Tuesday October 10, 2006

North Korea conducts its first nuclear test

channelnewsasia.com :

Defying worldwide appeals and threats of sanctions, North Korea on Monday announced it had carried out its first nuclear weapons test, calling it a "historic event". The communist state's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the underground test was carried out safely and successfully and there was no radiation leak. A South Korean defence ministry official quoted by Yonhap news agency said the test was carried out at Hwadaeri near Kilju on North Korea's northeast coast at 10:36 am (0136 GMT).

There was no immediate official confirmation in the South of the test. But the presidential office said the state intelligence agency had detected a 3.58 magnitude seismic tremor in North Hamgyong Province, where Kilju is located. China condemned Pyongyang for "brazenly" carrying out the test. The test took place around the time Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Seoul for talks on handling the nuclear crisis and just three days after a UN Security Council statement was issued against North Korea.

- The world has just changed. Maybe it was just my imagination, but yesterday evening, on the way back home, I observed that many drivers were driving rather erratically, even crazily, on the expressway. Hell, why not, the world is getting crazier anyway.

(2006-10-10 13:08:49 SGT) [Musings] Permalink

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