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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Chinese Ballistic Missile Tests Are Exaggerated Rumors

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has called the reports that a Chinese ballistic missile has hit a satellite highly exaggerated rumors, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday.

“I have heard reports to that effect, and they are quite abstract. I’m afraid they don’t have such an anti-satellite basis. The rumors are highly exaggerated,” Ivanov told reporters in Moscow.

On Friday, World media reported that China had shot down one of their old weather satellites with a ballistic missile.

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