North Korea Admits Formally to Having Nukes
North Korea has finally admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Thursday announced for the first time that it has nuclear weapons and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks any time soon, saying it needs the armaments as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
The communist state’s pronouncement dramatically raised the stakes in the two-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea’s nuclear program through six-nation talks.
“We … have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration’s ever more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North),” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
It appears the Norks are just positioning themselves for better bargaining position to get more free stuff from the international community before beginning the 6 party talks again. Sounds like they are getting more and more desperate. If they do a nuclear test then we know they are really getting desperate for aid. We should know more in the coming days. Stay tuned.
