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投稿者　日時 2002 年 11 月 19 日 11:39:23:

(回答先: 複数の機関の調査でもあてになりません投稿者あっしら日時 2002 年 11 月 18 日 23:23:57)

☆公式には認めてないんじゃない？

(11/18)北朝鮮メディア、強気と弱気が交錯――現状にいらだち
　　

　【ソウル＝内山清行】北朝鮮がメディアを通じ、日朝首脳会談で約束したミサイル発射凍結措置の“無効”を繰り返し示唆する一方、核兵器開発を否定している。強気と弱気が交錯するちぐはぐな内容で、核もミサイルも有効な外交カードにならない現状へのいらだちがうかがえる。

　労働新聞は北朝鮮を想定した石破茂防衛庁長官のミサイル防衛発言を批判し、「日本が米国とのミサイル防衛にしがみつくなら、ミサイル発射保留が再検討され得る」などとする論評を掲載した。朝鮮中央放送もミサイル発射凍結の再検討をにおわせた。

BBC
Change to UK Monday, 18 November, 2002, 14:16 GMT
N Korean nuclear 'admission' in doubt

The alleged weapons programme has shocked the world

South Korea has cast doubt on a North Korean radio transmission that appeared to acknowledge for the first time that the country has nuclear weapons.

South Korean officials said the radio announcer's key phrase could have been spoken in error or a verb may have been misheard by monitors, leading to the statement being misinterpreted.

In coping with mounting nuclear threats from the US imperialists, we have come to have powerful military countermeasures, including nuclear weapons

North Korean radio statement, 17 November

That view appeared to be backed up on Monday when a new transmission changed the wording of the key phrase to say that North Korea was merely "entitled" to own nuclear weapons.

North Korea is widely believed to possess enough nuclear materials to make a small number of bombs, but in the past it has always refused to confirm or deny this.

In coping with mounting nuclear threats from the US imperialists, we are entitled to have powerful military countermeasures, including nuclear weapons

North Korean radio statement, 18 November The original North Korean statement, broadcast on Sunday, appeared to be a response to mounting diplomatic pressure since the United States said in October that Pyongyang had admitted to having a nuclear weapons programme.

Last week, Washington and its allies agreed to halt fuel oil to North Korea, arguing that Pyongyang's admission constituted a breach of a 1994 pact under which it agreed to freeze its nuclear programme in return for aid.

Russia's foreign ministry has added its voice to mounting worries about North Korea, expressing "serious concerns" about the "contradictory" messages coming from Pyongyang.

The North Korean broadcast on Sunday said that the country had "come to have powerful military countermeasures, including nuclear weapons, in order to defend our sovereignty and right to existence".

But the South Korean news agency, Yonhap, quoted a unification ministry official as saying that the North Korean announcer's accent had confused Southern listeners monitoring the broadcast.

Only one syllable turned "is entitled to have" (kajige tui-o-itta) into "has come to have" (kajige tui-otta), the official explained.

The US and its allies have halted fuel aid to the North

BBC Monitoring said four of its monitors had double-checked the disputed passage and were confident there was no missing syllable.

Brinkmanship?

North Korea's official media often contains hostile rhetoric when the country's leadership is actually in an apparent process of engagement with the outside world.

Sunday's broadcast also repeated Pyongyang's demands that the US must sign a non-aggression pact, insisting it was the only way to resolve the nuclear issue.

The timing of the broadcast fits in with a pattern of North Korean "confession", according to Michael Yahuda, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He told BBC News Online, it appeared they wanted to clear the way for talks.

"The US is threatening and, by responding, Pyongyang is sending out a message: 'We have nuclear weapons as well, so lets find a way to negotiation'," he said.

North Korea followed Sunday's controversial broadcast with a repeated threat on Monday to end its moratorium on missile testing if Japan continues to push for development of a missile defence system with the US.

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