North Korea Threatens War Against Japan Over Missile

[Coventina]

Source: Bloomberg

March 31 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea’s government vowed to wage war against Japan if Japanese defense forces try to shoot down a missile that the communist nation says will carry a communications satellite.

“Should Japan dare recklessly to intercept the DPRK’s satellite, its army will consider this as the start of Japan’s war of reinvasion more than six decades after the Second World War,” the official Korean Central News Agency said today in an e-mailed statement. North Korea is also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada ordered his forces on March 27 to shoot down any North Korean object entering his country’s airspace and deployed guided-missile units around Tokyo. Japan, along with the U.S., China, South Korea and Russia want to forestall North Korea’s plans to launch what the government in Pyongyang calls a “peaceful” satellite, and refocus on joint efforts to end its nuclear program.

“Bellicose rhetoric is not helpful to calming tensions in the region. North Korea needs to desist from this rhetoric,” U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.



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[Mr. Hyde]

1. EMP the missile and blame it on faulty engineering.

We have to have directable EMP weapons and a stealth platform from which to deploy it against things like this.

[FirstLight]

2. Is this guy freakin' serious?

...I swear... He's in a total time warp, does this "leader" even KNOW WTF is going on in the world outside...?
financial distess, environmental disaster on the horizon, peak oil, etc...

N Korea and it's people are just so screwn, this nutjob has no clue about running a country...I think he should be in a padded cell somewhere with some action figures and then he can have his imaginary 'world' that he is supreme leader over...leave the REAL issues to the grownups

[Regret My New Name]

4. Send him civilization 4...

[tomm2thumbs]

3. China needs some more space, they'll just move in and kick the DPRK out - all that cheap labor too

They have the most to lose/gain from North Korea going 'ballistic' literally

[PAStudent]

5. Why Doesn't China Stop This Stuff

Serious question. By all accounts the North Korean government is a brutal, horrific regime (I've never seen anyone defend it here, thank goodness). Why does China support them?

[ohio2007]

7. .....because they know malnourished munchkins can't swim to Japan

China knows when to heel their yap dog.

[Posteritatis]

11. Because a tottering, dysfunctional North Korea is still safer than one that's collapsed entirely. nt

[New Dawn]

6. Attacking another country's satellite launch would be an act of war.

The corporate media dangerously tries to pretend that this is not the case.

[Massacure]

8. It may be an act of war, but denying N. Korea of missile technolgy is a good thing.

North Korea deserves to have their chain yanked a lot more than Iraq ever did.

[New Dawn]

10. It would be an act of war, there is no "may" about it.

Secondly, they already have missile technology. Finally, and most significantly, China would not sit by idly if its ally were attacked.

[Regret My New Name]

13. What about a missile entering another country's air space???

Is that not an act of war?

[Akoto]

14. Not if the missile enters another country's air space, I'd think. n/t

[denem]

9. Kim Ill Drama Queen.

[pinniped]

12. SPECTRE was trying to start a war in "You Only Live Twice" by blowing....

up the US's manned space probe.

Countries take their space probes seriously, so this is a plausible scenario.