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Confrontation. What’s behind North Korea’s military muscle flexing? And how should the US respond? From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. Good evening. We’re taking a closer look tonight at the growing tension with North Korea. One day after it conducted an underground nuclear test, North Korea test-fired two short range missiles today. President Obama has accused the North Koreans of reckless actions. So what’s behind this defiance to the international community and what really can be done about it? To address those questions, two reports tonight beginning with Terry McCarthy in Seoul, South Korea.

 

Charlie? North Korea may want to look tough by firing off missiles and conducting a nuclear test, but many experts here say in fact the country’s leader Kim Jung Ill is motivated by fear. It may be the most paranoid regime on earth. North Korea’s fear appears to be directed both outwards and inwards. First, Kim Jung Ill is afraid his regime could be destroyed from the outside, principally by the US.

People who watch North Korea say its leaders are convinced Saddam Hussein’s government fell to the US because it didn’t have a nuclear bomb. The second fear is internal. Kim who is 67 is ailing after a stroke last August and wants to choose his own successor. To do that, he needs the support of the powerful military and pushing the nuclear program as a way of guaranteeing their loyalty.

With this week’s test, Kim is trying to make the rest of the world fear his regime. “We have no any other intention to defend ourselves.” Whatever their intentions, North Korea now poses a challenge the US cannot ignore. Terry McCarthy, ABC News, Seoul.

 

I’m Martha Raddatz in Washington. North Korea’s dramatic defiance of calls to halt its nuclear weapons program drew even more international condemnation today. South Korea will now join a US-led effort to intercept ships suspected of transporting weapons of mass destruction. Japan threatened to step up sanctions. Even china said it is absolutely opposed to North Korea’s North Korea’s nuclear test, test which President Obama calls provocative. “I strongly condemn their reckless action. Now the United States and the international community must take action in response.”

 

Nearly identical words were used by President Bush after a similar nuclear test in 2006. “The United States condemns this provocative act and the international community will respond.” But the scolding, sanctions and resolutions did little good then and options now to punish this desperately poor country of 23 million which relies on food aid remain very limited. Prospects of a military strike are all but out of the question. “The North Koreans have 200 missiles aimed at Japan and more than 11,000 artillery troops and missiles aimed at South Korea.”

 

So what can the Obama administration do? “Put in place through the security council and with our allies, a much tougher net around North Korea that focuses on their money transfers, that focuses on shipments to North Korea, to make it harder for them to develop nuclear weapons, harder for them to get cash for Kim Jung Ill and his cronies.” A State Department spokesman said today the US is not looking for any fundamental changes in policy towards North Korea and is still hoping that North Korea returns to the six party talks, an approach that thus far has failed. Charlie?

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