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...Analysts here (S.Korea) said the reclusive communist state might pretend to prepare a nuclear test to bluff the United States into looking afresh at stalled negotiations over N.Korea's nuclear programme...
...an imminant nuclear test was predicted in N.Korea last year (2005)
but no test occurred
source: www.turkishweekly.net...
...a spokesman for the National Intelligence Service, S.Korea version of the CIA, also declined to comment on the report...
...a spokesman at Russia's Foreign Ministry said...we have no information that would confirm such reports...
Originally posted by canismajor
Can you feel the heat right now? Besides the war on terroism that netted suspects in a alleged plot in britain last week, the scares in the u.s. this week, iraq, the lebanon and israel conflict. And now n.k. jumps in with a possible nuclear test in the works. SYSTEM OVERLOAD. Has the enemies of the u.s. percieved a weakness about us. Do they think that setting the world stage on fire (either by rehtoric or by actions percieved or real) that we will finally be brought to our knees? How many new alliances have been formed trying to counter our world domination. has n.k. soldout to iranian oil money, not worrying about the chastizing they will recieve by china , let alone the west. Or is this just another ploy by n.k. to gain attention and maybe a better seat at the barganing table? When you can't seem to see the angles anymore you are in trouble.