According to the said report, one of the students who passed out of the institute includes Paek Chang-Ho who is the vice director of Scientific Research and Development Department of North Korea’s National Aerospace Development Administration.
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South Korea is the second leg of Rose’s three-nation trip that will also take him to Japan from June 28 to 30 for an global nuclear disarmament conference, and to China from July 5 to 7 for meetings with officials of Beijing’s Foreign Ministry and the China National Space Administration, the department said’.
The missile, which is fired from mobile launchers, has a design range of more than 3,000 km (1,860 miles), meaning all of Japan and the US territory of Guam are potentially within reach.
Experts and government officials said the Musudan launch marked another worrying step forward for a weapons programme that ultimately aspires to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear strike on the U.S. mainland.
“We have the sure capability to attack in an overall and practical way the Americans in the Pacific operation theatre”, KCNA quoted Mr Kim as saying.
The U.N. Security Council met on Wednesday evening to discuss the missile launches. Tokyo thinks the missile could hit Japan if the launch angle were adjusted.
Indian intelligence agencies are now monitoring the nuclear trade between Pakistan and North Korea.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that provocative moves by Pyongyang embolden the determination of the worldwide community to counter North Korea’s actions, including through sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council.
North Korea is diverting resources to the pursuit of ballistic missiles, while the nation’s citizens have great unmet needs, the Council said in a statement.
The North has publicly displayed an ICBM, called the KN-08, which uses the same engine technology as the Musudan but has never been test-fired.
Ernest said the missiles were tracked over the East Sea, where they fell.
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There were also multiple photos of the missile blasting off from a mobile launcher near the eastern port of Wonsan. The unprecedented flight was dubbed a “success” for North Korea’s missile program by analysts including Melissa Hanham of the California-based James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The United Nations Security Council, which in March imposed new sanctions on the North following its fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February, met at the request of the United States and Japan.
