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False alarm, but S Korea fears war |
Didn't our former resident APNer Peter Ewart Britton aka Peter
"Lemesurier" say something
about a "hair raising" nuclear conflict on the Korean Peninsula some
years back, peoplez ?!?!??!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20560219-661,00.html
False alarm, but S Korea fears war
Gerard McManus
October 11, 2006 12:00am
REPORTS of a possible second North Korean nuclear test have been played
down by Washington and Tokyo. It was small comfort for South Korea,
however, which is preparing for war.
While the rest of the world ponders sanctions, South Korea's military
meanwhile was checking its readiness for nuclear war, Yonhap news
agency reported today.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff reported to Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung
the need for verifying and improving troops' capabilities, Yonhap said.
The worldwide alarm underlined the jitters felt after North Korea
announced it had tested its first nuclear bomb, leading to a
U.S.-backed push to have the UN Security Council sanction the reclusive
communist state.
Some say the regime may conduct more tests amid suspicion the first,
relatively small explosion might have partially failed.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported the possible second test
today, but the US Geological Survey said it had detected a 5.8
magnitude earthquake off the coast of northern Japan which appeared to
be the source of speculation that North Korea had tested another
nuclear device.
A senior Bush administration official, responding to a reporter's query
about a possible second nuclear weapons test in North Korea, said that
was apparently a false report.
"I've just been told it was a false alarm, an earthquake,'' said the
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
NHK reported that government sources in Tokyo had information that
there was a tremor in North Korea this morning and they were checking
on the possibility of a nuclear test.
A short time later Japan's Meteorological Agency said a magnitude 6.0
quake shook northern Japan.
The agency said that the tremor was a genuine quake and had nothing to
do with reports of a possible second nuclear test by North Korea.
Top Japanese officials could not confirm the report of the possible
nuclear test.
"I have not heard any information with that kind of sign," Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe said in Parliament when asked about the report.
But Foreign Minister Taro Aso did not rule out the possibility of a
second nuclear test.
"I am aware of information that North Korea may possibly have carried
out a second nuclear test today, but there is no confirmation of it,"
Aso said.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said it was still assessing whether
there had been any seismic waves.
In Seoul, the South Korean presidential office quickly denied the
Japanese reports.
"So far we have not received reports of fresh seismic activity," a
presidential spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the international community is moving quickly to impose
tough sanctions on rogue nation North Korea as shock waves from its
nuclear test spread.
Countries including Australia are exploring ways to punish the North
Korean Government without harming its already suffering people.
Proposals include banning materials that can be turned into weapons, a
freeze on financial transactions and a ban on luxury goods.
In a report sure to send more shivers around the globe, the South
Korean news agency Yonhap quoted an unnamed North Korean official as
saying: "We hope the situation will be resolved before an unfortunate
incident of us firing a nuclear missile comes.
"That depends on how the US will act."
Australia will stop visits by North Koreans and will move to cancel
existing visas.
Within days, however, the United Nations Security Council is expected
to vote for trade sanctions as well as inspections of all cargo
entering and leaving North Korea.
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer summoned North Korean
ambassador Chon Jae Hong to Parliament House yesterday to carpet him
over his country's underground nuclear test.
At the end of the meeting Mr Downer showed Mr Chon a picture he had in
his office of North and South Korea at night.
"I said the policies of his Government had led to this shameful
situation, where the people of South Korea lived in relative
prosperity, and the people of North Korea lived in poverty," Mr Downer
said.
"And I in particular made the point that it is of grave moral concern
to us that North Korea depends on food aid from the international
community, including from Australia, to keep its people alive while it
spends billions and billions of dollars developing nuclear weapons."
Mr Chon defended his country's decision to join the nuclear club.
"(It is in our) supreme national interests and security of our nation,"
Mr Chon said before meeting Mr Downer.
Mr Howard said the test had done great damage to the world's push to
reduce nuclear weaponry.
"What North Korea has done is a very serious blow to the
non-proliferation regime," he said.
North Korea claimed it was willing to return to international arms
talks and abandon its nuclear program if the US took "corresponding
measures", Yonhap reported.
"The nuclear test is an expression of our intention to face the United
States across the negotiating table," an unnamed North Korean official
said. "We have lost enough. Sanctions can never be a solution.
"We still have a willingness to give up nuclear weapons and return to
six-party talks as well."
Among worldwide condemnation last night:
TENSIONS grew on the Korean Peninsula as China cancelled leave for its
troops along its border with North Korea. China's Foreign Ministry said
North Korea's nuclear test would negatively affect ties between the
once-friendly countries
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