Indian defence minister deplores N Korea's nuclear test
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Oct 10, IRNA
India-North Korea-Nuclear test
Deploring North Korea's nuclear test, Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India was strongly opposed to any clandestine transfer of nuclear technology, a veiled reference to the reported secret nuclear cooperation between Islamabad and Pyongyang.
While hoping that North Korea's nuclear test would not lead to any destabilization in the South Asian region, the minister, in reply to a number of questions on the sidelines of a defence function here, said that Pyongang's test would in no way impact the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Rubbishing claims that clandestine dealings by Pakistan's rogue nuclear scientist, A Q Khan, could have benefited India, the defence minister said New Delhi's nuclear program was totally indigenous.
"Our credentials on nuclear technology are impeachable and India is totally opposed to any clandestine transfer of nuclear
technology," he said.
"We are against proliferation of nuclear weapons and we have no war with the basic principles of non-proliferation," Mukherjee said, but added that "India viewed the NPT as discriminatory and flawed."
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