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North korea announces limitations on nuclear bombs

N Korea promises limited nuclear bomb production ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Apr 21, 2010 North Korea says it will not produce nuclear weapons to excess or engage in an arms race and is ready to join an international non-proliferation campaign as a nuclear armed state.“It will manufacture nukes as much as it deems necessary but will neither participate in nuclear arms race nor produce them more than it feels necessary,” the North Korean foreign ministry said in a memorandum published by state media.The North will join international nuclear disarmament efforts “with an equal stand with other nuclear weapons states,” it said.The memorandum comes nearly two weeks after the North vowed to strengthen its own atomic arsenal, complaining that a new US policy was eroding the hard-won atmosphere for the resumption of stalled six-nation disarmament talks.The talks, grouping the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, were last held in December 2008……..
The North will “as ever make consistent efforts for the denuclearisation of the world including the Korean Peninsula” regardless of whether the six-party forum is resumed or not, it said.

The country has “invariably” maintained its policy not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, it added.

N Korea promises limited nuclear bomb production – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

April 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear weapons