European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday february 18, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9south Korea signs pacts with North Seoul South Korea apr president Roh Tae woo on monday signed historic inter Korea agreements calling for reconciliation and a nuclear weapons ban and Clearing the Way for an end to decades of enmity Between South and North Korea. But Roh warned that a if the accords Are not fully implemented with practical measures it could incur More serious distrust Between the longtime rival states. Communist North koreans Leader Kim ii Sung was also expected to sign the accords. The accords Are to go into effect when the prime ministers meet wednesday and thursday in North koreans capital of Pyongyang. It was unclear whether the agreements would immediately help ease the intense rivalry Between the two Korea because of the North a refusal to take up the nuclear dispute As a main Agenda at this weeks talks. A the significance of the agreements does not lie in putting them into effect but rather in How to implement them through practical measures a Roh said after the signing. Prime minister Chung won Shik National Assembly speaker Park Jyun Kyu chief Justice Kim Duk Joo and other top aides were present As Roh signed the documents at the presidential Blue House. The reconciliation agreement Calls for both sides to respect each others political and social system and pledge not to engage in sabotage or subversive activities. It is the first document to legally confirm the existence of the two Korea. In the past each Korea has claimed that it was the Only legitimate government on the korean Peninsula. Roh took special note of the importance of the nuclear weapons ban and urged North Korea to ratify soon a safeguards agreement it signed with the . International atomic Energy Agency on Jan. 30. Nuclear weapons development was expected to be a major topic at this weeks talks but North Korea has refused to place it on the formal Agenda. The North koreans agreed however to discuss the nuclear Issue outside the conference room. Many International experts believe that North Korea one of the world s last hard line communist states will have the capability to make a crude atomic bomb As Early As 1993. North Korea claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes Only. The rival Korea have a separate agreement to set up a a nuclear control committee to Monitor of their divided Peninsula and conduct trial reciprocal inspections of suspected nuclear weapons Sites. North Korea has not Given a timetable for implementing the . Agreement and allowing mandatory inspections of its nuclear facilities. Neither has it offered any firm schedule for reciprocal inspections of suspected nuclear weapons Sites. Last week North Korea rejected Seoul Scall for Early trial inspections of one civilian and one military facility on both sides. Seoul officials have said they told North Korea that the trial inter Korea inspections should be conducted by the end of this month. The korean Peninsula was divided into the communist North and the capitalist South in 1945 at the end of world War ii. Disabled . Veterans take part in a preliminary to Vietnam s first Marathon. From left Are George Gentry Andy Anderson and Bob Farmer All from Long Beach Calif. Gunman raises Flag of old Saigon regime to Chi m1nh City Vietnam apr holding people at Bay with a gun a vietnamese Man raised the Flag of the fallen South vietnamese government after an International Marathon witnesses said monday. Several Western journalists said the Lone Man climbed atop a vehicle across the Street from the hotel that served As race Headquarters for the to Chi Minh City International Marathon on sunday. He unfurled the yellow and red Flag of the former regime and pulled out a gun in an apparent gesture of protest the journalists said. His identity or motives were not known. The journalists who declined to be identified said Security officials rushed the Man and took him away. They said the Security men also confiscated film from news photographers As Well As from guests at the Saigon floating hotel which carries the City a former name. A Security came from everywhere. They were polite but firm a one hotel guest said. The communist government staged the inaugural Marathon to boost tourism and improve its International image. Some 350 racers from 26 nations including the United states took part. Cosmonaut in space station Pooh Poohs reports of illness Melbourne Australia a a cosmonaut in the orbiting Mir space station denied reports sunday that he has suffered from a mysterious illness for the past two months. Flight Engineer Sergei Kri Kalev 35, on the former soviet Mir space station is often in Contact with Amateur radio operator Maggie Iaquinto of Victoria state. A my health has never been better a he laughingly told the australian on sunday. A flying around Earth it is interesting to notice the dissemination of information throughout the Earth and its distortion. A my wife says Many journalists Are now asking her about my illness and my being stranded in the reports also mention a reported strike by Mission control technicians which was said to have threatened the resupply of Mir and stranded the cosmonaut in space. A the technicians did threaten to go on strike but it never did materialize a Kri Kalv said. Meanwhile the Supply ship docked with Mir As scheduled. Kri Kalev who will by then have spent More than 300 Days in space is scheduled to return to Earth about March 25. He blasted off from Bai Konur cosm drome in Kazakhstan last May 18. Other Mir Crew members have since been replaced during his Mission but he remains in orbit. A replacement Crew is due March 18, when Kri Kalev and flight commander Alexander Volkov who boarded Mir 4 a months ago would both return to Earth. The two arc paired on their second Mir Mission having also served together in the space station in 1989. a latest Mission will be about two months Short of the world record time in orbit set by cosmonaut Musa Sanarov in december 1990. Thai Farmer charged in rape of tourist attack on another Bangkok Thailand up a thai Farmer raped a German tourist after knocking her unconscious and then attempted to murder an american woman with her police in the Northern City of Chiang Mai said. They said Ursula Kaleve 25, from Limburg Germany and Lisa Joy Kerman 33, of Ouray colo., were attacked sunday while walking in a Jungle area near Chiang Mai a popular tourist destination about 380 Miles North of Bangkok. A spokesman said officers arrested a thai Farmer identified As Somchan Panu 33, who admitted to knocking Kaleve unconscious with a Bamboo stick and then raping her. Somchan said he also hit Joy Kerman on the head with an a. Police charged him with rape and attempted murder. The two women Hud asked Somchan for directions to a local health spa. The spokesman said Somchan told police he attacked the women because they were wearing Short pants. Kaleve was treated at a local Hospital and released but Joy Kerman is in serious condition at the facility the spokesman said. Japanese arrest Brothers for color copied bogus Bills Tokyo up two japanese Brothers taking advantage of their country a advanced technology used a color copier to counterfeit some $160,000 Worth of japanese notes police said monday. So Tamaki 23, and his brother Jin 21, were arrested Friday for printing several thousand 10,000 yen notes Worth about $80 each in the younger brother Sokina Wahome using leased color co Puii. Jin was arrested earlier this month Tor trying to buy plane tickets with a friends credit card. While in the process of questioning him police found some $4,400 Worth of identical Bills in his pockets. A search of his Home in Naha a about 940 Miles Southwest of Tokyo a revealed More of the notes and the color copier. So a resident of Tokyo was later arrested on the same charge. The Brothers used some of the notes to pay a taxi fare in Tokyo police said. According to a local print shop color copying machines sport a Label warning against copying slumps Money Gnu Omen promissory notes. Such copying is illegal in Japan
