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U.S. Navy releases video of ‘provocative’
Iran rocket fire in Strait of Hormuz area

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North KoreANs clap hands together in a rally, after North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted
a hydrogen bomb test, at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Friday. As world leaders debated
ways to penalize North Korea's claim of a fourth nuclear test, South Korea voiced its displeasure with
broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals' tense border Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

N. Korea defiance challenges
moral authority of nuclear club
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP)
— When North Korea claimed triumphantly that it had tested its
first hydrogen bomb, it was
roundly and predictably condemned by the United States,
China, Russia, Britain, France
and India, countries estimated to
possess a combined total of more
than 15,000 nuclear warheads.
Non-nuclear powers condemned the test, too, including
Japan, the country that was on
the receiving end of the only atomic bomb attack in history — the
U.S. bombing that ended World
War II in the Pacific in 1945.
But while most of the world,
East and West, agrees that no one
wants North Korea to be an effectively functioning nuclear power, a
question that can’t be escaped
lurks behind the condemnation:
How much right do nations have
to tell other nations what to do?
Moreover, how much of a right do
nuclear powers, which have no
intention of giving up their own
arsenals, have to demand others
to give up theirs?
North Korea, of course, says
none.
In a show of defiance and
nationalist pride that is so characteristic of the North, masses of
North Koreans filled Pyongyang’s
Kim Il Sung Square on Friday,
which happened to also be leader
Kim Jong Un’s birthday, to celebrate their mi ƗF'