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Venezuela defends North Korean missile tests

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Petroleumworld.com 07 07 06

Venezuela's vice president Thursday defended North Korea's right to undertake missile tests, saying he saw a double standard in Western condemnation of the move.

"I understand this is not a question of nuclear missiles. They carried out missile tests. Why should it be bad when (North) Korea does it and not when the United States or other Western countries do it," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said to reporters.

North Korean "asserts the right of that any country has to carry out tests," he said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who frequently spars with Washington, has said he may visit the isolated Stalinist state on his next Asian tour as he promotes a Venezuelan bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

AFP 06 2025 GMT 07 06



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