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East Asia FBIS-EAS-87-167 CONTENTS 28 August 1987 NORTHEAST ASIA Japan Nakasone Plans September Visit to U.S. /YOMIURI SHIMBUN 26 Aug] .........:::ccccssessessessesseesesseeseees l Goals Outlined for Trade Talks With U.S. oo... ecccsseeeeteeeesseeseessseeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeceseaeseneseaseaseeeeeenees l Lower House Passes Revised COCOM Bill .0...........cccececesscecssssneeceeseseseescesseseeeeeseseneeeceeeeeeaeseseseeeereeeeses l Miyazawa on Intervention in Exchange Rates .................c:cccccssssseeeccssseeseeseesseeeeeeeeeeeeeeceseeecesaeeeseeeeeeeeeees 2 Outline of White Paper on Air Defense ..............c:ccccccccceessssssseccecceessssessecseeeeseseeseseeeseeeeeeeseeeceeueceseeeeeees 2 USSR Navy Exercises Likely ...............ccccccccssscssssecessseeceeessesseeeeeseeessesseseneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaceeseeeeeeceeaeeeeees 3 Defense Agency Wants Aegis ...............::sccccsscccsssecssssececeesseeeeceesscesteseeeeeceeseeeeeeeeeceeueeceeseeceteeeeeeeeeens 3 Expelled Businessman Denies USSR Spy Charges ................cccsscccsssessssessecssecessessneceeeeseseeseneeeseseeeeneanees 4 Officials Comment on Philippine Coup Attempt .................::cccccccssssscssessseseeesseeececeeesececeeeeeeeeesseeeeseecesaeees 4 Experimental Satellite Achieves Planned Orbit 20...............ccccccccccccccessssssessseesseceeessseeeecceeecceceeesseseceeseeeeeees 5 Mongolia Namsray Speaks at Youth Center Opening .0............:cccceccesceceeeseeecesseeeeseeseseseceeceeseseseeeesssaeeseeseeseeaeeeseees 5 Deputy Party Secretaries Need To Improve ...0..............ccceccceeeesesessscecescessceseceeceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeesagees 5 Measures Taken To Develop Microbiology ................c:ccccseccesessseceeseesessesseceeeesesseeeneeeeeseeseseeseaesenseseeeees 5 EE panera reterretetencrnaiatemanatinmtenenienantinntiaenieeeennenanninentantanar ena 5 SPEED GEIEIEED GED MEET. ccococcccosnecccosssevecoccedcnsevecnecseqnssoneqnequseneceneqnccesnsossoonesnnenenennsoneneasoutvteneceontase 5 North Korea Statement Calls for Deputy Minister Talks ................c:cccccccecccceeeessssecescessesscessneceececeeceeeeeeesseeccaeeetaceeseeeees 6 Commentary of Legacy of Slain Daewoo Worker /[NODONG SINMUN 26 Aug] ......cccccccsscssssseseeeseeees 6 Daily Denounces No Tae-u’s Remarks /NODONG SINMUN 24 Aug] .....::.cssccccssscccessesesessecsscesseeseeneees 7 60th Anniversary of LSWYK Celebrated .0...........cccccccccceeccccccccecesessesessecsecscscceecceeceeseeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeeeeeees 8 South Korea DPRK’s Paek Hak-nim Hong Kong Visit /THE KOREA TIMES 28 Aug] ............sssccccssscsesssssseeseeeeees 9 20,000 Attend Slain Worker’s Funeral [KYODO] u0.........ccccccccssccsssssssssscssessesseceeessceescaeeeeeseeseseeseaeeenes 10 Okpo Daewoo Shipyard To Resume Work /THE KOREA TIMF' 28 Aug] ......::ccccccsssessesseseeseseeeeees 10 Model for Solving Labor Unrest /THE KOREA HERALD 28 Aug] .00.......:ccccccsescsssesesseesseseeeees 10 Ministry Expects Labor Disputes To Ease ................:ccccssccccessssseccecessscessesseseceeeeesesseessseceececeseeesneeeeeeeeeees 11 Daily Denounces Interference in Disputes /SEOUL SINMUN 26 Aug] ........:.:scccsccssssescessssescssesseneees 12 DJP Considers Mid-February Elections /THE KOREA TIMES 28 Aug] ............sscsssscssssssessssssecseeeees 13 Interparty Faction for Kim Tae-chung /THE KOREA HERALD 28 Aug] ............:ccccseccessssseseseeseeceeees 13 PEI GP GEER TIEED ccacesecoccccesnnsssneneqnansnnneneennammnanamnaanenpendecterensecevenssecesennesencenessneeecnencensees 13 DJP To Agree To Drop Residency Clause /THE KOREA TIMES 26 Aug] .........cc.sssccssssssssesseseeeseees 14 DJP, RDP To Make ‘Package Compromise’ /THE KOREA TIMES 28 Aug] .......:::sccsssssssssssssseeseeees 14 Government To Begin Probes of Radicals /THE KOREA TIMES 28 Aug] .........::ssccscsssssssssssssseeseees 15 SOUTHEAST ASIA Burma Paper Comments on Ne Win Party Speech /BOTATAUNG 16 Aug] ....c....scccssscccssseessccsseeseescseeseeeeees 16 Cambodia Chea Soth Receives Soviet Delegation .............ccccsscsscsevcssscccsscssccssessscesersscsescossscssessesscsssssessessessesssonsees 16

Cultural-Scientific Program With GDR ouu.......cccceescecsesececseseceeceeeesccessesseseeeesesceececececeeeeeeseeeeseeeeteeseenaees 16

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28 August 1987 2 East Asia News Conference on Reconciliation Policy ..............c:ccccccsssssessscesseeeeeseseeceecesseeccessececseecseeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseees 17 SRV Reconciliation Policy ‘Unacceptable’ /VONADK] ...........:cccccccccccsssssecesseeseeeseeseeneenteeeeeeeeneeeneenens 17 Khieu Samphan Greets Romanian Minister /VODK] ..........ccccccccccccccssseeeesseceseeeeseneessenesseseneeeenessnsensens 18 Laos Radio Expresses Support for DPRK’s Proposal ................ccccccssessssssseceeeceeceeesecesseceseeeseeeeeesseeeeceeeeenseess 18 Dialogue on Thai, Regional Situation .0.............:cccccessseeessscesscsscsscesseceeeeeeeeeeesseecsesensenseseeeseeeeaeeeeneeesaeees 19 Philippines Reportage on Coup Attempt by Rebel Troops /KYODO] .00........:...ccccesssseccesssseeeeeeseeseeeseeeesseeeeseneeenees 21 Cahinet Meeting Called ..............cccccccecessscccessssccceeeessscccesseeseseesesseeeeeeeseececsseesesseeeeecesseeeeeseeeeeeseeess 21 Rebels in Camp Aguimaldo [AFP] 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..........:cccccccssssssssesseseceessseceecesseeseeeaseaseaseaseseseeesseeeseeseess 30 Planes Hit Camp Aguinaldo [KYODO] u............ccccccccccsessssseeseeeessssnececseaeeesnsesaseaeesessassesneeseaceeasens 31 SY PCD ED ccncescccrecccsesececeunesenesensseesersusecenesonesseoseusnseeseeecseoconsnesseccseqscnenenesecueets 32 Overview of Situation Thailand Sitthi Reports on Visit to PRC, DPRK ouu......cccc cece ccccceccessccccccsscssscessccececececseeceesscsceesesenseceseseceeeeeecesseers 33 Gen Chawalit Discusses Upcoming USSR Trip /THE NATION 28 Aug] ......:.scccscsssssssscesscseseseneeeesees 34 Spokesman on Possible Nakasone Visit /KYODO] .00.........cccccccsssssssscsesseccesseeesessacensescscsseeaeseaseeeseeseesees 35 SRV Troops Hamper Chong Bok Construction /THE NATION 28 Aug] .......ccccssssssssssssssesecesseeesensens 35 Vietnam Foreign Ministry Statement on ASEAN Meeting ..................ccccccscesceesssscececeeeeeeseceesseeceeeeseeseeeesseeeeeeseeenes 35 CPV Delegation Pays 10-Day Visit to USSR .u..........cc cc cccccececesscsseesecessssssseeesceesseeesseecseeseeeseeeeeceeeeeneeegs 36 Health Ministry Views Dengue ‘Epidemic’ .....................cccccccessesscesceessseccececeeeeessceeseeeesteeeeecaeeseeeeeensessnes 36 Lang Son Province Promotes Industrial Crops .................cccccsscssssssesececssseceeeeeesecesseeeaceneesecseesseeseneeeeaeees 37 AUSTRALASIA Australia U.S. Beef Import Ban Lift Welcomed ....0.....0.............ccccccccessssscsscessccsssssscssessssseccsssesecsesessecesssecesessescennes 38 Fiji

France Offers Funds for Naval Base [AFP] ...........:..:ccscsssssssessessessescesccesseceeseseesensenseseseseeaseaseaseessensesees 38

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28 August 1987 3 East Asia New Zealand Lange Criticizes France for Oppression [AFP] ...........:::csccsssseceeseceeseeseesseeeeeseseceeecnneeeseeeeeeenneneeeeaaeeess 38

Lange’s Labor Party Wins One More Seat [AFP] o.0.......cccccsccccessseessceeeceesessseseseseeceeeeeeeeeeeenanananenaaeeees 39

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Japan

Nakasone Plans September Visit to U.S. OW260023 Tokyo KYODO in English 0012 GMT 26 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 26 KYODO — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone will visit New York next month to attend a U.N. General Assembly session as well as to hold talks with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, quoting government and ruling party sources, said Nakasone wants to use the New York visit to wind up his five-year diplomatic activities as prime minister. His term of offices expires October 30.

It said Nakasone plans to make a speech on peace and disarmament at the General Assembly on September 21 when the U.S. President is also scheduled to speak at the Assembly.

Nakasone and Reagan will likely hold talks in New York around that time and the Japanese prime minister will throw his full support behind Reagan’s position at a U.S.-Soviet summit expected later this year, the Yomiuri said.

It said Nakasone, accompanied by Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari, will leave for New York on Septem- ber 19 and return home on September 23.

Goals Outlined for Trade Talks With U.S. OW271107 Tokyo KYODO in English 0842 GMT 27 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 27 KYODO — Japan and the United States will hold a regular trade committee meeting in Maui, Hawaii, from August 31 through September 3 before the U.S. Congress reconvenes early next menth.

A joint committee of both houses is to discuss the amalgamation of two omnibus trade bills containing protectionist elements and providing for retaliation against Japanese companies.

Koji Watanabe, director general of the Foreign Mini- stry’s Economic Affairs Bureau, will represent Japan at the Hawaii meeting, while Michael Smith, deputy U.S. trade representative, will head the U'S. side.

In the meeting, Japan wants to impress on American delegates that it has made efforts to open up its market and to give a fair appraisal of current trade problems with the U.S. before Congress reassembles. It also wants to hear the U.S. Government’s attitude toward the omnibus trade bill and whether it will persuade congress- men not to pass the protectionist measure, foreign min- istry officials said.

The meeting will also be important for U.S. officials hoping to deflate protectionist feeling in Congress, he said.

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Japan is particularly concerned about the proposed strengthening of section 301 of the U.S. trade act on “unfair” trade practices of foreign nations, tariffs against dumping, and punitive measures against Toshiba Group products in retaliation for Toshiba Machine Co.’s illegal exports to the Soviet Union in violation of COCOM [Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Con- trols} rules.

Japan will seek an early end to U.S. punitive tariffs on Japanese color televisions, machine tools and electronic calculators in retaliation for what the U.S. says are “unfair” Japanese semiconductor exports.

Japanese and American officials will also review devel- opments in separate trade problems, the detailed imple- mentation of proposals for improved trade, issues related to the trading system, and agriculture.

The official said Americans are showing concern about supercomputers, U.S. participation in the construction of the multibillion dollar New Kansai International Airport, expansion of U.S. auto parts exports, soda ash exports to Japan, garbage disposal shipments, controver- sial recordings by digital audio tape recorders, and a second KDD [international telegraph and telephone].

They are also concerned about the Japanese Govern- ment’s financial assistance to smaller enterprises, U.S. penetration into the Japanece market through large retailers and the activities of U.S. lawyers in Japan.

The U.S. side will call for a Japanese explanation of how its “action programs” to open up its market are progress- ing and of Japan’s pledge to import | billion dollars worth of foreign products under government procure- ment.

The U.S. delegates also want to take up the issues of the liberalization of beef and citrus fruit imports to Japan and Japanese market-opening for {2 agricultural prod- ucts such as tomato juice and processed cheese, the officials said. |

Lower House Passes Revised COCOM Bill OW270629 Tokyo KYODO in English 0624 GMT 27 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 27 KYODO — The powerful House of Representatives Thursday passed by a majority vote a revised bill designed to keep a closer eye on sensitive exports from Japan to communist countries following the Toshiba Machine scandal.

The bill revising the nation’s foreign exchange and foreign trade control law was immediately sent to the House of Councillors for ratification.

It was one of five key bills which won lower house approval.

The full lower house acted on the proposed legislation after its commerce and industry committee cleared it Wednesday despite protests from three major opposition parties.

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The Socialist, Komeito and Communist Parties strongly opposed a revision of the foreign exchange and foreign trade control law, arguing it runs counter to free trade.

The governing Liberal Democratic Party, under pressure from the United States, had drawn up the revised law to prevent a repetition of unlawful sales of advanced tech- nology to the Soviet Union and other communist bloc countries.

Toshiba Machine Corp., a subsidiary of the widely diversified Toshiba Corp. electronics firm, has been under fire for exporting advanced submarine propeller- milling machines to Moscow in violation of COCOM [Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Con- trols} rules.

The revision includes a tougher criminal sentence of “no more than five years” from the current three in the case of COCOM violations and mandates talks between the ministers of international trade and industry and foreign affairs to determine the feasibility of exporting certain products to the communist bloc.

Miyazawa on Intervention in Exchange Rates OW280147 Tokyo KYODO in English 0132 GMT 28 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 28 KYODO — Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Friday the Japanese monetary authorities will step into the foreign exchange market if exchange rates show erratic moves.

He also told reporters after a cabinet meeting that an international agreement to stabilize exchange rates is still valid.

The finance minister said there is no fear of inflation increasing in Japan at this stage, pointing to low levels of wholesale prices.

Outline of White Paper on Air Defense OW280129 Tokyo KYODO in English 0054 GMT 28 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 28 KYODO — The following are the main points in the government’s white paper “Defense of Japan,” released Friday:

— The Soviet Union has built up sufficient power to confront the United States in the spheres of both nuclear and conventional forces.

— No change has yet been seen in the trend of the Soviet Union’s increase of its military forces.

— The Soviet Union is building a large-scale phased array radar network encircling the entire Soviet Union.

— The United States, which is inferior to the Soviet Union in quantitative terms, is trying to increase its deterrent by adopting sophiscated weapon systems.

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— Soviet military buildup around Japan has not only made the international military situation in the region more strained but also increased latent threats to Japan.

— The Soviet Union attaches great importance to its advances in the Pacific Ocean and it is clear that Japan’s geographical location hinders the route of advance.

— Despite Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s peace initiative, as shown in his speech in Vladivostock last year, there has been no change in the trend of Soviet military buildup in the Soviet Far East.

— The Soviet Union deploys a quarter to a third of its military forces in the region and continues to build them up both in qualitative and quantitative terms.

— The Soviet Union has deployed new type TU-95 Bear-H bombers, capable of carrying AS-15 long-range cruise missiles equipped with nucler warheads, in the region. Some | 70 SS-20 intermediate-range nuclear mis- iles and about 85 TU-22M Backfire supersonic medium- range bombers are deployed in the Soviet Far east.

— The SS-20 missiles, positioned in central Siberia and around Lake Baikal, are each equipped with three nuclear warheads and are capable of reaching Japan within 10 minutes of launching.

— The Backfires, capable of carrying AS-4 air-to-surface missiles, which are deployed west of Lake Baikal and on the shore opposite Sakhalin, have a range of about 4,000 kilometers and thus an excellent attack capability against the sea-lanes around Japan.

— About 390,000 troops, or 43 divisions, out of the entire Soviet ground force strength of some two million troops, or 211 divisions, are deployed in the Far East, roughly east of Lake Baikal. The Soviet ground forces have been upgrading their chemical warfare capability.

— About 840 ships, including 75 nuclear-powered sub- marines, out of the Soviet Navy’s total strength of about 2,980 ships, are under the flag of the Soviet Pacific Fleet.

— The Soviet Air Force has about 8,840 combat aircraft, of which about a quarter, or 2,390, are deployed in the Far East. These comprise about 460 bombers, about 1,730 fighters and about 200 patrol planes.

— Some Soviet aircraft flying near Japan have been suspected of conducting “attack training” exercises against Air Self-Defense Force radar sites.

— It seems that the Soviet Union is building a new type of over-the-horizon radar in the Far East to detect aircraft in the Pacific.

— There has been no prospect of resuming dialogue between North and South Korea since its suspension in January last year and military tension is continuing in the area with more than 1.2 million ground troops confronting each other across the demilitarized zone.

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— North Korea continues to build up its military forces, with an annual defense budget equivalent to 20-25 percent of its gross national product.

— The North Korean Army has about 750,000 troops or 33 divisions and about 3,300 tanks. The Navy has about 520 ships, includisg 19 submarines and 28 high-speed missile boats. The Air Force has about 750 combat aircraft.

— Military cooperation between North Korea and the Soviet Union has been closer since President Kim Il- song visited Moscow in May | 984. The Soviet Union has provided MiG-23 fighters and surface-to-air missiles, believed to be the SA-3 type.

~~ Three ships of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, including the aircraft carrier Minsk, called at a North Korean port in July 1986. The North Korean and Soviet Navies con- ducted combined exercises in the Sea of Japan in Octo- ber 1986. These developments are factors which could affect the military balance in the Far East as well as in the Korean peninsula.

— China has intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range covering both the Soviet Union and the United States, more than 100 intermediate-range and medium range ballistic missiles and about 120 medium-range TU-16 bombers. two nucler-powered submarines, which are believed to be equipped with SLBMs, have been commissioned. China is said to be building some other nucjear-powered submarines.

— There has been an improvement in relations between the Soviet Union and China. The Soviet Union with- drew a division of troops from Mongolia to a Soviet military district near Mongolia between April and June. However, there has been no change in their fundamental military confrontation.

— The Soviet Union deploys about 500,000 troops along the Sino-Soviet border, where China deploys more than 1.3 million troops. Though the number of Chinese troops on the border is more than 2.5 times that of Soviet troops, the Soviet Union is superior to the Chinese forces in term of firepower, mobility, and antiaircraft capability.

— Japan’s defense spending ranked ninth in the world in 1984, but in terms of the ratio to gross national product and the overall government budget, as well as per-capita expenditure on defense, Japan’s defense spending is far below the levels of the United States and Europe.

— The government set a new policy early this year of holding down defense spending to 18.4 trillion yen for the five-year fiscal 1986-90 period in terms of fiscal 1985 costs.

— The government will continue to maintain a policy of moderate defense buildup after 1991.

— There should be no concern that Japan will become a major military power, because Japan's defense spending is decided through procedures under civilian control.

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-- Air defense capability at sea should be considered from the viewpoint of defending the Japanese mainland as well as the security of ships at sea, given the increasing threat from the air.

— With the advances in military technology, aircraft flight performance has improved and long-range missiles have been developed. As a result, the flight range of aircraft has increased and long-range missiles now enable them to attack radar sites and airfields from further out at sea.

— The Defense Agency is considering introducing an efficient system of maritime air defense which combines over-the-horizon radar, airborne early warning aircraft, interceptor fighters, air tankers for midair refueling and a shipboard air defense missile system.

USSR Navy Exercises Likely OW 280739 Tokyo KYODO in English 0726 GMT 28 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 28 KYODO — The Soviet Navy is apparently preparing to conduct naval exercises in the northwest Pacific, Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) officials said Friday.

A total of 25 warships were detected some 60-160 kilometers east of the southernmost tip of Sakhalin early Friday morning, the officials said.

Tiie Soviet Pacific Fleet ships are moving eastward and are expected to be heading for the northwest Pacific, MSDF officials said.

An MSDF P-3C antisubmarine patrol plane and a destroyer spotted a fleet of five Soviet warships, includ- ing the Kirov-class nuclear-powered missile cruiser Frunze, near the Soya Strait Thursday morning.

A Sovremenny-class missile destroyer was spotted 65 kilometers off Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Cape Thursday morning and a total of 19 warships, including the Kiev- class aircraft carrier Novorossiysk and amphibious assault landing ship /van Rogov, were seen moving through the Sea of Japan off northeastern Japan Thurs- day afternoon, the MSDF officials said.

Defense Agency Wants Aegis OW 280823 Tokyo KYODO in English 0809 GMT 28 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 28 KYODO — The Defense Agency announced a 3,735.4 billion yen budget request Friday for fiscal 1988, starting next Aprii, including procure- ment of a destroyer equipped with the sophisticated U.S. Aegis missile system. The figure represents a 6.2 percent increase over the original defense budget for the current fiscal year.

The Aegis system is vital to maritime air defense to cope with an increased threat of air attack, according to defense officials. It is an air defense missile system

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capable of detecting, tracking and destroying many enemy missiles simultaneously, using highly efficient radar and computers.

The 7,200-ton destroyer, to be modeled after the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy, would cost 136 billion yen, of which 3.8 billion yen is being sought in the fiscal 1988 budget. The Aegis destroyer would be a command ship in one of the four escort flotillas of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), the officials said.

The Defense Agency hopes to have the first aegis ship to be commissioned in fiscal 1992, they said. The agency wants to procure two Aegis ships during the mid-term defense program which started in fiscal 1986 and to eventually deploy a total of eight Aegis ships to the four escort flotillas, they said.

It also requested 36 million yen for studies on the installation of an Over-the-horizon (OTH) radar system on Iwo Jima island in the western Pacific, 1,200 kilome- ters south of Tokyo. OTH radar can detect targets beyond the horizon and cover |,000 to 3,000 kilometers in distance over a span of 60 degrees, and is useful as an early warning system, the officials said.

The U.S. Navy reportedly plans to install the radar system on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians, Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines to monitor Soviet flights from the Soviet Union or a base in Vietnam to the western Pacific.

The officials said that in order to cope with growing threats from the air an efficient combination of oth radar system, airborne early warning aircraft, air tankers and interceptor fighters is required.

The request also includes procurement of one escort vessel, one submarine, two minesweepers, | 1 P-3C anti- submarine patrol aircraft, 12 SH-60J antisubmarine heli- copter and one EP-3 electronic warfare data gathering aircraft.

The agency sought 15 F-15 interceptor fighters, two C-130H transport aircraft, three CH-47J transport heli- copters, three UH-60J rescue helicopters and a system of surface-to-air patriot missiles to be provided to an air defense missile group.

Regarding a next-generation support fighter, referred to as the FSX, the officials said the agency is considering making an additional request later this year. The agency is considering whether the FSX should be developed domestically, or jointly with the U.S. aerospace isdustry, or imported.

For the Ground Self-Defense Force, the agency requested 56 tanks, 23 armored personnel carriers, eight AH-IS antitank helicopters and six SSM-1 surface-to- ship missiles. The SSM-1, which has a range of more than 100 kilometers, was developed in Japan.

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Expelled Businessman Denies USSR Spy Charges OW271305 Tokyo KYODO in English 1243 GMT 27 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 27 KYODO - A Japanese business- man expelled from Moscow denied Thursday evening Soviet allegations that he had engaged in illegal informa- tion gathering.

Takeo Otani, deputy chief of Mitsubishi Corp.’s Moscow office, made the remarks at a press conference after his return to his homeland Thursday afternoon.

Otani said, “I never did such a thing. I was surprised when I first heard of the Soviet order to leave Moscow.”

He went on to say, “I acted within the limits permissible for businessmen. I have never overstepped that mark.”

Otani and Nobuhiro Takeshita, a defense attache at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, were ordered out of the Soviet Union August 19.

Otani, asked to leave Moscow within one week, left last Tuesday and returned here via London. Although Takeshita was ordered to leave as soon as possible, he is still in Moscow.

The Soviet Union alleged that Otani had tried to get classified trade information from the Foreign Trade Ministry, while Takeshita had been involved in spying in the Black Sea port of Odessa.

Otani, an expert on Japan-Soviet trade, spent a total of 10 years in the Soviet Union. He dealt mainly with construction and agricultural machinery.

As a countermeasure to the deportation, the Japanese government ordered the acting Soviet trade representa- tive in Tokyo, Yuriy Pokrovski, out of Japan for alleged involvement in the illegal purchase of aircraft-related documents.

Officials Comment on Philippine Coup Attempt OW280039 Tokyo KYODO in English 0032 GMT 28 Aug 87

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 28 KYODO — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said Friday that Philippine President Corazon Aquino appears to be confident of maintaining power despite a coup attempt earlier in the day.

Nakasone, talking briefly to reporicrs at his office, said the Japanese government is trying to obtain information on the Philippine coup attempt.

Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari said the Japanese Government hopes for an early solution to the attempted coup in the Philippines.

Japan expects the Filipinos people to continue their state-building efforts under Aquino, Kuranari said.

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The coup attempt stemmed from a feeling of dissatisfac- tion among some Filipinos following a transport strike triggered by a boost in oil product prices, he said.

Experimental Satellite Achieves Planned Orbit OW271203 Tokyo KYODO in English 1147 GMT 27 Aug 87

[Text] Tanegashima, Kagoshima Pref., Aug. 27 KYODO — An H-! rocket, Japan’s experimental three-stage rock- et, was launched successfully Thursday and the rocket- carrying experimental technical satellite type 5 (ETS-5) was successfully separated about 27 minutes later.

The 140-ton, 40-meter-ta!! H-! rocket, developed by Japan’s National Space Development Agency (NASDA), was launched from Tanegashima island in southern Japan at 6:20 p.m. [0920 GMT], making a giant leap forward in Japan’s space development technology.

After the successful release of the ETS-5 satellite, NASDA estimated it got on its planned geostationary orbit avove the equator slightly to the southeast of Japan with its perigee 200 kilometers and apogee about 36,000 kilometers.

NASDA named the satellite Kiku (Chrysanthemum) 5. Mongolia

Namsray Speaks at Youth Center Opening OW241301 Ulaanbaatar MONTSAME in Russian 1348 GMT 22 Aug 87

[Text] [Passage indistinct] During his short address, T. Narangerel, (?first secretary of the MRYL Central Com- mittee), said that it was the (?youth) who came out as the initiators for the construction of the center. They under- took a broad fundraising campaign by encouraging sav- ings in youth labor collectives.

He was followed by T. Namsray, member of the Polit- buro and secretary of the MPRP Central Committee, who stressed the important role the youth center must play in implementing the party’s program task of devel- oping the country’s younger generation in an all-round and harmonious way.

The honored guests attended a ceremony at which new members were received by the MRYL and presented leading MRYL members the capital awards of the MRYL Central Committee. They also toured the pho- tography and art exhibition featuring works by young masters.

The center’s music and dance hall today welcomed its first guests in its discotheque. A concert by masters of the arts was given in the center's 700-seat concert hall. Soon more than 20 groups, clubs, and arts associations devoted to a variety of youth interests will begin perma- nent activities.

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Deputy Party Secretaries Need To Improve

OW280259 Ulaanbaatar MONTSAME in Russian 1345 GMT 27 Aug 87

[From the 27 August Press Review]

[Text] Ulaanbaatar, 27 Aug (MONTSAME) — Unen editorial touc'1es on the competence of deputy secretar- ies of party o-ganizations. The paper notes that, to this day, antiquated concepts about the secondary (?role) of deputy secretiwries of party organizations continue to exist where it is necessary to select and place profession- ally and politically well-prepared people in these posi- tions, people who would be capable, where necessary, of successfully coping with the duties of a first secretary.

Measures Taken To ‘Develop Microbiology

OW230753 Ulaanbaatar MONTSAME in English 1721 GMT 21 Aug 87

[Text] Ulaanbaatar, 21 Aug (MONTSAME) — The MPRP Central Committee and the MPR Council of Ministers have adopted a resolution on developing bio- technology, introducing its achievements into the national economy and also enhancing cooperation with CEMA member-states in this field in accordance with the comprehensive program of scientific and technolog- ical cooperation up to the year 2000. The MPRP Central Committee and the MPR Council of Ministers have instructed the State Committee for Science and Technol- ogy and the MPR Academy of Sciences to realize together with appropriate organizations before the sec- ond quarter of 1988 a target-oriented program of iniro- ducing biotechnology achievements into agriculture, industry and the public health system, of training qual- ified personnel necessary for the branch as well as expanding cooperation with the CEMA member-coun- tries. The MPR Academy of Sciences is to set up an institute of biotechnology. It is expected to considerably expand and strengthen the material and technical foun- dations of the institutions dealing with [word indistinct] microbiology and provide qualified personnel.

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MPR Imports From USSR

Ulaanbaatar, 27 Aug (MONTSAME) — The MPR imports from the S viet Union more than 90 of its machinery and equipment requirements, as well as 100 of its requirement for oil and rolled ferrous metals. Also, more than 40 of imported consumer goods come from the USSR. The fruit- ful cooperation with the UsoR and other fraternal countries is developing and broadening. [Summary] /Ulaantar MONTSAME in Russian 1332 GMT 27 Aug 87 OW]

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North Korea

Statement Calls for Deputy iminister Talks SK280211 Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean 0100 GMT 28 Aug 87

[Statement by the spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry calling for an immediate response on prelimi- nary talks at the vice ministerial level for the North- South foreign ministerial talks in which the U.S. secre- tary of state will also participate]

[Text] More than a month has passed since the DPRK Government advanced a new proposal for large-scale arms reduction to ease tension prevailing on the Korean peninsula and open a brighter prospect for peaceful reunification.

We have proposed the holding of deputy ministerial preliminary talks in Panmunjom either by the end of August or on a mutually agreeable date for North-South foreign ministerial talks, to also include the U.S. secre- tary of state, and we have proposed urgently pushing ahead with it.

Because of its justness and reasonableness — it has sufficiently taken into account the starid of the South Korean authorities who even pay lip service to dialogue — this proposal of ours has evoked broad support and sympathy at home and abroad. And not only the Korean people, but also the world’s peace-loving people unani- mously call on the United States and the South Korean authorities to respond to it at an early date.

Nevertheless, the United States and the South Korean authorities have not responded affirmatively to our proposal for arms reduction while pursuing without letup a confrontational and splittist line.

On 13 August, the South Korea: authorities in a state- ment by the spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Affairs, while talking about so-called national self-determina- tion, opposed the holding of talks between the North- South foreign ministers in which the United States would also participate, and reiterated only the call to hold North-South foreign ministers’ talks to discuss such questions as simultaneous UN membership and cross- recognition. They did not even say a word in response to ovr proposal for preliminz.ry talks. This is a very insin- cere act.

As for the principle of national self-determination, there is no need for further explanation that this priuciple is one of the fundamental stands toward the reunification of the fatherland which the government of our republic has invariably maintained since the first day of national division, and that the proposal for large arms reduction put forth this time is also based on the principle of the national self-determination, and is to be thoroughly real zed in the country as a whole.

Above all, it is ridiculous for the South Korean author- ities, who have the 40,000-strong U.S. troops in South Korea and have been deprived of even the prerogative of

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the supreme military command by the U.S. forces, to talk about national self-determination.

If the South Korean authorities think that their unjust stand of not responding on the North-South arms reduc- tion talks, in which the United States will also partici- pate, can be concealed by the veil of national self- determination, this is a big miscalculation.

Today, to alleviate tension on the Korean peninsula and create a favorable atmosphere for the future of the peaceful reunification, above all, arms reduction must be realized. Only then, can the acute state of the military confrontation prevailing over the Military. Demarcation Line be eliminated, and an atmosphere of trust be crated between the North and South, and a breakthrough open for the peaceful reunification of the country.

We should not merely repeat arguments over the nation’s important issue, but should carry it into practice by sitting face to face.

The question of arms reduction is not a pure domestic matter of the nation, but an issue in which the United States is directly involved. Therefore, it is clear to everyone that not only the foreign ministers of the North and the South but also the U.S. secretary of state should participate in arms reduction talks.

Therefore, we call for North-South foreign ministerial talks in which the U.S. Secretary of State will participate and again maintain that to ensure the success of the talks, preliminary talks of vice ministerial level officials should be immediately held.

We think that these preliminary talks should be held with the North and the South, as well as the United States, participating. However, if this is inconvenient to United States and the South Korean authorities, we even call for first holding bilateral preliminary talks between us and South Korea.

Proceeding from such a stance, we propose that the preliminary talks be held at 1000 on 23 September at Panmunjom and for this, our side will dispatch a dele- gation comprising 4 or 5 members headed by a vice ministerial official.

We expect that the South Korean authorities will pru- dently handle our repeated proposals and will affirma- tively respond to them.

28 August 1987

Commentary of Legacy of Slain Daewoo Worker SK271315 Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean 2153 GMT 26 Aug 87

[Nodong Sinmun 26 August commeniary: “A Heavy Blow Must Be Dealt t2 Murderous Villains’’]

[Text] Anger and indignation prevai! in South Korea at the Chon. Tu-hwan-No Tae-u murderous ring, which, by launching a brutal tear gas canister attack, mercilessly

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murdered Yi Sok-kyu, a young worker of Daewoo Ship- building Co who rose up in the struggle to demand that democratic rights be guaranteed, that wages be increased, and that the company’s unjust measure to suspend its business be revoked. Workers at Daewoo Shipbuilaing Co occupied Okpo Hospital in Koje, where the corpse of youth Yi Sok-kyu is placed, and are continuing a sit-in struggle there. Determined to deal a heavy blow to the devilish murderers to take revenge on them, they also boldly struggle almost daily with sit-ins.

The National Coalition for a Democratic Constitution, which is headquartered in Seoul, decided to hold a funeral service for the worker Yi Sok-kyu, who was sacrificed by tear gas canisters, in the name of a demo- cratic national funeral. They also organized the Seoul- Inchon Funeral Committee comprised of representatives of labor organizations, members of off-stage political organizations, politicians, and student representatives. Demanding that traitors Chon Tu-hwan and No Tae-u, murderous villains, resign immediately, that the puppet minister of home affairs and all other people concerned be fired, that they make a public apology, and that tear gas canisters not be fired, they declared they would struggle to the end. Overwhe’med with sizzling hatred and anger for the Chon Tu-hwan ring which bestially murdered Yi Sok-kyu, a young worker who rose up in a righteous struggle for democracy and the right to exist- ence, we share with the workers and fellow countrymen in the South their grief for the loss of a patriotic youth. However, instead of recognizing and apologizing for its murderous crime, at the 26 August r.ceting of DJP postholders, challenging the voices at home and abroad the demand that killers be punished, the Chon Tu-hwan- No Tae-u ring babdbled about the intervention of off- stage and outside forces and resorted to threats by saying that they will sternly deal with the struggle of the Daewoo Shipbuilding Co workers through a party-gov- erment discussion.

In a meeting with reporters that day, the puppet prime minister also babbled about the intervention of outside forces and resorted to intimidation by saying that he can no longer tolerate the political exploitation of Yi Sok- kyu’s funeral. In this way, he disclosed the colors of a member of the fascist cabinet who was sworn in to guarantee the DJP hooligans’ extension of power.

This brutal murder was not an incident simply commit- ted by some policemen taking place because they did not follow the safety regulations on the use of tear gas canisters. On 24 August, a prosecutor at the puppet Masan Local Prosecutor’s Office disclosed an autopsy report that four wounds were found in the murdered youth Yi Sok-kyu’s breast and that several pieces of metai shrapnel of various sizes were found in his lungs. This is evidence that the fascist group is firing tear gas Canisters not to control demonstraiors but to kill them.

He was killed because the Chon Tu-hwan-No Tae-u ring, while seeking to extend its fascist dictatorship, mobilized suppressive forces to indiscriminately attack peaceful

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crowds, demanding independence and the right to exist- ence, with tear gas canisters. The ringleaders of Yi Sok-kyu’s brutal killing are traitors Chon Tu-hwan and No Tae-u themselves, who have indiscriminately sup- pressed the struggle of the workers who rose up to seek democratic freedoms and the right to existence, branding it as an illegal destructive act. The puppet traitors are unparalleled national butchers and devilish murderers.

Since it turned Kwangju into a sea of fellow country- men’s blood and took power with guns and bayonets, the Chon Tu-hwan-No Tae-u ring has successively commit- ted the brutalities of murdering its fellow countrymen. This year, the fascist clique bestially tortured and mur- dered Pak Chong-chol, a student at Seoul National University, and brutally murdered with tear gas canisters Yi Tae-chun, a worker in Pusan, and Yi Han-yol, a student at Yonsei University, both of whom rose up in struggles.

Tyrants who have made killing their undertaking do not last long. The rule of guns and bayonets by the Chon Tu-hwan-No Tae-u ring, which considers its fellow coun- trymen the objects of sacrifice for the U.S. imperialists’ colonial rule and the fascist dictatorship and which frantically suppresses the people, must be buried to end the politics of murder in South Korea. The young worker Yi Sok-kyu will not have died in vain. The South Korean workers and people will unfailingly avenge his death and will drag the Chon Tu-hwan-No Tae-u ring, the murder- ous ringleader, out to punish them in the name of history, arduously struggling until they bury the fascist dictatorship.

Daily Denounces No Tae-u’s Remarks SK252351 Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean 2154 GMT 23 Aug 87

[Nodong Sinmun 24 August commentary: “Deceptive Balderdash Aimed at the Presidential Post”)

[Text] On 18 August, traitor No Tae-u, DJP president, held a so-called public forum on the political situation with some university students at the DJP’s political training center in Karak-dong, Seoul. At the forum, he ridiculously described himself as the only politician qualified to be president and spun out exiremely brazen and nauseating gibberish, talking about a way for unrav- eling the Kwangju incident, the implementation of the 29 June declaration, and the existence of the United States. This is an intolerable mockery of, and an open challenge to, the South Korean people demanding the clarification of the truth of the Kwangju incident and the democratization and independence of society.

On that day, No Tae-u brazenly called himself one of those who had expressed concern over the Kwangju incident, and babbled that it would be good to wind up the Kwangju incident with mutual pardon and the res- toration of each other’s honor.

The Kwangju incident — an unprecedented homicidal atrocity in which thousands of people were slaughtered

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en mass — is a criminal case that can never be shelved merely with a pardon or few words.

Along with Chon Tu-hwan and Chong Ho-yong, No Tae-u was one of the ringleaders and murderers who submerged the city into a sea of blood by mobilizing special airborne troops, making violent remarks that the security of the United States was in jeopardy and the insurgents must be annihilated.

Whom can the murderer pardon and whose honor can be restore’? Furthermore, how can the Kwangju citizens and people pardon the peerless murderers and national butchers who ruthlessly killed fellow countrymen?

Only when Chon Tu-hwan, No Tae-u, Chong Ho-yong, and other murderers and criminals atone for their atroc- ity before the people and are executed according to the stern judgment of history and the nation, can the mas- sacre incident, the Kwangju incident, be wound up legally, though the resentment and indignation of the people may remain.

No Tae-u’s remarks about big progress in fulfilling the 29 June commitments are also brazen utterances. The 29 June commitments were entirely a deceptive and swin- dling propaganda which he put forward to escape from impending crises in the regime, prolong the fascist dic- tatorship, and consolidate his power system while drag- ging tin.e.

He would not be unaware that in a recent edition, the Choson Ilbo of South Korea denounced No Tae-u, saying that even though he had talked about democratization with rosy words, not tenors of democratization but currents of antidemocrat zation had become fierce; and urged him to stop making remarks and verify his com- mitments in practice. Nevertheless, he clamored about progress in fulfilling commitments. This shows that traitor No Tae-u is a despicable political imposter who unhesitatingly conduct brazen acts of distorting facts to deceive public opinion and to exalt his image.

Referring to relations between the United States and South Korea, he babbled that South <orea is not subser- vient to the United States and the United States has rendered assistance to the development of South Korea. This is disgusting balderdash which only a sordid pro- U.S. flunkeyist traitor can make. No Tae-u is a truculent pro-U.S. lackey who has been fed and systematically tamed into a murderer.

It is precisely because cf No Tae-u’s devoted loyalty to his U.S. masters that he was chosen as an heir to the dictatorship.

The prattle of the puppet traitor nakedly revealed his inherent nature as a pro-US. lackey.

Originally, the forum with students was part of dirty popularity-seeking tactics designed to assume the presi- dency by deceiving public opinion and by exalting his image.

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The people’s resistance in June was precisely triggered by the nomination of No Tae-u as a presidential candidate. This indicates that No Tae-u has already