US: N Korea Admits Secret Nuclear Program

World | October 17, 2002, Thursday // 00:00

North Korea has admitted that it has a secret nuclear weapons programme, US government officials say. American officials said the North Koreans told a visiting US delegation earlier this month that they no longer felt bound by a 1994 accord, under which they agreed to halt their suspected weapons programme in return for American aid. The North Korean confession made the US administration conclude that negotiations with Pyongyang were impossible for the moment, US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.

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