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North Korea denies it is planning nuclear test, Yonhap news agency report

AFP | May 27 2005

North Korea has denied that it plans to carry out a nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Friday, quoting a Pyongyang TV station.

Yonhap said that the denial was issued during a news broadcast late Thursday on North Korea's Central Television Station.

"Recently, the US ruling circle, which had been accusing us of being an 'outpost of tyranny' or a 'rogue state', finally came up with fabricated allegations that missile testing is imminent or there are signs of us preparing a nuclear test," the channel's news reader was quoted as saying.

Though North Korea's media is tightly controlled, experts here said the comment by a news presenter for domestic consumption should be treated with caution and was unlikely to represent official policy.

Major North Korean policy announcements are normally issued by a foreign ministry spokesman through the official Korean Central News Agency.

Earlier this month North Korea's foreign ministry issued a statement accusing Washington of kicking up a fuss about a nuclear test, but neither confirmed nor denied whether it was planning to carry out such a test.

However, North Korean officials flatly denied the reports that the communist regime was preparing to conduct a nuclear test to a group of Czech parliamentarians who were in Pyongyang this week.

"Officials of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly dismissed the reports (of a nuclear test) as groundless propaganda," Lubomir Zaoralek, chairman of the lower house of the Czech Parliament, told reporters here on Wednesday on his return from a four-day sray in North Korea.

The six-member Czech delegation met with North Korean leaders, including Pyongyang's number two, Kim Yong-Nam, and SPA chairman Choe Tae-Bok.

The North Korean officials said rumours of a test were Washington's ploy to isolate the communist state.

Recent US media reports, quoting officials in Washington, said there were signs the North was preparing for a nuclear test.

North Korea declared itself nuclear-armed in February and said it had unloaded 8,000 spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor, a step that would allow it to reprocess weapons-grade plutonium for more nuclear bombs.