North Korean News Updates -- July 3, 2009

North Korea on April 5 staged what it called a satellite launch from Musudan-ri, using a Taepodong-2 rocket theoretically capable of reaching Alaska. Photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. 'Ready' For N. Korean Missile -- Washington Times

Pyongyang expected to test ICBM

COLORADO SPRINGS | U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The Washington Times.

"The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I'm very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened by a long-range ICBM that I've got high confidence that I could interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S. territory," said Air Force Gen. Victor E. "Gene" Renuart, Northcom commander.

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North Korea Fires Four Short-range Missiles -- Los Angeles Times.
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