Corea del Norte, ha aumentado un 25% su número de misiles, hasta llegar a las 1.000 unidades, lo que incrementa la amenaza a los países de la región, según el jefe de la defensa de Corea del Sur. El arsenal de Pyongyang incluye misiles de alcance intermedio con un alcance de hasta 3.000 km, capace de alcanzar Japón y la base americana de Guam.
Por otra parte, según Koreaherald.com ,el líder norcoreano Kim Jong-il, cuya salud ha sido cuestionada a nivel internacional, parece tener una esperanza de vida de tres años, según altos oficiales de defensa norteamericanos. La observación está basada en informes de sucesión obtenidospor Corea del Sur. Kim de 68 años de edad parece padecer problemas renales, según muestran algunas fotografís recientes. Kim sufrió un ataque en el verano de 2008 que le mantuvo alejado de la vida pública varios meses..
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North Korea has increased its missile arsenal by 25 percent in the past two years to about 1,000, expanding the threat the state poses to the region, the South's defense chief said Wednesday. Pyongyang's arsenal includes intermediate-range missiles that can hit targets at up to 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away, Yonhap news agency quoted Kim Tae-young as telling a forum of business leaders. The missiles could hit all of Japan and put U.S. military bases in Guam at risk.
On the other hand, aocording koreaherald.com North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, whose questionable health has received international attention, appears to have three years left to live, a senior U.S. official was quoted as saying. Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, voiced his observations on sensitive issues such as Kim's life expectancy and Pyongyang's preparations for power succession during a closed-door meeting with South Korean lawmakers and defectors from the North at the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Feb. 3. South Korean observers suspect the 68-year-old Kim may have a kidney disease, judging from his usually white fingernails in recent photographs and from bits of intelligence. Kim reportedly suffered a stroke in the summer of 2008 and disappeared from the public eye for months.
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