The Japanese Armed Forces could shoot down North Koreas satellite, planned to be launched next month, as the need arises, Japan's Sankei newspaper reported on Saturday quoting Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka as saying.

The North Korean state news agency KCNA announced on Friday that it would launch an earth observation satellite next month to mark the 100th birthday of its late founding leader Kim Il-sung. The planned launch will be in violation of North Koreas international obligations and a UN resolution banning Pyongyang from conducting ballistic missile launches.

A similar launch in 2009 drew international criticism and led to UN Security Council sanctions. Sankei said that country's former defense minister Yasukazu Hamada ordered then to deploy missile defense system to protect Japan from North Korean missiles if they fell onto Japanese territory.
The Unha-3 rocket carrying the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite is scheduled to lift off from a launch pad in Cholsan, a coastal town in the country's northwest, between April 12 and 16.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement that Pyongyang's plans to launch the satellite in April violated the international obligations and were highly provocative. She also reminded that UN Security Council Resolution 1874 prohibited North Korea from conducting launches that use ballistic missile technology.

Source;http://en.ria.ru/mlitary_news/20120317/172234870.html

You know what this reminds me of?



'Little Evil for Greater Good'

The last thing I would want to hear or see are two Altaic nations fighting each other over Western Allied interests ffs....

I've got to give it to the North Korean's.... All Asians should form a union like the Europeans such as the Asian or Altaic union, it's the last thing the Americans want so they divide the Asians with communism vs capitalism myth.

If it wasn't for Allied intervention in east Asia most or all Asian nations would have been totalitarian or communist states but thanks to the Allied forces Asian peoples are divided.

'Little Evil for Greater Good'

They wont.

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Dude, Have you ever seen the inventory of korean weapons?! Its fullid with old crappy outdated Soviet era weapons! S.Korea is far superior!

Back to topic, I didnt expect anything less from Japan. They are in my eyes the most advanced nation in the world no doubt about it.

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The way of the Jannisary

Euhm and with what exactly will Japan shoot down this satellite?



An unavoidable war is called justice.
When brutality is the only option left,
it is holy.
Machiavelli - The Prince 1513.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

I'm not American, I'm from Flanders.

^^ with sm3 on destroyers ? Theoretically it can hit satellite's at lower earth orbit.

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Pure Japanese technology I see ^^



An unavoidable war is called justice.
When brutality is the only option left,
it is holy.
Machiavelli - The Prince 1513.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

I'm not American, I'm from Flanders.

^^Expensive too. Money coming from hardworking , peace-loving Japanese citizen . I bet it costs more than the satellite itself . Well being a commie country has its own advantages , no ?

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