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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test: February 12 and March 7, 2013
North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test: February 12 and March 7, 2013
In yet another show of defiance to the international community, on February 12, 2013, North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test. This was the first such test under North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un, who assumed power after the death of his father in December 2011. North Korea gave the United States advance warning of the test, but made it clear that it was acting in an effort to prepare itself to protect against any U.S. incursion into its affairs pertaining to what it considered a hostile response to its 2012 “satellite” launch. “If the United States continues to come ...
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