| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: NK WMD EXPERT DISAPPEARS WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE VIA PRC A North Korean expert in �non-conventional� weapons, i.e., weapons of mass destruction, disappeared while trying to reach the Australian consulate in Guangzhou, Communist China. Dr. Ri Chae-woo was trying to join more than a hundred other refugees who have escaped via democratic embassies in the PRC. Also reporting: Cybercast News Communist China returns any North Korean refugee it finds, forcing the refugees to become non-persons. A refugee aid group put together by Dr. Norbert Vollertsen and Reverend Douglas Shin had helped Dr. Ri. Neither Vollertsen nor Shin knows Ri�s fate, but the latter had tipped off the U.S. government to Ri�s plans, and hopes the U.S. got to him first. Dr. Ri �worked in North Korea's chemical and biological weapons program until as recently as June� and �had in his possession documents and photographs detailing biochemical experiments on human subjects.� This would easily explain U.S. interest in him. Dr. Ri�s wife and children are also missing. OTHER AXIS OF EVIL NEWS PRC SENT MISSILE AND MASS DESTRUCTION COMPONENTS TO IRAN THROUGH NK Just in case anyone forgot how Communist China views terrorist threats to America, Middle East Newsline (Link courtesy Parapundit founder Randall Parker, Member since 2003) cleared it up in dramatic fashion. The People�s Republic �and North Korea have coordinated in their efforts to advance Iran's missile and weapons of mass destruction programs.� The plan was simple, Communist China produced the materials, and then in an end run around its own �export controls on military and dual-use technologies� (World Net Daily, see 8/28/02 Update for the much-hyped reports on the �controls�), the PRC sent it through North Korea. U.S. sanctions for the PRC-owned companies involved are on the way. OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS U.S. LOOKING FOR MORE NATIONS TO JOIN PSI; EXERCISES IN AUSTRALIA HELD The United States is out recruiting for more nations to join the Proliferation Security Initiative, the international consortium created to block North Korea�s weapon sales to terrorists. The original eleven members are the U.S., Australia, Britain, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. Report: Washington Times Meanwhile, the first PSI naval exercises took place in Australia, and they earned a slew of North Korean threats of �horrible disasters as a nuclear war� (CNN) due to what the Stalinists called �blatant military provocations.� Also reporting: Cybercast News NEW MISSILES COMING, THANKS IN PART TO RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY North Korea is getting ready to display two new missile systems. One of the new missiles is the aforementioned long-range missile that can hit the Western United States (see last North Korea Report), and has �greater accuracy� than (Bill Gertz, Washington Times) the Taepodong 2 missile. The other is a medium-range missile system that is �based on improved, different technology� (The Australian). The technology is courtesy of Russia, the biggest weapons supplier to North Korea�s longest-standing ally: Communist China. Stop the North Korean Nuclear Power Plants: The U.S. is finally moving to cancel the two nuclear power plants from the 1994 agreement that North Korea�s broke. Keep the pressure on until the plants are cancelled! Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SAYS U.S. �NOT GOING BACK� TO �BLACKMAIL� National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had this response when asked if the 1994 Agreed Framework was �blackmail�: �Yes. We were not going to go back there� (Newsmax). This would be news to those of us who have seen the Bush Administration offer the North practically everything it wanted (see last North Korea Report). Of course, the North would have to promise to shut down its nuclear weapons development, the same thing they promised in 1994. Funny, this all looks very familiar. MORE NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE COMMUNIST CHINA PUTS ARMY ON BORDER WITH NORTH KOREA Communist China �transferred control of its border with North Korea from the police to the People's Liberation Army� (BBC). Speculation has it that this stems from North Korea�s intransigence on its nuclear weapons. Given that both the PRC forcibly sends back any North Korean refugee it finds, that theory seems a little odd, at best. �LITTLE-KNOWN APPARATCHIK� SENT BY PRC TO NK PARADE Communist China apparently sent �a little-known apparatchik instead of a senior official� (Washington Times, fourth item) to North Korea�s 55th anniversary parade. The Times called the move a Communist �snub.� OTHER SOUTH KOREA NEWS NORTH KOREAN �CHEERLEADERS� ENRAGED OVER KIM JONG-IL POSTER IN THE RAIN A group of North Korean cheerleaders involved in the University Games in Daegu, South Korea stunned their hosts by going ballistic over a poster of Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il. The poster, which showed Kim shaking hands with then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung during the 2000 summit, was left out in the rain. Report: CNN INTER-KOREAN AIR SERVICE BEGINS Koryo Airlines � the Stalinist airline � flew over 100 South Korean tourists to North Korea. It�s part of the first group of flights between the Stalinist North and the democratic South in over 50 years. The tourists paid nearly $2,000 apiece. Reports: BBC, CNN OTHER INTERNATIONAL NEWS JAPANESE DEFENSE MINISTER: WE�LL HIT NK BEFORE THEY FIRE MISSILES AT US Japan�s Defense Minister told The Independent his nation would launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea to prevent the Stalinist regime from firing a missile at it. He rightly called such a move, if it occurred, �just defending ourselves� from North Korea. OFFICES OF PRO-NK GROUP RAIDED BY TOKYO AUTHORITIES OVER BACK TAXES Tokyo police raided the offices of Chongryon, a pro-North Korean organization known as �North Korea's de facto representative office in Japan� (BBC), after it did not pay taxes owed to the city government. Governor Shintaro Ishihara, Japan�s most anti-Communist politician (see 10/21/02 North Korea Report), levied the taxes on the group. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS NORTH KOREA�s 55TH �BIRTHDAY� COMES WITH BIG PARADE Stalinist North Korea held a massive parade to commemorate the 55th anniversary of its founding. What made this news was that it did not come with a nuclear test or missile deployment, although that may still be coming later (see Weapons of Mass Destruction News). Reports: BBC, CNN, Cybercast News COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS RICH LOWRY SIGNS UP FOR LIBERATING NORTH KOREA Rich Lowry has an excellent analysis of the situation in North and South Korea in his National Review Online column. He also supports the one thing that will truly bring peace to Korea � the liberation of northern Korea from the Stalinist regime that controls it (Note: this quarter will keep its eye out for the soon-to-be-introduced bill Lowry praises). MEANWHILE, FROM THE DOVES Former State Department official Charles Pritchard is upset at the Bush Administration�s supposed hard line towards North Korea, telling Peter Slevin, Washington Post, that more �active engagement� was needed. Paul Chamberlin and Bill Taylor call for Bush to �plausibly address North Korea's stated security needs� in the Washington Times. MORE ON NORTH KOREA, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AND THE AXIS OF EVIL Parapundit founder Randall Parker, Member since 2003, examines the �two main obstacles� to U.S. policy on North Korea: Communist China and dovish South Korea. ON NORTH KOREA AND PAKISTAN In a wide-ranging Washington Post piece questioning Pakistan�s reliability as an ally, Bernard-Henri Levy noted some �vacations� by Pakistan�s lead nuclear weapons scientist � including one to North Korea. Hmmmm. ON �CAPITALISM� IN NORTH KOREA Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, falls for the North Korea reform line � and all it took was a car ad for one of Kim Jong-il�s South Korean enablers � ahem � �business travelers�. ON NORTH KOREA AND JAPAN Peter Brookes, in the New York Post, advises an understandably worried Japan to pick missile defense over nuclear weapons. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it via our home page. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. 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