Nordkorea

[ThomasWach]

North Korea Threatens to Down U.S. Surveillance Planes


SEOUL, South Korea — Escalating its anti-foreign vitriol, North Korea threatened on Wednesday to shoot down American military planes it said were spying on the site of its impending rocket launching.

In mid-March, North Korea’s regime announced that it would launch a satellite into orbit between Saturday and next Wednesday. Since then, it has warned that any attempt to interrupt the launching will be considered an act of war.
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The broadcast accused the United States of deploying RC-135 surveillance aircraft to spy on the Musudan-ri launch site near the North’s northeast coast. North Korea regularly accuses American surveillance aircraft of intruding into its airspace, a claim the United States military dismisses as propaganda.
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As the launching date approached, a growing number of analysts in Seoul who have studied the latest satellite images of the North Korean rocket appeared to believe that the rocket may have been configured to put a satellite into orbit.
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Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/world/...korea.html

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