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Jensen has denied the crown prince had any knowledge of the operation but talks between the u.s. And North Korea at a stalemate North Korea has been warning about an upcoming Christmas gift a.p. Correspondent Shelley Adler with details that so-called Christmas gift says Heritage Foundation s Asia expert Bruce Kling there could be an intercontinental ballistic missile tests they could jump right to that were a nuclear test but it s also possible they may sort of goes more incrementally up the escalation ladder by doing medium range tasks intermediate range missile tests a space launch vehicle which is sort of a civilian version of an i.c.b.m. Before they jump to the i.c.b.m. And it may not be on Christmas or looking to the annual New Year s Day speech by the North Korean leader so further so I think there may be an overt fixation on the phrase Christmas present I think it was more rhetorical Shelley after Washington rising space power China has attacked the newly created us Space Force
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