Posted on 04/15/2016 7:31:21 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
(3rd LD) N. Korea fails 1st mid-range ballistic missile launch: military
2016/04/15 15:46
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SEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) -- North Korea conducted its first test-launch of the medium-range ballistic missile Musudan early Friday from its east coast, but the launch ended in failure, officials said.
"North Korea seems to have tried a missile launch from the East Sea area in the early morning today, but it is presumed to have failed," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Sources said the launched missile was the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), also known as the BM-25.
The missile lifted off at 5:30 a.m. but deviated from a "normal" trajectory, a JCS official told reporters.
After their joint assessment, South Korea and the United States concluded the launch as a failure, he added without elaborating further.
One military official said the IRBM disappeared from the South Korean side's surveillance radar shortly after liftoff.
"It is highly likely that it may have exploded in the air. A further analysis is under way," according to the official.
It was North Korea's first test-launch of a Musudan missile, which the North is believed to have deployed against South Korea and other countries since 2007. The North has reportedly deployed some 30 Musudan missiles.
The South Korean military had previously detected North Korea deploying one or two Musudan missiles loaded onto a transporter erecter launcher, or TEL, near the east coastal city of Wonsan in the previous weeks for a potential launch.
With a range of 3,000-4,000 kilometers, the missile can fly over South Korea and Japan to reach as far as Guam, where the United States military forces are stationed.
North Korea is prohibited by a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions from launching ballistic missiles.
The latest launch is apparently part of North Korea's celebration of the 104th birthday of the country's founding father Kim Il-sung. The country has marked the national holiday in the past with elaborate military events.
South Korea's military said it is bracing for further military provocations by North Korea as Pyongyang is moving toward more large-scale events down the road, including its ruling party's 7th congress set for early May.
"We are preparing against the possibility that the North could carry out heavyweight provocations at any time, including a fifth nuclear test," a military official said.
The latest defiant military action followed the UNSC's adoption of a biting resolution on North Korea in early March in response to the communist country's fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February.
North Korea appears to be sure to conduct another test-fire of the Musudan missile in the future to make up for the botched launch as the country is moving desperately to break free of the worsening international isolation it has been suffering since the duo provocations earlier this year.
Since the new resolution, North Korea protested with a test-firing of a series of short and missile and multiple rocket launchers, heightening military tension on the Korean Peninsula, a strategy which North Korea has often used to up its bargaining power in talks with South Korea and the U.S.
Officials may be underestimating here... the Norks appear to have developed Warp Drive capability in their missiles.
This is the country to put a man on the Sun, and returned him safely to the earth (at night).
The wind must have blown the fuse out.
Now all North Korea needs is roads...
Boost-phase missile defense:
Someone needs to paint a bullseye on Nancy Pelosi’s roof captioned in Korean...” Bet you can’t hit this”.
Raunch failed? Oooo...my gen’ruhs all numbah ten & dey gonna pay bigtime. Giv’em those medals but dey all `nokandoo’ when raunch day come.
Which I use for execrurution? Cannon? Bazooka? No...I use numbah one method, fling’em to starvin’ dogs in pit. So much mo’ fun to watch & mo’ meat in flied liceballs fo’ din-din mo’ skosh.
;^)
North Korea is prohibited by a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions from launching ballistic missiles.
Have you ever seen a more useless set of nations including our own in your life?
Hell we let russian war jets fly right over our war ships without blasting them out of the sky!
How's that restraining order working out for you, Mrs. Simpson?
They couldn’t.
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That how the end up badly OH OKAY Never mind
Best option for anyone who works for the retarded mass-murdering dwarf dictator? Schedule some kind of needed surgery such that the recovery time includes the date of something like this. That way, not in the line of sight when a scapegoat is being sought.
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