ASIA: N Korea threatens nuclear tests....again

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8024235.stm

N Korea threatens nuclear tests


The resumption of reprocessing follows a missile test

North Korea has threatened to carry out nuclear missile tests unless the UN Security Council apologises for its condemnation of a recent rocket launch.
Pyongyang said it would be compelled to take self-defence measures "including nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests" if no apology was made.
When North Korea launched its rocket on 5 April, the launch was seen by the US and others as a disguised missile test.
The UN denounced North Korea's actions and called for tighter sanctions.
Pyongyang has insisted it put a communications satellite in orbit, and said it would ignore the sanctions, describing them as "a wanton violation of the UN charter".
North Korea conducted its first and only nuclear test in 2006.
Backward step
North Korea's foreign ministry said the UN should apologise for "infringing" the country's sovereignty and retract "all its resolutions and decisions" against Pyongyang.
It also announced plans to build a light-water nuclear reactor, according to the statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Following the UN criticism, the North pulled out of international negotiations on its denuclearisation and ejected all monitors from the country.
Pyongyang has since announced that it has started reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant.
The reprocessing is a possible move towards producing weapons-grade plutonium.
North Korea had partially dismantled its nuclear reactor under a deal agreed at international talks in early 2007, in which it was also promised fuel aid.

How long can they play this game? Reading news from N.Korea remind me so much of the time I was working in a kindergarden.

[NoGravitas]

So long as China backs them up no country is gona make a serious attempt to stop them.

[Claydon]

What does he need this time? More porn and french rose'?

[Hoser]

So lets see if I have this right,

Originally Posted by North Korea

You better apologize for condemning us for our unsanctioned rocket launch/test, because if you don't we will do a launch/test of a nuclear missile

Does that pretty much cover it?

[Claydon]

I believe the US really fucking pussied out by not taking out that missile. The japanese and the US have the ability to do it and we didnt do it.

So we appeased this asshole again.

[Hoser]

Most of its path was over land, doesn't seem like a good plan, if it had gone any further then an interception should have happened. I highly doubt there wasn't someone with their finger hovering over a button waiting for the word.

[Morfin]

Originally Posted by Hoser

So lets see if I have this right,

Does that pretty much cover it?

Yep. Pretty much, "If you don't apologize for calling our 'satellite launch' a 'nuclear missile test,' we will do a nuclear missile test."

[kid_vidrio]

Originally Posted by Claydon

I believe the US really fucking pussied out by not taking out that missile. The japanese and the US have the ability to do it and we didnt do it.

So we appeased this asshole again.

Or we gave him the impression that we wouldn't or couldn't.

[Claydon]

Originally Posted by kid_vidrio

Or we gave him the impression that we wouldn't or couldn't.

we can, the USS Eerie and various other ABM vessels of the pacific fleet have been testing off of the coast of oahu for a few years now with terrific success. But now we apparently want to cut funding to such programs, especially at a time when N. Korea's missiles seem to get better with each test.

[kid_vidrio]

i fear you misunderstand me.

[Hanover Fist]

In the spirit of multilateralism we should declare that we plan to hold a joint nuclear exercise with the North Koreans only we will be testing ours above ground while they test theirs below ground.