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North Korea accuses US plane of spying
Mail & Guardian Online ^ | 16 June 2006 | AFP

Posted on 06/16/2006 4:51:56 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

North Korea's air force on Friday accused a United States reconnaissance plane of intruding into its territorial waters to spy on strategic targets.

Its Air Force Command said that a US RC-135 plane being refuelled in the air had spied on strategic targets for hours after flying over its waters off the north-east coast.

"The ceaseless illegal intrusions of their strategic reconnaissance planes on spy missions have created an imminent danger of military clash in the sky above those waters," it warned in a statement published by the official Korean Central News Agency.

It was North Korea's second warning in a week against alleged US spy plane intrusions.

On Sunday, the air force threatened to "punish" US spy flights, recalling the fate of a US Navy plane it shot down in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) in 1969.

Another US-North Korean incident occurred when North Korea fired missiles at an SR-71 spy plane in August 1981. The jet was undamaged.

The warning comes amid jitters over the Stalinist country's preparations for a long-range missile test.

Officials here and in Washington confirmed earlier this week that North Korea appeared to be preparing to launch an inter-continental ballistic missile capable of reaching the mainland US.

North Korea is believed to be developing the missile for a range of up to 10 000km.

It shocked the world in August 1998 by firing a long-range Taepodong-1 missile, with a range of up to 2 000km, over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, claiming it was a satellite launch. -- AFP


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: korea; northkorea; reconnaissance; spyplane
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1 posted on 06/16/2006 4:51:58 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Good for us.


2 posted on 06/16/2006 4:55:08 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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To: Jet Jaguar
firing a long-range Taepodong-1 missile, with a range of up to 2 000km, over Japan into the Pacific Ocean.

The North Koreans seem pretty touchy about territorial violations for a country that violated Japan's airspace, with a weapon no less.

3 posted on 06/16/2006 4:56:21 PM PDT by Gator101
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To: Jet Jaguar
If true, why didn't they shoot us down? They certainly didn't hesistate with the Pueblo.
4 posted on 06/16/2006 4:57:27 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Jet Jaguar

I wonder how shrugging ones shoulders translates into Korean.


5 posted on 06/16/2006 4:58:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: Jet Jaguar
"North Korea is believed to be developing the missile for a range of up to 10 000km."

I really hope we are watching this...

6 posted on 06/16/2006 5:02:26 PM PDT by pandemoniumreigns
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To: Jet Jaguar

"I didn't do nothing,nobody saw anything,you can't prove nothing"

7 posted on 06/16/2006 5:04:19 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF...8th TFW...Ubon Thailand...408thMMS..."69"...Night Line Delivery...AMMO!!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
"North Korea's air force on Friday accused a United States reconnaissance plane of intruding into its territorial waters to spy on strategic targets."

Got news for that midget sized John Travolta wannbe... the USA has satellites that watch you brush your teeth!

Even I can do a Google Map and look at you from 400ft above!

Type in North Korea and then keep zooming in: Google Maps

8 posted on 06/16/2006 5:04:33 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Jet Jaguar

Better look out! Wong Wei's MIG may be jukin our way. (sarc)


9 posted on 06/16/2006 5:05:09 PM PDT by downtownconservative (Murtha is truly an EX-Marine...his motto, "nunquam fidelis")
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To: Doogle

Love it!


10 posted on 06/16/2006 5:05:23 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar
US plane admits to spying, adds “Wanna make something of it?”
11 posted on 06/16/2006 5:07:08 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Jet Jaguar

Bring it on.


12 posted on 06/16/2006 5:16:32 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Here come I, gravitas in tow.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
North Korea accuses US plane of spying<.i>
,br> oh duh !

13 posted on 06/16/2006 5:24:31 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Jet Jaguar

So?


14 posted on 06/16/2006 5:55:10 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Jet Jaguar

North Korean is a hostile, terror supporting, commie regime, of course we were spying!


15 posted on 06/16/2006 6:37:53 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Allah is the opium pipedream of a desert pedophile...Freeper Ax)
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To: cardinal4

Bet we can shoot that bugger down.


16 posted on 06/16/2006 6:41:25 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub)
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To: Dog Gone

The two F4C's should have continued.


17 posted on 06/16/2006 6:45:02 PM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Atigun; bannedfromdu; Beckwith; ...
MI Ping

PRK's are at it again!

18 posted on 06/16/2006 6:47:59 PM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: Jet Jaguar

It was not a spy plane. It was a cargo freighter delivering relief supplies from the kind and generous people of the USA to those impoverished by South Korea's repressive bourgeoise capitalist regime. [propaganda mode=OFF]


19 posted on 06/16/2006 6:49:53 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Jet Jaguar
Same old stuff, different day.


20 posted on 06/16/2006 6:51:30 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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