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The report said the development of the North Korean missile runs parallel to Iran’s development of the long-range Shihab-5 and -6.”

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Maybe the parts for this is what was really on that re-flagged concrete-lined NK ship that landed in Tartus on Sept. 6 (The day Israel took out that Syrian reactor).

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Tokyo deployed warships and Patriot missile interceptors off its northern coast to shoot down any debris that the North said might fall over the area.

U.S. and South Korean warships equipped with missile interceptors also plied the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan to monitor the launch.

Russia, meanwhile, scrambled fighter jets to its Far East in case any debris hits its territory, Russian news reports said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_missile

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South Korea’s presidential Blue House called the launch a “reckless” move that poses a “serious threat” to stability on the Korean peninsula.

“We cannot contain our disappointment and regret over North Korea’s reckless act,” presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan told reporters Sunday. He said the launch of the long-range rocket “poses a serious threat to security on the Korean peninsula and the world.”

Obama said Friday the launch would be “provocative” and said the U.S. would “take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it can’t threaten the safety and security of other countries with impunity.”

The launch “will prompt the United States to take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it cannot threaten the safety and security of other countries with impunity,” State Department spokesman Fred Lash said in Washington.

Security Council diplomats said Friday that a draft resolution in circulation could reaffirm and tighten enforcement of the demands and sanctions of a resolution passed after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on 2006.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_missile

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U.S. Says “Appropriate Steps” to Be Taken after Rocket Launch

2009-04-05 11:21:10
Xinhua

The U.S. State Department confirmed on Saturday that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea launched a rocket at 0230 GMT on Sunday.

“We have had a launch. I don’t know the type of missile,” U.S. State Department spokesman Fred Lash told reporters on a conference call.

“We look on this as a provocative act,” said Lash, adding that the United States will take “appropriate steps” in response to the DPRK’s rocket launch.

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2009/04/05/2021s471683.htm