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For the last couple of days the news has been coming at an alarming rate…..more speculation on the Orlando attack, Brexit, a sit-in by Congress and yet the most important was not worth a mention hardly…..a missile test by North Korea.

Our arch enemy PRNK has tested another missile……

North Korea is not only continuing to defy international warnings to stop testing ballistic missiles, it’s starting to get pretty good at launching them. Relatively speaking, anyway: Pyongyang launched two intermediate-range Musudan missiles in the direction of Japan on Wednesday, reports the BBC. The first one flopped almost immediately, just like four previous launches. But the second one reached an altitude of about 620 miles before plunging into the sea, raising concern in both South Korea and Japan, reports Reuters. The missile also covered about 250 miles, getting more than halfway to Japan’s coast. The BBC notes the missile’s range is much further; it’s unclear whether it fell short due to failure or was intentionally kept from reaching Japan.

“This is a very important milestone because the previous launches had blown up either very shortly after launch or possibly even right at launch,” an analyst at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California tells the Voice of America. “So this is a real sign of progress.” Japan’s defense chief put it more succinctly: “The threat to Japan is intensifying.” South Korea and the US are still assessing the test, but South Korean President Park Geun-hye denounced the “reckless provocation.” UN resolutions forbid the North from working on ballistic missile technology, notes the BBC, but the launches suggest that Pyongyang is having little trouble obtaining the technology and the know-how.

This one is a success and now the nations in the Pacific region are scratching their heads and wringing their hands……

Japan expressed concern about North Korea’s Wednesday Musudan missile launches, especially since one of the two made it more than halfway to Japan. But per Kim Jong Un, Japan shouldn’t be alone in its worry, the Guardian reports. “We have the sure capability to attack in an overall and practical way the Americans in the Pacific operation theater,” the North Korean leader said, per the KCNA state news agency. The BBC notes that, in theory, Musudan missiles have a range of 2,500 miles—far enough to touch down in the US territory of Guam. And while many of North Korea’s claims are usually dismissed as hyperbole or outright fabrication—and four previous missile launches this year failed—the second missile flew a confirmed 250 miles.

That missile, the New York Times points out, also reached a record altitude for North Korea at what the country reported was 878 miles (other sources, however, say 620 miles). A scientist with California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies says the second missile appeared to have been launched purposely with a high angle so it wouldn’t reach Japan. “Had it been fired at its normal angle, it would have flown to its full range,” he notes, adding to the Wall Street Journal that, “if we do nothing, they will move on to a missile … that can reach the US.” The Times and Journal also explain that the sharp trajectory allowed for the testing of technology that makes a nuclear warhead resistant to heat when “breaching the earth’s atmosphere.”

So where’s the news?  I mean they have tested missiles before and it was a dismal failure….so what’s new, right?

More analysis of this successful missile test…….

Source: North Korea Claims Wednesday’s Test Proves Capability to Strike US in Pacific | World Affairs Journal

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