Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s confession that he sold nuclear weapons technology to North Korea was a lie cooked up by the United States to justify an invasion, Pyongyang said on Tuesday.
"Lies! Imperialist Lies!"
In Pyongyang’s first reaction, a foreign ministry spokesman said the United States had fabricated Dr Khan’s story to derail the nuclear talks and lay the groundwork for an Iraq-style invasion. "The United States is now hyping the story about the transfer of nuclear technology to the DPRK (North Korea) by a Pakistani scientist in a bid to make the DPRK’s enriched uranium programmeme sound plausible," said the spokesman in a statement published by Pyongyang’s official KCNA news agency. "This is nothing but a mean and groundless propaganda," the spokesman said, adding Dr Abdul Qadeer’s disclosures were such a "sheer lie that the DPRK does not bat an eyelid even a bit".
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"This is aimed to scour the interior of the DPRK on the basis of a legitimate mandate and attack it just as what it did in Iraq in the end and invent a pretext to escape isolation and scuttle the projected six-way talks," KCNA said of Dr Khan’s disclosures.
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