The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement saying the expulsions are an obvious provocation by forces opposed to improvement of Russian-NATO relations.
VOA: standard.2009.04.30
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This latest North Korean provocation should cause critics of Mr. Bush's missile defense initiatives to recognize that we must now as a matter of the utmost urgency develop and deploy missile defenses in the places where they can do the most good at the least cost - namely, at sea and in space.