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Moscow, Oct 10: The Soviet-era intelligence agency had regularly updated Kremlin about the atomic technology transfer by Pakistan and China to North Korea, which has conducted its first nuclear test, a top Russian nuclear expert said on Tuesday.

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(October 10, 2006) Chilean officials have expressed growing concern about a military agreement between Bolivia and Venezuela that envisions construction of 24 military bases along Bolivia’s borders.

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Then the little things start to happen that over a period of time add up to something very sinister. I’m on a bus and a high school boy passes around Grandpa’s red leather-bound copy of Mein Kampf to his friends who respond by saying “coooool!” He then takes out a VCR tape [...]

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Israel is concerned that North Korea will transfer materials and technology for the development of nuclear weapons to Iran, a senior Israeli official said Monday following a nuclear test carried out by North Korea.
According to the official, North Korea had issued a warning last week that it would not hesitate to [...]

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New Delhi’s concerns are particularly over the clandestine proliferation aspect of North Korea’s atomic programme which has been helped by Pakistan.
Officials pointed out that Pakistani support to North Korea’s nuke programme has been going on for decades and continued even after the exit from the scene of A Q Khan, the disgraced [...]

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Oct. 9, 2006 — North Korea’s provocative weapons test Monday was either an unusually small nuclear bomb, only partially successful, or possibly even a faked test done with conventional explosives, say seismologists studying the latest freely available seismic data from South Korea and China.
The relatively small, shallow explosion in northeastern North Korea [...]

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Still, there are suspicions that Pakistan may have provided North Korea with nuclear weapon design information in exchange for help in developing missile expertise in the 1990s, and Albright, in comments Monday, suggested that Pyongyang may be further along the path of weapons development than commonly assumed.
“I would not trust reports saying [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — Now that North Korea seems to have made good on its threat with what appears to be a nuclear test, United States military commanders and civilian policy makers are refining plans in the event that President Bush orders a blockade of North Korean shipments to prevent the sale [...]

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If the Stalinist regime is to be believed, it has become a nuclear power, and so far, the American response has been troublingly weak (second item). The pundits have been loud, but not particularly helpful, largely because in their hyper-focus on Stalinist North Korea, they have missed the larger point: Communist China [...]

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NORTH Korea’s nuclear test, coming hard on the heels of its missile tests in July, will cause Japan to reassess whether it will continue to rely on the US for its security. If Japan decides on an independent nuclear option, Australia will have to reconsider its policies. That will be domestically contentious, [...]

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