Jitters & Tremors: NHK Japan Calls Quake Tremor NK 2nd Nuke Test

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Culturally, the Japanese have considered Koreans 'less than human' over
the centuries.
Now, facing their own potential mortality at the hands of the
'dehumanized', they are a bit... nervous...
.

> Japan's NHK news service first reported the tremor Wednesday, quoting
> a Japanese government source saying that it appeared to indicate North
> Korea had undertaken another nuclear test, just two days after
> conducting a test that sparked international condemnation.
.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/10/japan.tremor/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

(CNN) -- A jittery Japan has apparently mistaken earthquake activity off
its own coast for a tremor indicating a second nuclear test in North Korea.

Japan's NHK news service first reported the tremor Wednesday, quoting a
Japanese government source saying that it appeared to indicate North
Korea had undertaken another nuclear test, just two days after
conducting a test that sparked international condemnation.

Japan's meteorological agency reported a magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook
northern Japan, according to a report from The Associated Press. Agency
spokesman Yukuhiro Watanabe said that quake was being considered
separately from reports of new tremors in North Korea.

But South Korea's Yonhap news agency almost immediately quoted that
country's officials saying they had registered no seismic activity in
North Korea, and the U.S. Geological Survey quickly followed suit.

Japan's Kyodo News reported that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he had
no information to confirm a second nuclear test.

Then came news from both the Japanese Meteorological Society and USGS of
a moderate earthquake -- 5.8 magnitude, according to USGS -- shortly
before 10 a.m. Wednesday (8 p.m. ET Tuesday) off the east coast of
Japan's Honshu island.

"Apparently the government of Japan is saying that the tremor they
registered was from mild earthquake activity in Japan and not North
Korea," a Pentagon official told CNN.

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