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To: NickSE who wrote (73160)	2/11/2003 8:42:46 PM
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Baker Says N. Korea Plans Missile Test newsmax.com U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker said Monday that the North Korean plan to ratchet up the tension was “not over,” noting that he and his staff “hear reports that they may engage in a missile test, perhaps over-flying the island of Japan.” Baker’s new intelligence about the North’s next step in a relentless program of provocation provoked its own recollections of the dictatorship’s launching of a Taepodong missile over the Japanese mainland in 1998. This latest step has been interpreted as another shocking event to gain North Korea the face-to-face talks with Washington that it has been demanding. [.....] ~~~~~~~~~ Japan threatens to ask U.S. to launch pre-emptive attack on North Korea etaiwannews.com Japan will consider imposing sanctions against North Korea if the secretive Stalinist state, at the center of a nuclear standoff, fires a ballistic missile, a report said Sunday. If a North Korean missile fell on Japanese territory or waters, the Tokyo government would convene an emergency meeting and consult the United States on counter-measures, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said. The report did not specify what counter-measures could be taken. But Japanese officials said last month Tokyo could ask US forces to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korean missile bases if Pyongyang was preparing to fire missiles at its territory. [.....]

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