The US decided yesterday to deploy Patriot defence missiles in South Korea and revived plans for war games on the peninsula, as the dispute over North Korea's nuclear programme escalated a notch, Reuter reports from Washington. President Bill Clinton said he had agreed to a South Korean request to send the missiles as a defensive measure in light of rising tensions with North Korea.
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