Korea
North Korea fires short-range missiles
Threats of war belong to the rhetoric of the isolated state. The number is currently unusually high. Several short-range missiles were fired, only three days after the Test of medium-range missiles.
President Kim Jong-Un inspects a rocket head (archive image)
According to South Korean figures, at least four rockets near the city of Hamhung were shot down. You are about to be flown 200 miles, and off the East coast of the country in the sea of Japan overturned, informed the South Korean armed forces.
Only on Friday North Korea had tested, in spite of an international ban, two medium-range missiles. Pyongyang responded with its recent weapons tests, obviously the annual military exercises in South Korea and the United States in the Region, makes as in previous years, for a rise in tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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South Korea, said meanwhile that it was at any time prepared for a new nuclear test by North Korea. “We believe that a fifth nuclear test may take place at any time. The government is preparing for all possibilities,” said a spokesman for the unification Ministry in Seoul.
In January of this year, North Korea had conducted a nuclear test and claims to have a hydrogen bomb detonated. Abroad, however, doubted that it was really an H-bomb or thermonuclear bomb. The explosive power of such a weapon is significantly more powerful than a conventional atomic bomb. North Korea had already claimed 2015, it could build nuclear weapons small enough to assemble to rocket. However, the military in South Korea doubted that the neighboring country is already in a position to develop nuclear missiles.
In February, North Korea’s army fired a rocket to put a satellite into orbit. The Test was widely seen as a banned Test of a long-range rocket. The government in Pyongyang sees it differently. According to your analysis, it was the missile launch a legitimate part of its space programme. Both the nuclear test from the 6. January as well as the missile test in February, contrary to UN resolutions. The UN security Council imposed thereupon, with the support of Pyongyang so far, the tightest ally of China, the severest sanctions in the dispute over the North Korean nuclear program.
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