North Korea says it has atom arms It will boycott talks on ending program; arsenal called self-defense against Bush

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: February 11, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

James Brooke
International Herald Tribune
02-11-2005
In a surprising admission, North Korea's hard-line Communist government declared publicly Thursday for the first time that it had nuclear weapons.It also said that it would boycott United States-sponsored regional talks designed to end its nuclear program, according to a North Korean Foreign Ministry statement transmitted by the reclusive nation's news agency.North Korea said it had ''manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's undisguised policy to isolate and stifle'' North Korea. It said it would ''bolster ...

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