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North Korea conducts successful nuke test
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-10-09 14:01
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Journalists stake out in front of the North Korean embassy in Beijing 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]