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Topic started on 23-9-2004 @ 01:40 AM by FredT
Fresh on the heels of the still as yet completely explained blast in North Korea, both the United States and Japan have indicated that there are signs that there may be another ballistic missile test. The Japanese government has indicated that the missile being tested has the range to hit any part of their island nation. Following the North’s refusal to meet in the latest rounds of talks regarding the nuclear standoff, both the United States and Japan have noticed an increasing level of activity at several Rodong missile launch sites. The intelligence has come from both radio intercepts as well as satellite reconnaissance




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TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States and Japan have detected signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic missile capable of reaching almost anywhere in Japan, Japanese government sources said on Thursday.

The preparations were detected after the reclusive communist state refused to take part in a fourth round of six-party talks on ending its nuclear ambitions and said it would never give up its nuclear deterrent.

Tokyo and Washington had detected the signs after analyzing data from reconnaissance satellites and radio traffic, the Japanese government sources said.

North Korean military vehicles, soldiers and possibly missile engineers were converging on several Rodong missile bases in the northeastern part of the isolated communist state, they said.

The signs were first detected on Tuesday, the sources said.

"At this stage we don't think North Korea's missile launch is imminent," one source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "But we still don't know whether North Korea is serious about missile launches."




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Other sources in the Japanese government have indicated that they don’t know when the missiles would be launched. Nor did they know if it was really the intention of North Korea. In 1998 a missile test of the Taepodong ballistic missile passed over Japan and demonstrated that the island nation could be targeted by the North. South Korean officials took a more cautious tone indicating that this may simply be an annual exercise. No evidence has been found as of yet that the missiles have been fueled. However, the official could not rule out the possibility of a launch. In response to this activity, Japan has sortied a Aegis class destroyer and an EP-3 electronic surveillance aircraft into the Sea of Japan to bolster their early warning capabilities

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