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North Korea threatens nuclear test

Wed, 04/29/2009 - 15:47 by Salinder Kumar

Seoul, April 29: North Korea Wednesday warned that it would conduct another nuclear test if the UN Security Council refused to apologise for criticising the Stalinist state's April 5 rocket launch.

"Unless the UN Security Council offers an apology immediately, we will be forced to take additional self-defence measures to protect the highest interests of our republic," a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement cited by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Those measures would include nuclear and ballistic missile tests, it said.

North Korea completes preparation for rocket launch

Sat, 04/04/2009 - 09:44 by rcrchauhan

Tokyo, April 4 -- North Korea has completed preparations for what it calls a communications satellite to be launched "soon", Japanese media reported Saturday, citing Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean official as saying the launch was expected within hours.

North Korea has said it intends to launch a commercial satellite into space some time between Saturday and Wednesday. Washington and Seoul suspect Pyongyang is actually preparing to test a Taepodong-2 missile that could theoretically reach Alaska and carry a nuclear warhead. Its first test of such a missile in 2006 failed.