| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTHERN KOREA REPORT: NOVEMBER 15, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, or at 1-888-280-7715. Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: STALINIST-CONTROLLED NORTHERN KOREA BLASTS U.S., AGAIN SAYS SIX-WAY TALKS ARE OFF; BUT PRC SAYS THEY�RE ON Stalinist-controlled northern Korea �indicated it is not ready to resume stalled multinational talks on its nuclear weapons ambitions� (BBC), largely due to President Bush�s re-election. The regime made it plain in talks with Japan on the latter�s abductees (see last NKR) that �the Bush administration's �hostile policy.�� makes a return to talks �not possible.� Meanwhile, Communist China � SCNK�s longtime ally � insisted that the Stalinist regime �is still committed to the six-party talks� (Voice of America via Epoch Times), citing Stalinist Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong-il. However, in what is now a pattern with Stalinist officials visiting the PRC (see 10/25 NKR), Kim himself said nothing publicly. There have been three rounds of talks on SCNK�s nuclear ambitions, which include the Stalinist regime itself, Communist China, Japan, the U.S., Russia, and the ROK. The only tangible results of the talks have been substantial American concessions (see 10/21/02, 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, 6/28, 9/20, and 9/28 NKRs). The fate of the talks is sure to be an issue at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile next week (Cybercast News). Stop the SCNK Nuclear Power Plants: Are the plants dead or aren�t they? You can make sure they don�t come back! Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants from the 1994 agreement that SCNK broke. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS EX-DESERTER COULD BECOME MILITARY ASSET ON SCNK Charles Robert Jenkins, who recently admitted to defecting to Stalinist-controlled northern Korea in 1965 (see last NKR), �may prove a valuable source of intelligence� (Washington Times) on SCNK. Jenkins, who became both the Stalinists� prize asset and silenced victim, �has been cooperative since he returned to Army custody,� according to the U.S. military. ABDUCTION NEWS JAPANESE PM NOT �SATISFIED� WIHT ABDUCTEES TALKS Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is �not satisfied with North Korea's explanations about Japanese citizens it abducted in the 1970s and 1980s� (BBC). The Stalinist regime presented what it called �documents and personal belongings of those thought to have been abducted� and �the remains of Megumi Yokota.� Yokota supposedly killed herself in 1993. SCNK admits to having captured thirteen Japanese citizens, but it continues to insist (in one case with fake evidence) that eight of the thirteen abduction victims are dead � the other five were allowed to return to Japan. Dozens of other Japanese believe their relatives were also abducted, and their government agrees with them in two cases. The intransigence of the Stalinists has led high-ranking members of Japan�s ruling Liberal Democratic Party to call for economic sanctions against the regime. For more on the plight of the abductees and their families, see 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, 10/28/02, 11/18/02, 12/19/02, 5/24, 7/19, 7/27, and 8/10 NKRs. OTHER REPUBLIC OF KOREA (�SOUTH� KOREA) NEWS ROH DEFENDS $UN$HINE POLICY; CRITICIZES MORE HAWKISH OPPONENTS Dovish Republic of Korea President Roh Moo-hyun �said there are no alternatives to dialogue in dealing with North Korea� (VOA via Epoch Times), and repeated his na�ve belief that �North Korea is intent on achieving reform.� Roh made the comments during a speech in which he defended his dovish $un$hine policy to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. IAEA CRITICIZES 1980s NUCLEAR TESTS, BUT SAYS NO NUKES WERE PLANNED The International Atomic Energy Agency � the fellows who missed both Iran�s decade-plus nuclear weapons program and SCNK�s uranium weapons program � �expressed serious concern about South Korea's nuclear experiments carried out over a 20-year period in which it produced a small amount of weapons-grade uranium� (VOA via Epoch Times). The IAEA did acknowledge that the amounts of uranium and plutonium involved was �have not been significant� (BBC), a fancy way of saying they were infinitesimal (see 10/11 NKR). The Agency also reported that �there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to produce an atomic weapon� (Washington Post). Also reporting: CNN ROK BUILDING AEGIS SHIPS The Republic of Korea �began building its first destroyer equipped with the state-of-the-art Aegis Weapon System� (United Press International via Washington Times). The first Aegis ship, named after a missile tracking system that could also serve as a key part of a sea-based missile defense, are being built, is scheduled for deployment in 2008. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS Brad Glosserman, from the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, talks to Takehiko Kambayashi, Washington Times, about how the PRC and Stalinist-controlled northern Korea have eroded Japan�s pacifism, and how the U.S. should respond. 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