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North Korean delegates return home with warnings against missile test North Korea's delegates to a pro-unification festival left here Saturday for their communist home country after being warned by South Korea against test-launching a ballistic missile. The North's 140-member delegation left this southwestern city on a chartered flight at the end of four-day celebrations to mark a historic inter-Korean summit in 2000, witnesses said. South Korean officials said that the North Koreans had been warned against a feared test-firing of a long-range missile. "We made all efforts we should have done here (as to the concerns over the missile test)," an official of the Unification Ministry told journalists. South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jong-Seok held talks here Thursday with Kim Yong-Dae, who led the North Koreans to the cultural and sporting events, and expressed concerns over the reportedly imminent missile test. But the North Koreans did not give any assurances to their South Korean counterparts that their country would not test-fire a ballistic missile, Yonhap news agency said. South Korean and US officials said that North Korea appeared to be preparing to launch an inter-continental ballistic missile capable of reaching the mainland United States. South Korea has urged Pyongyang to abandon plans for the missile test that would have a "negative impact on the international geopolitical situation and the settlement of North Korea's nuclear issue." The United States on Friday sharply warned North Korea against what it called a "provocative" ballistic missile test, promising to protect itself. ---------------------------------------------------
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