HONOLULU -- Someone needs to remind North Korea about the "first rule of holes" -- namely, when you find yourself in one, stop digging!
Having been faced with firm resistance from the other five parties -- China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States -- regarding its "so-called nuclear weapons program," Pyongyang chose to remove the last vestiges of ambiguity, acknowledging at the recently concluded six-party talks in Beijing that it not only had a "nuclear deterrent force" but planned to increase it, as a result of Washington's unchanged "hostile attitude."
North Korea's representative, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, also reportedly indicated that Pyongyang was "prepared to prove that it could successfully deliver and explode" nuclear weapons.