N. Korea warns of military response should Japan intercept its satellite

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will see any interception by Japan of its
satellite launch as an act of invasion and respond with its "most powerful
military means," the country's state news agency said Tuesday.
"If Japan dares to shoot down" the satellite, the Korean Central News Agency
said, "our military will consider it as gunfire from the war criminal Japan that
signals a re-invasion 60 years after World War II."
The North Korean military will "mercilessly crash all interceptors ... with our
most powerful military means," the report said.
North Korea has said it will send a communications satellite, Kwangmyongsong-2,
into orbit some time between April 4 and 8.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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