FistOfThe North
Senior Member
i found this part particularly interesting:
"Japan ordered any North Korean object entering its airspace to be shot down.
North Korea’s military today vowed a “thunderbolt of revenge” if Japanese defense forces try to shoot down the rocket. North Korea will hit back against “any small move to shoot down our peaceful satellite launch,” the communist nation’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement carried by the official Korea Central News Agency.
The warning came three days after North Korea vowed to wage war against Japan if it tried to intercept the missile. Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada deployed guided-missile units around Tokyo on March 27 and ordered the interception of any North Korean object entering his country’s airspace."
why would N. Korea shoot something past or through Japanese air resembling a rocket and not expect Japan to react defensively or at least address it, and then threaten Japan with war if the missle was intrercepted? N. Korea is saying it's a mission of peace to send that sat. up into space but it might be just to see if the type of missles they build are capable of reaching such far lengths just incase some type of war broke out they'd have confidence with their strategic munitions, i think...