North Korea
Japanese stocks were steady on Tuesday morning as investors remained calm in their first chance to trade in Tokyo since North Korea announced it had conducted a nuclear weapon test.
FT 10th Oct 2006
North Korea’s nuclear test leads Tuesday’s papers.
BBC 10th Oct 2006
Yesterday’s claim that North Korea had had a successful nuclear test followed four years of mounting tension between the country and America. North Korea’s actions have been widely condemned, but there is uncertainty as to what steps can be taken against a country which already has restrictions on its imports.
Bucks Free Press 10th Oct 2006
Tension along the border between China and North Korea is high.
Sky 10th Oct 2006
The major powers united in their condemnation of North Korea’s claim to have tested a nuclear weapon yesterday, but could not reach immediate agreement at an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on the scope of punitive sanctions proposed by the US.
FT 10th Oct 2006
Yesterday’s claim by North Korea to have successfully detonated an underground nuclear explosion has escalated fears of a destructive new arms race in east Asia, and dealt a potentially devastating blow to hopes of preventing a new round of nuclear proliferation around the globe.
FT 10th Oct 2006
Guardian 10th Oct 2006
Independent 10th Oct 2006
FAQs on Nuclear Tests.
Guardian 10th October 2006
President George W Bush has said that North Korea’s nuclear test is a threat to global peace and security and denounced it as “unacceptable.”
Telegraph 10th Oct 2006
While the rest of the world was digesting claims that North Korea had tested a nuclear bomb, there was one corner of the globe that was left in the dark about the news: North Korea itself.
Telegraph 10th Oct 2006
North Korea has gone nuclear.
Scotsman 10th Oct 2006
How can the West complain that the nuclear club just got less exclusive?
Scotsman 10th Oct 2006
The United Nations security council was last night preparing to impose harsh sanctions on North Korea after the communist state’s claimed nuclear test brought universal condemnation from around the globe.
Herald 10th Oct 2006
The US proposed stringent UN sanctions against North Korea, including a trade ban on military and luxury items, the power to inspect all cargo entering or leaving the country, and freezing assets connected with its weapons programmes.
Ananove 9th Oct 2006
Daily Mail 10th Oct 2006
Dan Plesch: North Korea’s nuclear test is only the latest failure of the west’s proliferation policy. And it demonstrates the need to return to the proven methods of multilateral disarmament. Far from being crazy, the North Korean policy is quite rational. Faced with a US government that believes the communist regime should be removed from the map, the North Koreans pressed ahead with building a deterrent. George Bush stopped the oil supplies to North Korea that had been part of a framework to end its nuclear programme previously agreed with Bill Clinton. Bush had already threatened pre-emptive war – Iraq-style – against a regime he dubbed as belonging to the axis of evil.
Guardian 10th Oct 2006
Times leader: North Korea’s nuclear defiance demands an effective common response.
Times 10th Oct 2006
Telegraph Leader: The West woke up too late to the nuclear threat of rogue states.
Telegraph 10th Oct 2006
Within hours of North Korea’s proclaimed nuclear test yesterday Dennis Hastert, the Republican speaker in Congress, and John Boehner, the Republican majority leader on Capitol Hill, issued politically charged statements. With only a month to go before mid-term congressional elections many Republicans believe the tests could help restore their waning prospects.
FT 10th Oct 2006
Chronology.
Daily Mail 10th Oct 2006
The North Koreans had no trouble in finding willing assistants in the international community. In 1975, the young Pakistani scientist AQ Khan had returned home, after working at a uranium enrichment facility in the Netherlands, and was looking for customers.
Independent 10th Oct 2006
Dounreay
Letter from UKAEA: Your report “hundreds of deadly radioactive particles turning up on a public beach near Dounreay” is misleading. While larger particles with the potential to cause serious effects have been found on the seabed and foreshore beside Dounreay, none of the 68 found so far on the beach open to the public at Sandside falls into this category. Independent reports conclude that particles with the radioactivity found to date would cause no observable effects in the event of contact with someone.
Scotsman 10th Oct 2006
Letter from STEUART CAMPBELL Indeed, most of the radionuclides that have escaped have half-lives of about 30 years and so disappear in under a century. By contrast, chemical contamination is permanent.
Scotsman 10th Oct 2006
