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N Korea 'builds new missile site'

September 12, 2008 00:00:00


North Korea is close to completing a second launch site for long-range missiles, BBC reports.
The existence of site, said to be 30 miles (50km) from the Chinese border, was made public by an independent analyst using satellite imagery.
Reports say South Korea's defence minister Lee Sang-Hee told a closed-door parliamentary session that the project was 80 per cent about completed.
"We're watching it closely," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
The site's construction does not breach any international agreement.
A US official told CNN that the intelligence community has known about the secret facility for several years and was monitoring it closely.

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