North Korea Lobs Missiles Toward Communist China

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By ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 9, 2006

North Korea has tested two short-range, surface-to-air missiles near the border with its chief benefactor, Communist China, according to reports yesterday.

So far there has been no word on the incident from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang or from Beijing. But yesterday White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "Indications are that North Korea launched two short-range missiles." The projectiles landed within North Korean territory, a senior White House official said yesterday, according to Reuters....

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That would be a good fight, but China would massacre NK!

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SEOUL: North Korea cannot return to six-way talks on its nuclear programmes unless the United States ends its financial crack down on Pyongyang’s assets, Yonhap news agency quoted a senior North Korean official as saying. The comments from Ri Gun, North Korea’s deputy chief envoy to the talks, reiterated rather than hardened North Korea’s stance but came as pressure builds for Pyongyang to return to the table. North Korea has previously said it would be unthinkable to do so unless Washington ends its crack down on firms it suspects of aiding Pyongyang in illicit activities such as counterfeiting that it says help fund the North’s nuclear programmemes. “As long as pressure continues, our position remains unchanged that we can’t return to the six-party talks,” Yonhap quoted Ri as saying in New York on Tuesday. A South Korean official in Seoul played down the remarks, which came after Ri met US Treasury officials. “We didn’t think Ri would go over there and break up the field,” the government official said by telephone. US President George W Bush’s former top Asia adviser took a similar line in assessing the latest twist. Financial markets watch North Korea developments but did not react unduly to Ri. reuters