U.S. officials: North Korea missile test may be near

U.S. officials: North Korea missile test may be near
Fuel trucks, equipment reportedly have left launch pad

From Elise Labott and Justine Redman
CNN
Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Posted: 1707 GMT (0107 HKT)



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fuel trucks have departed the site where a North Korean missile sits on a launching pad, indicating that a test might be near, two senior U.S. State Department officials said Tuesday.

The removal of the fuel trucks and other auxiliary equipment means the North Koreans may have finished fueling the missile, said the officials, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.

Should the North Koreans have completed the fueling "all they would need to do now is press the button," one of the sources said.

The second source said the launch could come Wednesday morning Korean time, which would be Tuesday evening ET.

But both officials said no hard evidence points to a launch coming soon.

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