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North Korea Missile Base Activity Is Response to PSI Drill Hosted by Japan, Pyongyang Says
North Korea increased activity at its Jeongju missile base in response to the multinational WMD-interdiction exercises held this week in Japan (see GSN, Oct. 26), a military source in Pyongyang told ITAR-Tass yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 27). “The Korean People’s Democratic Republic believes that Exercise Team Samurai 04 is directed primarily against North Korea and is a rehearsal of a sea blockade of the northern part of the Korean Peninsula,” the source said. “Pyongyang is responding by a show of its readiness to rebuff the participants in the exercise and their possible attack.” He added, however, that any potential test missile launch is not imminent. “The North Korean leadership has already carried its point — the activity at the base has been noticed and the media have brought the fact home to people around the world. If the Korean People’s Democratic Republic really intended to launch a missile, it would launch an anti-ship missile as usual from a base located on the eastern coast,” he said (BBC Monitoring/ITAR-Tass, Oct. 27).
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