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No Nuclear Test Now Planned, Says Official

June 12 2012

North Korea

A statement by a North Korean official says Pyongyang has no current plans to conduct a nuclear test, reports Bloomberg News.

The North also charged South Korea with provocation.

South Korea "seeks to rattle the nerves of the DPRK in a bid to cause it to conduct a nuclear test, though such a thing is not under plan at present," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on the official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Robert King, the U.S. special envoy for North...

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