ANALYSIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/10/why-fernandez-reopening-falklands-wounds
At the UN...Foreign Minister Hector Timerman accused the UK of arming a nuclear sub patrolling near the disputed islands...with Trident nuclear missiles.
The UK denied it.
UN Sec. General Ban Ki-Moon publicly told both countries to cool it...and avoid 'escalation.'
Why has President Cristina Kirchner recently heated up her rhetoric over these islands?
Here are some possible reasons.
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