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North Korea Criticizes International WMD Cargo Interdiction Exercise North Korea yesterday criticized a naval interdiction training exercise held over the weekend off the Australian coast to practice a U.S.-led effort to block shipments of WMD-related cargo (see GSN, Sept. 12). “Such moves of the United States are blatant military provocations to North Korea and they may push U.S. relations to an explosive phase,” the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said. Four of the 11 countries involved in the Proliferation Security Initiative — Australia, France, Japan and the United States — took part in the “Pacific Protector” exercise. The exercise scenario involved the purusuit and capture of a U.S. ship acting as a freighter loaded with chemical weapons (Richard Spencer, London Telegraph, Sept. 15).
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