South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported that North Korea has carried out its long-threatened nuclear weapons test.
The agency cited government officials. However, the South Korean government wouldn't immediately confirm Monday's report. Neither could U.S. intelligence.
However, KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, confirmed the test, saying there was no radiation leakage.
The North had been threatening such a test as part of its deterrent against a possible U.S. invasion.
The United States, South Korea, Japan and China have all warned North Korea, a secretive communist state, against the test.
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SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea received intelligence on Monday that North Korea might have conducted a nuclear test, officials here said.
"President Roh Moo-hyun called in an emergency meeting of related ministers on Monday to discuss the North Korean nuclear issue," Foreign Ministry spokesman Choo Kyu-ho said. "The meeting comes as there has been a grave change in the situation involving the North's nuclear activity."
He refused to go into further detail, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
Finally.... some good news. :) um... or should I say 'real' news.... the kind that creates a collective pantywad-gasp instead of the curdled wads we've been dealing with of late....
Would it be politically incorrect to clap?
Posted by: Phoenix | Sunday, October 08, 2006 at 11:04 PM