North Korea signals 'all-out, high-intensity' action
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SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea's ruling communist party has called for the staging of a "high-intensity" action and further long-range rocket launches, state media said on Tuesday, ahead of an expected nuclear test.
A meeting of the workers party politburo "called for staging an all-out action of high intensity," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Tuesday, without specifically mentioning a nuclear test.
The politburo also "stressed the need to continue launching satellites ... and powerful long-range rockets," KCNA said.
The statement carried strong echoes of the initial announcement last month by the North's top military body, the National Defence Commission, that it would conduct a "high-level nuclear test" and further rocket launches.
