North Korea on Saturday accused Japan of being on the verge of possessing nuclear weapons. The charge, carried in a report by North Korea’s state news agency KCNA, was the latest in Pyongyang’s running assault against one of the five countries preparing to meet next week to discuss how to break up the North’s suspected nuclear arms program. “Japan’s nuclear weaponisation has been pushed ahead at the phase of practical implementation, going beyond the stage of discussion,” the report by KCNA monitored in Seoul said. “As a result, there are ample conditions for the descendents of Samurais buoyed by fever for reinvasion to have access to nuclear weapons any moment,” it said. Full Story