel NewsAsia Regulatory Intelligence Data Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) Sydney Morning Herald CTK National News Wire Taiwan News Czech News Agency TASS Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) United Press International Financial Times (London, England) Variety Frontrunner World Markets Analysis In These Times Xinhua International Herald Tribune (Herald Asahi)

Adam Dietz, Research Consultant [email protected] 202-857-8207 or 1-800-253-4183 ext 78207