U.S. Military Plane Down in N. Korea?

[Joker's Wild]

From the CBC 22 June 2006

Tensions high after North Korea plane crash report

A report that a U.S. military plane had crashed in North Korea Thursday has been denied by officials from several countries, but raised tensions in the region.

The report appeared to affect foreign exchange markets, as the Japanese yen fell sharply against the U.S. dollar.

U.S. military spokesmen in South Korea said they had not heard of a crash, a comment echoed by defence ministry spokesmen in South Korea and Japan, according to a Reuters report.

Meanwhile, the North Korean government stepped up its rhetoric regarding U.S. reconnnaissance flights over its territory.

The official Korean Centre News Agency said in a report that the chances of an aerial confrontation with the United States have increased because of American spy flights over the secretive country.

Pyongyang has been irritated by the likelihood that spy planes have flown over the country's northeast coast near North Korea's missile test facility in Musudan-ri.

Last week, U.S. officials said intelligence reports indicated that North Korea was getting ready to launch a long-range ballistic missile, leading to condemnation from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other world leaders.

China, considered an ally of North Korea, has also indicated they are concerned about the reports.
North Korea agreed to a missile-testing moratorium in 1999, one year after it launched a missile that flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/06/22/north-korea.html

Can't find anything anywhere else.


JW

[Razor61]

I saw that on the news the US were on the verge of deploying their new Strategic Missile Defence system to 'shoot' down the test flight as they see it as a threat.
Isn't this the same missile system that was testing over Kwajalein and failed to hit any of the ICBM's that were launched from Vandenburg towards the Atoll?

Mind you, i'm not surprised Japan and the U.S see any missile launched in North Korea as a threat, going by the last test flight which zoomed (supposedly accidental) over northern Japan.... :hmm:

[Magic Mushroom]

If one has gone down, I suspect it'll be a UAV.
MM

[foldingwings]

From the CBC 22 June 2006
Tensions high after North Korea plane crash report
A report that a U.S. military plane had crashed in North Korea Thursday has been denied by officials from several countries, but raised tensions in the region.
The report appeared to affect foreign exchange markets, as the Japanese yen fell sharply against the U.S. dollar.
U.S. military spokesmen in South Korea said they had not heard of a crash, a comment echoed by defence ministry spokesmen in South Korea and Japan, according to a Reuters report.............
Can't find anything anywhere else.
JW
Could this be it:
SOUTH KOREAN F-15K CRASHES ON OVERWATER TRAINING FLIGHT
One of South Korea's four recently delivered Boeing F-15Ks crashed last week during an overwater training flight, killing the instructor and student pilot. The fighter went missing around twilight..............did not eject........about 25nm off the South Korean coast...........
Maybe the original message was lost in translation: American built jet/Korea/crashed could very quickly become:
Tensions high after North Korea plane crash report