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N. Korea Stages Nuclear Test for the U.S.
North Korean Foreign Ministry declared Tuesday the country is preparing a nuclear test, as the nuclear weapons will become reliable guarantee against the U.S. threat of aggression. The statement of North Koreans appeared once the bill specifying rigid sanctions against that country was forwarded to the U.S. President George W. Bush to be signed into law.
North Korean Foreign Ministry issued its statement via the official news agency. The document explicitly informs they proceed to the nuclear tests and promises to firmly guarantee the safety. The root cause of the decision is said to be the plotting activities of the U.S. aimed at isolating and suffocating North Korea.
The timing of this statement of North Korea is interesting. The Foreign Ministry of the country vowed to conduct nuclear tests just when the agitation about their preparation there raged itself out for some time.
The U.S. media reported in September that the satellites spotted suspicions activities on the nuclear range in the northern part of North Korea. At that time, Seoul and Moscow said they had no intelligence findings confirming the data, Pyongyang kept silence and all talks tailed away in the end.
The recent statement of North Korea hardly means Pyongyang will actually conduct a nuclear test in the near term, a high-rank official of South Korea speculated. Rather, they want to psychologically pressurize the United States. By strange coincidence, a bill aimed to impose sanctions against North Korea and companies cooperating with it and assisting it in spreading the weapons of mass destruction, missiles and/or other technology to deliver such weapons was forwarded to President George W. Bush just a few days ago.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 04, 2006
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