North Korea celebrates nuclear test while firing and selling more arms

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"Seoul (AsiaNews) – Defying international criticism, North Korea yesterday celebrated the success of its first nuclear test with “spontaneous” manifestations of joy by the people and the army. Anti-American sentiments were restated for the occasion.

According to the Korean Central News Agency, the official news agency of the Stalinist regime, “soldiers and citizens gathered to hail the successful historic nuclear test at 12 events across the country”.

The agency, the only legal communications media in the country, continued to say that “successive US administrations have pursued very hostile policies towards North Korea.” Washington “was brazen-faced enough to describe the nuclear test on 9 October as a threat to international peace and security.”

UN sanctions – approved shortly after the announcement of the atomic test – are therefore a “declaration of war” but the people and the army “through these rallies have firmly pledged themselves to defend our socialist country and bring about miracles in economic construction, true to the great Songun policy.” "