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ROKG Officially Denies Reports on US Seizure of DPRK Weapons in Afghanistan
On
19 December, the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade [MOFAT] officially
denied media reports "confirming that a cache of North Korean weapons were
seized in Afghanistan and that P'yongyang and Kabul exchanged phone calls,"
saying, "these reports are groundless." On
19 December, Sin Chong-sung, a MOFAT spokesman, noted, "We have checked
with the related ministries both in and outside the country regarding the media
reports on the seizure of a cache of North Korean weapons in Afghanistan, and so
far, we believe these reports are groundless." PSD To HTML conversion is important to webmasters because they cannot use the PSD file as it is for their web pages. if you need PSD To HTML conversion service save yourself some time, effort and money and send it in to the professionals. Another MOFAT official added, "Small arms and other conventional weapons are traded in international weapons markets, so we cannot exclude the possibility that weapons made in North Korea or in other countries were seized. However, we have no credible information at present, and we understand that [the media reports on] the P'yongyang-Kabul phone calls are not true." [Description
of Source: Seoul Yonhap (Internet Version-WWW) in Korean -- WWW home page of
semiofficial news agency of the ROK. Root URL on filing date:
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr] Article Id: KPP20011219000008Document Id: 0gon9zi02oxqzs Insert Date: 12/20/2001 Purge Date: 01/03/2004 Publish Date: 12/19/2001 Publish Region: East Asia Lines: 55 Document Title: FBIS Translated Text Document Region: East Asia, Near East/South Asia, The Americas Document Date: 19 Dec 2001 Division: Northeast Asia, South Asia, North America Subdivision: South Korea, North Korea, Afghanistan, United States Sourceline: KPP20011219000008 Seoul Yonhap (Internet Version-WWW) in Korean 0038 GMT 19 Dec 01 AFS Number: KPP20011219000008 Citysource: Seoul Yonhap (Internet Version-WWW) Language: Korean Document Number: FBIS-EAS-2001-1219Document Type: Daily Report N/A Subslug: Article by reporter Kwon Kyong-pok: "Government Denies 'Seizure of North Korean Weapons in Afghanistan'" [FBIS Translated Text] |