North Korea 'prepares for fresh missile test'
North Korea reportedly preparing to carry out another long-range missile test
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Monday, 01, Jun 2009 09:42
North Korea is preparing to carry out another long-range missile test in the next few weeks, South Korean media have reported.
Pyongyang has dramatically stepped up military actions, adapting a seemingly much more aggressive stance towards the south and its ally the United States, including carrying out an underground nuclear test last month.
A South Korean defence spokesman said on Monday that intelligence suggested preparations were being made for the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Local reports cite military officials as saying a train carrying the missiles had arrived at a military base in Dongchang-ri, in the north-west of the country.
As tensions and international condemnation of its recent military action increased last week, Pyongyang declared the 1953 armistice agreed following the end of the Korean War was over.
South Korea's president Lee Myung-bak is expected to meet with his US counter-part Barack Obama later this month to discuss the deteriorating relations with the north.