North Korea Missile Launch

[Geaux4it]

North Korea test-fires ballistic missile, South Korea says

(CNN)North Korea on Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile, an official in the South Korean Ministry of Defense told CNN.

It is the first missile test conducted by North Korea since Donald Trump became US president.
"The South Korean government and the international community are working together to take punitive actions appropriate for this launch," acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn said.
Trump, when asked by reporters about the missile launch, declined to comment. A White House spokesman said Trump was briefed on the launch.
Another source within the South Korean Defense Ministry told CNN that North Korea launched a projectile from North Pyongan Province. The missile traveled 500 kilometers (310 miles) and landed in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, sources said.
The launch involved an intermediate-range ballistic missile, a senior US official told CNN.
A State Department official said, "We are aware of reports and monitoring the situation carefully."
South Korean security officials were holding an emergency meeting Sunday morning.

North Korea missile test reported by South Korea - CNN.com

 

[Geaux4it]

North Korea reportedly test fires missile, challenging US

North Korea launched a missile into its eastern sea on Sunday, according to the South Korean military. The U.S. military detected the test and is assessing the launch, a U.S.defense official told Reuters on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the missile launched by North Korea, and the White House is continuing to monitor the situation, a White House official said on Saturday according to Reuters.

"We are aware of the missile launch by North Korea. The President has been briefed and we are continuing to closelymonitor the situation," the official said.




North Korea reportedly test fires missile, challenging US

 

[basquebromance]

Declare War on North Korea!

 

[yiostheoy]

There are already at least TWO other earlier threads on this.

 

[Geaux4it]

There are already at least TWO other earlier threads on this.

Fine

 

[Picaro]

Declare War on North Korea!

We're still at war with them; the Korean War isn't over, never was.

Just start shooting down the Mad Midget's missiles as soon as they're launched. Screw the little gimp.

 

[dannyboys]

The biggest most obvious takeaway from the missile launch is President Trump's silence. GOD HELP the NK creep when President Trump doesn't publically say anything.
There's an old adage that says people who are always threatening and running their mouths never end up doing anything to back up their threats. It's the people who don't say anything who are the ones to watch out for.

 

[basquebromance]

President Trump sent an unmistakeable message that we stand with japan and against north korea. DON'T TEST US, UN!

 

[dannyboys]

North Korea test-fires ballistic missile, South Korea says

(CNN)North Korea on Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile, an official in the South Korean Ministry of Defense told CNN.

It is the first missile test conducted by North Korea since Donald Trump became US president.
"The South Korean government and the international community are working together to take punitive actions appropriate for this launch," acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn said.
Trump, when asked by reporters about the missile launch, declined to comment. A White House spokesman said Trump was briefed on the launch.
Another source within the South Korean Defense Ministry told CNN that North Korea launched a projectile from North Pyongan Province. The missile traveled 500 kilometers (310 miles) and landed in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, sources said.
The launch involved an intermediate-range ballistic missile, a senior US official told CNN.
A State Department official said, "We are aware of reports and monitoring the situation carefully."
South Korean security officials were holding an emergency meeting Sunday morning.

North Korea missile test reported by South Korea - CNN.com

The big question now is: What would The Pickle Lady's Lap Poodle Mr. Stolen Valor Do?

 

[waltky]

Why this N Korea missile test is different...

North Korea missile test: What's changed?
Mon, 13 Feb 2017 - The type of missile system tested by North Korea on 12 February can be deployed and launched quickly.

On the morning of 12 February, North Korea conducted a ballistic missile test launch from Banghyon air base near the west coast of the country. Like all such launches, the test took place in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. Pyongyang's press release, issued a day later, indicated that the missile - the Pukguksong-2 - was of the same type as one test-fired from a submarine off the east coast in August 2016.

What is different about this missile?

Unlike North Korea's other long-range land-based missiles, the system tested on 12 February used solid fuel. Until now, the country's comparable land-based missile systems have been liquid-fuelled. Pyongyang also announced that the launch vehicle carrying the new missile is indigenously made and uses a continuous or "caterpillar" track, rather than wheels with tyres.

The use of solid fuel reduces the time needed to launch the missile​

Previously North Korea has imported and modified foreign-made trucks to transport and launch its missiles. A domestic manufacturing capability will negate the need to convince or fool foreign suppliers into selling these vehicles. Continuous track also suggests that North Korea's intention may be to take the missiles off-road, making it more difficult to detect imminent launches.

What are the implications of the use of solid fuel?

Missiles using liquid fuel require greater preparation time than those using solid fuel. They also require a larger constellation of support vehicles to accompany each launch vehicle. Both of these considerations make it more likely that an enemy might detect the missile in time to conduct a pre-emptive strike. Solid fuel substantially reduces this vulnerability. North Korea will be able to roll these systems out of concealed storage and launch them with minimal preparation, drastically shrinking the time that an adversary would have to find and kill the missile. The capability thus represents a major step forward for North Korea.

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North Korean missile test may have been big step forward
Feb 13,`17 -- Beyond the usual, lofty propaganda, North Korea's test of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile contains an important, potentially worrying development.

The country's jubilant young dictator, Kim Jong Un, said the missile provides the country with another nuclear attack capability. Sunday's launch - the first major North Korean challenge for U.S. President Donald Trump - is drawing intense scrutiny from outside weapons experts because of North Korea's claim to have used solid fuel. If true, it would be a big step forward in North Korea's quest to boost its ability to attack the United States and its close allies, South Korea and Japan. Instead of relying on missiles that have to be fueled on a fixed launch pad, North Korea's military could drive the new missiles anywhere and fire them at will from mobile launchers. Here's a look at Sunday's launch and what it means for security on an already tense Korean Peninsula.

"MODERN FUEL"

The fuel in solid-fuel rockets is already loaded inside, which can shorten launch preparation times, increase the weapon's mobility and make it harder for outsiders to detect what's happening before liftoff. Most of North Korea's missiles currently use liquid propellant, which usually needs to be added on a launch pad before the weapon is fired. The rockets North Korea has used for satellite launches in recent years, which were condemned by the U.N. as tests of banned long-range missile technology, relied on liquid fuel. "Liquid fuel is like a technology from the 1960s and '70s, while solid fuel is a modern fuel for missiles," said Lee Choon Geun, an analyst from South Korea's state-funded Science and Technology Policy Institute. "That's why we think their latest launch (with solid fuel) is a serious development."

A man watches a TV news program showing a photo published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's "Pukguksong-2" missile launch, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. In an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump, North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in its first such test of the year. The sign read " Pukguksong-2."​

Before Sunday's test, analysts thought North Korea's solid-fuel weapons were limited to a submarine-launched ballistic missile that the country test-fired last August and short-range KN-02 missiles. This latest test is important because, if confirmed, North Korea would have a missile that could be launched anywhere from a ground-based mobile vehicle. While submarines are also a stealthy way to do that, North Korea doesn't have enough of them. There are doubts that the KN-02 missile, whose range is about 120 kilometers (75 miles), can carry nuclear warheads.

North Korea's claim couldn't be independently confirmed, but Lee said video and photos of the launch appear to show that the missile used solid fuel. A South Korean defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of department rules, also said that U.S. and South Korean military surveillance equipment showed it probably used solid fuel. North Korean media quoted Kim Jong Un as saying that North Korea's rocket industry "has radically turned" from liquid-fuel engines to high thrust solid fuel-powered ones.

PUKGUKSONG-2

 

[waltky]

Analysis of No. Korean missile up inna air...

North Korea launch was upgraded sub-launched missile
Feb. 13, 2017 - North Korea may be developing a ground-to-ground ballistic missile capability for its SLBM.

South Korea says the missile North Korea tested Sunday is an upgraded version of a submarine-launched ballistic missile the regime fired last August. North Korea made the identical claim, and said the SLBM KN-11, also known as the Pukguksong-1, or Polaris-1, was the base model for the latest launch, South Korean newspaper Hankyoreh reported Monday. The Sunday launch of the Pukguksong-2 was prominently displayed on the pages of the Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Monday. But immediately after reports of the launch, evaluations of the rocket have diverged across different government agencies in Seoul.

South Korea's military said Sunday the rocket is a "new solid-propulsion long-range missile," and later on Monday Seoul's joint chiefs said the "Pukguksong-2 appears to be a solid-fuel driven midrange ballistic missile," or IRBM. Military authorities in Seoul now believe the missile is an improved version of the Pukguksong-1, North Korea's SLBM, News 1 reported. A joint chief official who spoke to the news service on the condition of anonymity said the military is investigating whether North Korea is in the midst of developing a ground-to-ground ballistic missile capability for its SLBM.

A North Korea missile launched Sunday is an upgraded SLBM, according to several sources in South Korea.​

But the Seoul official said it is not possible at this point to conclude whether the Pukguksong-1 is capable of being mounted with a miniaturized nuclear warhead. "We cannot make a judgment on the extent and nature of North Korea propaganda that claims it has miniaturized nuclear warheads," the official said.

Chae Yeon-seok, a scientist at Korea University of Science and Technology in Daejeon, confirmed that the missile launched on Sunday was not strikingly different from the Pukguksong-1. "Basically, the technology of the two [missiles] is the same," Chae told Yonhap. South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo issued a strong response to the launch on Monday, and requested the country's 13th Air Operations Command to check for military preparedness. North Korea claimed Sunday the anti-missile defense system THAAD and South Korea's "Kill Chain" strategy to destroy and detect missiles will not defend against its projectiles.

North Korea launch was upgraded sub-launched missile