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CanKor # 210

Monday, 20 June 2005

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ROK Unification Minister Chung Dong-young returns home from a visit to 
Pyongyang after a surprise meeting with DPRK leader Kim Jong Il, who tells 
him that six-party nuclear talks could be held as early as July if the USA 
"recognizes and respects" his country. Kim is also quoted as saying the 1991 
South-North Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean 
Peninsula remains a valid foundation for talks to end the DPRK's nuclear 
programme in exchange for security guarantees from the USA.



Minister Chung was in Pyongyang to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the 15 
June 2000 North-South summit and joint declaration. Forty ROK government 
officials and 295 South Korean civic leaders traveled on separate chartered 
flights from Incheon Airport near Seoul to Sunam Airport near Pyongyang in 
the hopes of reviving inter-Korean relations after a year of tensions 
related to the DPRK's nuclear programme. As part of the commemorative 
events, delegations from the two Koreas have produced a joint statement 
promoting a unified Korean peninsula. The five-point declaration urges the 
two Koreas to cooperate in cultivating peace and eliminating risks of a 
nuclear war in the region.



During a media briefing held on Mount Kumgang to mark the one millionth 
South Korean visitor to the North Korean resort area, Kim Yoon-kyu, 
vice-chairman of Hyundai Asan announces that ROK tourists would soon be able 
to travel by car across the DMZ to the scenic mountain in the DPRK. They 
will also be able to camp out and cook on the beach.



Members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee tell Assistant 
Secretary of State Christopher Hill that the Bush administration's efforts 
to achieve nuclear disarmament in North Korea are not working and should be 
reconsidered.



Defector Kang Chol Hwan, the 37-year old author of "The Aquariums of 
Pyongyang," an autobiographical account of ten years as a child in a North 
Korean labour camp, is received at the White House by US President Bush, 
Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley 
for a 40-minute meeting. A week earlier, Mr. Bush allotted only a few more 
minutes for a meeting with ROK president Roh Moo Hyun.



The DPRK faces a food crisis this year unless more international aid is 
delivered, according to an ROK agricultural expert. Limited progress has 
been achieved with reforms and incentives to boost productivity, like the 
sub-division of collective farms into smaller two- or three-family units.

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Contents:

1.        KIM JONG-IL WILLING TO REJOIN 6-PARTY TALKS IN JULY

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200506/kt2005061723581911950.htm

2.        KOREAS CELEBRATE JUNE 15 ANNIVERSARY IN PYONGYANG

http://korea.net/News/Issues/issueDetailView.asp?board_no=7141&title=2%20Koreas%20celebrate%20June%2015%20anniversary%20in%20Pyongyang

3.        KOREAS ANNOUNCE JOINT DECLARATION ON CO-EXISTENCE

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506150007.html

4.        OVERLAND TRAVEL BY CAR TO MOUNT KUMGANG COMING SOON

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200506/kt2005060922384710510.htm

5.        US SENATORS CHALLENGE ADMINISTRATION ON KOREA POLICY

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/06/14/1088184.html

6.        DPR KOREAN DEFECTOR RECEIVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2005/06/18/international/asia/18kang.html&tntemail1=&emc=tnt&pagewanted=print

7.        DPRK FACES FOOD CRISIS DESPITE REFORMS

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6D6MMK?OpenDocument&emid=ACOS-635NSY

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1.        KIM JONG-IL WILLING TO REJOIN 6-PARTY TALKS IN JULY

by Ryu Jin, Korea Times, 17 June 2005



North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said on Friday his country is willing to 
rejoin the six-party talks in July, if the US "recognizes and respects" his 
regime, a South Korean envoy said after talks with Kim in Pyongyang.

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, who returned home after a four-day 
trip to the North, also quoted Kim as saying the 1991 South-North Joint 
Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula remains valid 
and his country has never given up on the nuclear talks.

"Kim said the six-party nuclear talks could be held as early as July if the 
United States recognizes and respects North Korea. Kim, however, said that 
further consultations would first be needed with the US," Chung told 
reporters at a press conference in Seoul.

The top North Korean leader also gave a positive response to calls for 
inter-Korean relations, such as cross-border talks between general-level 
officers and temporary reunions of family members separated as a result of 
the 1950-53 Korean War, Chung said.

Chung, who led the South Korean government delegation to the joint 
festivities celebrating the fifth anniversary of the historic inter-Korean 
summit in June 2000, talked with the reclusive leader for about five hours, 
including a two-and-a-half-hour meeting without the attendance of others.

"Chairman Kim was a very straightforward and decisive leader," he said. "We 
had very sincere and frank talks."

Kim's remarks brighten prospects for the multilateral talks, which have been 
stalled for almost a year since June last year. North Korea participated in 
three rounds of talks with the US, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia, but 
has shunned further negotiations.

Kim expressed willingness to give up his country's nuclear arsenal in 
exchange for a security guarantee from the US, rejoin the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which the North quit in 2003, and allow 
international inspections on its soil, Chung said.

In the closed-door meeting at a state guesthouse in the North's capital, Kim 
and Chung, whom the North Korean leader greeted as a "special envoy" sent by 
Roh, discussed various issues concerning the two Koreas, much of it 
dedicated to the nuclear issue.

Chung said he urged Kim to return to the six-party talks to end the 
long-time standoff with the US and take what the country could get in 
return, such as a security guarantee, substantial economic aid and improved 
relations with the US, according to South Korean officials.

The surprise meeting, made public just hours before Chung's return, provided 
a dramatic finale to the two Koreas' celebrations, marking the summit on 
June 15, 2000, between Kim and then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.

Inter-Korean relations have greatly improved since the first-ever 
inter-Korean summit, which culminated in the June 15 South-North Joint 
Declaration, but those developments have been marred by the nuclear impasse, 
which flared up in October 2002.

Faced with economic difficulties since the 1990s, the North has sought to 
normalize relations with the US and end decades-old confrontation with its 
enemy through a "nuclear endgame," experts say.

In a Washington summit last Friday, Roh and US President George W. Bush laid 
out a package of incentives for the North, including a security guarantee, 
substantial economic aid and "more normal relations" between North Korea and 
the US, in return for its denuclearization. Kim was quoted as describing 
Bush as a "good person to talk with" when asked by Chung to answer how he 
thought of the US president, who recently called him "Mr. Kim Jong-il."

"Should I attach `His Excellency' to his name?" he said. "His Excellency 
President Bush! Well, I don't have any reason to hate him. I was told by 
Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is a good person to talk with and a 
person whom I will find it very interesting to talk with."

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2.        KOREAS CELEBRATE JUNE 15 ANNIVERSARY IN PYONGYANG

Korean Information Service (KOIS), 15 June 2005



South and North Korea began their joint festivities here on Tuesday (June 
14) to commemorate the historic inter-Korean summit in 2000, with a grand 
opening ceremony at the Kim Il-sung Stadium in the evening to raise the 
curtain of the four-day events.

South Korea's delegations, one composed of 295 civic leaders and the other 
comprising 40 former and incumbent government officials, arrived at the 
Sunam Airport in Pyongyang from Incheon airport over the West Sea on 
separate chartered flights.

"This week's events have a special meaning that South and North would firm 
up their determination to open up an era for a second June 15," said 
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, who leads the South Korean government 
delegation, before departing for Pyongyang.

He expected the festival would also help authorities from the two sides 
build trust in each other ahead of the 15th inter-Korean ministerial talks, 
scheduled for next week in Seoul, and also help them discuss ways to resolve 
the regional standoff over the North's nuclear drive.

Chung and his entourage will have meetings with high-profile North Korean 
officials, including the No. 2 leader Kim Yong-nam on Thursday, which the 
South's delegates hoped to utilize as a chance to persuade the North to 
denuclearize for various benefits.

After the opening ceremony, the Southern delegates attended a dinner 
reception North's Prime Minister Park Pong-ju hosted at the Mansudae Art 
Theatre.

With the government delegations from the two sides set to have several 
meetings from Wednesday, the civic delegation led by Paik Nak-cheong, an 
honorary professor at Seoul National University, would follow its own 
schedule for the remaining three days including trips to nearby sites.

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3.        KOREAS ANNOUNCE JOINT DECLARATION ON CO-EXISTENCE

Chosun Ilbo, 15 June 2005



Celebrations are currently underway in Pyongyang to mark the fifth year 
since the 2000 inter-Korean summit. As part of the commemorative events, 
delegations from the two Koreas have produced a joint statement promoting a 
unified Korean peninsula.

On the second day of celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of the 
historic June 15th summit, South and North Korea have announced a joint 
declaration that reaffirms co-existence and co-prosperity on the Korean 
Peninsula. The five-point declaration urges the two Koreas to cooperate in 
cultivating peace and eliminating risks of a nuclear war in the region. It 
also states the 6.15 joint committee as the main driving force in reunifying 
the South and the North.

During a mass gathering in Pyongyang, Paik Nak-cheong, who heads the South 
Korean preparatory committee for the latest round of festivities, stressed 
the importance of strengthening inter-Korean cooperation by promoting active 
exchanges on both civilian and regional levels. Paik's North Korean 
counterpart, Ahn Gyeong-ho, said the only way to keep peace on the Korean 
Peninsula is to consolidate the strength of the Korean people's national 
power.

Later in the day, delegations from South and North Korea are scheduled to 
hold their first official commemorative ceremony in five years at the 
People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang. The ceremony will be joined by 
South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young and North Korea's 
Workers' Party Secretary Kim Ki-nam.

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4.        OVERLAND TRAVEL BY CAR TO MOUNT KUMGANG COMING SOON

by Kim Rahn, Korea Times, 9 June 2005



South Korean travelers will soon be able to travel by car to a resort town 
in Mt. Kumgang in North Korea. They will also be able to camp out and cook 
on the beach.

Kim Yoon-kyu, vice-chairman of Hyundai Asan, operator of the trip to North 
Korea's scenic mountain, announced the plan during a media briefing held on 
the mountain, marking the one millionth South Korean visitor to Mt. Kumgang, 
on Wednesday.

The group has decided to develop a resort town on the 1-kilometer-long beach 
from Haegumgang Hotel to the Kosonghang raw fish restaurant at port Kosong. 
Shops, restaurants and lodgings will be established.

"Everybody will be able to invest in the facilities with 100-200 million 
won. We expect investment from people whose hometowns are in the North," Kim 
said. He added that people who hesitated to invest in North Korea due to the 
communist country's nuclear weapons programs now have some interest in the 
resort project.

The operator also said it agreed with the North to allow visitors to camp 
out on Mt. Kumgang beach as early as next month. The beach has been open 
during summer since 2003, but tourists have been banned from entering the 
beach at night or pitching their own tents. The South and North sides also 
agreed to permit visitors to cook food.

Lee Mi-kyung, an employee of Hyundai Asan's public relations department, 
said they are discussing details and regulations on cooking to ensure the 
environment is protected.

"With the resort town and the beach open 24 hours a day, Mt. Kumgang will be 
reborn as a resort complex with both mountain and ocean," Kim said.

The reduced travel cost for campers is also expected to attract young 
people. Currently, 70 percent of visitors are in their 40s or older. More 
accommodation and amenities will also be set up, a lack that critics have 
pointed to as the main reason vacationers were reluctant to visit the 
mountain.

There are currently six places to stay in Mt. Kumgang including hotels, 
pensions and a camping area for students, but Kumgang family beach hotel 
with 102 rooms will open in July near Kosong port, Lee said.

Currently, "Onjonggak" is the only complex for South Korean tourists at the 
mountain. But a larger-scale complex will be established in July, with food 
courts, duty free shops, and a branch of Pyongyang's famous "naengmyon (cold 
noodles)" restaurant, "Ongnyugwan." A large golf course is also under 
construction for the opening in October next year.

The operator will also promote a test tour encouraging South Korean 
travelers to visit the mountain in their own cars. Last year, Hyundai Asan 
and its North Korean counterpart agreed to make travel more convenient for 
South Koreans by allowing them to drive themselves to the North.

"We're going to do a test run soon with about 100-200 cars. Before 
launching, we need to obtain approval from the governments of the two Koreas 
first, and we have to discuss the number of cars to allow through and when 
to begin," Lee said.

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5.        US SENATORS CHALLENGE ADMINISTRATION ON KOREA POLICY

by George Gedda, Associated Press (AP), 14 June 2005



Bush administration efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament in North Korea 
are not working and should be reconsidered, Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee members said Tuesday.

"The administration policy has been a failure," said Sen. Joseph R. Biden 
Jr. of Delaware, the ranking Democrat.

"Obviously, we've not seen progress here," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. 
"Something is not working."

Responding to the criticisms at a committee hearing, Assistant Secretary of 
State Christopher Hill said the administration believes that the six-party 
disarmament negotiation "is the way to go."

Because of a North Korean boycott, there have been no negotiations for the 
past year. But North Korea, in meetings with US diplomats on June 3, said 
they were willing to resume the discussions.

US intelligence officials and other analysts believe that North Korea could 
possess several nuclear weapons beyond the one or two the country has been 
thought to have had for years.

Hill acknowledged the longer the impasse persists, the greater the risk of 
nuclear proliferation by Pyongyang. At the same time, he said, North Korea's 
boycott has meant that it cannot receive the economic and security benefits 
that a disarmament agreement would yield.

"If they are worried about their survival, they should think about another 
course," Hill said. International isolation is another price North Korea is 
paying for its refusal to disarm, he added. Several senators mentioned the 
UN Security Council as a possible alternative to the six-party process. Hill 
declined to speculate on other measures the administration may be 
contemplating.

Biden said that as a result of the continuing impasse, "the confidence in 
our ability to ensure peace and stability in Northeast Asia has been 
shaken." He said the administration, far from adopting a unified position, 
has been debating with itself over North Korea policy. As examples of 
officials he said are not in step with officially stated policy, Biden cited 
Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defence Donald H. Rumsfeld and UN 
Ambassador-designate John Bolton.

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6.        DPR KOREAN DEFECTOR RECEIVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE

by James Brooke, New York Times, 18 June 2005



After years of lonely street demonstrations and little-noticed newspaper 
columns, Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector, learned recently that his 
life had irrevocably changed.

"I was introduced as someone who wrote a book that was read by George Bush," 
he said in a recent interview at a museum cafe in Seoul, South Korea, only 
150 miles south of the North Korean slave labour camp where he was 
imprisoned with his family in 1977. He was 9 years old.

Burning with memories of his family's 10-year imprisonment in the camp, 
which still functions hidden from outside eyes but not from satellite 
cameras, Mr. Kang teamed up with Pierre Rigoulot, a French journalist, to 
write a memoir, "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean 
Gulag." Printed in five languages since 2000, including English, the book 
was well received just about everywhere but in South Korea, where it 
languished in obscurity, its harsh critique of the North out of step with 
South Korea's official policy of engagement.

Despite its considerable merits, the book seemed destined to fade from view, 
and Mr. Kang with it, until this spring when, at the urging of former 
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, President Bush picked it up. Pretty 
soon, with the president commending it to Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice and other top aides, the book jumped to the top of the Bush 
administration's summer reading list.

On Monday, Mr. Kang, 37, received the ultimate book endorsement when he was 
ushered into the Oval Office for a 40-minute meeting with Mr. Bush, Vice 
President Dick Cheney and the national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley. 
On June 10, Mr. Bush had allotted only a few more minutes for a meeting with 
South Korea's president, Roh Moo Hyun.

"He was more interested in the pains North Koreans are going through, more 
so than I had previously thought," Mr. Kang said in a telephone interview on 
Thursday, after returning to Seoul from Washington. "He kept on repeating 
how deeply sorry he was about the situation. To hear a president say these 
deep things made me feel that he cared."

The White House stamp of approval has conferred on Mr. Kang a measure of 
celebrity that had eluded him when the book was published. Mr. Kang, who is 
taking a crash course in English, now travels monthly to Washington, where 
he will address a Freedom House conference on human rights in July. After 
that, he will give lectures at American churches and campuses, talking about 
North Korea's human rights abuses.

In August, he will visit Midland, Tex., President Bush's hometown, to speak 
at Rock the Desert, an evangelical concert devoted this year to North Korea. 
With orders spiking on Amazon.com, he has hopes for a new edition.

Mr. Bush has displayed similar enthusiasm for other books, notably "The Case 
for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror," by 
Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident who is now an Israeli 
politician. Subsequently, it was widely noted, the theme of promoting 
democracy, especially in the Middle East, ran through the Inaugural and 
State of the Union addresses.

"I felt like his book just confirmed what I believe," Mr. Bush said of Mr. 
Sharansky's work in late January. "He writes it a heck of a lot better than 
I could write it, and he's certainly got more credibility than I have. After 
all, he spent time in a Soviet prison and he has a much better perspective 
than I've got."

In late April, the president's reading of "The Aquariums of Pyongyang" 
seemed to bolster his longstanding hostility toward North Korea. As American 
diplomats tried to revive stalled talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons 
program, Mr. Bush told reporters in Washington that Kim Jong Il, the North 
Korean leader, was a "dangerous person" who ran "huge concentration camps."

Since then, Bush administration officials have said that any package 
solution for North Korea's nuclear weapons program will have to include 
progress on human rights.

"I felt that he agreed with me in that the human rights issue was more 
important than the nuclear issue," said Mr. Kang, who directs a rights group 
in Seoul called the Democracy Network Against North Korean Gulag.

Over tea at the fashionable museum cafe on a recent Sunday afternoon, Mr. 
Kang, with his new wife, Yoon Hae Ryon, and a finely tailored suit, seemed 
to be on the far side of the planet from Yodok, the labour camp in which he 
survived for a decade on a starvation diet fortified with salamanders, 
cockroaches and rats.

His book opens with his comfortable childhood in Pyongyang, North Korea's 
capital, where he raised tropical fish in an aquarium. But in 1977, he and 
his father, uncle, grandmother and 7-year-old sister were arrested and sent 
to Yodok. His grandfather, who had been a successful businessman in Japan, 
and who had his choice of moving to the South or the North, had been jailed 
for an unspecified offence.

Opened in 1959, the Yodok camp Mr. Kang describes was run as a business 
enterprise, with gold mines, cornfields and logging operations operating 
entirely on unpaid prison labour. Following the beliefs of the North Korean 
authorities that political deviance is hereditary, entire families were 
routinely incarcerated, and still are, recent defectors say.

Children studied in the mornings and worked in the afternoons, cultivating 
cornfields, excavating clay or carrying freshly cut timber. Mr. Kang wrote 
of walking 12 miles with a log on his shoulder. He described attending 
public executions where prisoners were forced to hurl rocks at corpses, 
yelling, "Down with the traitors of the people!" To ward off protein 
deficiencies, inmates ate whatever meat they could find.

"The way to eat a salamander is to grab it by the tail and swallow it in one 
quick gulp before it can discharge a foul tasting liquid," he wrote. Stocks 
of salt-cured rat meat helped prison families get through the winter. Rat 
skins were used to patch the lone set of shoddy prison clothing issued each 
year. In February 1987, Mr. Kang's family was unexpectedly released from the 
camp, part of a small release tied to Kim Jong Il's birthday.

North Korea has yet to react publicly to the literary and public relations 
success of its former prisoner. But in 1999, the state-run Korean Central 
News Agency reacted harshly to Mr. Kang's testimony in Washington before the 
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calling him "riffraff devoid of human 
dignity and values" who was engaging in a "smear campaign."

Now a celebrity in the defector community, Mr. Kang said he hoped he could 
get the United States to put more pressure on North Korea over the human 
rights issue. Mr. Kang wrote of the power of listening to foreign radio 
programs in a country where state-supplied radios received only the official 
station. "If the US can persuade people that concentration camps are 
destroying families," he said, "it could work against Kim Jong Il much more 
quickly than the nuclear issue."

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7.        DPRK FACES FOOD CRISIS DESPITE REFORMS

by Cho Mee-young and Martin Nesirky, Reuters, 8 June 2995



North Korea has made limited progress with farm reforms and faces a food 
crisis this year unless more international aid is delivered, a leading 
expert on North Korean agriculture said on Wednesday.

Kwon Tae-jin, director of North Korea agricultural studies at the South's 
state-run Korea Rural Economic Institute, also told Reuters aid to improve 
farming would be part of a package offered to the communist North after it 
returns to stalled six-country talks on its nuclear arms programmes.

The North has been striving to boost farm output through incentives and 
competition, and to stabilize market prices since it introduced economic 
reforms in 2002, he said.

"Agriculture is at the core of the overall economic changes," he said. The 
isolated North has made some progress but Pyongyang's firm focus this year 
on farming is likely to be nothing but an empty gesture if foreign aid fails 
to materialise.

"From now until this autumn's harvest there will be a crisis, although it 
will be eased slightly between mid-June and late July when North Korea 
harvests potatoes, barley and wheat. But from mid-July to late September is 
the most critical period," he said.

"We can only hope international aid will rise," he added, noting even main 
ally China had cut food donations to an estimated 200,000-300,000 tonnes 
from 600,000-700,000 tonnes. Aid agencies say 6.5 million people are most 
vulnerable out of a population of 23 million but that others face problems 
because food distribution has broken down.

"There is need for more food aid for North Korea," Jacques Diouf, 
director-general of the UN's food and agriculture organisation (FAO), said 
on Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference in Stockholm, Diouf said the 
political environment in North Korea was unfortunately not very favourable 
for food aid.

"I'm hopeful about a delinkage of political considerations and humanitarian 
needs," he said. Little new international aid has reached the North since 
the middle of last year when Pyongyang started to ask for development aid 
rather than food handouts. It has now switched tack again, but the 
international community has not yet responded fully.

A hiatus in North-South dialogue and the six-party nuclear talks has been 
part of the problem. North and South Korea resumed bilateral talks last 
month and the North may be considering returning to the multilateral talks.

"As long as the North-South Korea talks continue and there is some 
development in the six-party talks, not only fertiliser and food aid but 
also other packages would probably be provided to develop agriculture," said 
Kwon, who has written and researched extensively on North Korean 
agriculture. He said the North had adopted incentives to try to boost 
agricultural production. For example, collective farms have been subdivided 
into smaller two- or three-family units.

"The smaller the group is, the more competitive it is and more profits are 
given to each unit," he said. "It is half way toward one-family farming."

Another scheme has helped increase milk production but overall the picture 
remains tough, with a growing gap between those who succeed and those who 
scrape by.

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