North Korea could carry out a third atomic test next year to make stronger the credentials of its young leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un, a examine report from a South Korean foreign ministry institute said on Friday.
The regular report was in print a day after Pyongyang vowed a nuclear "sacred war" after the South vowed to be "merciless" if attacked, and held a major military drill near the border.The North, which approved out nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, has yet to show it has a deliverable weapon as part of its plutonium arms program, but a third test would raise tensions further on the divided peninsula and rattle overall markets.
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