N Korea nuclear test leads papers

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The first nuclear bomb test by the Stalinist state of North Korea leads Tuesday's papers.

"Kim Wild" is the Daily Mirror's view of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, talking of a "crazed dictator" and "power mad tyrant".

The Daily Mail talks of "the blast that shook the world".

"Every rogue state will have drawn comfort from the West's failure to prevent Kim Jong-Il from developing nuclear arms," it says.

'Bad Korea move'

The Times believes there must be members of the North Korean elite whose stomachs are turned by Korean suffering and the crass Kim personality cult.

China, it says, knows who these people are and may be able to help edge out the "dear leader".

"Kim's departure is the neatest way out of crisis," it says.

The Daily Telegraph too sees Beijing as the key, while the Sun talks of uniting the world against a tyrant, calling the test a "bad Korea move".

Ridiculing cartoons

The Guardian reports of a new controversy over the depiction of the prophet Mohammed in Denmark.

The 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference complained about state TV showing amateur video footage of an ultra right-wing youth camp.

Young people at the camp could be seen taking part in a contest to draw images ridiculing Mohammed.

The Independent says Danes have been warned about travelling overseas to a number of Muslim countries.

Walnuts research

Care workers are to be banned from calling old folk "sweetheart" under tough rules to guard their dignity, says the Sun.

Terms like "darling" and "poppet" will also be outlawed, the paper says, as part of crackdown on abuse and neglect.

There is good news for those partial to walnuts in the Independent.

Scientists believe that raw walnuts contain natural chemicals that help prevent hardening of the arteries - and they may become a new health food fad.