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Nkorea fires anti ship missile { March 31 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63583-2003Mar31.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63583-2003Mar31.html N.Korea Fires Anti-Ship Missile -Japan Officials Reuters Monday, March 31, 2003; 11:20 PM TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea fired a surface-to-ship missile on Tuesday, Jiji news agency said, quoting Japan's transport minister, Chikage Ogi. North Korea fired the missile at 10:15 a.m. Japanese time (8:15 p.m. EST Monday), Jiji quoted Ogi as saying. Other Japanese officials told reporters that a missile had been fired but had no further details. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said that there did not appear to be a direct threat to Japan. "If it is indeed a surface-to-ship missile, then it is the same as what (North Korea) has been doing recently," he told Reuters. "It would not be an immediate threat to our country, but it does nonetheless heighten tensions in the region," he added. The South Korean Defense Ministry said it was checking the report but otherwise there was no immediate comment from the South Korean authorities either. There was a muted reaction to the reports from Tokyo financial markets, which are focused on developments in Iraq. North Korea has fired at least two short-range, surface-to-ship missiles in the past two months, apparently as part of regular military exercises. Japan sent two spy satellites into orbit last week, which will give Tokyo its first independent opportunity to scrutinize North Korea from space. Pyongyang denounced the launch as a "hostile act" that could set off an arms race in the region. Tensions have been high on the Korean peninsula since October, when U.S. officials said North Korea had admitted to a secret nuclear arms program. Japanese media have recently reported that North Korea may be planning to launch a Rodong medium-range ballistic missile that could reach most parts of Japan. Japan's Defense Agency has stepped up its monitoring of North Korea by dispatching a destroyer equipped with an Aegis missile-detection system to the Sea of Japan. Military analysts say North Korea has about 100 Rodong missiles, which have a range of about 1,300 km (800 miles). North Korea launched a Rodong in May 1993 that splashed down in the Sea of Japan and shocked the world in 1998 by firing a Taepodong ballistic missile that flew over Japan. It later said it would not carry out further testing, but late last year it said the moratorium was no longer in effect. U.S. officials have said that the United States was resuming reconnaissance flights in international air space off North Korea after a delay sparked by the interception of one of the unarmed aircraft by North Korean fighters in February. © 2003 Reuters

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