Source is
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North Korea says it conducted nuclear test
From the Associated Press
8:13 PM PDT, May 24, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea says it has successfully conducted a nuclear test.
The country's official Korean Central News Agency reported that the test was carried out Monday.
Lee Dong-kwan, a spokesman for the South Korean president, says that a nuclear test may have been carried out in the North.
President Lee Myung-bak has called an emergency security session.
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Another report. Source is
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May 24, 2009
North Korea Conducts Its Second Nuclear Test
By REUTERS
Filed at 11:10 p.m. ET
SEOUL, May 25 (Reuters) - North Korea said it had successfully conducted a nuclear test on Monday, raising the explosive power and level of control of its nuclear device to a new level, its state media said.
"We have successfully conducted another nuclear test on May 25 as part of the republic's measures to strengthen its nuclear deterrent," the North's official KCNA news agency said.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency also quoted a ruling party official as saying that a test was conducted.
YTN Television quoted the South Korean weather agency as saying it detected a tremor indicating a test at 0054 GMT.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had called an emergency meeting of cabinet ministers over the test, Yonhap said.
North Korea had recently said it would again test a nuclear device -- its first was in October 2006 -- in reaction to tightened international sanctions after it fired a long-range rocket in April.
News of the test hit South Korean financial markets, sending the main KOSPI share index down four percent in late morning trade, while the won dropped more than 1 percent against the dollar.
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Back in the early 1990s, when Professor Robert Divine would quip that someday we'd miss the Cold War, I'd scoff inwardly and write something snarky in my notes. Now?
