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Full Text of US Statement on Disposition of N. Korean Funds

Beijing    03-19-2007 14:04

The following is the full text of a statement issued in Beijing on Monday by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury Daniel Glaser on the disposition of North Korea-related funds frozen at a Macau-based bank, Banco Delta Asia. DPRK stands for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea  ED. 

The United States and North Korean Governments have reached an understanding on the disposition of DPRK-related funds frozen at Banco Delta Asia.

The DPRK has proposed the transfer of the roughly $25 million frozen in BDA into an account held by North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank at the Bank of China in Beijing.

North Korea has pledged, within the framework of the Six-Party Talks, that these funds will be used solely for the betterment of the North Korean people, including for humanitarian and educational purposes. We believe this resolves the issue of the DPRK-related frozen funds.

The disposition of the frozen assets has always been and remains a decision by the Macanese authorities to be taken in accordance with Macanese law. North Korea will need to work out the legal and technical intricacies of the arrangement with the Macanese. The Treasury has communicated to both the Macanese and Chinese governments the United States' support of this arrangement.

Separately, the final rule against Banco Delta Asia, issued by the Treasury Department under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, remains in place. The Treasury will continue to cooperate with the Macanese on this and other anti-money laundering issues.

The events of the past 18 months demonstrate our lack of tolerance for illicit activity conducted in the global financial system. Financial institutions that facilitate weapons proliferation, terrorist financing, narcotics trafficking, and other illicit financial activity should be on notice of the significant consequences they face. 

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Pyongyang, More provincial meetings of servicepersons and people took place in the DPRK to hail the successful historic nuclear test. Meetings held in North Phyongan Province, North and South Hwanghae Provinces and North and South Hamgyong Provinces were attended by officials of the Party and power organs and working people's organizations, officers and men of the Korean People's Army and people from all walks of life and youth and students. 
Speakers at the meetings said that the successful nuclear test in the DPRK was an event which demonstrated the self-reliant national defence capability of Songun Korea and made a contribution to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia. 
The successful nuclear test gave a great inspiration and confidence to the army and people of the DPRK who have wished to have tremendous national power to stand up against the U.S. which has become evermore undisguised in its moves for a nuclear war and encouraged them in their dynamic advance for a victory in the Songun revolution, they noted, and continued: 
No matter how desperately the U.S. imperialists and their followers may work to bring down the socialist system centered on the popular masses in the DPRK, they can never break the revolutionary faith and indomitable will of the army and people of the DPRK to resolutely defend their ideology and system with powerful deterrent. 
The speakers called for reliably standing guard over the outposts for defending the country and bringing about a fresh leap forward in the production and construction, true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, to hasten the victory in the socialist cause. 

Pyongyang,Servicepersons and people of South Phyongan, Jagang and Kangwon Provinces held rallies in their provincial capitals in welcome of the success in a historic nuclear test. Present at the rallies were leading officials of local party and power organs and working people's organizations, men and officers of the Korean People's Army, working people of different strata, youth and students. 
The speakers said that the launching of a nuclear test was a just resolution to protect the sovereignty of the country, the security of the nation and peace and stability in and around the Korean Peninsula. They warmly congratulated scientists, technicians and workers on demonstrating the might of Songun Korea with the successful nuclear test. 
The nuclear test was entirely an exercise of the sacred right of a sovereign state as it was an active countermeasure to foil the U.S. imperialists' nuclear threat and stifling moves to pull down the people-centred socialism of Korean-style, they stated. 
They castigated the U.S. imperialists for finding fault with the DPRK's nuclear test, an exercise of legitimate self-defensive right of a sovereign state, saying it shows their true feature as the wicked harasser of global peace and stability and the sworn enemy of the Korean people. 
They went on to say:
The Korean army and people want peace but are not afraid of war. They will never allow the U.S. and its followers to encroach upon the sovereignty of the country and the right to existence of the nation. 
Any pressure and threat do not work on the Korean people. The U.S. imperialists and their followers should stop acting rashly, obsessed by a foolish daydream of stifling the DPRK. 
The Songun revolution of the DPRK is sure to triumph as its army and people have firmly stood in the same trench upholding the Workers' Party of Korea and have built nuclear deterrent for self-defense, the speakers said, calling for speeding up the revolutionary cause of Juche with the might of army-people unity. 

Pyongyang. More than a hundred thousand servicepersons and citizens from all walks of life at a Pyongyang city army-people rally held at Kim Il Sung Square Friday hailed the historic successful nuclear test. The rally was attended by party, army and state cadres. 
Choe Thae Bok, alternative member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, speaking on behalf of the WPK, hailed the successful nuclear test reflecting the unanimous feelings of all the party members and other working people of the country and warmly congratulated scientists, technicians and workers on having successfully ensured the nuclear test with ardent patriotism and loyalty. 
He continued: 
The recent nuclear test was a quite just decision to defend the supreme interests of the state and the security of the nation from the U.S. imperialists' threat of aggression, avert a new war and defend peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. The nuclear test was a great deed of national significance as it strikingly manifested to the whole world the revolutionary faith and indomitable will of the army and people of the DPRK to resolutely foil the U.S. imperialists' heinous moves to bring down the socialist system centered on the popular masses and firmly defend the ideology and system in the DPRK. 
The DPRK was compelled to manufacture nukes by the U.S. nuclear threat, sanctions and pressure, and the nuclear test was an exercise of the independent and legitimate right of the DPRK as a sovereign state as it was a positive countermeasure to defend the sovereignty of the country and the life and the security of its people. The nuclear test was a great deed as it greatly contributed to defending peace and stability not only on the Korean Peninsula but in the rest of Northeast Asia. However, the U.S. instigated the UN Security Council to adopt an anti-DPRK "resolution," unreasonably terming it a "threat" to international peace and security. The DPRK vehemently condemns and strongly rejects it. 
All the party members, servicepersons and other people should devotedly defend the headquarters of the revolution and wage a dynamic struggle for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche, fully confident that they will always win victory as long as they are led by Kim Jong Il. 
Kim Jong Gak, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, addressing the rally on behalf of the Korean People's Army, said that the successful nuclear test was a historic event as it instilled matchless strength and stronger courage into the servicepersons and the people who have wished to see tremendous self-defensive military capability and dealt a telling blow at the U.S. imperialists and their followers keen to stifle the DPRK.
This great event is a precious fruition of the great Songun policy, he said, and went on: The nuclear deterrent in the hands of the People's Army, a revolutionary army fighting for freedom and happiness of the people and justice, serves as a powerful defensive means for protecting the stability on the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity. The speaker strongly warned in the name of all men and officers of the KPA that if the U.S. imperialists persist in their reckless provocations, this will be nothing but a suicidal act of precipitating their miserable end. 
He continued: 
The Japanese militarists and other forces favoring the U.S. imperialists' moves should stop running amuck, well aware that they will never escape a stern punishment by the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK should they go reckless under the signboard of the UN Security Council "resolution." 
The speaker manifested the firm determination of the People's Army to firmly guarantee the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms, true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il. Candidate Academician, Prof. and Dr. Jang Chol, speaking on behalf of the scientists, said that the country succeeded in the nuclear development by bolstering the defence capability with its belt tightened at the crossroads: To remain an independent people or to become slaves of imperialism. The DPRK has thus acquired the status of a full-fledged nuclear weapons state after going through the most just and fair processes, he noted, and went on: 
The scientists and technicians who succeeded in the nuclear test under secure conditions, basing themselves on their own wisdom and technology, are not only intellectuals but unassuming heroes in the era of Songun who devoted their all to the Party, the country and the people. It is a great pride of the country and the nation to have such scientific and technological personnel. 
He declared that the scientists and technicians would always share destiny with the headquarters of the revolution, holding aloft the banner of Songun in order to firmly defend and further glorify socialism of Juche, their life and soul. Then the floor was taken by representatives of the workers and farmers, youths and students. 

MASS rallies have been staged in North Korea to mark the 80th anniversary of the country's first ever revolutionary organisation. Thousands of people carrying flaming torches took part in the carefully-choreographed night-time event, spelling out the number 80 as TV cameras beamed pictures around the world.The show of strength celebrated the Down With Imperialism Union, a predecessor of the ruling North Korean Workers' Party.The demonstrations - reminiscent of Nazi rallies at Nuremberg in the 1930s - came just after North Korea declared sanctions imposed by the UN to be an "act of war".The sanctions were brought in after North Korea tested a nuclear bomb.The North also warned it "wants peace but is not afraid of war" and that it would "deal merciless blows" against any nation that threatened it.
Here is the Transcript of the TV woman  reading the  DPRK warning notice in the 17/10/06 Evening News Program and the Army show after her notice.The TV show brings also the USS Pueblo Spy Ship and US Pilots & POWS.

4Law Note:The full original evening news in 17/10/06 is 37 minutes 96 MB arrived in full to 4Law team...for size reason also the DPRK warning notice is only in part  in this video.Here you find the full printed notice.DPRK does not hold TV station in the Internet. 

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 17 issued the following statement. 

On October 14 the United States instigated the UN Security Council to pass another "resolution" calling for harsh international sanctions and blockade against the DPRK, unreasonably describing its nuclear test for self-defense as a "threat" to international peace and security. 

The successful nuclear test in the DPRK was an exercise of its independent and legitimate right as a sovereign state as it was a positive defensive countermeasure to protect the sovereignty of the country and life and security of the people from the U.S. escalated nuclear war threat and sanctions and pressure. 

The DPRK was compelled to legitimately pull out of the NPT according to its relevant provision and manufactured nuclear weapons after undergoing the most fair and aboveboard and transparent processes as the U.S. seriously encroached upon the supreme security of the DPRK and the fundamental interests of the Korean nation under the pretext of the nuclear issue. 

The DPRK conducted the test proving its possession of nukes in a legitimate manner after fairly announcing it in advance, something unprecedented in view of international practice. 

It conducted the nuclear test under the conditions where its security is fully guaranteed and clearly declared that the DPRK, a responsible nuclear weapons state, would never use nukes first and will not allow nuclear transfer. 

It also clarified that it would make every possible effort to promote the worldwide nuclear disarmament and the final elimination of nuclear weapons and invariably adhere to the principle to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and negotiations. 

However, the U.S., the very one that has driven the DPRK to the nuclear test, is describing the DPRK's nuclear test as a "threat" to international peace and security, while shelving what it has done like a thief crying "Stop the thief!" This totally preposterous act is intolerable. 

The nuclear test in the DPRK was a great deed that greatly contributed to defending peace and stability not only on the Korean Peninsula but in the rest of Northeast Asia as it demonstrated powerful deterrent for coping with the U.S. nuclear threat and blackmail and foiling its attempt to ignite a new war. 

The UNSC, paying no heed to all these facts, feigned ignorance of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, the policy that spurned the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and is now incriminating the DPRK's exercise of its sovereign right to defend the sovereignty of the country, while trumpeting about the denuclearization of the peninsula. This is an immoral behavior utterly devoid of impartiality. 

The UNSC "resolution," needless to say, cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war against the DPRK because it was based on the scenario of the U.S. keen to destroy the socialist system of Korean-style centered on the popular masses. 

The DPRK vehemently denounces the "resolution," a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, and totally refutes it. 

The adoption of this "resolution" made it impossible for the UNSC to evade the historic responsibility for having patronized and connived at the U.S. which caused the division of Korea, the root cause of all misfortunes of the Korean nation, in violation of the UN Charter the cornerstone of which is the principle of sovereignty, equality and self-determination and has systematically perpetrated undisguised moves to "bring down the system" in the DPRK. 

The present development clearly proves once again that the DPRK was entirely right when it decided to have access to nuclear weapons, its people's choice. 

The U.S. would be well advised not to miscalculate the DPRK. 

If the Bush group, oblivious of the lessons drawn from the shameful setbacks recorded in the history of the relations between the preceding U.S. administrations and the DPRK, calculates it can bring the DPRK to its knees through sanctions and pressure, pursuant to the already bankrupt hostile policy toward it, there would be nothing more ridiculous and foolish than its behavior.

The DPRK had remained unfazed in any storm and stress in the past when it had no nuclear weapons. It is quite nonsensical to expect the DPRK to yield to the pressure and threat of someone at this time when it has become a nuclear weapons state. 

The DPRK wants peace but is not afraid of war. It wants dialogue but is always ready for confrontation. 

As already clarified by the DPRK, it will fulfill its responsibility for realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. But if anyone attempts to infringe upon the DPRK's sovereignty and right to existence even a bit under the signboard of the UNSC "resolution," it will deal merciless blows at him through strong actions. 

The DPRK will closely follow the future U.S. attitude and take corresponding measures. 

Following is a full text of the North's official KCNA news agency report on the decision 31/10/06:

Full text of  KCNA / N. Korea's statement

Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA on Nov. 1 as regards the bilateral and multi-lateral contacts made in Beijing with main emphasis on the DPRK-U.S. contact: 
The DPRK recently took a self-defensive counter-measure against the U.S. daily increasing nuclear threat and financial sanctions against it. Bilateral and multi-lateral contacts took place in Beijing on Oct. 31 with main emphasis on the contact between the DPRK and the U.S. Discussed there were issues of seeking ways for the resumption of the six-party talks. The DPRK decided to return to the six-party talks on the premise that the issue of lifting financial sanctions will be discussed and settled between the DPRK and the U.S. within the framework of the six-party talks.

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  / October 16, 2006 
Statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the North Korea Nuclear Test
Analysis of air samples collected on October 11, 2006 detected radioactive debris which confirms that North 
Korea conducted an underground nuclear explosion in the vicinity of P.unggye on October 9, 2006.  The 
explosion yield was less than a kiloton. DNI.GOV in PDF