US warns 'reckless' NKorea against test
AFP, October, 2006
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States warned North Korea against conducting a "reckless" and "very provocative" nuclear weapons test and worked to stiffen global resolve to forcefully confront Pyongyang. Top US diplomats sounded out their counterparts in key countries like China and Russia and pushed for UN Security Council action under a July resolution punishing North Korea after the Stalinist regime test-fired a wave of missiles.
In Cairo, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a nuclear weapons test would be a "very provocative" act and predicted that "a number of countries would reassess" their approach towards Pyongyang. While she did not name them, Washington has long pushed China and South Korea to take a harder line on North Korea, which declared in February 2005 it had nuclear weapons. At the White House, national security spokesman Frederick Jones said "the United States will continue to work with its allies and ...