North Korea Likely Fired Two Short Range Ballistic Missiles Into the East Sea
I guessed that the North Koreans would next fire short range missiles and sure enough they did:
North Korea fired two apparent short-range missiles on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, less than a week after the communist state launched a missile into the sea off its east coast.
Stars & Stripes
The move threatened to raise tensions as the main U.S. envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, was visiting Seoul in an effort to get stalled nuclear talks with the North back on track.
South Korea’s presidential office expressed concern about the launches, saying they were “not helpful at all to to efforts to try to improve inter-Korean relations and ease military tension” on the divided peninsula.
“Noth Korea fired two unidentified projectiles estimated to be short-range missiles” in an eastern direction from the northwestern area of Kusong, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul.
You can read more at the link, but at least the ROK government is now calling these “missiles” instead of “projectiles”:
North Korea fired what were believed to be two short-range missiles on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, just five days after the communist nation launched a barrage of projectiles into the East Sea.
Yonhap
The projectiles were fired from the northwestern area of Kusong in an easterly direction, one of them at 4:29 p.m. and the other at 4:39 p.m., and flew about 420 kilometers and 270 km, respectively, with their altitude reaching around 50 km, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, adding they splashed into the East Sea.
You can read more at the link. I don’t expect the Kim regime to move up and fire an Intermediate Range Missile and especially and Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile until talks with the U.S. have basically collapsed. Testing those two weapons is clearly directed at the United States since IRBMs are used to target Guam and ICBMs the US mainland, Alaska, and Hawaii.
If the North Koreans want to increase tensions further look for them to start firing missiles closer to Japan’s territorial waters or even eventually into them.
As many missiles kim fatty the third keeps firing, one will be able to walk across the casings to Japan…
If the South Koreans had any negotiating skills, they’d cut their food aid by 50 percent for each missile fired…
The wheels have come off the Fatty Peace prize train.
Fishing by rocket….yawn. Of course stupid commie moon said that this shows South Korea has to give the north more aid…what an ass.
I wonder how much food each of those missiles could have been bought instead.
Rascal, how much is a bag of ricw, a box of cabbages, a handful of salt, a little red pepper, some brine shrimp and ginger?
In 2013, it was estimated the average annual income per person in Norkistan was a little over $1,000. Assume they spent 100% on food, and each of those Iskander-style launching systems cost $20 Million, and there’s 20,000 people for a year.
Roll that across the estimated $10 Billion the Norks spend on their military every year, and you have 10 Million people going without food, nearly half the country…