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N. Korea Accuses U.S. Of Preparing Invasion

HeadlineJun 01, 2004

On Monday, North Korea accused the Bush administration of making up reports about the country’s nuclear weapons program as a pretext for war just as Washington did with Iraq before the U.S. invasion. The United States has said North Korea has admitted operating a secret enriched uranium- based nuclear weapons program. But North Korea denies making any such admission. North Korea’s official news agency wrote in a commentary “Having worked out a plan to launch a new war on the Korean peninsula in the wake of that in Iraq, the U.S. is building up in advance public opinion about fictitious development of 'enriched uranium'”

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