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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Tuesday dismissed reports that it was preparing a nuclear test, calling them U.S. propaganda, and blamed Washington for the impasse in international talks to disarm the hardline state.
"The United States is making noise, saying that our country will have an underground nuclear test in June and it will notify the International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan and other related countries," the North's main state-run Rodong Sinmun daily wrote in a commentary, according to the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
The U.S. government intends to brand North Korea as "a 'nuclear criminal' by all means, gang up against us and try to stifle us," the newspaper wrote, calling Washington's position "propaganda."
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