North Korea nuclear test slammed

(AFP)
Updated: 2006-10-10 15:23

A Chinese man reads the China Daily on a bulletin board in Beijing. China's official media slammed North Korea over its declared nuclear test, saying the Stalinist regime's defiance would leave the international non-proliferation regime "in tatters," describing the announcement of a test as a "bombshell" and said that Pyongyang had defied the world.(AFP

A Chinese man reads the China Daily on a bulletin board in Beijing October 10, 2006. The newspaper slammed North Korea over its declared nuclear test, saying North Korea's defiance would leave the international non-proliferation regime "in tatters," describing the announcement of a test as a "bombshell" and said that Pyongyang had defied the world. [AFP]