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Article: North Korea says Security Council's handling of nuclear issue is 'a prelude to war'
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- April 6, 2003
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Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
North Korea on Sunday rejected the U.N. Security Council's plan to
discuss the standoff over its suspected nuclear weapons development,
calling it "a prelude to war."
Talks about the crisis are scheduled for Wednesday, and Pyongyang
has said that if the Security Council imposes sanctions, it will be
tantamount to war.
The discussions are "a grave provocation act intended to scuttle all
(the North's) effort for dialogue and aggravate the situation on the
Korean Peninsula," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted
as saying by state-run news agency KCNA.
KCNA also quoted the spokesman as saying that even if a ...