CHRONOLOGY: NORTH KOREA OCTOBER 1986

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DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
6 November 1986
CHRONOLOGY: NORTH KOREA
OCTOBER 1986
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25 September Soviet Intersputnik Director S. Kulirov says North Korea
plans to build by 1988 an Intersputnik satellite earth
station which will receive and transmit telephone and
tele4raah signals thrniinh a Soviet satellite.
30 September Deputy Foreign Minister Chon Chae-hong and Cuban Deputy
F
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gn Minister Giraldo Mazola conclude 1986-90
cooperation plan in Havana. (KCNA 4 October 1986)
Pyongyang radio broadcasts KWP congratulatory message to
faculty and students of Kim I1-song University on 40th
anniversary of its founding. (P'yongyang Domestic Service
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in Korean 30 September 1986)
1 October North Korea awards friendship medals to 49 Chinese
engineers and technicians for their help in the
construction of the Haeju paper plant. Vice President Pak
So~cn -c~ makes speech. (Beijing Xinhua 1 October 1986)
This memorandum was prepared by Office of
East Asian Analysis. Information avai able as of 6 November 1986
was used in its preparation. Comments and queries are welcome
and may be directed to the Chief, Korea Branch, Northeast Asia
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Vice President Yi Chong-ok meets with delegation of the
China Buddhists Association headed by its chairman Zhao
Puchu. (KCNA 2 October 1986)
Vice Premier Chong Chun-ki meets with Chinese education
delegation headed by Liu Bin, deputy chairman of State
Education Commission. (KCNA 2 October 1986)
Military construction workers rally at construction sites
in Pyongyang to "accelerate" construction of the Youth
Theater and the Grand East Pyongyang Theater. Lieutenant
General Pak Chong-son delivers speech praising Kim
Chong-il. (P'yongyang Domestic Service in Korean
1 October 1986)
Meeting held in Pyongyang to mark 40th anniversary of
leftists' rioting in Taegu, South Korea, referring to it
as the "October popular resistance of the South Korean
people." (KCNA 2 October 1986)
Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry
(MITI) pays $195 million in export insurance claims to 30
Japanese companies. North Korea's debt to Japanese
creditors totals $455 million. (Seoul Yonhap 2 October 1986;
Tokyo Kyodo 2 October 1986)
Korean Central News Agency and the Soviet News Agency APN
sign cooperation, agreement in Moscow. (KCNA
4 October 1986)
2 October KWP Secretary Ho Tam meets with the Japanese publishing
delegation led by Kazuo Nagasaka, representative President
of the Yuzangaku Publishin House of Japan. (KCNA
3 October 1986)
East German Ambassador Karl-Heinz Kern hosts reception
marking 37th anniversary of founding of the German
Democratic Republic; Vice President Yi Chong-ok, KWP
Secretary Kim Hwan, and Vice Premiers Kim Pok-sin and
Chong Chun-ki are among the officials invited. (KCNA
3 October 1986)
3 October KPA Chief of Staff 0 Kuk-yol attends performance by Soviet
Army Double Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble accompanied
by KPA General Kim Pong-yul, KPA Colonel General Pak
Chung-kuk, Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hyong-yul, Deputy
Cultural Minister Ch'oe Chae-hyon, and KPA Major Generals
Yi Hong-sun and Kim Tok-hyon. (P'yongyang Domestic
Service in Korean 4 October 1986)
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3-6 October Chinese President Li Xiannian pays official goodwill visit
to North Korea; holds talks with Kim I1-song. Vice
President Yi Chong-ok, Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam, Vice
Premier Kim Pok-sin, Deputy Department Director Kim
Yang-kwon, Deputy Foreign Minister Yi Won-kuk and Deputy
Public Security Minister Kwak Po-kyong appear at most
official functions. Foreign Ministers Kim Yong-nam and Wu
Xueqian hold talks. KCNA 4 October 1986; KCNA
5 October 1986)
4-31 October
5 October
5-9 October
Olympic Committee Chairman Kim Yu-sun attends 91st General
Meeting of the International Olympic Committee in
Switzerland. (KCNA 5 October 1986; KCNA 1 November 1986)
Meeting in Pyongyang marks 40th anniversary of founding of Kim
Hyong-chik University of Education. Top leadership attending
includes KWP Secretary Kim Hwan and Vice Premier Chong Chun-
ki. (P'yongyang Domestic Service in Korean 5 October 1986)
Kim I1-song. (KCNA 8 October 1986; KCNA 9 October 1986) 125X1
Korea; holds talks with KPA Chief of Staff
0 Kuk-yol and KPA General Kim Kwang-chin; meets with
Delegation of Yugoslavian People's Army headed by Admiral Branko
Mamula, Federal Secretary for National Defense, visits North
6 October KPA Chief of Staff 0 Kuk-yol meets with a political workers
delegation of the Bulgarian army, headed by Lieutenant General
Ivan Petrov Bosev, First Deputy Director of the General
Political Bureau of the Bulgarian People's Army. (KCNA
7 October 1986)
Vice Premier Chong Chun-ki meets with East German Academy of
Sciences delegation led by its president Werner Scheler.
President of North Korean Academy of Sciences Chong Ki-ch'ol and
Scheler sign 1986-90 plan for scientific cooperation between
Academies of Science. (KCNA 7 October 1986; KCNA
7 October 1986)
8 October 1986)
KWP Secretary Hwang Chang-yop meets with a delegation of the
Central Council of Czechoslovak trade unions headed by Ivan
Gonko, First Uice Chairman of the Central Council of the
Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement. (KCNA
7 October 1986)
KWP Secretary Kim Hwan attends and Vice Premier Kim
Pok-sin delivers speech at meeting in Pyongyang to mark 37th
anniversary of founding of German Democratic Republic. (KCNA
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Kim I1-song meets with T. B. Mukherjee, President of the Asian
Regional Institute of the Chuche Idea, and his delegation from
Delhi, India. (KCNA 6 October 1986)
7 October Soviet warship seizes South Korean fishing boat--encountered
within the Soviet fishing zone--near Hokkaido Island, Japan.
(Seoul Domestic Service in Korean 7 October 1986)
Premier Kang Song-san meets with Bulgarian National Health
Minister Radoy Popivanov, heading a Bulgarian health delegation;
Public Health Minister Yi Chong-yul and Popivanov sign 1986-87
cooperation plan in health services and medical science. (KCNA
8 October 1986; KCNA 9 October 1986)
Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin meets with a Mongolian scientific and
technological cooperation delegation headed by
D. Tsedendamba, Vice Chairman of State Scientific and Technical
Committee; Yo Song-kyun, Vice Chairman of State Commission of
Science and Technology, and Tsedendamba sign protocol of 15th
meeting of Scientific and Technical Cooperation Committee.
(KCNA 8 October 1986)
Eighth Asian Table Tennis Championships open in Shenzhen,
China. (Beijing Xinhua 7 October 1986)
8 October Vice President Yi Chong-ok and Vice .Premier Hyon Mu-kwang attend
dedication ceremony for Tongam Barrage on Taedong River; KPA
Lieutenant General Chong Sang-o makes report. (P'yongyang
Domestic Service in Korean 9 October 1986)
Japanese press reports that directors of the Asian Table Tennis
Association hold meeting in Shenzhen, China. North and South
Korea consent to compete as unprecedented single united team in
the Second Table Tennis Match between Asia and Europe scheduled
for December in Japan. Comment: Agreement is downplayed by
Seoul, ignored by Pyongyang media. (Seoul Domestic Service in
Korean 9 October 1986)
In press interview, Zambian Secretary of State for Defense and
Security Alex Kaunda Shapi declares Zambia will continue to
recognize only North Korea. (KCNA 8 October 1986)
9 October South Korea observes third anniversary of Rangoon bombing with
rallies at Tongjak National Cemetery and other places; Culture
and Information Minister Lee Woong Hee urges North Korea to
return to the negotiating table. North Korea denounces the
statement and denies involvement at Rangoon. (Seoul The Korea
Times 10 October 1986; Seoul Yonhap 9 October 1986; Pyongyang
Domestic Service in Korean 9 October 1986)
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Kim I1-song meets with Romanian Communist Party delegation
headed by Party Secretary Peru Enache; KWP Secretary Hwang
Chang-yop and Deputy Department Director Pak Min-su are
present. (KCNA 9 October 1986)
Premier Kang Song-san meets with Zimbabwean Home Affairs
Minister Enos M. Nkala and his delegation. (KCNA
10 October 1986)
10 October 41st anniversary of founding of Korean Workers Party.
10-17 October Chinese delegation led by Cultural Minister Wang Meng visits
Pyongyang; meets with Vice President Yi Chong-ok.
(Beijing Xinhua 16 October 1986)
12 October 38th anniversary of establishment of Soviet-North Korean
diplomatic relations. Soviet Union marks occasion with
radio commentary stressing friendship, cooperation and
mutual assistance. (Moscow International Service in
Korean 11 October 1986)
Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin meets with government trade
delegation from People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
headed by Deputy Trade and Supply Minister Abdula Salim Al
Gifri; Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Kang Chong-mo and Al
Gifri sign trade agreement. (KCNA 13 October 1986; KCNA
14 October 1986)
KWP Secretary Hwang Chang-yop meets with Hovanyecz Laszlo,
Assistant Editor of Nepszabadsag, Hungarian Party
newspaper. (KCNA 13 October 1986)
13 October Representatives of the Korean Physical Culture and Sports
Guidance Committee and the State Physical Culture and
Sports Commission of China sign 1987 protocol on sports
exchanges, in Pyongyang. (KCNA 14 October 1986)
Kim I1-song is nominated as candidate for deputy to
Supreme People's Assembly at meetings held at the Taean
heavy machine complex, the Taean chicken plant and the
Osin cooperative farm. (KCNA 14 October 1986)
Kim I1-song meets with two Cuban delegations: a military
delegation led by Moises Sio Wong, Major General of
Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces, and a Ministry of
Interior delegation led by Deputy Minister Arsenio Franco
Villanueva. (KCNA 14 October 1986)
KWP Secretary Kim Hwan addresses meeting of "unassuming
men of meritorious services." Also attending are Vice
President Yi Chong-ok, Premier Kang Song-san, Vice
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Premiers Hyon Mu-kwang and Chong Chun-ki, KWP Secretaries
Ho Chong-suk and So Kwan-hui and Vice Premier Kim
Chang-chu. (KCNA 14 October 1986; Pyongyang Domestic
Service in Korean 13 October 1986)
13-21 October Ethiopian economic delegation led by Finance Minister
Tesfaye Dinka visits Pyongyang; meets with Kim I1-song.
Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin, Economic Minister Chong Song-nam
and Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hyong-yul are also
present. Chong and Dinka sign protocol of third meeting
of joint committee of economy, science and technology,
trade and culture of North Korea and Ethiopia; also sign
agreement to form joint agricultural company. (KCNA
14 October 1986; KCNA 16 October 1986; KCNA 21 October 1986)
14 October North Korean Foreign Ministry announces support for a
declaration denouncing South Africa published at the
summit conference of the Six Frontline States--Tanzania,
Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana. (KCNA
16 October 1986)
15 October ' Kim I1-song gives "on-the-spot guidance" at the
construction sites of the Sunchon vinalon complex and the
Tongam barrage; meets with KPA soldiers who are working at
the construction sites. Top officials accompanying Kim
include Yi Chong-ok, Kang Song-san, Yon Hyong-muk, Kim
Hwan, 0 Kuk-yol, Hong Song-nam, Kim Yun-hyok and Pak
Nam-ki. (KCNA 16 October 1986)
Kim Chong-il is nominated as candidate for deputy to the
Supreme People's Assembly from Yongsong in South Hamgyong
Province. (KCNA 16 October 1986)
Democratic Front for Reunification of the Fatherland holds
73rd meeting in Pyongyang; issues appeal to all citizens
to vote in the upcoming elections of deputies to SPA.
Vice President Pak-Song-ch'ol attends. (KCNA
15 October 1986; Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean
15 October 1986)
16 October Kim I1-song congratulates participants at the meeting of
"unassuming men of meritorious services" and poses for
group photograph. Vice Presidents Yim Chun-ch'u and Yi
Chong-ok and Premier Kana Sona-san are also present.
(KCNA 16 October 1986)
Indian Ambassador Lalvunga pays farewell call on Kim
I1-Song; Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam is present. (KCNA
16 October 1986)
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Kim I1-song, accompanied by Vice Presidents Pak Song-ch'ol
and Yi Chong-ok, Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam and Chief
of Staff 0 Kuk-yol, attends performance of the Soviet Army
Double Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble at the Mansudae
Art Theater. (KCNA 16 October 1986)
17 October 60th anniversary of formation of Down-With-Imperialism
Union (DIU). Vice Presidents Pak Song-ch'ol and Yim
Chun-ch'u and Premier Kang Song-san are present at
wreath-laying function at Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery
on Mt. Taesong. (KCNA 18 October 1986)
KCNA broadcasts the 15 October Amnesty International
Annual Report citing 15 human rights violations in South
Korea. (KCNA 17 October 1986)
Kim Il-song meets with Egyptian editor of E1-Messa, Samir
Ragab; Minju Choson Editor-in-Chief Kim Chong-suk and
Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hyong-yol are also present.
(KCNA 17 October 1986)
Meeting at People's Palace of Culture marks 40th
anniversary of publication of "immortal classical work" by
Kim I1-song: "On Present Tasks of Scientists and
Technicians"; KWP Secretary Kim Hwan delivers report at
meeting. (KCNA 18 October 1986)
Kim I1-song meets with delegation of Malian People's
Democratic Union headed by Party Secretary Sekou Traore;
KWP Secretary Hwang Chang-yop and Deputy Department
Director Kim Chae-pong are also present. .(KCNA
17 October 1986)
18 October Agreement for joint operation of the Mali ceramics factory
is signed in Bamako by State Enterprises Minister
Mahamadou Wague and Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Cho
Song-pom. (Bamako Domestic Service in French 19 October 1986)
Czechoslovak Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Jan Stracar and
Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Han Su-kil sign 1987
protocol on exchange of goods and payments in Prague.
(Prague CTK 18 October 1986)
18-21 October East German leader Erich Honecker visits Pyongyang
enroute to China; holds official talks with Kim I1-song.
Vice President Yi Chong-ok and GDR Council of State Deputy
Chairman Guenter Mittag hold talks; Foreign Trade
Ministers Gerhard Beil and Ch'oe Chong-kun sign protocol
on mutual goods deliveries for 1987. Foreign Minister Kim
Yong-nam meets with East .German Foreign Minister Oskar
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Fischer. (P'yongyang Domestic Service in Korean
18 October 1986; East Berlin ADN International Service in
German 19 October 1986; KCNA 20 October 1986; East Berlin
ADN International Service in German 20 October 1986; KCNA
21 October 1986)
19 October Vice Premier Chong Chun-ki delivers speech at meeting to
mark 20th anniversary of a Kim I1-song publication:
"Socialist Medical Science is Preventive Medicine." (KCNA
20 October 1986)
Kim I1-song meets with group from Choson University in
Japan headed by its president Nam Si-u; KWP Secretary Ho
Tam is present. (KCNA 20 October 1986)
20 October North Korea and Soviet Union sign protocol for scientific-
technological cooperation in Pyongyang. (KCNA 21 October 1986)
20-27 October Delegations from Cuba, Soviet Union, East Germany,
Romania, Bulgaria, China, Poland, Czechoslovak and Hungary
attend celebrations of the 40th anniversary of founding of
Kulloja, North Korea's political theory magazine; KWP
Secretary Kim Hwan delivers congratulatory message to
editorial staff at meeting. Delegates meet with Vice
President Pak Song-ch'ol. (KCNA 21 October 1986)
21 October KWP International Department delegation, headed by Deputy
Department Director Kim Yang-kon, visits China; meets with
Vice Chairman of CPC Central Advisory Commission Song
Renqiong. (P'yongyang Domestic Service in Korean
22 October 1986)
Groundbreaking ceremony launches construction of
Kumgangsan hydroelectric power plant; Yim Pyong-ku,
Responsible Secretary of Kangwon Provincial Party
Committee, and Choe Pok-hyon, Chairman of Kangwon
Provincial Administrative and Economic Guidance Committee,
participate in ceremony; KPA Senior Colonel Choe Tong-son
makes report. Power station will be built by KPA
soldiers. (KCNA 22 October 1986; Pyongyang Domestic
Service in Korean 21 October 1986)
Pyongyang City KWP Secretary So Yun-sok reads
congratulatory message to Pyongyang Second Teachers'
College on 40th anniversary of its founding.(yang
Domestic Service in Korean 22 October 1986)
21-27 October Directors of the Hydro-Meterological Services of Socialist
countries hold 19th meeting in Pyongyang. Yi Kon-il,
Director of Korean Hydro-Meteorological Service, and Yuriy
Izrael, Chairman of Soviet State Committee for
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Hydrometeorology and for Monitoring Environment, sign
cooperation agreement. Delegates meet with Vice President
Yi Chong-ok. (KCNA 28 October 1986)
22 October Pyongyang City KWP Secretary So Yun-sok delivers report
at meeting celebrating the rebuilding of Kwangjong
revolutionary historical site in Pyongyang; Pyongyang
Mayor Kang Hui-won also attends. (P'yongyang Domestic
Service in Korean 23 October 1986)
22-23 October Model teachers hold discussion meeting in Pyongyang; KWP
Secretary Kim Hwan and Vice Premier Chong Chun-ki
attend. (P'yongyanq Domestic Service in Korean
23 October 1986)
22-27 October Kim I1-song pays goodwill visit to Soviet Union
accompanied by Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam and KWP
Secretary Ho Tam. Sendoff team includes Kim Chong-il,
Kang Song-san, Pak Song-ch'ol, Yim Chun-ch'u, Yi Chong-ok,
Yon Hyong-muk, Kim Hwan, 0 Kuk-yol, So Yun-sok and other
officials. Kim is welcomed at Moscow airport by Soviet
President Gromyko, CPSU Secretaries Ligachev and Medvedev
? and Presidium Deputy Chairman Gilashvili, and again at the
Kremlin by Gorbachev and Ryzhkov, Chairman of USSR Council
of Ministers. Kim and Gorbachev hold talks and, according
to KCNA, reach "full consensus on all questions
discussed." During tour of Moscow conducted by Medvedev,
Kim sees economic, scientific and housing exhibits as well
as the usual Moscow sights. Gorbachev conducts farewell
ceremony at the Kremlin; Kim invites Gorbachev to North
Korea; Gorbachev accepts. Gromyko, Ligachev, Medvedev and
Gilashvili are among Soviet leaders who see Kim off at
airport. Kim is welcomed home by Kim Chong-il, Kang Song-
san, Pak Song-ch'ol, Yim Chun-ch'u, Yi Chong-ok, So
Ch'ol, Yon Hyong-muk, 0 Kuk-yol, So Yun-sok and other top
officials. Comment: Defense Minister 0 Chin-u is not
present at either airport function. (P'yongyang Domestic
Service in Korean 22 October 1986; KCNA 23 October 1986;
Moscow TASS 22 October 1986; Moscow TASS 24 October 1986;
Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean 27 October 1986;
KCNA 26 October 1986; Pyongyang Domestic Service in
Korean 27 October 1986)
Seminar of Nonaligned and Other Developing Countries on
Eradication of Illiteracy and Expansion of Enrollment
meets in Pyongyang; attracts 35 delegations. Seminar is
result of decision at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting of
the Nonaligned countries held in Angola last year. (KCNA
14 October 1986; KCNA 21 October 1986)
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24 October Politburo members routinely nominated as SPA Deputy
candidates include Defense Minister 0 Chin-u, Vice
President Yim Chun-ch'u, Politburo Member So Ch'ol,
Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam, KWP Secretary Ho Tam, KPA
Chief of Staff 0 Kuk-yol, KWP Secretary Kye Ung-t'ae,
Alternate Politburo Member Chon Pyong-ho, Vice Premier
Hong Si-hak, Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin, Vice Premier Chong
Chun-ki and Pyongyang City Mayor Kang Hui-won. (KCNA
24 October 1986)
Vice President Pak Song-ch'ol meets with delegation of
British Labor Party Members of Parliament headed by
Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas Clarke. (KCNA
25 October 1986)
Three North Korean delegations to North-South talks--the
delegation to economic talks, the delegation to the Red
Cross talks and the delegation to the preliminary contacts
for parliamentary talks--issue joint statement demanding
that South Korea clarify its attitude toward dialogue and
reunification and abandon its anti-Communist policy.
(P'yongyang Domestic Service in Korean 24 October 1986)
KPA Ministry holds reception to mark 36th anniversary of
entry of Chinese soldiers into the Korean War; Chief of
Staff 0 Kuk-yol and Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin are present;
KPA Colonel General Pak Chung-kuk delivers speech. (KCNA
25 October 1986)
25 October 36th anniversary of entry of Chinese "volunteers" into
Korean war.
Construction workers and KPA soldiers rally at Sunchon
vinalon complex to "implement the Great Leader('s)...on-
the-spot teachings given on 15 October 1986." Vice
President Yi Chong-ok, First Vice Premier Yon Hyong-mok
and Vice Premier Hyon Mu-kwang are among those present.
(P'yongyang Domestic Service in Korean 26 October 1986)
3.5 meter bronze statue of Kim I1-song unveiled at Yuwen
Middle School--a Kim I1-song revolutionary site--in Jilin
Province, China; Ambassador Sin In-ha and other local
Party officials attend. (Beijing Xinhua 25 October 1986)
26 October KWP Secretary Kim Hwan leaves to attend funeral of
Mozambican President Samora Machel; Pyongyang City KWP
Secretary So Yun-sok sees Kim off at airport. Kim meets
with FRELIMO Party Politburo Member Armando Guebuza.
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(KCNA 26 October 1986; Maputo Domestic Service in
Portuguese 30 October 1986)
27 October Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin meets with a Soviet
communications delegation headed by Deputy Communications
Minister Gennady Korenko. (KCNA 28 October 1986)
Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin meets with Japanese lawmaker
Yoichi Tani, heading a delegation of the Japan-Korea Trade
Association. (KCNA 27 October 1986)
28 October Vice President Yim Chun-ch'u attends reception hosted by
the Korean Social Democratic Party for a delegation of the
Polish Democratic Party headed by its chairman, Mlynczak
Tadeusz. (KCNA 28 October 1986)
Pyongyang City KWP Secretary So Yun-sok meets with
delegation of Kabul City Committee of Afghanistan headed
by its secretary Mohammad Farid Lali. (KCNA 29 October 1986)
28-October- Council of the Korean International Joint Venture Company
3 November holds first meeting in Pyongyang. Participating in the
discussions are members of economic delegation of General
Association of Korean Residents in Japan, its deputy
chairman, Chon Yon-sik, Vice Premier Kim Pok-sin, External
Economic Affairs Minister Chong Song-nam and other
officials; Council elects Kim its director. Delegation
meets with Premier Kang Song-san. (KCNA 29 October 1986;
KCNA 30 October 1986; KCNA 4 October 1986)
29 October Japanese lawmaker Yoichi Tani announces that Japan and
North Korea have agreed to set up a "joint private-level
economic commission to expand bilateral trade"; plans call
for commission members to meet in Tokyo next year to
discuss ways to increase Japanese imports from North Korea
and the possibility of Japanese-North Korean joint
ventures. (Tokyo Kyodo 29 October 1986)
Vice President Yi Chong-ok leads a KWP delegation to
Nicaragua to attend the celebrations of 25th anniversary
of founding of Sandinista National Liberation Front.
Airport sendoff team includes Vice President Pak Song-
ch'ol. (KCNA 29 October 1986)
South Korean press reports Defense Minister 0 Chin-u in
serious condition in Pyongyang hospital after August
traffic accident. Comment: OEA last noted 0 on
6 September 1986. (Seoul The Korea Herald 29 October 1986)
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Vice President Yim Chun-ch'u meets with Chinese
delegation from Heilongjiang Province headed by Governor
Hou Jie. (Beijing Xinhua 29 October 1986)
30 October Kim I1-song presides over Politburo meeting convened to
discuss results of Kim's visit to Soviet Union.
Communique issued after meeting calls visit an "epochal
event" in expanding and developing relations with the
Soviet Union. Comment: Kim's last Soviet summit meeting
was in May 1984. (KCNA 30 October 1986)
Polish Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Helmut Floeth and
North Korean Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Song Hui-ch'ol
sign protocol in Warsaw on mutual deliveries of goods and
payments for 1987--a 15q increase from 1986. Song also
meets with Polish Foreign Trade Minister Andrzej Wojik.
(Warsaw PAP 30 October 1986)
Angolan economic delegation, headed by Agriculture
Minister Evaristo Domingos Kimba, meets with Vice
President Pak Song-ch'ol and External Economic Affairs
Minister Chong Song-nam. Chong and Kimba sign protocol of
second meeting of joint committee on economic, scientific-
technological and cultural cooperation between North Korea
and Angola. (KCNA 31 October 1986)
Chinese Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang meets with
North Korean delegation from League of Socialist Working
Youth headed by its chairman, Ch'oe Yong-hae; Hu describes
the close relationship between China and North Korea as
that of "lips to teeth." (Beijing Xinhua 30 October 1986)
South Korea protests North Korean plans to build the Kumgangsan
hydroelectric plant on northern tributary of Han River, which
flows through Seoul; Construction Minister Lee Kyu Nyu cites
serious safety and security problems for Seoul. (Seoul Yonhap
30 October 1986)
Results of talks between Kim I1-song and Soviet leader
Gorbachev approved at meeting of Politburo of CPSU Central
Committee in Moscow. (P'vonavan4 Domestic Service in
Korean 1 November 1986)
31 October KWP Secretary Ho Tam meets with a delegation of Japanese
scholars headed by Jun Nishikawa, professor of Waseda
University. (KCNA 1 November 1986)
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June 1987
31st anniversary of organization of Democratic Women's
League, headed by Kim Song-ae.
Political organizations from Chile, Costa Rica, Peru and
Nicaragua plan Havana meeting in support of Korean
(KCNA).
40th anniversary of founding of Korean Central News Agency
Birth of Kim Chong-il's mother, Kim Chong-suk.
Announcement of Kim I1-song's New Year's message.
27th anniversary of activation of Workers/Farmers Red
Guard Unit.
40th anniversary of founding of League of Socialist
Working Youth (LSWYK).
45th birthday of Kim Chong-il.
75th birthday of Kim I1-song.
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/03: CIA-RDP86T01017R000706800001-9
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/03: CIA-RDP86T01017R000706800001-9
SUBJECT: Chronology: North Korea--October 1986
Distribution:
Original - Files
1 - Bill Newcomb, INR/EC/CER, Room 8442, Dept. of State
1 - Joseph A. Mussomeli, East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
Room 5315, De t. of State
1 - DB-2D, Room C 2951, DIA
1 JSI-3C, Room 1C930, DIA
1 - Director, DCI/DDCI/Executive Staff (7E-12)
1 - NIO/EA (7E 62)
1 - C DO (3D O1)
1 - C/EA (5E 18)
1 - OGI/FSIC/PI (2G 18)
1 - OEA/NEA/Korea Branch (4G 43)
1 - OEA/NEA/Japan Branch (4G 31)
1 - OEA/NEA/STI Branch (4G 43)
1 - OEA/NEA Division (4G 43)
1 - OEA/China Division (4G 32)
1 - OEA/SEA Division (4F 24)
1 - D/OEA (4F 18)
1 - C/Production/OEA (4G 48)
1 - FBIS Analysis Group (1014 Key Bldg.)
1 - DDI (7E 47)
1 - Senior Review Panel (5G 00)
1 Office of Legislative Liaison (7B 14)
1 - PDB Staff (7F 30)
5 - CPAS/IMC/CG (7G 07)
1 - CPAS/ILS (7F 50)
1 - C/PES (7F 24)
1 - NIC/AG (7E 47)
1 - DDO/EA Division (5D 00)
1 -
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DDI/OEA/NA/Korea
DDO/EA
DDO/EA
DDO EA
5C 45)
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5C 19
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