N.Korea Vows to Double Deterrent if No U.S. Change
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to  double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States  did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy  aimed at unseating the communist leadership there.
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WASHINGTON  - The United States promised South Korea on Friday any North Korean use of weapons of mass destruction after a planned U.S. troop pullout from the South "would have the gravest consequences."
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SEOUL - North Korea warned on Wednesday that it would regard any sanctions imposed on it by Japan as a declaration of war and would hit back with an âeffective physicalâ response.
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North Korea said Sunday it is ready to permanently disable the nuclear reactor it just turned off if the United States lifts economic sanctions on the impoverished nation and strikes it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
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South Korea insisted Saturday it will never develop nuclear weapons, but North Korea ruled out dismantling its weapons program or resuming negotiations unless U.S. drops its policy of "double standards" on the two countries' activities.
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North Korea lashed the United States on  Friday for conducting an arms race and, far from announcing  plans to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, warned that it  would &quot;bolster its deterrent for self-defence.&quot;
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North Korea threatened today to double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy aimed at unseating the communist leadership.
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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday sent North Korea a two-pronged  message, insisting the United States has no plans to invade the  isolated communist state but stressing it does have a deterrent  against hostile actions by Pyongyang.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already given an account of its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost its "war deterrent".
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North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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North Korea will find it difficult to return to nuclear talks if the United States keeps insisting that Pyongyang renounce peaceful as well as military atomic activities, the North&#39;s main newspaper said on Tuesday.
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North Korea appears to have started complying with a recent nuclear disarmament agreement, but U.S. intelligence officials are telling skeptical lawmakers they will continue to watch the country's actions closely.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned North Korea today against carrying out any new missile tests, saying Washington would not be intimidated into changing its policy towards the Stalinist state.
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TOKYO, Oct. 3 -- North Korea on Tuesday vowed to conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States, dramatically raising tensions in the region and marking the communist government's first ever unambiguous public threat to demonstrate itself as a nuclear power.
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orth Korea's No. 2 leader pledged his country's commitment Thursday to giving up its nuclear program amid intensifying diplomacy aimed at implementing the nation's pledge to disarm
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North Korea said on Saturday it will not abandon its nuclear programmes until the United States gives up what Pyongyang regards as a "hostile" policy toward it and drops financial restrictions imposed last year.
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North Korea has warned Japan that it will treat economic sanctions as a &quot;declaration of war&quot; and threatens to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear arms programs.