Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Warns Moves To Intercept Rocket Will Be Met With
Counterstrike
Once again asserting its plans to
launch a satellite within days, on Monday the government of North
Korea warned the United States, Japan and South Korea that any
attempt to intercept the rocket would be met by a
counterstrike.
"We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite
for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most
powerful military means," the state-run Korean Central News Agency
quoted a military spokesman as saying, reports Breitbart.
As ANN reported last week, US intelligence
based on spy satellite photos suggests North Korea is preparing
another test of its long-range Taepodong-2 missile. The Communist
state responds the impending launch aims to put a communications
satellite into orbit... and threatened "a just retaliatory strike
operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but
against the strongholds" if the rocket is shot down.
"Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely
mean a war," the North Korean government added.
The latest missive from the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea comes days after the regime of Kim Jong-il said "security
cannot be guaranteed for South Korean civil airplanes" during a
planned joint US-South Korean military exercise along the
demilitarized zone, which also began Monday.
In a rare move, the KPA's Supreme Command also issued a
statement Monday... saying North Korean soldiers have been ordered
to be "fully combat-ready" during the exercise, and prepared to
"deal merciless retaliatory blows" should there be any intrusion
"into the sky and land and seas of the DPRK even an inch."
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