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Article: NORTH KOREA: WE'VE GOT NUKES \ FIRST PUBLIC ADMISSION.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2005
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Byline: Sang-Hun Choe Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea announced for the first time today it has nuclear weapons, and it rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying the bombs are protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
The communist state's statement dramatically raised the stakes in the 2-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 evermore undisguised policy to ...