N Korea Insinuates It May Test Nukes

World | October 16, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

North Korea hinted that it might test a nuclear weapon. The communist state, in comments attributed to a spokesman for its Foreign Ministry, said it would "open its nuclear deterrent to the public as a physical force." US Secretary of State Colin Powell reacted cautiously. However, remarks from Pyongyang were the strongest indication yet that North Korea, already suspected of building more bombs to add to its estimated arsenal of one or two bombs, would test a weapon to prove itself a nuclear power.

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