After H-bomb test, North Korea wants to focus on economy
By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press
Published: January 17, 2016, 5:00am
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A North Korean woman works July 31, 2014, at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile factory, in Pyongyang, North Korea. After ringing in the new year with claims of its first successful hydrogen bomb test, North Korea is now calling on the United States and the world community to accept it as a nuclear power. (Wong Maye-E/Associated Press files)
PYONGYANG, North Korea — After ringing in the new year with claims of its first successful hydrogen bomb test, North Korea is now calling on the United States and the world community to accept it as a nuclear power, jettison the pursuit of punitive sanctions and allow it to focus on what it really wants: build up the nation’s troubled economy.
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