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North Korean Missile Panic Follows Usual Script

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Dec 12, 2012
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The latest rendition of the Japan and the North Korean missile kabuki play is moving according to a familiar script. The scenario goes something like this: Pyongyang announces it plans to launch a long-range missile (or intelligence sources indicate it will).

Japan makes a big show of moving Patriot anti-missile missiles into position. Naval vessels equi…

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