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South-North Relations

Weekly Report on North Korea

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Weekly Report on North Korea from January 7 to 13, 2017 (No. 1343)

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2017-01-13
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【Internal Affairs】
From January 8 to 12, the North Korean media reported Kim Jong Un’s public activities as follows: Kim provided field guidance at the Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill in Pyongyang and at the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory.
 
On January 6, the North Korean media reported that officials of ministries and national institutions took part in the first Friday Labor for this year at farms in Pyongyang.
 
On January 9, the North Korean media reported that officials of party, state, economic, and armed forces organizations convened to discuss ways to achieve the objectives set forth by Kim Jong Un in his New Year’s speech.
 
【Inter-Korean Affairs】
On January 12, the North Korean media reported that a spokesperson for the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, in a statement, mentioned the unification lines and policies presented by Kim Jong Un at the Party Congress and in his New Year’s speech, calling on South Korea to respond to “the proposal for improving inter-Korean relations and opening a grand path to independent reunification.”
 
【Foreign Affairs】
On January 8, the North Korean media reported that a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a Q&A session with KCNA reporters, declared that North Korea could test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), saying “The ICBM will be launched anytime and anywhere determined by the supreme headquarters of the DPRK.”
 
On January 13, the North Korean media reported that a spokesperson for the North Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee denounced the U.S.’s sending the nuclear-powered carrier Carl Vinson to the waters off the Korean Peninsula as “a dangerous provocative act to bring fresh military tension” to the Korean Peninsula and the areas around it, threatening that “The North is fully ready to blow up the citadel of aggression through resolute preemptive attack.”