North Korea fires ballistic missile that passes over Japan,

[Villager]

North Korea fires missile over Japan

• North Korea fired a missile over Japan, according to local media.
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the ballistic missile passed over the Tohoku region at the northern end of Japan.
• Local government urged people living in the area to take refuge in solid buildings or underground shelters, NHK reported

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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile that passed over Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters early Tuesday.

A South Korean military official told NBC News that the projectile was fired around 5:57 a.m. local time on Tuesday. U.S. Pacific Command projected that the missile will splash down at 6:29 a.m. local time.

Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the Japanese government warned that a North Korean missile was headed toward the Tohoku region at the northern end of the country. NHK also reported that Japan took no action to shoot down the projectile.


The Japanese broadcaster reported that the North Korean missile broke into three pieces and fell into the sea.

Dow Jones industrial average futures opened more than 100 points lower following the news.

While the U.S. Department of Defense said it is still assessing the missile launch, the North American Aerospace Defense Command determined that it did not pose a threat to North America.

NHK also reported that the Japanese government has convened an emergency meeting of its response team to collect and analyze information.

The South Korean government has called for a national security council meeting at 7 a.m. local time, according to a presidential spokesperson. South Korean authorities have not issued an evacuation order.

The Japanese government has urged people in Tohoku to take refuge in solid buildings or underground shelters, according to NHK.

On Monday, U.S. and Japanese servicemen concluded joint exercises in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost major island.

A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC that this would be the first missile test to pass over Japan on a high altitude trajectory. In 1998, North Korea fired a missile through Japanese airspace.

Tensions surrounding North Korea's missile tests have ratcheted up throughout the summer as Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in a war of words.

Trump previously warned Pyongyang that threats against the U.S. would be met with "fire and fury." North Korean state media subsequently responded by saying that it was considering striking the U.S. territory of Guam.

 

[Project Dharma]

South Korea holds live-fire drills hours after North Korea missile launch

CNN)South Korea's air force has staged a live-fire drill simulating the destruction of North Korea's leadership, hours after Pyongyang launched a missile over Japan.

Just before 6 a.m. South Korea time Tuesday, North Korea fired an unidentified missile from near the capital Pyongyang, towards the northeast.
It flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, making it the first North Korean projectile to successfully pass over Japanese territory since 1998. It subsequently broke up and fell into the Pacific Ocean.
Just hours after the launch, South Korea's Presidential Office announced four F-15K jetfighters had dropped eight MK84 bombs on a simulated target at the Taebaek Pilsung Firing Range in the country's northeastern Gangwon province, about five hours drive from Seoul .
The MK84 is a 2,000 pound bomb designed to penetrate hardened targets, according to the US Air Force.

A South Korean F-15K jet fighter takes off during the "Max Thunder" South Korea-US military joint air exercise at a US air base in the southwestern port city of Gunsan on April 20, 2017.
Robert Kelly, associate professor at Pusan National University's Department of Political Science, told CNN South Korea's response was a carefully considered escalation.
"North Koreans can't just shoot missiles over people's countries, there has to be some response," Kelly said.
"(It) looks somewhat escalatory, it's got to be tough, to send a signal, but they don't want to be too tough because no one wants to get into a war."
In a press conference, presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan said South Korean leader Moon Jae-in had wanted "to showcase a strong punishment capability against the North."
An official with the South Korean Defense Ministry told CNN the bombs had all landed on target.
"The drill reconfirmed South Korea Air Force capability to destroy the enemy's leadership in cases of emergency," the official said.

'Most serious and grave ever'
International reaction to North Korea's missile launch was swift. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said it was the "most serious and grave" threat to his country.
North Korea fires missile over Japan
Japanese authorities say the missile flew an estimated 2,700 kilometers (1,678 miles) after being launched from the west coast of North Korea towards the northeast.

It was launched at around 5.58 a.m., Japan time, and was in the air for about 15 minutes.

At its peak, it reached 550 kilometers in altitude (342 miles) before breaking up over the Japan Sea, also known as East Sea.

South Korea joined with the United States and Japan Wednesday in calling for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the North Korea launch, Japan's UN ambassador Koro Bessho told CNN.
It will be held on Tuesday afternoon, two UN diplomats told CNN.
"Our goal is to stop North Korea from going down this road. The international community has to put more pressure on North Korea," Ambassador Bessho said.
US President Donald Trump spoke to Abe following the launch, where he reiterated the US stood behind Japan "100 per cent," Abe told reporters.
Launch over Japan shows 'contempt'
Despite the controversial path of North Korea's latest missile launch, experts said the launch probably had very little to do with Japan.
"It definitely expresses contempt for Japan but it's not a threat to them," Josh Pollack, senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey, told CNN.
"(North Korea) are really confined by their geography. If they're going to launch to a distance they've got to go over somebody. At a bare minimum they've got to go over some small, populated island if you want to test... an ICBM."
With North Korea unwilling to offend its northern neighbor Russia, the logical place for them to fire missiles over is the US-aligned Japan.
"There's nothing to lose," John Delury, associate professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies, told CNN.
Japan maintains a pacifist constitution that limits the country's forces to defensive purposes only.
"They don't have a good relationship with Japan, there's nothing developing in their relationship with Japan which should cause them to show restraint."

 

[bhramos]

The meaning of the test launch rocket in one picture

Source: MilitaryMaps

 

[Project Dharma]

BREAKING: Kim Jong-un calls for MORE North Korea missile blasts after launch over Japan

The despot leader oversaw an intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) launch on Tuesday which fired over Japan.

It comes as World War 3 fears heighten and Japan earlier issued a warning telling citizens in Hokkaido to take shelter in "a sturdy building or basement”.

Tuesday's missile was launched from Sunan, close to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, and flew around 1,680 miles (2,700km) before it broke into three pieces and landed in the sea around 733miles (1,180km) off the east coast of Japan.

Despite breaking to pieces, Kim Jong-un claimed the missile was a warning to the US and South Korea over their “provocative” military drills.

He added that the launch of the Hwasong-12 missile was also a "preclude" to containing the US territory of Guam as North Korea earlier warned it would fire missiles around the island.

Experts believe the latest rocket is the first missile from North Korea which is powerful enough to potentially carry a nuclear warhead.

Kim Jong-un vowed his recent missile launches were "the first step of the military operation of the Korean People's Army in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam”.

He added that it is a "curtain-raiser of its resolute countermeasures" against the Seoul-Washington drills.

Donald Trump reiterated that all options were still on the table for dealing with North Korea’s threats as he added the world had received Kim Jong-un’s message "loud and clear".

Speaking after the missile launch, the US President said: "Threatening and destabilising actions only increase the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table.

 

[F-14B]

Who in their right mind would give a country to certified physcopath

 

[Project Dharma]

North Korea: Kim Jong Un watches 'H-Bomb' loaded on new missile


Updated 6:57 PM ET, Sat September 2, 2017






(CNN)North Korea's regime has "succeeded in making a more developed nuke," according to state news agency KCNA. During a visit to the country's Nuclear Weapons Institute, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile]," KCNA reported. There was no independent confirmation of the claims.

 

[cyclops]

For all we know it was a Chinese missile given to the North Koreans.

An analysis for an earlier test.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/did-north-korea-just-launch-chinese-missile-19459

 

[Hiranyaksha]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ce3ff6-905b-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html

North Korea has apparently conducted H bomb test as South observes earthquake of 6.3 magnitude.

 

[Dovah]

Wow. They did a MT test. The balls on this guy!

This coming on the heels of Trump 'reviewing' FTA with South Korea, probably as a tactic to strong-arm them into a military solution against N.K. they are vetoing. Now imagine South Korea falling into the Chinese sphere for assurance of security against the N. Korean mad man.

With two nuclear mad dogs (NK and Pakistan) to blackmail the world on the leash, the Chinese have raised the stakes of MAD several folds. The Chinese century indeed.

 

[Hiranyaksha]

China has just shown US its place.

 

[Abhijat]

Always get confused with "Mad Dog" theory. Don't a person would keep mad dog near his adversary, than , make it his own neighbour ?

A mad dog would remain infected , and in time would only come to bite it's owner .... so keep it away from yourself and near your enemy.

But considering chin,nk,paki it looks two mad dogs to restraint a dragon.

 

[Project Dharma]

Only an idiot would arm two rogue nations next to its own country.


China starts radiation monitoring at North Korea border

China started emergency monitoring for radiation along its border with North Korea in response to the country's largest nuclear test so far on Sunday.

The environment ministry announced on its social media account that it began "emergency radiation monitoring" along its northeastern border shortly before noon.

The emergency response was set at "level 2", the second-highest grade on a four-tier system.

It did not indicate whether any radiation had been detected.

The decision follows what North Korea has described as the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb.

The resulting explosion was considerably larger than previous tests and was felt by residents in Chinese cities hundred of kilometres from the North's border.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/af...-radiation-monitoring-North-Korea-border.html

 

[Villager]

North Korea fires a ballistic missile over northern Japan for 2nd time.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• First missile launch since September 3 nuclear test
• UN Security Council to meet Friday
• South Korea test fired missile capable of striking near Pyongyang in response

(CNN)North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over northern Japan for the second time in less than a month, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday.

The unidentified ballistic missile was launched from the district of Sunan in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, home to the country's main airport, the South Korean military said.

The missile flew about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) and reached an altitude of 770 kilometers (480) miles. It landed in the Pacific Ocean, South Korea said.

The US Pacific Command said its initial assessment indicated that North Korea had fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile. There were conflicting reports from Japan on the type of missile fired, though the government stressed that analysis was ongoing.

In response to North Korea's launch, South Korea carried out a "live fire drill" that included a missile launch which the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said was capable of striking the Sunan airport launch site near Pyongyang used for today's launch.

The South Korean missile, which was launched from the country's east coast, was "a show of force in response to North Korea's latest provocation," a South Korean official told CNN.

A government warning, known as the J-Alert, said that "a missile" had passed over Hokkaido, northern Japan, before landing in the Pacific, NHK reported. "The government is advising people to stay away from anything that could be missile debris," the broadcaster said.

Japan's Coast Guard said no damage has been reported by the fallen object

Speaking to reporters Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the launch was "totally unacceptable" and went against "the international community's strong, united will for a peaceful solution."

The international community needs to unite and send clear message after North Korea's dangerous provocation," he said. "We must let North Korea understand there is no bright future for North Korea if it continues in this way."

He said the Japanese government tracked the launch of the missile and "took all possible measures."

South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a National Security meeting following the launch, according to an official at his office.

North Korea's last missile test, on August 29, was also fired from near the Pyongyang airport and overflew northern Japan.

US President Donald Trump has been briefed on the launch. When asked by a pool reporter about the launch Thursday evening Washington time at a dinner reception, Trump did not comment.

In a statement, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the missile test was the second time the people of Japan "have been directly threatened in recent weeks."

"These continued provocations only deepen North Korea's diplomatic and economic isolation," Tillerson said.

"United Nations Security Council resolutions, including the most recent unanimous sanctions resolution, represent the floor, not the ceiling, of the actions we should take. We call on all nations to take new measures against the Kim regime."

He singled out Chinese oil supplies and Russia's use of North Korean migrant workers as two areas in which the two countries could take "direct action" against North Korea.

Japan and the US have requested the UN Security Council hold "urgent consultations" at 3 p.m. ET Friday, according to the Ethiopian Mission to the UN. Ethiopian Ambassador Tekeda Alemu is the current UN Security Council president.

Full article......
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/14/asia/north-korea-missile-launch/index.html

 

[Khagesh]

When will Japan, South Korea, Vietnam join the list of nuke sub designers-operators.

Japan and South Korea don't seem to have the spine to fend for themselves. Though South Koreans have spoken about it but it seems they are so enslaved that they went ahead and talked about it to Trump. As if US deep state will allow that to happen.

https://sputniknews.com/military/201709191057500896-north-korea-nuclear-submarine-rumors/

Is North Korea Building Their First Nuclear Submarine?
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Japanese media outlets are reporting that North Korea is clandestinely building a nuclear-powered submarine that they hope to have operational by 2020. The reports come from an anonymous but “informed” source.

Japanese newspaper Sekai Nippo claims that the "informed" source "familiar with the North Korea situation" told them that the DPRK has been clandestinely building the nuclear submarine, which would be a massive leap forward from the current DPRK Navy, which may maintain a fleet of 50 to 60 diesel-electric submarines.

The source went on to claim that Chinese and Russian engineers have been lending their expertise to the DPRK at North Korea's Nampo Naval Shipyard, in North Korea's manufacturing capital.

While nuclear submarines are significantly more difficult and expensive to produce than conventional diesel-electric ones, they are also faster, more powerful, more versatile, and have a wider range since they can stay underwater for much longer without needing to resurface and refuel.

Nuclear submarines are often paired with ballistic missiles, and they can greatly increase a nation's power projection and are a stealthier launch method than firing from a ground-based silo. Analysts have suspected that the DPRK is interested in nuclear submarines for this reason, as Pyongyang has greatly bolstered their missile program in recent years.

In the US Navy, nuclear submarines armed with ballistic missiles form part of the Nuclear Triad, which guarantees the ability of the United States to return fire in the event of a sudden nuclear strike, since finding and destroying all missile submarines before they can launch their missiles is effectively impossible.

Since 2014, North Korea has test launched their Pukguksong-1 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) at least six times. An operational Pukguksong-1 could be loaded into a nuclear submarine, which could then maneuver into international waters and fire a missile that would be nearly impossible to intercept. The Pukguksong-1 could also hypothetically be equipped with a small nuclear warhead.

The US military has been closely monitoring the North Korean navy after what they suspect was an "ejection test" of the Pukguksong-1 in August. In May, think tank 38 North claimed that satellite imagery identified what appeared to be a test site for SLBMs at Nampo.

As the US bloc continue to ramp up military and economic pressure on North Korea, Pyongyang has given no indications of blinking. "The increased moves of the US and its vassal forces to impose sanctions and pressure on the DPRK will only increase our pace towards the ultimate completion of the state nuclear force," said their state news agency in a Monday press release.

 

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