N.Korea Mouthpiece Threatens Another Nuclear Test. North Korea vowed Saturday to respond with “powerful nuclear deterrence” to joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend, saying the drills amount to a provocation that would prompt “retaliatory sacred war.”
A North Korean mouthpiece in Japan on Monday issued a thinly veiled threat of another nuclear test by the North, which is peeved by a massive South Korea-U.S. naval exercise in the East Sea.
The Choson Sinbo newspaper said the North "regards a nuclear test as an essential procedural requirement to gain a nuclear deterrent. In the past, it has not hesitated to conduct a test if it decided it needed one."
The newspaper recalled that the North pledged to "step up nuclear deterrence."
"With less than a year left in power, the [Bush] administration led [North] Korea to conduct a second nuclear test. A similar thing can happen if the Obama administration, which is cornered in the wake of its diplomatic failure over the Cheonan incident, misjudges the situation," the paper warned referring to Washington and Seoul's failed attempt to persuade the UN Security Council to condemn the North for the sinking.
The North conducted the first nuclear test in October 2006 and the second in May 2009.
The act from U.S is The U.S. will ask China and Southeast Asian countries to cooperate as it tightens sanctions against North Korea, a senior diplomatic source in Washington said. The U.S. announced stricter sanctions last week in response to the North's sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan in March.
A North Korean mouthpiece in Japan on Monday issued a thinly veiled threat of another nuclear test by the North, which is peeved by a massive South Korea-U.S. naval exercise in the East Sea.
The Choson Sinbo newspaper said the North "regards a nuclear test as an essential procedural requirement to gain a nuclear deterrent. In the past, it has not hesitated to conduct a test if it decided it needed one."
The newspaper recalled that the North pledged to "step up nuclear deterrence."
"With less than a year left in power, the [Bush] administration led [North] Korea to conduct a second nuclear test. A similar thing can happen if the Obama administration, which is cornered in the wake of its diplomatic failure over the Cheonan incident, misjudges the situation," the paper warned referring to Washington and Seoul's failed attempt to persuade the UN Security Council to condemn the North for the sinking.
The North conducted the first nuclear test in October 2006 and the second in May 2009.
The act from U.S is The U.S. will ask China and Southeast Asian countries to cooperate as it tightens sanctions against North Korea, a senior diplomatic source in Washington said. The U.S. announced stricter sanctions last week in response to the North's sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan in March.
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