North Korea declares it conducted nuclear test from AP reports that, as it has done before, North Korea - either intentionally or not, created an international stir on an American patriotic holiday with avowed nuclear tests on Memorial Day weekend.
UPDATE: Report: North Korea test-fires 2 more missiles
Meanwhile Iran's President Ahmadinejad, in full campaign mode, has rejected a Western nuclear proposal, tag teaming with North Korea.
North Korean test: What good is diplomacy? from TIME
The regime "successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of measures to bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense," the country's official Korean Central News Agency said.
Russia's Defense Ministry confirmed an atomic explosion at 9:54 a.m. (0054 GMT) in northeastern North Korea, estimating the blast's yield at 10 to 20 kilotons - comparable to the bombs that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hours later, the regime test-fired three short-range, ground-to-air missiles, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed sources. U.N. Security Council resolutions bar North Korea from engaging in any ballistic missile-related activity.
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