North Korea Reported to Have Fired 2 Cruise Missiles

It seems that North Korea is slowly working their way up towards another provocation cycle if they don’t get what they want:

These photos published by the North’s daily Rodong Sinmun on June 9, 2017, show the launch of the country’s new surface-to-ship cruise missile. The report said the country’s top leader Kim Jong-un observed the missile launch, which South Korea detected a day earlier. The North’s media said the test-firing was aimed at verifying the “combat application efficiency of the overall weapon system.”

North Korea fired two cruise missiles off the west coast Sunday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday, Pyongyang’s first missile test in about a year seen as aimed at testing the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden without being too provocative.

“We detected two projectiles presumed to be cruise missiles fired from the North’s western port county of Onchon early Sunday,” a JCS officer told reporters.

Yonhap

You can read more at the test, but firing cruise missiles is actually not part of the UN ballistic missile ban on North Korea.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

So glad to see North Korea has ended their famine. Now that they have money to waste on missile tests, it’s obvious they have solved their “guns vs. butter” issue.

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