CNN: Report: N. Korea not planning second nuke test

[DeepModem Mom]

Report: N. Korea not planning second nuke test
October 20, 2006

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told a visiting Chinese delegation that the communist nation was not planning a second nuclear weapons test, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.

The news agency, Yonhap, attributed the information to a diplomatic source in Beijing.

Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan led a delegation that met Kim on Thursday in Pyongyang to deliver a message from Chinese President Hu Jintao.

The report came as China and the United States urged North Korea to break the stalemate and return to peaceful dialogue.

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing called for "coolheadedness" by all parties, while his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, spoke of "a path to negotiation."...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/nkorea.rice/index.html

[OKIsItJustMe]

1. AP: Report: N. Korea 'sorry' for nuke test

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NKOREA_KIM_NUCLEAR?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Oct 20, 9:17 AM EDT

Report: N. Korea 'sorry' for nuke test

By BURT HERMAN
Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Pyongyang didn't plan to carry out any more nuclear tests and expressed regret about the country's first-ever atomic detonation last week, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.

North Korea, however, kept up its bellicose rhetoric as more than 100,000 people gathered Friday in Pyongyang's central Kim Il Sung square to "hail the success of the historic nuclear test," according to the North's official media.

Kim told Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan that "we have no plans for additional nuclear tests," Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed diplomatic source in Beijing.

Kim also told the Chinese that "he is sorry about the nuclear test," the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo daily reported, citing a diplomatic source in China. The North Korean leader also raised the possibility the country would return to arms talks.

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[Javaman]

2. Well that October surprise fizzled...unless...

The whole thing was about N. Korea apologizing then moron* coming out and saying, "see, my brand of do nothing diplomacy works like a charm!"

The surprise is that moron* still has a fucking job.

[jwirr]

3. Just like *ss to take credit for something he & his did not do. Thank

you China.