Kim Jong-un Threatens To Attack Bases of “American Bastards” In the Pacific

I would like to see him try because Japan and Okinawa already have Patriot and Aegis missile defenses while THAAD was deployed to Guam specifically to defend against the Musudan missile threat.  I will be more concerned if they successfully develop an submarine launched ballistic missile capability:

Leader Kim Jong-Un threatened US military bases across the Pacific after North Korea’s test of a powerful new missile triggered emergency UN Security Council talks on curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

Kim, who personally monitored Wednesday’s Musudan missile test, applauded a “great event” that significantly bolstered the North’s pre-emptive nuclear attack capability, the official KCNA news agency reported.

“We have the sure capability to attack in an overall and practical way the Americans in the Pacific operation theatre,” Kim was quoted as saying.

A Korean-language version of the same report had Kim referring to “the American bastards.”

The Musudan has a theoretical range of anywhere between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometres (1,550 to 2,500 miles), with the upper estimate covering US military bases as far away as Guam.

After a string of failures in recent months, North Korea tested two Musudans on Wednesday, one of which flew 400 kilometres into the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

KCNA said the missile had been fired at a high angle to simulate its full range, and had reached a maximum height of more than 1,400 kilometres.

The test “marked an important occasion in further strengthening the nuclear attack capacity of our state,” Kim said.  [AFP]

You can read more at the link, but this picture released by North Korea shows how much Kim Jong-un had invested in the successful development of the Musudan:

North Korea’s top leader Kim Jong-un (R) and Ri Pyong-chol, a member of the ruling Workers’ Party central committee, hug each other in joy after the North’s self-claimed successful launch of its ballistic missile Hwasong-10 on June 22, 2016. Ri is a former chief of the North’s air force and had accompanied the leader on most of the previous missile tests. This and other photos released by the party’s newspaper Rodong Sinmun on June 23 showed that Gen. Kim Rak-gyom was still the head commander of the North Korean military strategic forces in charge of missile operations. He was rumored to have been demoted for failed previous launches. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution)

These two looked happier than Lebron James winning the NBA Championship.

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Tagum City Tim
8 years ago

Of course Ri Pyong-chol is happy. He is thinking in his mind “I get to live!”

Tagum City Tim
Reply to  GIKorea
8 years ago

I am sure that the ones closest to the project (i.e. the hands on folks) are being spared to continue their work but I am sure KJU looks very closely at some of the older cadre who are supposedly “in charge” and blames them for any failures. Also, it’s a good way to clear out the dead wood to make way for a younger more vital leadership cadre.

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