North Korea accuses U.S. of spying - Claims RC-135 entered their airspace

Reuters | February 25, 2003

[HAL9000]

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea says a U.S. strategic reconnaissance aircraft intruded into its airspace on Monday and on three consecutive other days to spy on the country ahead of a possible attack.

The North's official KCNA news agency said the RC-135 aircraft was supported by a KC-135 refuelling tanker plane on its missions up and down the east coast of the Korean peninsula inside North Korean airspace.

"The U.S. imperialist warhawks illegally intruded RC-135 strategic reconnaissance plane into the territorial air of the DPRK to spy on it," KCNA said on Tuesday. DPRK is the acronym for the North's official title, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

[ChuckSnow5]

Consider yourself lucky if that's ALL that enters your Airspace...

[Cindy]

North Korea is acting like a spoiled brat --- throwing a temper tantrum to get our attention. Stay tuned for the rest of the story.

[First_Salute]

North Korea has a long history of shooting down Allied aircraft. The are still dumb enough to try it now.

[11B3]

"Consider yourself lucky if that's ALL that enters your Airspace..."

Two choices - Conventional tipped MIRVs or nuclear tipped ones. Either way, there is nothing they can do to stop it.

ALL YOUR AIRSPACE BELONG TO US.

[Norman Arbuthnot]

Two choices - Conventional tipped MIRVs or nuclear tipped ones.

I don't know why we would want to waste a perfectly good ICBM to deliver a conventional warhead. I know that the AF is considering converting the warheads of some ICBM's from nuclear to conventional, but I think cruise missiles are a better weapon for taking out selected hard targets with conventional WH's. The AF rationale for using ICBM's that they elimnate risk to pilots, but so do cruise missiles. I'd be very surprised if the NK's can stop cruise missiles. I'd like see them stop a few dozen ALCM's and SLCM's fired at the same time from B-1's and a few Los Angeles class subs.

[Rain-maker]

Ah heck, let's just go DEFCON 5 and take out the whole Eastern Hemisphere.

Don't forget to drop a big one on France too. I'm getting a headache from all this..LOL