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North Korea Threatens Civilian Flights

South Korean-US military exercise rattles Pyongyang

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 5, 2009 1:20 PM CST

(Newser) – North Korea said it could not guarantee the safety of civilian flights near its airspace in light of a joint US-South Korean military exercise, the Telegraph reports. The annual exercise, which South Korea and the US say is purely defensive, is for next week. Pyongyang... Read full story »

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