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March 12, 2015

No sign of imminent N. Korea nuclear test: US think-tank
Seoul (AFP) March 11, 2015
Recent satellite imagery shows no sign of North Korea preparing an imminent nuclear test, despite a rise in military tensions on the Korean peninsula, a US think-tank said Wednesday. North Korea has ramped up the volume on its bellicose rhetoric in recent weeks in response to the launch of annual South Korean-US joint military exercises. Pyongyang's condemnation of the drills has included veiled threats of a nuclear test, but the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said satellite pict ... read more

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