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I have it from Japanese news sources this morning [7/15] (In Japanese from Yomiuri News at the designated URL link here, tomorrow, Asia Time) that the Hankyoreh News' (S. Korea) reporters reached the UN Mission of North Korea in New York City and interviewed one of the leading DPRK representative there, Mr. Han.[The article is in Japanese.] The headline is "Nuclear Weapons Are A Necessity For Us To Prevent An American Attack Upon Our Country".The nuclear blackmail threat was revealed by the North Korean UN representative today in the following context (my "Freepranslation" from the original Japanese language article...

[Massive Pro-War, Anti-US Rally in Kim Il Sung Square Yesterday] Title: North Korea Denounces U.S. After Talks Offer 9:15 a.m. 8 January Eastern Time Reuters to My Yahoo! By Kim Yeon-hee SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) accused the United States Wednesday of increasing the danger of war on the Korean peninsula, just hours after Washington changed tack and signaled a willingness to talk about their nuclear standoff. The reclusive communist state's KCNA news agency made no mention of the U.S. offer, nor of the U.N. watchdog's deadline for it to readmit nuclear inspectors within weeks,...