Pyongyang Won`t Rule Out Nuke Test

Stalinist North Korea is not ruling out conducting a nuclear test following July?s failed test of a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, despite warnings not to do so from its American foes and Chinese friends. Pyongyang, named by President George W. Bush as a member of the ?Axis of Evil?, is using Washington?s opposition to the oppressive regime as an excuse for holding onto the option of a nuclear test. It is believed that North Korea has a small number of nuclear weapons, which it has admitted to building.

If North Korea continues to push the ?Washington is our enemy, so we have a right to hold a test? angle, it will likely be the case that opponents of Bush policy toward the Communist regime will urge the White House to take a conciliatory tone. However, analysts in favor of a tough stance will likely make the point that North Korea?s repressive regime is not a U.S. creation, and that Pyongyang has chosen to pursue nuclear weapons rather than feed its own people is a choice that North Korea, not America, made.

A pro-Pyongyang organization in Japan released a statement this week in its private newspaper that can be seen as propaganda direct from North Korea: ?We can`t say for sure that North Korea will not conduct a nuclear test as part of strengthening its self-defense,? the statement read. ?The full responsibility for this lies with the U.S., which regards any forces that don`t agree with or submit to its logic or actions as evil. It is self-evident that we have to take strong countermeasures to protect our country from that threat.?

                                 

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