Rice dismisses report NKorea helping Iran prepare nuke test |
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PARIS (XFN-ASIA) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought to play down a report in a British newspaper that North Korea is helping Iran prepare an eventual nuclear test explosion.'I don't see that it's based on anything that I have seen,' Rice said of the report published in The Daily Telegraph.'I don't see what it's based on,' she told reporters accompanying her to a Lebanon donors conference in Paris.Citing an unnamed senior European defence official, the newspaper said that North Korea has agreed to share all the data it received from its nuclear test last year as both countries face Western pressures over the development of their own nuclear programmes.'The Iranians are working closely with the North Koreans to study the results of last year's North Korean nuclear bomb test,' the European defense official was quoted as saying by the newspaper.'We have identified increased activity at all of Iran's nuclear facilities since the turn of the year ... All the indications are that the Iranians are working hard to prepare for their own underground nuclear test.'The official also said that North Korea had invited a team of Iranian scientists to study the results of last year's underground nuclear test.Rice also said she had spoken with her South Korean counterpart Wednesday and the foreign ministers of China and Japan on Tuesday as part of efforts to hold a new round of six-party nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea.'We are hoping for an early resumption. I think its' time to do that,' she said.'We have had productive preparatory discussions with all of the parties, including the North Koreans, but there's not going to be an agreement until we are in the six-party format,' she said.'So I thihk people would like to get to an early resumption of the talks.'afp
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