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The United States has warned the North Korea not to go ahead with the test launch of a long-range ballistic missile that is theoretically capable of hitting US territory. The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said such a launch would be regarded as a provocative act and would be viewed with the utmost seriousness. Japan and Australia have expressed serious similar concern. From Washington, our State Department correspondent Jonathan Bill reports.

While US diplomacy has been focused on confronting Iran and its nuclear ambitions, North Korea has been pressing ahead with a more obvious threat. The communist country under its enigmatic leader, Kim Jong -Il, may have already produced enough plutonium for ten nuclear warheads. More recently it’s been carrying out work on a long-range missile system. US intelligence believes that missile system is now ready to be launched. Condoleezza Rice said it would contravene Pyongyang’s earlier promise of a moratorium after it launched a shorter-range missile into the Pacific in 1998 to widespread condemnations.

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