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Did US diplomatic blunders trigger the North Korean bomb?

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Oct 20, 2006
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For Chinese academics in Beijing, US President George W Bush has only his own administration to blame for the nuclear test that North Korea announced on October 9, shocking the world and particularly the Asian region. While the political debate rages across much of the United States, these academics say the answer is clear from their North Korean counte…

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