Seoul believes North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic missile, posing a possible new threat to stability on the peninsula ahead of South Korea’s presidential election in December.
“It’s clear that they’re in preparation for a possible launch,” a senior foreign ministry official said, while stressing that the South Korean government could not predict when or whether a missile test would take place.
Last week, Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported that US intelligence had detected possible launch preparations. In April, a North Korean rocket that Pyongyang said would carry a satellite into orbit failed 90 seconds into flight.
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