군사공격 뉴스 첫 출현! 최신의 AFP 통신: NBC TV의 보도내용이다. 미군 당국은 북한이 핵실험 준비가 완료되는 시점에서 평양을 공격하는 계획을 이미 수립했다고 출처를 밝히지 않는 것을 전제로  보도했다. 펜타곤은 인접국가들의 반대를 무릅쓰고 지난 9월 이래 B-2 스틸스 폭격기 및 F-15 전투기 등을 비상대기 시켜 왔다. UN의 핵 감시견 역할을 하는 모하마드 엘마라데이는 오늘 “북한 핵실험은 핵의 밀매를 가속시키 것이며 이는 세계적인 위협이니 세계의 모든 지도자들은 평양에 전화를 걸어 김정일을 설득해야 한다" (왜냐 하면, 핵실험이 성공하면 북한 핵은 성능이 증명된 상품이 됨으로 세계의 테러리스트들이 너도 나도 그것을 구하기 위해 눈을 부릅뜰 것임) 고 경고했다. 김정일은, 북한이 핵무기를 갖는데 대해 국제사회는 눈금 “제로”의 인내심을 가지고 있다는 것을 알 필요가 있다. 수많은 뉴스미디어들은 북한이 지난 3월부터 지하핵실험을 준비했으며 6월에는 핵실험을 할 것이라고 보도했다 North Korea nuclear test would be “provocative”: White House (AFP) 7 May 2005 WASHINGTON - The United States warned Friday that any nuclear weapons test by North Korea would be considered a provocative act, as reports suggested the Stalinist state could stage an underground nuclear experiment. The New York Times said in a report that US officials familiar with satellite and intelligence data believed North Korea was building a reviewing stand and filling in a tunnel, signs of a potential underground nuclear test. “I don’t want to get into discussing intelligence matters, but what I would say is that if North Korea did take such a step, that would just be another provocative act that would further isolate it from the international community,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. He said all countries in the region wanted a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. The United States and North Korea’s neighbours had been working through multilateral talks to meet the objective, he added. “And so we want to see North Korea come back to the six-party talks and discuss, in a serious way, how to move forward on the proposal we’ve outlined,” McClellan said. Talks between the two Koreas, Russia, China, Japan and the United States on the North’s nuclear programs have been stalled since a third round of talks last June. The North has boycotted the talks, citing “hostile” US policy, and has publicly announced it has nuclear weapons and it could manufacture more. NBC television, without citing sources, said the US military has drawn up plans for a possible preemptive strike against North Korea should Pyongyang appear ready to test a nuclear weapon. The Pentagon has had B2 stealth bombers and F15e fighter jets on alert in the Pacific since September, as part of a contingency plan, the report said, adding that US allies in the region strongly oppose the military option. UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei warned Friday that a North Korean test blast would be “nuclear blackmail” and world leaders should get on the phone to dissuade Pyongyang from going ahead with it. North Korea needs “to understand that the international community has zero tolerance for any new country to go for a nuclear weapon,” ElBaradei told AFP in an interview on the sidelines of a non-proliferation conference in New York. Media reports have said that the North has been preparing an underground nuclear test since March and might conduct one as early as June. A senior US intelligence official, who has seen recent satellite images taken of Kilchu, in northeastern North Korea, told the New York Times that tunnels for underground nuclear tests differed from those for mines as they need to be plugged up again to contain the powerful blast. “You see them stemming the tunnel, taking material back into the mine to plug it up,” said the unnamed official, a specialist in nuclear analysis. “There’s a lot of activity,” he added, “taking stuff in as opposed to taking it out.” Commenting on the report, acting State Department spokesman Tom Casey said “we certainly don’t have any new assessment of North Korea’s nuclear program.” A senior department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, rejected the idea that the United States had “any new or startling assessment of what they may or may not be trying to do.” According to the Times report, the images also showed the construction of a reviewing stand, which officials said appeared luxurious by North Korean standards, several miles from the suspected test site. A reviewing stand for visiting dignitaries is considered a significant clue to a possible nuclear test after Western intelligence overlooked one the North Koreans had built before they launched a missile in 1998. North Korea is believed to have one or two crude nuclear bombs, according to US intelligence reports. International jitters were heightened last Sunday when North Korea test-fired a short-range missile, although US, South Korean and Japanese officials refused to link the incident to Pyongyang’s drive for nuclear arms