Nuclear declaration submitted, says North KoreaFri Jan 4, 2008 8:55am EST
By Yoo Choonsik and Jon Herskovitz
SEOUL (Reuters) - 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".
The U.S. State Department said a few days ago that
North Korea had not meet an end of 2007 deadline to
provide a full list of its nuclear arms program, as it
was obliged to by the deal it struck with regional
powers earlier in the year.
"We have already drawn up a nuclear report in November
and have notified the United States of it," the North's
KCNA news agency quoted an unnamed Foreign Ministry
spokesman as saying.
"As far as the nuclear declaration on which wrong
opinion is being built up by some quarters is concerned,
the DPRK (North Korea) has done what it should do."
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