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NKorea vows to bolster
'war deterrence'
AFP
Friday January 4, 2008
North Korea, which missed a year's end deadline to declare
its nuclear programmes, vowed Friday to build its "war
deterrence," accusing the United States of stepping up
preparations for an attack.
Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the North's ruling Korean
Workers' Party, also denounced as a trick a US statement last
month that it was accelerating the scrapping of its own nuclear
weapons stockpile.
"The DPRK (North Korea) people, seeing through to the
criminal nature of US imperialists, has already been building
up their defence capability," it said in a commentary.
"To cope with the mounting US nuclear war manoeuvres,
the DPRK will further strengthen its own war deterrence."
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It said the US announcement on scrapping its own weapons
was nothing but a "trick" to fool the rest of the
world.
"The criminal ploy led by US war mongers, who are bringing
the world to the brink of a nuclear war by driving for the
development and production of new atomic weapons, has not
changed at all."
The commentary came as the US State Department said chief
envoy Christopher Hill would arrive Monday in Tokyo at the
start of a Asian tour which will also take him to Seoul, Beijing
and Moscow.
The tour is focused on "how to move the six-party process
forward," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told
reporters.
Hill made a rare visit to North Korea last month amid efforts
to scrap the reclusive communist state's nuclear programmes
under a deal involving the two Koreas, the United States,
Japan, China and Russia.
However the Pyongyang regime missed a deadline to disable
its atomic plants and declare all its nuclear programmes by
the end of the year, and is in turn complaining of delays
in getting the energy aid it was promised as part of the deal.
A suspected uranium enrichment programme -- the issue which
in 2002 wrecked a previous disarmament deal -- is another
key hurdle.
Washington says it has evidence Pyongyang imported material
which could be used for such a programme, even if it is not
up and running.
The North has never publicly admitted any such operation.
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