North Korea has apparently failed to launch a ballistic missile from a submarine. If the report is true, it would mark the first test-firing of the SLBM by North Korea since May when Pyongyang made an official announcement of its successful test-launch of a ballistic missile, overseen by top leader Kim Jong Un.
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South Korean officials told Nikkei that in addition to no evidence the missile cleared the water, there was no indication it left the submarine either as fragments of a safety cover were spotted. If anyone failed to comply with the order, they will have to face the officials’ “tonsorial diktat”. South Korea Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min Seok declined to confirm the report.
Analysts say Mr Kim has adopted a hair style initially sported by Kim Il-sung, his grandfather and the man still revered as the founder of North Korea, as he attempts to hark back to the relatively prosperous early days of the regime and build up his own power base.
Washington D.C., November 27 (ANI): Men in North Korea have been ordered to keep their hair like their supreme leader Kim Jong-un.
The US and South Korea responded with a joint plan that enables the two countries to detect, disrupt and destroy North Korean missiles if needed.
Cautious hopes were raised within the South when a key North Korean anniversary came and went in October without any significant event beyond a military parade in Pyongyang.
South Korea estimates North Korea has 2,500 to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons.
North Korea again defied global and United Nations sanctions by launching a ballistic missile from a submarine Saturday.
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The Koreas are technically still at war after their 1950 to 1953 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
