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CIA says North Korea nuclear test a failure: report
Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:57pm ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's nuclear test last October was a
failure and gives no credence to Pyongyang's claim to being a nuclear
weapons state, U.S. CIA Director Michael Hayden was quoted as saying
by a South Korean newspaper on Wednesday.
North Korea said in October it had successfully conducted an
underground nuclear test. U.S. and South Korean officials and experts
have said the blast produced a relatively low-yield explosion, and
some questioned the North's nuclear capability.
"The United States does not recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons
state," Hayden was quoted as saying by a South Korean defense official
in the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. "It's because the nuclear test last
year was a failure."
Hayden was speaking to South Korean Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo on
his stop in Seoul as part of visits to South Korea, Japan and China,
JoongAng Ilbo said.
South Korea's Defense Ministry declined to confirm Hayden's comments
but said Hayden had visited Kim on Tuesday. The U.S. embassy declined
to comment.
The test last year led to a U.N. Security Council resolution slapping
financial sanctions on Pyongyang.
But North Korea agreed to a breakthrough deal in February with South
Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China to end its nuclear
program in return for aid worth about $330 million.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:57pm ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's nuclear test last October was a
failure and gives no credence to Pyongyang's claim to being a nuclear
weapons state, U.S. CIA Director Michael Hayden was quoted as saying
by a South Korean newspaper on Wednesday.
North Korea said in October it had successfully conducted an
underground nuclear test. U.S. and South Korean officials and experts
have said the blast produced a relatively low-yield explosion, and
some questioned the North's nuclear capability.
"The United States does not recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons
state," Hayden was quoted as saying by a South Korean defense official
in the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. "It's because the nuclear test last
year was a failure."
Hayden was speaking to South Korean Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo on
his stop in Seoul as part of visits to South Korea, Japan and China,
JoongAng Ilbo said.
South Korea's Defense Ministry declined to confirm Hayden's comments
but said Hayden had visited Kim on Tuesday. The U.S. embassy declined
to comment.
The test last year led to a U.N. Security Council resolution slapping
financial sanctions on Pyongyang.
But North Korea agreed to a breakthrough deal in February with South
Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China to end its nuclear
program in return for aid worth about $330 million.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
