WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A fresh nuclear test by North Korea would deepen the communist state's isolation, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday amid reports the North was preparing for its second atomic test.

"North Korea must know that any such test would further deepen their isolation," Rice told reporters after talks in Washington with South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon. Song said there were no signs of an imminent nuclear test, which would be the North's second since Oct. 9.

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