<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1219ca74-4913-491f-8866-4e586b7fc86c/A82F7FAE-0369-4740-8F34-521734C9593E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200952919491670701.html" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200952919491670701.html" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200952919491670701.html"><SPAN id="Htmlphcontrol1" class="DetaildSuammary"><P>The US defence secretary has warned North Korea that the United States would be quick to respond if moves by the communist government threaten the US or its Asian allies.</p> <P>"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia - or on us," Robert Gates told defence and security officials from Asia and the Pacific Rim on Saturday.</p> </SPAN> <SPAN id="Span1" class="DetaildSuammary"> <P>As he made the remarks in Singapore, media reports in South Korea suggested that the North was preparing to carry out a long-range missile test in the next two weeks.</P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200952919491670701.html"><P>"A train carrying a long-range missile has been spotted at the weapons research centre near Pyongyang," an unidentified intelligence source was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200952919491670701.html"><P>"It is highly likely that the North may fire and South Korean and US intelligence authorities are watching closely," the source told Yonhap.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200952919491670701.html">Gates warned that Pyongyang's detonation of a nuclear device last Monday could start an arms race in Asia.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A82F7FAE-0369-4740-8F34-521734C9593E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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