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US weighed atomic option on N Korea

American bombers flew nuclear rehearsal runs over Pyongyang during the Korean War in the 1950's, newly declassified and other US government documents reveal.

Sixty years after the start of the Korean War, the newly released Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents and declassified information obtained by Washington's private National Security Archive have helped fill in the history of US nuclear threats against North Korea over the decades, AP reported Sunday.

According to the documents at the US National Archives and provided to the AP by intelligence historian Matthew Aid, the US military services vied for the lead role in any "atomic delivery" over the North.

In the late 1960s, nuclear-armed US warplanes stood by in South Korea on 15-minute alert to strike the North.
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Zum Glück hat Nordkorea inzwischen selbst Atomwaffen.