N Korea Claimed Ability to Reach US Targets

World | February 13, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

North Korea has warned that it has the ability to strike American targets anywhere in the world if provoked. Pyongyang was responding to the decision by the United Nations nuclear watchdog to refer it to the UN Security Council for breaching nuclear non-proliferation agreements. Amid mounting tension Japan warned that it would "use military force as a self-defence measure" if North Korea started to "resort to arms against Japan". Japanese Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba added that such a defensive move would not amount to a pre-emptive strike.

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