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                  * C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t *

                             (News General)

                           February 10, 1991


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News Brief ..............................................................6
1. Rebellion in North Korea Crushed ....................................26
2. Old shells unearthed from tourist site...............................39
3. U.S. Trying to Prevent East Asia Bloc, Mahathir Says ................39

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News Brief ..............................................................6
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From: chenh@ucs.indiana.edu
Source: AP NEWS 2/9/91

  -- Shattering nearly a week of relative calm, an Iraqi Scud missile crashed
into a street in populous central Israel before dawn Saturday. At least 26
people were injured and a half-dozen apartments wrecked.

  -- A senior aide to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein returned to Iran
Saturday, reportedly carrying a reply to a secret Iranian plan to end the Gulf
War.

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1. Rebellion in North Korea Crushed ....................................26
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From: Zuofeng Li   < zuofeng@pollux.wustl.edu >
Source:  UPI, Feb. 8, 1991

TOKYO -- North Korea has crushed a rebellion against its leadership and purged
counterrevolutionary elements within the ruling Workers Party, Kyodo News
Service reported Thursday.

Citing Radio Pyongyang, Kyodo said the plot was planned by ``anti-party, anti-
revolutionary elements and anti-party revisionists.''

The nature of the plot and names of officials involved were not disclosed.

The purge wiped out ``unorthodox ideological tendencies'' within the party and
has ``given complete assurance to the purity of its blood lineage,'' the
broadcast was quoted as saying.

The radio broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said in a commentary that rebellious
elements within the party were all purged under the leadership of Kim Jong Il,
the eldest son and heir apparent of President Kim Il Sung, according to Kyodo.

It was the first reported plot against the Kims.

The elder Kim has ruled the communist-controlled northern half of the Korean
Peninsula since the end of World War II.

There was no confirmation of the report by the official (North) Korean Central
News Agency.

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2. Old Shells Unearthed From Tourist Site...............................39
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From: Zuofeng Li   < zuofeng@pollux.wustl.edu >
Source:  UPI, Feb. 7, 1991

BEIJING -- Bomb experts removed more than 200 World War II-era artillery
shells from the lake at Beijing's Summer Palace after they were unearthed
during renovations at the popular tourist site, the official press reported
Thursday.

The Guangming Daily, a state-run newspaper, said the ordnance had apparently
lain undisturbed for about 50 years at the bottom of Kunming Lake, which is
used for boating in the summer and ice skating in the winter.

Investigators said the shells were dumped into the lake in the late 1930s and
early 1940s by Nationalist Chinese troops as they withdrew under the Japanese
invasion.

The Summer Palace, one of Beijing's most popular tourist attractions, was
built in the late 1880s in northwest Beijing by the Empress Dowager Ci Xi. It
is now a public park.

Work crews drained the shallow lake late last fall and began a silt-clearing
operation, but dug up a World War II-era mortar shell in early December, the
Guangming Daily said.

Officials called in the Chinese army, which sent bomb disposal squads and
mine-detection teams that eventually unearthed 205 shells of varying sizes and
a number of other kinds of explosives.

The newspaper report did not say whether any of the shells was actually still
live, but said all the explosives were transported to a military field testing
site and destroyed.

The English-language China Daily published a photograph of soldiers sweeping
the dry lake bottom with mine detectors alongside five shells apparently stood
on end for the picture. It said officials determined the shells were
manufactured in 1927.

``The hidden trouble in the silt of Kunming Lake has been completely
eliminated,'' Zhang Zhixian, a bomb disposal expert, told the Guangming Daily.
``The people of the capital and domestic and foreign tourists can rest
assured.''

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3. U.S. Trying to Prevent East Asia Bloc, Mahathir Says ................39
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From: <chenh@ucs.indiana.edu>
Source: KYODO 02/06/91

Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the United States was trying to
scuttle the formation of a proposed East Asia economic grouping by trying to
influence certain countries against participating.

Malaysia will not protest the U.S. effort, Mahathir said, but will continue
to woo as many East Asian countries as possible.

''Certainly, they (U.S.) will not like cooperation among other countries as
it will prevent their control of the world's economy,'' Mahathir told
reporters.

Mahathir said that when the U.S. made its free trade agreement with Canada,
it did not seek Malaysia's opinion and Malaysia did not interfere.

Asked if the U.S. moves will seriously jeopardize the formation of the East
Asia group, he said Malaysia was prepared ''to face all
difficulties.''

U.S. diplomats denied that the U.S. was working against the formation of the
economic group, but some ASEAN diplomats said U.S. officials had approached
them on the matter, and pointed out how much the U.S. market was worth to the
ASEAN countries.

Faced with the collapse of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks last
year, Mahathir suggested that the East Asian countries form a trade bloc to
counter possible future protectionist tendencies emerging in the West.

Mahathir envisaged a grouping of the dynamic economies of Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, and ASEAN with the potentially important markets of China and
Indochina.

However, the proposal faced its first setback when Japan reacted negatively,
saying that it was against the formation of a trade bloc.

Mahathir then decided to push his proposal in ASEAN and later persuade the
other East Asian countries to join.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Malaysia, Thailand,
Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines and all have unofficially
agreed to endorse the proposed larger grouping at their summit later this
year.

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