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Posted on 03/08/2009 6:10:34 PM PDT by bimboeruption
PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it. "We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army as saying.
If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out "a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds" of the countries, it said.
"Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war," it added.
North Korea earlier announced it is preparing to put a communications satellite into space, but outside observers suspect it may in fact be a test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile.
The United States, Japan and South Korea have said that even if Pyongyang calls the launch a missile test, it would violate existing U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The same North Korean statement said the country's military will cut off communications with its South Korean counterparts during the U.S.- South Korean exercises for the duration of the exercises beginning Monday.
A separate, more rare statement by the KPA's Supreme Command was quoted by the KCNA as saying that its soldiers are under orders to be "fully combat-ready" during U.S.-South Korean military exercises beginning Monday.
The North's armed forces have been ordered to "deal merciless retaliatory blows" should there be any intrusion "into the sky and land and seas of the DPRK even an inch."
DPRK stands for Democratic People's.......
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What happens when it blows up 1 Km down range? Does that count as a “shoot down”?
I think she might be too heavy to use as an interceptor warhead.
1 KM? Even an inch!
Don’t worry folks. Hillary is on the scene with a stupid, mis-translated knickknack to smooth things over. Barry will follow up with some pirated DVDs.
Obama will launch into talk mode and then surrender. We may have to ask the French to lend us some white flags.
Don't you think she looks kinda bomb-shaped in this pic?
Either a bomb, or a guild navigator from the movie Dune.
I hope 1 of them is Dr. Strangelove.
No, I'm not. I'm a girl.
(What the heck is that thing?)
They gonna stand at the border and throw rocks?
I wasn’t directing that at YOU, noooo, not at all!
I was mocking the strident and hysterical rantings of the typical North Korean yapping news-head, warning of all sorts of repercussions and retaliations, etc., as for what that thing is?
I dunno, he’s a furry little rascal screaming into a microphone. Maybe an Air America on-air personality, lol
Would someone please call Texas and ask GWB to get back in the saddle before we end up driving on the left side of the road????
I was mocking the strident and hysterical rantings of the typical North Korean yapping news-head, warning of all sorts of repercussions and retaliations, etc., as for what that thing is?
I dunno, he’s a furry little rascal screaming into a microphone. Maybe an Air America on-air personality, lol
I thought it was Keith Olbermann.
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