While the United States says that North Korea doesn’t have such technology, some of security weapons experts say that North Korea might have the capability for short range missiles including Scud and Rodong Miles.
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Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, the government’s top spokesman, also harshly criticised the launch.
“From the perspective of the safety of aircraft and ships, it is an extremely problematic, risky act”, Suga said.
China’s Defense Ministry has angrily rejected accusations from Japan that the Chinese military is destabilizing the regional military balance by seeking to change the status quo in the East and South China Seas, accusing Japan of seeking to deceive the worldwide community and sow discord between China and its neighbors.
Tensions are always high on the peninsula, but especially recently given Pyongyang’s long-range missile and nuclear tests earlier this year.
North Korean military has threatened to take “physical measures” against the THAAD deployment site.
On July 8, South Korea and the US abruptly announced an agreement to deploy one THAAD battery by the end of next year.
In wide-ranging comments, Ryol said the imposition of sanctions on North Korean officials, including Kim Jong Un, had “crossed a red line”, and he repeated Pyongyang’s claim that it regarded the sanctions as a “declaration of war”.
The United States issued a stern warning on Tuesday saying that it was prepared to “defend ourselves and our allies”.
– March 10: Two short-range ballistic missiles land in the sea, hours before North Korea declares it will “liquidate” all South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North.
“If the allies can exercise their armed forces, so can the North”, he said. All these kinds of actions tell us the U.S.is taking hostile actions against DPRK.
North Korea frequently tests ballistic missiles in defiance of a United Nations ban, but they rarely pose an immediate threat to other countries.
North Korea is known to have an arsenal of estimated 300 Rodong missiles whose maximum range is 1,300 kilometers (800 miles).
One of the missiles, it said in a statement, exploded immediately after launch, while a second was tracked over North Korea and into the Sea of Japan.
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North Korea is prohibited from carrying out ballistic missile launches under U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed in part at curbing the country’s development of nuclear weapons.
