North Korea tested cruise missiles: White House
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - North Korea fired cruise missiles when it test-fired short-range missiles off its west coast on Thursday, a senior White House official said on Thursday.
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The United States is moving to impose sanctions on North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles in July, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday.
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North Korea accused the United States on   Saturday of provoking war by carrying out an anti-missile test   over the Pacific and holding military drills with South Korean   forces on the divided peninsula.
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The White House said on Friday that  South Korea and other nations should send a "clear message" to  North Korea of their commitment to a nuclear-free peninsula  after Seoul admitted government scientists had enriched uranium  to nearly weapons-grade levels.
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A defiant North Korea test-fired a long-range missile Wednesday that may be capable of reaching America, but it failed seconds after launch, U.S. officials said. The North also tested four of shorter range in an exercise the White House termed &quot;a provocation&quot; but not an immediate threat.
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North Korea has fired short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports.
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North Korea has accused the United States of threatening war by carrying out a test of its missile defense system and conducting joint military exercises with the South.
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Taiwan test-fired a cruise missile capable of hitting Chinese territory last month, a newspaper reports.
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A defiant North Korea acknowledged for   the first time on Thursday that it had launched several   missiles, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use   force if the international community tried to stop it.
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North Korea fired several short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Friday, Japanese media reported
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The United States and Japan warned  North Korea on Monday against a missile launch as some  officials said Pyongyang appeared to have finished fueling for  a test flight that could reach as far as Alaska.
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The Bush administration is weighing responses to a possible North Korean missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Pacific, defense officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration delivered a secret message to North Korea yesterday warning it to back down from a promised nuclear test, and it said publicly that the United States would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang government.
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South Korea has developed and hopes to   deploy soon a new cruise missile that is capable of hitting   almost all of North Korea, a defense ministry official said on   Thursday.
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SEOUL, May 25 -- North Korea fired a salvo of short-range test missiles into its coastal waters Friday, flexing naval muscles as South Korea launched its most advanced destroyer, armed with a high-tech U.S. air defense system.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on  Thursday expressed concern after reports that North Korea might  carry out a new missile test but said it would not change the  U.S. effort to persuade Pyongyang through diplomacy to abandon  its nuclear ambitions.
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The White House said Wednesday that it was "skeptical" that North Korea would provide a full accounting of its nuclear programs after the Stalinist regime missed a December 31 deadline to do so.