NORTH KOREA: Miliary Activity
North Korean military activity over the weekend appeared consistent with the country's usual response to the US-South Korean military exercise Team Spirit.]
Energy Agency Board ofOovernors on Thursday
Comment; Pyongyang regularly conducts callups and training during the US-South Korean exercise and marshals rail and road transport
io support these activities.)
large-scale reserve
mobilizations could indicate cither preparations for hostilities or an attempt to respond with greater intensity to this year's Team Spirit, which the North sees as particularly objectionable because it hoped that the exercise had been terminated last year. Widespread mobilizations could also be an effort by ihe regime to play up even more than normal tbe "threat" posed by Team Spirit, probably to boost the military's suspect loyalty to Armed Forces Supreme
Commander Kim Chong-il j
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