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North Korea: Pyongyang Renews Threat to Restart Testing North Korea today reiterated threats to end its self-imposed moratorium, saying it would restart ballistic missile testing if Japan continues to develop a missile defense system with the United States (see GSN, Nov. 5). “This move of the Japanese bellicose forces to step up the joint MD [missile defense] under the pretext of the ‘missile threat’ from the D.P.R.K. compels it to heighten the vigilance against them,” the official North Korean Rodong Sinmun newspaper said (see GSN, Nov. 12). “This also prompts the D.P.R.K. to take a corresponding measure as it is a new dangerous move to attack and stifle the D.P.R.K. by force of arms,” the newspaper said (Agence France-Presse, Nov. 18). Last week, North Korea threatened to resume missile tests if Japan did not make amends for alleged abuses committed during its colonial rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945, according to the Associated Press. North Korea also made a similar threat earlier this month (Associated Press/Yahoo.com, Nov. 18).
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