NORTH KOREA THREATENS FIRST STRIKE
"The United States says that after Iraq, we are next," a North Korean foreign ministry official says, "but we have our own countermeasures. Pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the U.S."
The statement comes as North Korea announced it was putting its nuclear reactors on a "normal footing." Experts fear these words indicate a resumption of the Stalinist state's atom weapons program.
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