| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. Iran bought two tons of uranium from Communist China. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JUNE 9, 2003 Our statement on why North Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: U.S. MOVING DMZ TROOPS SOUTH, BUT THEY�LL STAY IN SOUTH KOREA NORTH KOREA UPSET AT U.S. PLANS TO INCREASE SPENDING FOR KOREAN FORCES; STALINIST REGIME SAYS NUCLEAR WEAPONS NEEDED TO STOP U.S. The United States will redeploy its troops near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the Stalinist North and the democratic South. The 2nd Military Division will remain in South Korea, but will be further south within the democracy. South Korean media reacted with surprising unanimity: they were all stunned. Reports: Washington Post, Bill Gertz, Washington Times, New York Post, BBC 6/7 The U.S. is also planning to �spend an extra $11bn to strengthen its forces in South Korea� (BBC 6/6). Naturally, that sent the Stalinists into a rage � they claimed the move was part of �preparations for a pre-emptive attack.� The North then insisted that it would have to build and keep nuclear weapons unless the U.S. �give up its hostile policy (sic)� (CNN). Also reporting: Cybercast News, BBC transcript of NK text Stop the North Korean Nuclear Power Plants: Despite North Korea�s new boast of nuclear weapons, a brazen violation of the 1994 agreement to freeze its nuclear ambitions, the two nuclear power plants that were part of the deal have still not been canceled. Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to stand firm against the Stalinist regime, and not to build the power plants. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS NORTH KOREANS DESPERATE TO SURVIVE TURN TO HUMAN FLESH Did you just eat lunch? Then skip this story for, say, a day and a half. The disaster that is the North Korean economy has forced the people trapped inside � the ones whose liberation continues to be taboo among democratic leaders � to traffic in human flesh, particularly from the recently deceased, in order to survive. Report: Weekly Post, Japan Why are the people of northern Korea reduced to this? Lest we forget, the Stalinist regime has routinely stole international food aid from its own people to feed itself and its military (see 3/6/02 Update). AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS WOLFOWITZ INVITES JAPAN TO JOIN MISSILE DEFENSE Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz publicly invited Japan to help build a missile defense against North Korea, saying that the U.S. is �ready to work with them� (Cybercast News) if they want in. Wolfowitz made the comments while discussing upcoming American military redeployments to better meet the North Korean threat (see last North Korea Report). BOLTON RIPS NORTH KOREA, ANNOUNCES ANTI-PROLIFERATION PLANS Undersecretary of State John Bolton told the House Committee on International Relations that the U.S. is �not going to pay for the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons program� (Newsmax: 6/4 and 6/5). Bolton further blasted the Stalinist regime as �a grave threat to regional and global security.� Also in his testimony, Bolton announced an initiative to work with allies to prevent North Korea and other rogue states from either shipping or receiving military equipment and/or weapons parts. The plan is known as the Proliferation Security Initiative (Washington Times). CONGRESSMAN CALLS NORTH KOREA �A PETULANT CHILD� Representative Elliot Engel (D � New York) called North Korea �a petulant child� (Newsmax) after he visited the Stalinist regime last week. He was referring to the Stalinists� insistence on maintaining its nuclear weapons unless the U.S. gives them what they want. Sadly, Engel seemed very interested in the possibilities for dealing with the regime, but completely uninterested in liberating its people. NUCLEAR NEWS AUSTRALIA RETHINKING NO NUKE POLICY North Korea�s nuclear weapons program has led Australia �to re-evaluate its commitment never to develop nuclear weapons� (Washington Times). Australia, a key Pacific ally of the U.S. for decades, swore of nuclear weapons in 1973 when it signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. G-8 TELLS NORTH KOREA TO DROP NUCLEAR WEAPONS The Group of Seven industrial nations plus Russia � also known as the �G-8� � issued a statement calling on North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons program. The statement called for �weapons inspections, export controls �and, if necessary, other measures�� (BBC) to stop the Stalinists� nuclear ambitions. SOUTH KOREA NEWS ROH MEETS KOIZUMI South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun met with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over the weekend, where both men insisted on �multilateral talks to seek a peaceful solution to North Korea's nuclear threat� (BBC). The two leaders �stressed the need to maintain �the momentum of dialogue� with North Korea which began in April, when US, North Korean and Chinese officials held talks in Beijing.� Of course, in April, the Stalinist told the U.S. they had nuclear weapons, and the talks ended early in disarray (see 4/28 North Korea Report). This is not exactly what one would call �momentum.� YET ANOTHER NORTH KOREAN VESSEL CROSSES THE SEA BORDER INTO SOUTH KOREA Two days after eight North Korean fishing vessels crossed the sea border (known as the Northern Limit Line) into South Korea (see last North Korea Report), another boat crossed the NLL on Tuesday. The South was forced to fire warning shots before the vessel went back into North Korea. Report: CNN NORTH KOREA ACCUSES SOUTH KOREA OF SENDING NAVAL VESSELS ACROSS SEA BORDER Meanwhile, North Korea accused the democratic South of sending naval vessels across the NLL, and warned it �would lead to a second war on the Korean peninsula� (United Press International via Washington Times). SOUTH KOREAN DOVES ABANDONING ROH President Roh Moo-hyun is having serious political problems at home, mainly due to a loss in support from within his own political base � the doves in his Millennium Democratic Party. Roh�s support for the liberation of Iraq has particularly irked them. It should be noted that Roh is a minority President, and that the hawkish Grand National Party controls the Parliament. Report: Washington Post INTERNATIONAL NEWS ESPIONAGE-TAINTED FERRY SUSPENDED North Korea suspended the Mangyongbong-92, its only ferry to Japan, over the weekend, accusing Japan of �a vicious plot to impair the prestige of the DPRK (North Korea)� (BBC). Japan had actually �threatened to comb it for suspect cargo.� The ferry doubled as an espionage carrier between the Stalinist regime and at least one of its operatives in Japan (see 2/3 North Korea Report). Prior to its suspension, the ferry was under the microscope in this profile by the BBC�s Sarah Buckley. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON NORTH KOREA�S CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES Anthony Spaeth, in Time Asia, details the criminal enterprises under the control of Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il, including �counterfeiting and car smuggling.� Of course, �the biggest money spinner, though, is drugs � chiefly the manufacture and export of heroin and methamphetamines� (regarding heroine, see 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, and 5/27 North Korea Reports). ON NORTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES Jonathan Marcus, BBC, examines the U.S.-North Korean situation, and finds military action highly unlikely. ON ROH MOO-HYUN South Korea�s President is in serious political trouble, mere months after his election. Doug Struck and Joohee Cho, Washington Post, look at the hurdles he is facing. ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE David Lampton, of the Nixon Center, provides a far-too-optimistic view of Communist China�s attitude toward nuclear North Korea in the Washington Post. The best example is this quote: �As one Chinese visitor put it to me recently, �North Korea really is a rogue nation! . . . They might sell [nuclear material] even to the Hui,� a minority people often accused of �separatism� in western China.� First of all, the Hui are a Muslim minority throughout Communist China, the group seeking independence � as China e-Lobby members already know � are called Uighurs, not Hui. Furthermore, does anyone really believe the North would deliberately aid opponents of their chief source of aid and trade, and their half-century ally? From this quarter, it looks like Lampton bought a bill of goods. 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