Fill in the blanks – Test 44

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Mr Abe described the launch as "absolutely intolerable" and demanded that North Korea should -------------with a raft of UN Security Council resolutions that have so far done little to restrain its missile and nuclear programmes.

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Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is ----------by the speed with which the North Koreans have developed a powerful solid-fuel motor. He thinks it possible that they have ---------- the engines illicitly from either China or Russia.

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The IS is clearly following a strategy that was successful in mobilizing fighters and ---------- publicity in Iraq and Syria.