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Japan warns DPRK against new missile launch
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-02 15:49 TOKYO -- Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone warned the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday against its possible long-range ballistic missile launch.
South Korean media on Monday reported Pyongyang has shifted its most advanced long-range missile to a new west coast launch site and could fire the missile as early as mid-June. Japan is making efforts in seeking for the U.N. Security Council to adopt a powerful resolution which includes additional sanctions on the DPRK. The Japanese government approved on Tuesday plans to develop a satellite early warning system for missile launches, eyeing the information on Pyongyang's missile launch. Japan dropped a decades-old ban on military use of space, blaming the ban had hindered its space technology development. |