US takes Korean nuclear line seriously

THE United States says it is taking conflicting North Korean statements on its nuclear capability very seriously despite the South’s insistence that there was no real proof its neighbour had such weapons.

“We know what they say. We have some things that can verify what they say. We don’t know everything,” visiting US Deputy Defence Secretary Wolfowitz told a news conference in South Korea’s capital, Seoul.

“Certainly what we know suggests that we should take what they’re saying very seriously,” he added.