Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
North Korea announced on May 18 that it had test-fired a tactical ballistic missile, confirming earlier reports by the South Korean government.
Leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on a mission to evaluate the “accuracy and reliability” of a new autonomous navigation system, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, adding that the leader expressed “great satisfaction” over the test.
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
The South Korean government reported the launch a day earlier, saying the North had fired multiple suspected short-range ballistic missiles.
Seoul said that “several flying objects presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles” were launched from North Korea’s eastern Wonsan area into waters off its coast.
The missiles traveled around 300 kilometers, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul, which noted that the military had “strengthened vigilance and surveillance in preparation for additional launches” and was sharing information with the United States and Japan.
On the test day, Kim visited a military production facility and called for “more rapidly bolstering the nuclear force… without halt and hesitation,” KCNA reported.
“The enemies would be afraid of and dare not to play with fire only when they witness the nuclear combat posture of our state,” the agency quoted the leader as saying.
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
The U.S. on May 19 condemned the North Korean test as a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions, stressing its close coordination with allies and partners to address Pyongyang’s “dangerous” provocations.
“The United States condemns the DPRK’s [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s] May 17 ballistic missile launches,” a State Department spokesperson said in response to a question from the South Korean Yonhap News Agency. “Like all other DPRK ballistic missile launches in recent years, these launches violated multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, and posed a threat to regional and international peace and security.”
Inter-Korean relations are currently at one of their lowest points in years. Pyongyang has increased weapon tests and declared South Korea its “principal enemy.” Washington also accused North Korea of providing munitions and military equipment to Russia to help boost its operations in Ukraine.
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brothers resisting the globohomo anglo american cockroach infestaion till the end
second that
…i admit, during our negotiations i did not take the funny rocket man for full, now he comes around the corner every week with a new technical achievement.
i promise on oath that when i am president again, we will catch up completely with north korea -i promise!
this is way too time-consuming! we french do it as usual: we conclude contracts, scoop up the little rocket man, then we just break our contracts!
how unreliable? this has been working fantastically for decades!!!
once again, the extremely arrogant, condescending, emotionally, mentally, psychologically immature, feeble-minded, infantile, history and geography illiterate little boys and girls in uncle shmuel’s washington, dc will be urinating and defecating in their adult diapers. the lesson taught here once again is don’t play with comrade kim. he will definitely kick your heimy asses really bad.
humanity would probably already have colonies on mars and the moon without governments. politicians are a guarantee of strife and war among the peoples of the world.
fat little rocket boy continues to squander his nation’s assets on weapons that would get him annihilated if he ever used them. what an idiot.
this rocket looks like an iskander clone . i wonder if the idea is to sell these to russia for the smo.