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By GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 59 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - North Korea is accelerating preparations for testing a missile that has the potential to strike the United States, a U.S. government official said Friday. A test of the Taepodong-2 long-range missile may be imminent, the official said.
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The official agreed to speak but only on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
The official said the Bush administration is very concerned about activities that point toward a test, but declined to elaborate.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters that any missile launch by the North Koreans would be a provocation and would violate their 1999 commitment not to carry out such tests.
He had no comment on reports that a North Korea test launch may be in the offing.
Japanese and South Korean officials also have expressed concern in recent days about the reported North Korean missile launch activities. Kyodo News agency in Japan reported that an additional rocket section had arrived at a North Korean launch site within the past two days.
In Tokyo, the Japanese government responded to news reports about a possible test by warning that any such step would jeopardize the country's security.
The reports of a possible launch come after a prolonged hiatus in six-party nuclear disarmament talks designed to create a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons.
Persistent efforts by the United States and other members of the group to persuade North Korea to resume the discussions have not been successful. There have been no discussions since last November.
North Korea is demanding that the United States revoke sanctions that Washington imposed several months ago in response to alleged North Korean counterfeiting of U.S. dollars and other currency violations.
McCormack reaffirmed on Friday that the United State strongly supports a resumption of the six-party talks.
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Posted : 17/06/2006 5:48 pm
Not like I believe Korea is ever going to start a war with 3 missiles, but I believe this is some of the technology US corporations have been selling to China, the Bolshevik corporate raiders and their faggot armies
take over these companies and have sold off our national assets.
They've got the blueprints now for our solid-fuel missiles, the solid fuel is the big step up. not only are they longer range, there is no prep time, and no way to detect and imminent launch.
Posted : 17/06/2006 7:32 pm
More scare stories from ZOG. Worry more about the terrorists in Washington, DC and Tel-Aviv. Besides if NK Nukes California... what is destroyed anyway... Northern Mexico.
A White World (Pierce's Vision for our Race):
Posted : 17/06/2006 7:38 pm
More scare stories from ZOG. Worry more about the terrorists in Washington, DC and Tel-Aviv. Besides if NK Nukes California... what is destroyed anyway... Northern Mexico.
Truer words were never spoken. When I see that beautiful missile streaking in the noontime sky toward Alta California, I'm going to be a kinda reverse Major Kong and yeeeehaaaa as I pull over on 880, load up my 12 gauge with 00 buck and let every brown shit I see have it full blast!
Posted : 17/06/2006 9:45 pm
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U.S. Says North Korea Has Fueled Missile
Jun 19, 10:07 AM (ET)
By ANNE GEARAN
(AP) A tourist walks by displays of models of North Korea's Scud-B missile, center, and other South...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea has finished loading fuel into a long-range ballistic missile, a Bush administration official said Monday as signs continued that the reclusive communist state will soon test a weapon that could reach the United States.
U.S. intelligence indicates that the long-range missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2, is fully fueled, said the official, who requested anonymity because the information comes from sensitive intelligence methods.
That reportedly gives the North a launch window of about a month.
At the White House, spokesman Tony Snow declined specific comment on reports that the fueling is complete.
"North Korea has imposed a moratorium on launching missiles," Snow said. "We hope it will continue that moratorium and we hope it also will abide by commitments it made," last year to dismantle nuclear weapons and renounce further development of them.
Snow said the United States has talked directly with North Korean representatives in New York, a reference to a diplomatic channel through the North's United Nations mission. Snow would not disclose contents of the discussion, but diplomats from numerous countries have been telling the North Koreans to back off any plans for a missile test launch.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060619/D8IBAVK00.html
Posted : 19/06/2006 3:17 pm