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Korea
NKor bitches about intel flight...
2003-02-25
NNorth Korea said Tuesday that an American reconnaissance plane intruded into its air space on a spying mission. "This is a premeditated move to find an opportunity to mount a pre-emptive attack on the DPRK," said the North's official Korean Central News Agency. DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Cheeze! Help hold them down! They're having a siezure!
North Korea regularly rolls its collective eyes, rattles sabres, and shieks they're being invaded makes such accusations, saying the United States is preparing for an invasion. The U.S. military had no comment on the latest claim, but has said in the past its maneuvers are defensive.
That's what we do instead of saying, "Oh, shuddup."
The accusation came hours after South Korea said the North had test-fired a missile Monday that landed harmlessly in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Tension are high over North Korea's nuclear development.
Boy, that sure showed that Roh guy who's in charge, by gum.
KCNA said "U.S. imperialist warhawks" sent a RC-135 strategic reconnaissance plane into its territory on Monday. The agency said the plane had made similar intrusions in recent days.
The RC-135 is a converted Boeing 707. Not only has it made similar intrusions in recent days, but it's been flying up and down the coast of the Sea of Japan (ooh, they hate that term!) since the 60's.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  The Koreans are bitter it's not called the "Korean Sea". I saw a really old map once that actually had it labelled as such.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2003-02-25 11:14:40  

#2  Powell said no biggie, the testing was announced prior to lift off.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-02-25 11:04:12  

#1  Sea of Japan...heh..I noticed that on NKor-produced maps it's referred to as the East Sea.

"pay no attention to the large islands to the east"
Posted by: Frank G   2003-02-25 09:14:21  

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