North Korean Nuclear Test

U.N. nuclear inspector arrives in North Korea
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North Korea slams U.N. decision to suspend development program
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea criticized the U.N. on Tuesday for suspending its development program in the country. Read

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North Korean Nuclear Test
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SEOUL, South Korea, North Korea said this morning it has performed its first nuclear weapons test. The country's official Korean Central News Agency claimed the test was performed and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.

Ramifications: President Bush and Secretary Rice have both repeated that the United States will NOT tolerate a nuclear North Korea. Hostilities would then seem imminent.

Japan will not sit still. We expect constitutional changes allowing the arming of Japan if North Korea is not disarmed immediately. This would not be to the liking of China, the main supporter of North Korea.

North Korean Weapons of Mass Destruction Program
Since the 1950s, the DPRK has been proceeding with a nuclear development program. It seems that North Korea is engaged in one of two things.
This is an excellent source of information in nearly every way.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | UN to pressure N Korea over test
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Growing fears over North Korea
ABC News: N. Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test
FT.com / Asia-Pacific / North Korea's military programme
North is capable of a nuclear test, Seoul official says
The Epoch Times | Possible North Korea Nuclear Test Imminent

Japan can become a nuclear power within 5 years. Articles 9 of the constitution to be amended or repealed shortly.

Will Japan Go Nuclear???
Japan Will never Go Nuclear
How Dangerous Is North Korea
JAPAN’S RENEWED IMPERATIVES FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS: An Analysis
Japan’s imperatives for acquisition of nuclear weapons were analyzed in sufficient detail by this author four years ago in his paper: “Japan’s Imperatives for Nuclear Weapons” (SAAG Paper No. 487 dated 05.07.2002). The strategic imperatives arising from Japan’s security environment and the political imperatives arising from Japan’s international political importance were discussed.
Some of the major points made in the above-said paper bear recapitulation and they are:
- Japan’s imperatives for a nuclear weapons capability were born the day it was subjected to nuclear weapons attacks in 1945.
- The Korean War which came close to being a nuclear conflagration reinforced the imperatives.
- The imperative became latent due to the nuclear umbrella provided by the United States.
- The post-Cold War era has not brought any peace dividends to East Asia. On the contrary East Asia has become more strategically turbulent and uncertain for Japan.
- An independent Japanese nuclear deterrence capability would provide both strategic and political stability in East Asia besides strengthening Japan’s own security and reducing Japan’s vulnerability to coercive pressures from their neighbors.

While they developed nuclear weapons:

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