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North Korea: Spark could set off nuclear war  Tulsa’s Channel   Oct 01, 2012 By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, saying its “hostile” policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war.

Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon told the U.N. General Assembly that
the Koreas have become “the world’s most dangerous hotspot” and blamed
the “hostile” policy of the United States toward North Korea.

Pak said “the vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of
tension is an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean peninsula, which has
become the world’s most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could
set off a thermonuclear war.”….
http://www.ktul.com/story/19688491/north-korea-spark-could-set-off-nuclear-war

October 3, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general