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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. 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The announcement came as North Korea marked the 67th birthday of leader Kim Jong-il with displays of synchronized swimming and aging cadres praising a "peerlessly great man," who appears to have recovered from a suspected stroke in August. South Korean media reports say Pyongyang has been preparing its longest-range Taepodong-2 missile for a test while officials in Seoul have been anticipating a short-range missile test near a disputed sea border where navies from the two side have clashed in the past. The North's KCNA news agency said the country had the right to fire its longest-range rocket, which is supposed to be able to hit Alaska but has never successfully flown. "One will come to know later what will be launched in the DPRK (North Korea)," KCNA said. North Korea has been preparing to test missiles since January, the South's defense minister Lee Sang-hee told parliament, adding he had given commanders in the field authorization to respond to any North Korean provocation. "If the North wages aggression, our forces will move based on all possible scenarios and local commanders will be using our power to end the situation in the shortest possible time," Lee said. North Korea says the long-range missile is the cornerstone of its peaceful space program, although experts say it is for military purposes and designed to strike the United States. Clinton, on her first overseas visit since taking office, flew to Asia where the North and the issue of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents will be high on her agenda. She was scheduled to arrive in Japan later on Monday on a trip that also takes her to Indonesia, South Korea and China. On Friday, Clinton offered North Korea a peace treaty, normal ties and aid if it eliminated its nuclear arms program. There has been no response yet from Pyongyang. In recent weeks, North Korea's harsh rhetoric has increased sharply, including a threat to destroy the wealthy South in anger at the hardline policies of its President Lee Myung-bak. Analysts said North Korea is using the missile threat to put pressure on President Lee to end curbs he placed on aid to the destitute state and grab the Obama administration's attention. SPECULATION OVER SUCCESSOR Kim's health problems have set off fresh speculation over who might succeed him as leader of Asia's only communist dynasty, whose efforts to become a nuclear weapons power mean it is never far from the international community's list of major concerns. Continued... 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