N Korea set to blow up nuke plant on TV

Secretive North Korea is preparing a global TV spectacular to dramatise its commitment to scrapping nuclear weapons, as world powers gave a wary welcome to its disclosure of some atomic secrets.

The communist state is set to blow up the cooling tower at the plutonium-producing Yongbyon complex - the most visible symbol of a decades-old pursuit of nuclear bombs.

In an effort to win over western TV audiences North Korean officials plan to stuff the cooling tower with B grade celebrities who will be set challenges to escape the impending explosion. The show will be call "I'm a celebrity, get me out of this North Korean nuclear plant before they blow the crap out of it."

Viewers will have the opportunity to vote to have their least favourite celebrities stay in the cooling tower.

Bush welcomes N Korea nuclear move

US President George W Bush has warily welcomed North Korea's nuclear accounting, easing trade sanctions and moving to take the "axis of evil" nation off a US terrorism blacklist.

Following North Koreas provision of a partial accounting of it's nuclear activities to China a North Korean spokesperson said " our ultimate goal remains clear: A stable and peaceful Korean Peninsula, where people are free from oppression, free from hunger and disease and free from nuclear weapons,"

US President George W Bush, talking at a press conference on the front lawn of the White House said, "I'm please to see North Korea step up to the steps to step over that which needs to be stepped, this move will allow a lifting of sanctions pathing the way for organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to move in and loan tonnes of money tied to ridiculous conditions and interest rates which will surely result in a destabalized and chaotic Korean Peninsula, where the people suffer further oppression, immense hunger and disease and a prolifferation of US made nuclear weapons."