North Korea announced on Monday it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, defying American warnings and dramatically raising the stakes in international effort to get the recalcitrant Communist state to give up its nuclear weapons program.
The North’s official news agency, KCNA, said the country had conducted an “underground “ nuclear test.
The announcement came moments after the South Korean government geological sensors had detected an artificially triggered earth tremor emanating from Gilju, northeast North Korea, said Lee Dong-kwan, spokesman of the office of President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea.
The spokesman said “intelligence officials of South Korea and the United States are analysing the data and closely monitoring the situation.”
We live in interesting times.
North Korea to Obama...testing, testing, testing...can you hear us now?
whether it was a nuke or not, it was still a test...
you know that's a Chinese curse..."may you live in interesting times."
Posted by: renee | Monday, May 25, 2009 at 01:39 AM