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N. Korea conducts 'important test' at once-dismantled site
« on: December 08, 2019, 11:18:50 am »
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N. Korea conducts 'important test' at once-dismantled site
Hyung-jin Kim, Associated Press Updated 12:47 am PST, Sunday, December 8, 2019

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday that it carried out a “very important test” at its long-range rocket launch site that it reportedly rebuilt after having partially dismantled it at the start of denuclearization talks with the United States last year.

The announcement comes amid dimming prospects for a resumption of negotiations, with the North threatening to seek “a new way” if it fails to get major U.S. concessions by year’s end. North Korea has said its resumption of nuclear and long-range missile tests depends on the United States.

Saturday’s test at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground will have “an important effect on changing the strategic position of (North Korea) once again in the near future,” an unidentified spokesman from the North’s Academy of National Defense Science said in a statement, carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

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