Alexander Downer, Australian Foreign Minister, said on Oct. 11(Australian time), "We have intelligence that N. Korea would have another nuclear test soon. We are very concerned about it."
In a related development, Kim Myong-chol, who is called the (unofficial) spokesman of Kim Jong-il, said in his interview with (S. Korea's) KBS Radio, "Everything will be settled in a week. That is, whether we, Korean people, will remain as we are now, or lose, or New York will lose, or Washington D.C. will lose, it will be settled once and for all."