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NKorea reportedly fires missile into Yellow Sea |
2008-10-08 |
North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Yellow Sea, media reports said Tuesday. Japanese public broadcaster NHK quoted officials as saying Tokyo was trying to verify a report from a third country that the communist nation fired a missile. NHK said the firing did not involve a ballistic missile. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said two missiles were fired Monday. The Japanese daily Mainichi carried a similar report and said it was a routine military exercise. Japanese officials said they could not confirm the media reports. In Washington, the Pentagon declined to confirm or deny whether any missile firing had been detected. "We cannot provide information regarding specific intelligence," said Marine Maj. Stewart Upton, a Defense Department spokesman. "However, our concerns about missile activities in North Korea are long-standing and well documented. "North Korea's development, deployment and proliferation of missiles and missile-related materials, equipment and technology pose a threat to the region and the world," Upton said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 "Hit it first shot, too" Funny guy. I love it!! |
Posted by: logi_cal 2008-10-08 09:51 |
#3 Lest we get the impression the Norks are a bunch of buffoons. N Korea 'developing nuclear warhead' South Korea's Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said intelligence authorities believe the North is preparing to test-fire an advanced model of the Taepodong-2 which could theoretically hit parts of the US west coast. It said the modified model would have a range of 10,000km, compared to 6700km currently. |
Posted by: ed 2008-10-08 08:17 |
#2 Another successful DPRK targeting test! When do we, the Japanese and the ROK, along with Boeing, put up a laser mounted 747 for live anti-missile testing? |
Posted by: Don Vito Omeling5062 2008-10-08 08:14 |
#1 fired a short-range missile into the Yellow Sea Perhaps it was another long-range missile but that was as far as it got. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-08 07:28 |