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Science > Prophecies-Of-Nostradamus |
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"Foaming at the Mouth Psychotic" |
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23 Nov 2005 12:22:14 PM |
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North Korea threatens to build up deterrent |
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
North Korea threatens to build up deterrent
SEOUL: North Korea's foreign ministry has threatened to multiply its
deterrent force a thousand times in an angry response to a UN vote
expressing serious concern about Pyongyang's human rights record.
The ministry dismissed the UN General Assembly vote as an "absurd
attempt" by Washington to topple the Stalinist regime. The UN
resolution adopted Thursday expressed concern about reports on torture,
public executions, and the imposition of the death penalty for
political reasons and the extensive use of forced labour in communist
North Korea. "If one is to protect human rights one should have state
power among other things and powerful deterrent to defend its state
power," said the ministry statement carried late Monday by the
official Korean Central News Agency. North Korea uses the term
deterrent to refer to nuclear weapons it says it has developed. "The
Korean people will ... defend the precious socialist system and bolster
up the deterrent for self-defence a thousand times under any
circumstance and situation." It blamed the United States for the
adoption of the resolution, which was in fact sponsored by the European
Union. "The present US administration with inveterate enmity towards
the DPRK (North Korea) has put spurs to its moves to realise the absurd
attempt at a 'regime change' under the signboard of 'human
rights'," the spokesman said in a statement. afp
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