Seoul relents on US missile defence system, as North Korea prepares follow-up to powerful nuclear blast
‘Right now, everything North Korea does appears to have to be bigger and scarier. The signal they’re sending is the same as always: we don’t care what you say’
04 September 2017 - 09:43
Tokyo/Seoul — South Korea detected that North Korea is continuing to prepare for a possible intercontinental ballistic missile launch, an official said, a move that would further raise tension a day after Pyongyang conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear detonation. Chang Kyung-soo, acting chief of the defence ministry’s policy planning office, told legislators on Monday that North Korea was making preparations for a missile launch, but didn’t give a time frame for a potential launch. The yen extended gains against the dollar after the news.
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