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SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) — North Korea has already manufactured several nuclear weapons and is ready to deploy these in the event of a war, a high-ranking North Korean defector claimed on Thursday.
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Geopolitics: After North Korea’s nuclear bomb test, the People’s Republic of China insists that “punishment should not be the purpose” of any response. Maybe the problem isn’t North Korea, but China.
On the surface, China’s unwillingness to get tough with its client is perplexing. North Korea’s intransigence on nuclear weapons increases risks on [...]

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WASHINGTON – As reports circulated of a second imminent nuclear test, a high-ranking North Korean official who is called the unofficial spokesman for Kim Jong-il issued a not-so-veiled threat to the United States today in an interview with South Korean radio.

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PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang.
The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday’s nuclear test. But military contingencies are [...]

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North Korea has warned that it will take “strong countermeasures” against Japan if it goes ahead with sanctions against the country.
Tokyo said yesterday that it was banning all North Korean imports and barring the country’s ships from Japanese ports. The measures are in addition to the raft of sanctions currently being [...]

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Military Superiority: As North Korea and Iran become nuclear threats, Russia objects to the possible deployment of U.S. defense systems in Poland. But then, so do the Democrats. What would Ronald Reagan do?
Russia, which was supposed to be a partner in the six-party talks to rein in the North Korean missile and [...]

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The naval exercise to be held by US, Bahrain and allies later this month brings a massive concentration of American naval, air and marine might to the Persian Gulf.
US officials said the exercise starting Oct. 31 will practice interdicting ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: US naval, [...]

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Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack of clarity on the issue hampered U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert the underground blast detected Sunday, according to Bush administration officials.

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Russian and Egyptian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Hosni Mubarak will pay special attention to bilateral cooperation in the field of peaceful usage of nuclear energy during their next meeting, national media highlighted on Monday.

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North Korea’s recent underground nuclear test is part of a worrisome trend of increased nuclear proliferation. Before making a decision about moving the hands of the Clock, however, the Board of Directors is also watching to see how the international community responds to North Korea’s actions.

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The North Korean test of a nuclear device — and I use that phrase advisedly, given that it is rather clear it is a test of a Chinese device proliferated to the Hermit Kingdom — has demonstrated at least two things. First, that despite all their bluster and gnashing of teeth, the [...]

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As eras go, the post-Cold war has been a pretty good one. The collapse of communism, the spread of free-market democracies and the general reign of stability bought and paid for by U.S. power all combined to create a world in which China and India have been able to rise peacefully, America [...]

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The Saudis are also worried about Iran. While, on the surface, Saudi Arabia is on good terms with its mighty neighbor across the Gulf, in private, Saudis are unhappy with growing Iranian military power. And then there is the religious angle.

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Nuclear test may threaten Israel by emboldening Iran and increasing risk of arms race, Jewish leaders say.
A nuclear North Korea, Jewish leaders say, increases the risks of nuclear arms races in other parts of the world, including the Middle East, and the danger that nuclear weapons may end up in the hands [...]

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News of North Korea’s nuclear test should make Americans worry all the more about Iran, the “other” proliferation challenge. The question is, what do we do about it?
The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have agreed in principle to impose sanctions on Iran, but the details are still up in the [...]

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NORTH Korea’s economy, and the methods it uses to support a Stalinist society in the globalised 21st century, is a subject as murky, dark and dangerous as its totalitarian leadership.
The greatest danger from Monday’s underground nuclear test may lie not in the potential for a missile attack on another country, but in [...]

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Yes, and a multifaceted one, at that.
It is often said that the United States has neither a long-term strategy in this larger war against terror nor an immediate one in Iraq.
Do We Have a Strategy in the War?
Both are unfair charges, since we seem to have both.
Against the terrorists, our strategy [...]

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