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North Korea conducts successful nuke test

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-10-09 14:01

Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso arrives for a news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo October 9, 2006. North Korea said on Monday it had safely and successfully carried out an underground nuclear test, flying in the face of a warning from the U.N. Security Council and opening its crippled economy to the risk of fresh sanctions. [Reuters]