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Article: Japan penalizes North Korea for missile overflight: Pyongyang decries flight cancellations.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 3, 1998
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TOKYO - Japan yesterday retaliated against North Korea for test-firing a ballistic missile over its territory by suspending all charter flights to the secretive Communist state. North Korea denounced Japan for making a "fuss" over the incident.
"We bitterly denounce Japan for making a fuss over the matter that belongs to our sovereignty while being unaware of its background," the official Korea Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Tokyo.
"We warn Japan to face up to reality, act with discretion and renounce its anachronistic hostile policy . . . at once," it said.
Japan's suspension affected nine already approved charter ...