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North Korean missiles aimed at Australia
A senior US official says a long-range missile which North Korea plans to test next month will for the first time be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia.The assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, Kurt Campbell, says the US believes the North Korean missile will land in an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Previous North Korean rockets have been launched over Japan. Fairfax reported on Saturday that Mr Campbell delivered the message in person to Foreign Minister Bob Carr. "If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," Mr Campbell was quoted as saying. "We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued." Nuclear-armed North Korea plans to launch the rocket in April to put a satellite into orbit, a move the US, Australia and other nations see as a pretext for a long-range missile test banned by the United Nations. Posted by: tipper 2012-03-24 |
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