search.japantimes.co.jp - 4/2/2009
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As tension mounts ahead of North Korea's plan to launch a rocket over this country, Japan, the United States and South Korea are deploying several high-tech surveillance ships to monitor what the three allies suspect will actually be a ballistic missile test.
Experts say Pyongyang's launch ...
North said in driver's seat after 'triumph' —
The Japan Times: All Stories
Sunday's launch of what Pyongyang called a satellite — but many others around the world saw as a ballistic missile test — is a "triumph for North Korea," analysts said, because it gives the reclusive state plenty of diplomatic leverage as it pursues its nuclear program and handles the succession ...
North Korea fires rocket over Tohoku —
The Japan Times: All Stories
North Korea fired a long-range rocket over the Tohoku region Sunday, but Japan did not try to shoot it down because its debris posed no threat to Japanese territory.
The missile, which Pyongyang claimed was carrying a satellite, blasted off from the Musudan-ri launch facility at 11:30 a.m. ...
Rocket launch will test international law —
The Japan Times: All Stories
SEOUL (AP) North Korea says it has the right to put a satellite into orbit under an international space treaty. The U.S. and others, suspicious the planned launch is really a test of a long-range military missile, say firing any rocket would violate a United Nations ban.
As with many legal ...
North launch would be 'act of provocation' —
The Japan Times: All Stories
Japan will condemn North Korea for an "act of provocation" if it launches a long-range ballistic missile and Prime Minister Taro Aso will instruct the government to increase its surveillance, official sources said Wednesday.
Cabinet members would be expected to gather at the prime minister's ...
N. Korea has nuke warheads: analyst —
The Japan Times: All Stories
SEOUL (AP) North Korea is believed to have several nuclear warheads that could be mounted on a missile, an international security expert said Tuesday ahead of a rocket launch that regional powers suspect will test weapon delivery technology. But Daniel Pinkston, a Seoul-based expert for the ...
Iranian missile experts in North Korea ahead of missile launch —
Jihad Watch
The collaboration continues. "Iranian missile experts in North Korea ahead of rocket launch," from The Australian , March 29 (thanks to JE):
A GROUP of Iranian missile experts is in North Korea to help Pyongyang prepare for a rocket launch, Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported on ...
World news in brief —
World News from Times Online
Strong winds apparently prevented North Korea test-firing a rocket that it
claims carries a communications satellite. The United States, Japan and
others are convinced that the test is of a long-range missile and are
closely monitoring the launch.
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