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Stakes High for Third North Korean Nuclear Test

Published February 08, 2013

North Korea is threatening to conduct a third nuclear weapons test soon in violation of United Nations sanctions. VOA's Jerome Socolovsky reports the stakes are higher this time than with previous tests in 2006 and 2009.

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