[Cankor] Report #209

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CanKor # 209

Friday, 10 June 2005

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At a summit meeting in Washington, US President George W. Bush and ROK 
President Roh Moo Hyun try hard to patch up the growing rift in the 
alliance over the handling of the DPRK’s nuclear programme. Mr. Roh said 
he received assurances that the USA would not attack North Korean 
nuclear facilities, and Mr. Bush praised South Korea’s military aid in 
Iraq and Afghanistan. Both insist that the alliance remains very strong.

During a meeting in New York between DPRK representatives to the United 
Nations and American diplomats Joseph DeTrani and Jim Foster, the DPRK 
hints at returning to six-party talks, but without a firm date. 
Officials wonder whether the DPRK is serious about the talks, is trying 
to influence the US-ROK summit, or is merely trying to forestall the 
possibility of being threatened with United Nations Security Council 
sanctions.

Surprising all observers, the DPRK invites several US media 
representatives to visit the country. The television network ABC has 
been broadcasting from within the country via satellite. Invitations 
have also gone to New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzeberger Jr. and 
columnist Nicholas Kristoff. The DPRK government is attempting to curb 
negative coverage in the international media.

During two consecutive days last week, the University of Toronto’s Munk 
Centre for International Studies hosted Ambassador Pak Gil Yon, DPRK 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations headquarters in New York 
and concurrently DPRK Ambassador to Canada. In a rare public appearance, 
Ambassador Pak spoke to students, professors, members of the media and 
the general public about the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. 
Sponsors of the visit were the University of Toronto’s Asian Institute 
and East Asian Studies Department, the Asian Business and Management 
Programme of York University, and the Canada-DPR Korea Association.

CanKor has obtained exclusive rights to publish the most relevant parts 
of Ambassador Pak’s speech. Appearing in this week’s FOCUS section is an 
unedited version of remarks on subjects covering recent developments 
within the DPRK, economic reforms and international cooperation, Korean 
reunification, foreign relations, DPRK-US relations, DPRK-Japan 
relations, and DPRK-Canada relations.

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Contents:

1. US-ROK SUMMIT TRIES TO EASE RIFT ON TALKS WITH DRPK

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/politics/11korea.html?ex=1119153600&en=1e2bf3639489bc14&ei=5070&emc=eta1

2. DPRK HINTS AT REJOINING NUCLEAR TALKS

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/international/asia/08korea.html?ei=5070&en=42f24fd07a94eb36&ex=1118980800&emc=eta1&pagewanted=print

3. DPRK SOLICITS VISITS BY US MEDIA GROUPS

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200506/07/200506072254355009900090209021.html

FOCUS: DPRK Ambassador Pak on recent developments

4. THE CURRENT SITUATION REGARDING THE KOREAN PENINSULA

Ambassador Pak Gil Yon, Special to CanKor

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1. US-ROK SUMMIT TRIES TO EASE RIFT ON TALKS WITH DRPK

by David E. Sanger, New York Times, 10 June 2005

President Bush and South Korea's president, Roh Moo Hyun, tried Friday 
to shore up an alliance that has shown strains as Washington and Seoul 
pursue different strategies to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons 
program.

Mr. Roh left saying they had brought "closure" to some of their 
differences, but Mr. Bush's public comments suggested that significant 
disagreements remained.

Asked by reporters whether he was willing to offer the North 
"inducements" to return to talks about giving up its nuclear weapons 
program, Mr. Bush immediately responded, "Yep."

He then explained that he was still waiting for a response to an offer 
he made a year ago, offering fairly unspecific economic, energy and 
diplomatic benefits that would be delivered gradually as the North 
disgorged every element of its large nuclear complex.

North Korea has never responded directly to that offer, and in the past 
Mr. Roh's aides have urged Mr. Bush to make the timing and terms of his 
offer clearer. But South Korean officials insisted today that during the 
Oval Office meeting and a more relaxed lunch in the White House, Mr. Roh 
did not seek an improved American offer to the North.

The meeting took place at what could be a critical juncture. After 
boycotting all negotiations for a year, North Korea told American 
officials on Monday that it was committed to returning to multinational 
talks about its nuclear program, which were suspended a year ago. But no 
date has been set, and it is unclear whether the talks will indeed resume.

In the days leading to the meeting on Friday, Mr. Bush's advisers made 
it clear that the president would offer nothing new to lure the North to 
the table.

As Mr. Roh was arriving in Washington, one senior White House official 
involved in preparations said the North "has gotten us to bid against 
ourselves two or three times." Now, he said, "the question is how long 
do you let this go without there being a consequence?"

Talk of consequences and timetables for moving to sanctions against 
North Korea were briefly suggested by a Pentagon official traveling last 
week with Secretary of Defence Donald H. Rumsfeld, before others in the 
administration quashed public discussion of the idea. It is just that 
sort of talk that Mr. Roh came here to discourage, his aides have said.

He came seeking assurances that Mr. Bush would not attack the North's 
nuclear facilities, and he appeared to get them. This afternoon the 
South Korean foreign minister, Ki Moon Ban, said, "President Bush 
reaffirmed his firm belief in a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issues."

Yet, while Mr. Bush has said he was seeking a diplomatic solution, he 
has carefully preserved for himself the leverage of threatening force, 
saying that "all options" are on the table.

Mr. Bush said in a television interview this week that the North may 
have one plutonium weapon, though some estimates by the intelligence 
agencies -- which are constantly arguing about the North's capabilities 
-- suggest it may have more. South Korean military officials, however, 
have recently begun to say publicly that the North may be bluffing, 
statements that have unsettled some officials in Washington.

Friday's meeting was considered a crucial one by the Bush administration 
because, as one of Mr. Bush's advisers argued, "the North Koreans have 
been doing their best to splinter the alliance."

At their joint appearance, Mr. Bush praised South Korea for its aid in 
Iraq and Afghanistan, and Mr. Roh went out of his way to coax the 
president into reaffirming an alliance that dates back to before the 
Korean War.

"How do you feel, Mr. President?" Mr. Roh asked in front of reporters. 
"Wouldn't you agree that the alliance is strong and -- "

Mr. Bush, taking the hint, jumped in and said, "I would say the alliance 
is very strong, Mr. President."

But there have been tensions, with some South Korean officials saying 
Mr. Bush, by calling the North's leader, Kim Jong Il, a "tyrant" who 
keeps his opponents in "concentration camps," has undercut negotiations. 
So on Friday Mr. Bush was extremely careful.

For the second time in two weeks, for example, he used "Mr." in 
describing the North Korean leader, aware, no doubt, that North Korea's 
commentators had welcomed a similar gesture last week. The two men also 
did not repeat the words that they settled on in May 2003, during Mr. 
Roh's first visit to the White House. At that time they declared that 
the two countries "will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea." 
Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, called that a 
"semantic" difference.

Mr. Bush has in the past sidestepped questions about how his vow not to 
tolerate North Korean nuclear weapons squares with the current estimates 
that the country possesses one or more.

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2. DPRK HINTS AT REJOINING NUCLEAR TALKS

by David E. Sanger, New York Times, 8 June 2005

The United States and China said Tuesday that North Korea had committed 
itself to returning eventually to multinational negotiations over its 
nuclear program, but officials said the North had set no date.

That left both American and Asian officials wondering whether North 
Korea was simply trying to defuse talk about the United States going to 
the United Nations to ask for sanctions.

The North Korean statements, after a yearlong suspension in the 
six-nation talks, came during a meeting on Monday in New York between 
the North's representatives to the United Nations and two American 
diplomats, Joseph DeTrani and Jim Foster.

But after a day of conflicting signals in Washington about what the 
North Koreans actually said, and an optimistic prediction by the Chinese 
representative to the United Nations that talks would resume "in the 
next couple of weeks," both American and Asian officials expressed caution.

They noted that President Bush was just days away from a luncheon 
meeting on Friday with the South Korean president, Roh Moo Hyun, in 
which Mr. Bush is expected to raise the subject of how long the United 
States and its allies should continue with a diplomatic process that so 
far has yielded no results.

Mr. Roh has opposed any move toward sanctions that would cut off trade 
with North Korea, and he has counselled deeper engagement with the 
North. Even the ambiguous prospect of a return to talks, officials note, 
could bolster his case during the lunch with Mr. Bush.

One Asian official deeply involved in the process was skeptical about 
whether real progress had been made in the New York meeting, saying that 
the North Korean statement "may be designed to keep us hanging in the air."

The chief American official in charge of the talks, Christopher R. Hill, 
was also cautious. Emerging from Congressional testimony about China and 
North Korea, he told reporters that the North Koreans had said in New 
York that they were "committed" to the negotiations. But he also 
cautioned, "our concern now is to get a date."

"We need to be careful how we characterize" the North Korean statements 
at the New York meeting, he added.

Inside the Bush administration, the question of how long to pursue the 
talks -- which also involve Russia, China, Japan and South Korea -- has 
been a source of continuous debate. Some officials, both in the Pentagon 
and the White House, have argued that the time has come to move to 
sanctions, noting that the previous negotiations resulted in nothing, 
and that no talks had been held since the United States put a modest 
offer on the table to North Korea a year ago.

But when a senior Defence Department official traveling with Defence 
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested over the weekend that a decision 
to move to sanctions might be only weeks away, he was quickly corrected 
by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who told reporters there were no 
deadlines and little likelihood a decision would come that soon. Mr. 
Rumsfeld, half a world away, then told reporters the same thing.

But here in Washington, teams in several agencies have been drawing up 
plans for potential sanctions, including what would amount to a 
quarantine of the country, involving ships and aircraft searching for 
illicit shipments of missiles, drugs and counterfeit cash.

Those tactics, however, would probably be doomed to failure unless the 
United States won the cooperation of China, the North's largest trading 
partner and its main source of food and fuel. So far, the Chinese have 
shown no interest in making that threat. Instead, Beijing has urged 
patience and optimism.

"I think it will be pretty soon, in the next few weeks," Wang Guangya, 
the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, said about the prospect of 
new talks. "It is already one year," he said. "It has been postponed for 
too long. All agree that the six-party talks is the best way for 
settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula."

Asked about suggestions that the matter be brought to the Security 
Council, he said, "For China, to bring this issue to the Security 
Council at this stage would be premature."

Mr. Hill, who is the new assistant secretary of state for Asian and 
Pacific affairs, expressed frustration on Tuesday that more pressure had 
not been brought to bear on North Korea.

"We have asked China to do more" to persuade North Korea to return to 
the talks, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "North Korea 
depends on China every single day for fuel and food. We expect more."

"China needs to use its leverage," Mr. Hill said, noting at one point 
that "clearly China has been reluctant to use economic sanctions."

Mr. Hill, a veteran negotiator, is reported by his State Department 
colleagues to be arguing internally that the administration should be 
clearer to the North about what it would gain by giving up the weapons 
it claims to hold. But he gave no hint of that on Tuesday, telling the 
committee: "Sometimes, Americans are known for our impatience. But I 
think one year is a long time."

Through more than an hour of testimony, Mr. Hill made no mention of the 
North Korean statements during the meeting in New York on Monday.

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3. DPRK SOLICITS VISITS BY US MEDIA GROUPS

Joong Ang Ilbo, 8 June 2005

A diplomatic source in Seoul said yesterday Pyongyang has invited 
several US media representatives, including ABC, to visit the country. 
ABC reporters, who visited the North last month as well, are expected to 
travel to Pyongyang today and stay until Sunday reporting via satellite.

In addition, Pyongyang has extended an invitation to New York Times 
Publisher Arthur Sulzeberger Jr. and columnist Nicholas Kristoff. The 
newspaper is said to be working on a date for the visit.

"As far as I know, the reporting will cover non-political areas such as 
the daily activities of ordinary North Korean citizens," said the source.

A government official commented yesterday that the invitation was an 
attempt to curb negative coverage of the North by international media 
groups.

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FOCUS: DPRK Ambassador Pak on recent developments

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4. THE CURRENT SITUATION REGARDING THE KOREAN PENINSULA

by Ambassador Pak Gil Yon, exclusive to CanKor, 2-3 June 2005

[Ambassador Pak is a graduate of Pyongyang’s University of International 
Relations. He served in DPR Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 
1964, with postings in Myanmar, Singapore, and twice at the United 
Nations. A former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, he is concurrently 
DPRK’s UN Permanent Representative and, since April 2002, Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Canada. Ambassador Pak is a 
recipient of several orders and medals, including the Kim Il Sung Order. 
-- Ed. CanKor]

1) Recent Developments within the DPRK

This year, we will celebrate both 60th anniversary of the founding of 
the Workers’ Party of Korea and 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Korea.

At present, amidst incessant sanctions of the US against the DPRK, 
consecutive natural calamities and a general shortage, the people of the 
DPRK bring about innovations in all fields of the socialist 
construction, united single-hearted around its Great Leader KIM JONG IL.

Agriculture is the main front of socialist economic construction this year.

To this end, the DPRK has mobilized every means and resources possible 
for a better cropping year. In the agricultural field in particular, 
main efforts will be devoted for a better double cropping, abundant 
production of potatoes and soy beans, and decisively improve the seeds.

At the same time, efforts will be doubled to actively complete the canal 
construction between Paekma and Cholsan, in order to solve the issue of 
water supply for farming. Now, manpower and material assistance are 
directed as much as possible to the countryside.

Measures are taken to normalize the production of coal that feeds the 
industry, increase the production of the electricity by improving the 
capacities of thermal power generators, develop railway transport, 
renovate and modernize light industry factories to produce much more of 
a variety of consumer goods of good quality. And works are currently 
underway to adequately improve the infrastructure and green areas of 
Pyongyang City, and build more modern dwelling houses in the urban and 
rural areas to provide secure and good shelters to the people.

As for the education, the government does not spare efforts to invest in 
upbringing and educating young generation and talents by developing new 
methods of education and enhancing its quality in line with the 
requirements of the Information Technology era.

2) Economic Reforms and International Cooperation

During the recent years, the DPRK has been conducting a series of 
reforms to further improve economic management in conformity with the 
changing environment, and produce our own style of economy.

Accordingly, the DPRK draws experiences from other countries and plan to 
further much exchange and cooperation as possible in every sector such 
as economy, science and technology.

There are quite a number of students and interns who are already sent to 
various countries including Europe to acquire coherent knowledge and 
expertise, and exchanges of delegations with many countries are active 
in every circle of society such as economic and academic, etc..

We are firmly committed to actively promote exchanges by consolidating 
cooperative relationship with the University of Toronto and many other 
institutions as such.

At the same time, we expect that Canada would not fall behind other 
countries in collaborating with the DPRK for its reform initiatives take 
effect and produce results.

3) Korean reunification

The reunification is both the century-long aspirations of Korean people 
and the basis for common prosperity and development of the whole nation 
and essential element in ensuring peace and stability of the region and 
the world.

This year, people of the North and south of Korea and overseas will 
celebrate 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Korea and 5th 
anniversary of the historical North-south Joint Declaration, both in 
happiness and hope.

We could not think of the cause for national reunification separately 
from the immortal accomplishments of President KIM IL SUNG.

President KIM IL SUNG put forth the national reunification as the 
ultimate national task since the division of the country and devoted 
restless efforts to its realization till the last moment of his life.

In order to implement the life-long wish of the late President, Great 
Leader KIM JONG IL hosted the Summit between the North and the south, 
the first of its kind in the history of national division long of 55 
years, and published the North-south joint declaration of 15 June, thus 
opening the turning phase in the history for national reunification.

This year we made appeal to the nation as a whole to hold high and fast 
the banner of cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for 
reunification and patriotism.

At present, the US does not feel so pleased by the rapprochement between 
the North and the south, and continue to impede in this process.

In particular, the US is making unjustifiable pressure on south Korean 
authorities pretending that unless the nuke issue is resolved, there 
will be no further development in the inter-Korean relations, and 
hampers various cooperations being run between the North and the south.

This notwithstanding, peace and reunification that are the preconditions 
for subsistence and development of the Korean nation are ensured by the 
power of the “By our nation itself” which is the fundamental ideal in 
the era marked by June 15 Declaration. Because Korean people united 
means everything possible and no fear of anything at all.

I am convinced that there are numerous people in Canada in hope and 
solidarity with the Korean people in its efforts for the national 
reunification.

Soon, I say very soon, the world will welcome new era when the North and 
the south of Korea will be reunified.

4) Foreign Relations

Fundamental ideals of the foreign policy of the DPRK are independence, 
peace and friendship.

Based on these ideals, the Government of the DPRK strives to further 
strengthen friendship and solidarity with the world’s people and to make 
the international community independent and democratic and thus actively 
contribute to the common cause of mankind to build a free, peaceful, 
friendly new world, free from domination and subjugation.

On the principle of independence our Government promotes friendship and 
cooperation with various countries of the world and makes positive 
efforts to abolish old international order of domination and 
subjugation, and establish a new one, based on equality, justice and 
fairness.

Today the Government of the DPRK has established diplomatic relations 
with more than 160 countries. It is promoting economic and cultural 
exchange and cooperation with most of the countries of the world. It has 
up to now joined more than 200 international organizations and plays an 
active role.

5) The DPRK-US relations

The DPRK-US relationship is a produce and vestige of the Cold War.

As we have made it public on many occasions, it is not our stand to 
remain an enemy of the US forever.

We are developing relations with all countries that respect our 
sovereignty and are friendly toward us irrespective of their ideology 
and system.

 From this standpoint, we have already established diplomatic relations 
with Western European countries including UK that is a US ally, which 
had been hostile toward the DPRK in the past.

We hope the US will examine the DPRK-US relations coolly to adopt a 
realistic policy towards the DPRK, and get rid of rigid way of thinking.

However, the Bush administration in its second term outlined its 
willingness not to co-exist with the DPRK, but to overthrow the system 
chosen by our people as its policy, thus completely blew up the 
foundation of the six-party talks for the resolution of the nuke issue.

We did so far our utmost for the resolution of this issue through 
dialogue. But the US responded to our sincere efforts by hostile moves 
of slandering a series of debasing words against the DPRK such as “axis 
of evil” followed by “the outpost of tyranny”, which could never be 
tolerated.

Moreover, the US brings more and more state-of-the-art war equipment 
into south Korea and its neighboring areas, and conduct large-scale 
joint war exercises with the DPRK as its target.

It is a worthless attempt to have a dialogue with such a barbarous 
government, which respond to good faith by ill faith. The reality shows 
us that the only way of solving this issue is that we stand firm on the 
path we have chosen.

Unless the nuke threat of the US is dissipated, the DPRK will further 
continue to strengthen its nuclear deterrent for its self-defense, and 
this will constitute the most feasible way leading to the realization of 
denuclearization of Korean peninsula, and peace and security in the 
North-East Asia.

The perspective in the DPRK-US relationship entirely depends on the 
steps and stand of the US.

6) The DPRK-Japan Relations

Korea and Japan are both close but distant to each other.

The reason is as follows.

Japan has so far neither apologized nor compensated in a sincere way of 
its dirty past crimes, but beautify it and resurrect militarism under 
its expansionist ambition.

Thanks to the decisive step taken by the Great Leader KIM JONG IL, 
historical summit between the DPRK and Japan was held and Pyongyang 
declaration adopted in 2002.

Liquidation of the past crimes is the essence of the Pyongyang 
Declaration. This notwithstanding, Japan incites hostile awareness 
against the DPRK, creating anti-DPRK atmosphere in its society under the 
pretext of “abduction and nuclear issues”.

Japan is not only crying recklessly for pressure to bring the DPRK to 
its knees, but also practically moving to economic sanctions to stifle 
the DPRK, in collaboration with the United States.

At the same time, extreme right wing forces in Japan are making 
territorial claims to Tok Islet, a Korean territory, publishing postage 
stamps and conducting mock raid on it, rousing fears that it may use 
this for invasion of Korea at anytime.

In Korea only, Japan had forcibly drafted and abducted 8.4 million, 
massacred 1 million and forced 200,000 women into sex slavery for the 
Japanese army dragging them to the battlefields, and plundered natural 
resources and cultural assets. Japan had as well committed most heinous 
destruction, plunder and homicide everywhere in Asia they invaded.

Even after 60 years of its defeat, Japan has not liquidated its 
sanguinary and ignominious past crimes, but is resurrecting militaristic 
hallucination, turning its whole society to the right, with a view to 
realize old dream of “Great Asia Co-prosperity Sphere”.

Japan is arming the young generation ideologically and mentally to 
repeat past crimes by beautifying its war of aggression as a war of 
liberation for the Asian countries. Cabinet ministers are regularly 
visiting “Yasguni Shrine” to pay tribute to war criminals to inspire its 
people with militarist ideas, despite strong protest and opposition of 
Asian countries.

Japan has serious security problems with its neighboring countries and 
poses substantial threat to the North-East Asia Region.

Japan has officially designated as threats its geographically closest 
neighbours, including the DPRK which it occupied and forced agony and 
humiliation in the first half of the 20th century, and is accelerating 
war preparations, under the pretext of preventing the threats.

Today, Japan has the second largest military expenditure after the 
United States and is stepping up readiness for overseas invasion by 
modernizing and repositioning its military equipment.

Especially, it has completed the legislation of “Emergency Law” setting 
the DPRK as its main target, and hastens the formation of combat troops 
of “Self-Defense Forces” for the realization of the west priority 
strategy in case of emergency on the Korean peninsular, while its 
high-level officials are openly making belligerent remarks of a 
pre-emptive attack against the DPRK.

I could not but express serious concerns over the fact that Japan is 
demanding its right to a permanent seat of the UNSC for its contribution 
to the UN budget.

The UN is not a financial corporate company where votes are weighted 
according to the contribution, but a political organization of peace and 
security based on the sovereign equality. Permanent seats are not to be 
sold and bought.

In order for Japan to honestly contribute to the prosperity of the 
mankind of the world, it should follow the example of Germany to 
sincerely reflect on its past crimes, make an adequate compensation and 
show its firm commitment to the international community not to repeat 
its past again.

7) The DPRK-Canada relations

The DPRK and Canada have established on 1 February 2001 the diplomatic 
relations on the principle of mutual respect, non-interference, equality 
and mutual benefits.

The position of the DPRK to further develop the friendly relationship 
with Canada remains as ever unchanged and we hope that this relationship 
be developed in conformity with common aspirations and mutual interests 
of peoples in the DPRK and Canada, regardless to any outside factor.

I would like to brief to you on the current status of the bilateral 
relations.

As it had been agreed during the consultations at the vice-ministers 
level of both Ministries in Beijing, China, in the year 2000, 
technically the Embassy of the DPRK to Canada was established in Ottawa 
and recorded in the registry of the Foreign Affairs Canada.

However, the issue of opening of our Embassy was influenced by the nuke 
issue between the DPRK and US, and so far remains unsettled.

We hope that such abnormal situation will soon be ended up, thus leading 
to a regular development of the bilateral relations according to the 
interests of both people.

And at the same time, we firmly believe that the Government of Canada 
will maintain in the future too its independent, goodwill and 
forward-looking foreign policies, and actively assist the DPRK in its 
successful accomplishment of its ultimate goal to denuclearize the 
Korean peninsula.

I would like to take this opportunity to express gratitude to the 
humanitarian assistance provided by the Canadian governmental and 
non-governmental organizations to the DPRK affected by consecutive 
natural calamities, and my conviction that the Government and people of 
Canada will further assist our Government and people in the efforts to 
develop the national economy.

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