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While the international media was/is putting the DPRK's missile issue on its headlines - for example on CNN Intl. it was/is the top story ..

North Korea Moves Closer to Missile Test

North Korea has finished loading fuel into a long-range ballistic missile, a Bush administration official said Monday as signs continued that the reclusive communist state(*) will soon test a weapon that could reach the United States.. (Guardian, AP)

More nations warn North Korea against launching missile (IHT)

...the S.K. media is, once again, trying to play down the issue:

Korea Times Tuesday's edition will publish following:

Seoul Calm Over NK Missile Issue
 

North Korea does not appear to be at the stage of test-firing its long-range missile in a day or two, despite recent news reports, as few concrete signs indicating an imminent launch have been detected, sources in Seoul said Monday.

Some foreign news services reported over the weekend that North Korea seems to have finished fueling a long-range ballistic missile increasing the possibility it will go ahead with its first important test-launch in eight years...

South Korea has not yet concluded whether the projectile North Korea plans to launch is a military-purpose missile or a civilian-purpose satellite...

(the entire article you can read here:

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200606/kt2006061917113210440.htm)

Opps, perhaps following will be a kind of un-sensitively(harrharr, I'm un-sensitively!! everyone knows..)...

Just my(possibly stupid) idea, but it might be a likely scenario in the coming days:

Soon the DPRK will launch the Daepodong No. 2. Of course the Daepodong is just a "missile to launch a satellite to bring the latest song, praising the peaceful unification between the South and the North",..blabla.. "to the space"..

The US Navy will shoot it down and KIm Jeong-il will blame the USA for attacking the DPRK's efforts for their(of course peaceful) space program.. blabla.. (well, once again, this is just my idea..).

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^^what a SURPRISE:

‘N. Korea Visit May Be Postponed’

Former President Kim Dae-jung's scheduled trip to Pyongyang later this month may be delayed due to tensions over North Korea's alleged move to test-fire a long-range missile and Pyongyang's lukewarm attitude toward the trip...

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`Launch may be a satellite'

 There is not enough evidence to conclude that a test launch allegedly prepared by North Korea was for military purposes, it was reported in Seoul yesterday.
The Seoul government is said to be keeping in check the possibility that the projectile could be a satellite instead of a ballistic missile, based on the location of the launch pad and type of fuel.

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/06/20/200606200005.asp

* Of course N.K. has nothing to do with communism..

BTW: There was no communist state in the past.. and there will be no communist state in the future! Because communism means a classless society, without state, nation, borders, (ruling)political parties, police, military..