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News  US 'cannot allow' nuclear N Korea  October 4, 2006  The US
will not accept a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons, a top
US envoy has said, after Pyongyang announced plans for a nuclear
test.   He did not specify how the US would respond if a nuclear
test took place.  The US wants other countries to unite against
the test plans, but talks at the UN have been inconclusive.  "At
this stage, there's division," said John Bolton, US envoy to the
UN.  Japan was leading efforts to agree a strongly-worded UN
statement.  But China has appealed for calm, saying it hopes
North Korea will "exercise the necessary calm and restraint",
and calling for the issue to be handled in revived six-nation
talks.  Russia and South Korea have said that North Korea's
plans to conduct a nuclear test are unacceptable.  Their foreign
ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Ban Ki-moon, agreed in a telephone
conversation that a test would only aggravate the situation,
Russia said.