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North Korea has test-fired a series of missiles in rapid succession, one of them a long-range weapon. The United States said North Korea may have fired as many as six missiles, at least 3 fell into the Sea of Japan. American officials said that the long-range missile had apparently failed some 40 seconds into its flight. A senior US official called the tests a provocation. With a view from Washington, here is our State Department correspondent Jonathan Beale.

President Bush has been consulting with the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, but so far there are no suggestions that the US plans to take immediate action. The US State Department says that Condoleezza Rice has been in touch with her counterparts in the region. John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations has said that he’s urgently consulting members of the Security Council. The international community has been urging Pyongyang which is already believed to have nuclear weapons to return to six-party talks aimed at halting its nuclear programme. The chance of those talks resuming though appears even more remote.

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