Japan sees no data to confirm 2nd North Korea nuclear test The Associated Press
Published: October 11, 2006
An official with NHK's public relations department who refused to be named said the company does not comment on individual reports.
But the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, said NHK had contacted its offices to check on seismic activity in the region about an hour before the Fukushima earthquake.
Japanese Meteorological Agency official Yukuhiro Watanabe said that the agency had also already begun its review of data on possible tremors in North Korea before the magnitude 6.0 quake occurred in Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo. Watanabe also said that a review of seismic wave data had so far not shown that any unusual events had taken place in North Korea between 5 a.m. (2000 GMT) to 8:30 a.m. (2330 GMT) Wednesday.
Downer warns N Korea against further nuclear tests
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, says the Government remains very concerned that North Korea will carry out a second nuclear test.
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso told a Japanese parliamentary panel that his country had unconfirmed information that the communist state might conduct another test on Wednesday. Earlier, broadcaster NHK said Japan was checking reports of a tremor in North Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, however, told the same panel that Japan had no information that a test had been carried out.
Mr Downer says the Australian Government has not received any confirmation that it was a nuclear blast and there remains some confusion over the seismic activity. Mr Downer says it would be extremely foolish of the North Koreans to conduct another test.
"We remain very concerned about the possibility of a second test and a second test happening in the near future and of course, if that were to happen, that would only double the resolve of the Security Council to proceed with the sanctions regime that they are looking at," he said.
I'm a Japanese citizen living in Japan. Yesterday our public broadcaster NHK reported that North Korea conducted its 2nd nuclear test, which was a complete fabrication.
I'm very suspicious about insider trading or short selling by North Korea related insitutions. The report was made at 8:32 in Japan. As you know Tokyo stock exchange opens at 9:00. There was much confusion in global scale resulting from the NHK report. It must have prompted many investors to sell Japanese stocks because it was impossible to confirm the vailidity of NHK report within 30 minutes.
Many Japanese companies are listed in NYSE. Also, CME lists Nikkei futures. I truly hope that you look into the possibility of massive short selling, a la the one done by Al Quaeda in September 11. Any short selling by terrorist countries such as North Korea should be checked very severely, I believe.
Here I don't have any concrete evidence to present, but the past experiences suggest the above possibility. Thank you very much.
I'm a Japanese citizen living in Japan. Yesterday our public broadcaster NHK reported that North Korea conducted its 2nd nuclear test, which was a complete fabrication.
I'm very suspicious about insider trading or short selling by North Korea related insitutions. The report was made at 8:32 in Japan. As you know Tokyo stock exchange opens at 9:00. There was much confusion in global scale resulting from the NHK report. It must have prompted many investors to sell Japanese or Asian stocks because it was impossible to confirm the vailidity of NHK report within 30 minutes.
Australian stock exchange was much affected by the self-claimed nuclear testing by North Korea. If the NHK report that said North Korea conducted the 2nd test was true, it must have also influenced Australian stocks.
I truly hope that you look into the possibility of market manipulation a la the one done by Al Quaeda in September 11. Any market manipulation by terrorist countries such as North Korea should be checked very severely, I believe.
Here I don't have any concrete evidence to suspect, but the past experiences suggest the above possibility. Thank you very much.
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