North Korea threatens to shoot down U.S. spy planes

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=499a5652f1cb8356

North Korea claims the United States is using spy planes to ready an attack and said it will shoot the planes down if it continues.

The Korean People's Army Air Force Command said a U.S. RC-135 plane flew over North Korean waters Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday -- evidence the United States plans to attack the country, the BBC reported Sunday.

The United States didn't comment on the allegations, which North Korea makes on a regular basis.

The North Korean Air Force said the U.S. flights violated its sovereignty and threatened to shoot it down if they continue.
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North Korea knows how to threaten too...

[tocqueville]

1. next step : a North-Korean will commit suicide

and this will considered as an act of war....

[Posteritatis]

2. Nah, someone'll get bombed and *that'll* be called one

"This hideous, evil enemy destroyed one of our 500-pound bombs in a terrible act of sabotage! That he himself was killed in his successful attack on the defenseless ordnance will not undo the damage!"

[wakeme2008]

3. Iran or North Korea or BOTH

Bush is trying to kill as many troops as he can :grr:

[krispos42]

4. Over water?

Well, considering North Korea's arrogence and general insanity, they probably consider the entire Pacic Ocean "North Korean waters" for the purposes of military posturing.

Let's just hope that the Crawford Village Idiot doesn't trot out his "bring 'em on" line. If Kim Jong-Il nukes Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul, the world economy will collapse into ruin.

[David__77]

5. Yours is a typical imperialist response.

N. Korea, like all non-landlocked countries, has a legally-recognized boundary incorporating its territorial waters. Do you think that the U.S. would tolerate, for instance, Chinese spy planes over its territorial waters?

Who is surrounding whom with military bases, spy planes, and all manner of missiles? N. Korea has not one single foreign base, while the U.S. occupies many hundreds of bases all around the world. The U.S. occupies Iraq and Afghanistan, but N. Korea only defends its borders. Who is guilty of "insanity?"

[saskatoon]

6. I say Hurrah for David 77"s

A voice of reason and sanity!

[INDIA]

7. I'd say

the leaders of N. Korea are VERY guilty of "insanity".

[Robb]

8. Erm

IIRC, most nations adhere to 12 miles as territorial waters. NK constantly bellows 200+.

[daleo]

9. What does the U.S. claim?

Just out of curiousity?

On edit: I found something:

The UN-sponsored Law of the Sea Treaty, which went into effect in 1994, codified territorial waters of 12 nautical mi (13.8 mi/22.2 km) and an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical mi (230 mi/370 km). In 1999, U.S. agencies were empowered by presidential proclamation to enforce American law up to 24 miles (39 km) offshore, doubling the previous limit.

http://www.answers.com/topic/territorial-waters

[letsgonova19087]

10. Yeah,

except for that whole, you know, invasion of South Korea thing.

But lets not get bogged down in pesky details details.

[daleo]

11. Well, that did happen 55 years ago

In an entirely different geopolitical context.

[sweetheart]

12. Lets consider those details

The US took over south korea in 1945, put sygmun rhee in power and left in
power all the japanese "nazis" when they denazified germany. This left the
popular impression after years, that korea was simply being transferred to
a different administrator, one that supported the japanese and what they did.
This was so deeply unpopular, that had the north not invaded, most historians
will admit, that theere was an extreme likelihood of an all out rebellion to
finally free korea of the japanese occupation.

Those pesky little details paint a less black and white picture of what war
crimes are whose. And this leaves out entirely the agreement that TR made
with the russians in 1908 to give korea to japan as their own colony to rape
and pilliage, which they did with nanking effiency and brutality for decades.

Wow, we're just innocent saint protectors over there.... :eyes:

We should be out of korea, but it does provide a good historical case for how
the US army never leaves the scenes of its crimes... even after 55+ years.