SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday the country has performed a successful nuclear test.
South Korean government officials also said North Korea performed its first nuclear test, the South's Yonhap news agency reported
According to KCNA, there was no radioactive leakage from the site.
South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the Yonhap report.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun convened an urgent meeting of security advisers over the issue, Yonhap reported.
The North said last week it would conduct a nuclear test as part of its deterrent against a possible U.S. invasion.
The report of the test came as ***an's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Seoul for meetings with President Roh Moo-hyun to address the nuclear issue as well as address strains in relations between the two countries over territorial and historical disputes.
North Korea accused rival South Korea on Monday of committing a serious provocation by firing warning shots during a weekend incident in which the South says soldiers from the communist North crossed over their border.
The border shooting came Saturday. South Korean soldiers rattled off about 40 warning shots after a group of five North Korean troops crossed into the southern side of the no-man's-land separating the divided Korean peninsula, South Korea said.
No one was hurt in the incident.
On the plus side, a South Korean is the sole nominee to become the Secretary General of the UN. Might be a little friendlier there for us having an ally in the top post. You know SK is going to want to stay tight since we are all that really stands between Seoul and the North Koreans.
Yeah, I wonder if the North Koreans had access to the nuclear technology that Clinton sold to China, and whether that may have contributed to the current state of affairs...
It's Bush's fault. The last refuge if inept Democrats who think Clinton wasa geniusand refuse to acknowledge any of his many failures.
Okay, let's get this straight. Bush has been President for six years, he has had the House, the Senate, AND the Supreme Court for about 5 and 1/2 years.
His failures are his own. No excuses. Live with it. He has had plenty of time to create his own legacy. It is his own fault his legacy is of failures, miscues, and general malaise.
I thought you GOPers were all about personal responsiblity??
First of all, I didn't say it was all Clinton's fault. If you read my post, I was inquiring whether he may have "contributed".Simply responding that Bush has been President for five years, with a GOP House, etc., implies that he could somehow undo the prior sale of nuclear technology. How exactly do you propose that he put the toothpaste back in the tube after Slick Willie already stomped on it?
Second, what would you have had Bush do as to the North Koreans? What do you think Kerry would have done differently with regard to North Korea? Frankly, I don't think there was anything any President could do to stop the North Koreans, without the Chinese on board. And the Chinese didn't have anything negative to say about NK's nuclear programuntil the last couple of days.
N. Korea confirms nuclear test.
