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North Korea threatens nuclear tests over U.N. move
Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:55pm EDT
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday threatened a new nuclear test unless the U.N. Security Council apologized for tightening sanctions, confirming some analysts' fears that Pyongyang is determined to build an atomic arsenal.
The United States said such threats were counterproductive and urged Pyongyang to return to stalled six-nation denuclearization talks.
"I don't think you will see an apology from the Security Council. Let me just say very clearly that these threats only further isolate the North," U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.
"The North needs to stop making these threats," he told reporters in Washington.
The threat adds to tension in East Asia after North Korea's April 5 rocket launch that the United States and other nations said was the disguised test of a long-range missile.
"In case the (U.N. Security Council) does not make an immediate apology ... the DPRK (North Korea) will be compelled to take additional self-defensive measures in order to defend its supreme interests," the North's foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the KCNA news agency.
"The measures will include nuclear tests and test-firings of intercontinental ballistic missiles."
A Japanese official called for a calm response. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, speaking without mentioning the latest threat, said the protracted six-party talks on North Korea, which the Pyongyang has abandoned, were the way forward.
"North Korea is strongly opposed to the international community's message, and we are taking into consideration the possibility of the North raising tensions," Aso was quoted by a Japanese government official as telling Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing.
"But we think that it is important not to overreact and to respond calmly," he was quoted as saying. "Japan thinks that the six-party talks are the most realistic framework to push forward the denuclearization of North Korea." The talks join Japan, China, the two Koreas, Russia and the United States.
CHINESE INFLUENCE
North Korea timed its latest threat just before the talks in Beijing between Aso and Wen at which Aso also urged China, host of the six-party talks, to "play an important role" with its "great influence" over North Korea.
Wood urged countries with "influence" over Pyongyang, a reference to China, to convince North Korea to live up to their obligations.
China is the closest North Korea has to a major ally, but a nuclear test by the North would be seen as destabilizing the region and is likely to antagonize Beijing.
A fresh nuclear test would rattle financial markets in Seoul and Tokyo but the impact could be short-lived because much of the risk has already been factored in. Continued...
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