N. Korea launches two short-range projectiles
- 5 years ago
North Korea fired yet more projectiles into the East Sea on Friday morning.
Two were fired around nine hours ago... and they are the second launch in two days and third in just over a week.
For more on this, our Kim Ji-yeon is at Seoul's defense ministry.
Ji-yeon, are we getting more details about these latest launches?
I'm afraid not much have changed from two hours ago.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says North Korea launched the two short-range projectiles in the early hours of Friday...
towards the East Sea... at around 2:59 AM and 3:23 AM, Korea time, from its Hamgyongnam-do Province... Youngheung to be exact near the North's eastern city of Wonsan .
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said... the projectiles hit an altitude of around 25 kilometers... and flew some 220 kilometers... recording a maximum flight speed of Mach 6-point-9, that's around eight-thousand-five hundred kilometers an hour.
The type of projectile is still not known... or at least been made public yet.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff says it's monitoring the situation while maintaining a defense posture in case of additional launches.
And this follows the two short-range ballistic missiles fired by the North a couple of days ago....
That's right.
The missiles fired last Thursday and on Wednesday according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff were both short-range and ballistic... and were fired in the early hours... in a northeasterly direction towards the East Sea... all flying at altitudes of less than 50 kilometers.
The missiles were presumed to have been launched from the ground using a transporter erector launcher,... which is used to move missiles to a desired launch location.
That means the missiles are not bound to a fixed launch site and the North's movements are therefore harder to predict.
North Korea has already released a report and photos of its military activity of Wednesday.
The regime stated it tested a new multiple rocket launcher... (quote)"newly developed, large-caliber multiple-launch guided rocket system"... countering the assessment by the Joint Chiefs of Staff that they're short-range ballistic missiles... that had characteristics similar to Russia's Iskander-class ballistic missiles.
Military experts invited by officials from Seoul's defense ministry on Thursday said further analysis is needed to verify the North's claim that it has succeeded in test-firing a "guided" rocket system... implying its multiple rocket launchers are now equipped with weapons that can track and destroy targets accurately.
The experts corroborated the Joint Chiefs of Staff's statement that the South Korean military is capable of intercepting all missiles launched by North Korea so far this year... with the existing Patriot anti-missile system... based upon simulations.
The military experts said the South Korean military already acquired the missile technology touted by the North during the early 2000s.
Although North Korea could have acquired the technology, the experts said it's sti
Two were fired around nine hours ago... and they are the second launch in two days and third in just over a week.
For more on this, our Kim Ji-yeon is at Seoul's defense ministry.
Ji-yeon, are we getting more details about these latest launches?
I'm afraid not much have changed from two hours ago.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says North Korea launched the two short-range projectiles in the early hours of Friday...
towards the East Sea... at around 2:59 AM and 3:23 AM, Korea time, from its Hamgyongnam-do Province... Youngheung to be exact near the North's eastern city of Wonsan .
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said... the projectiles hit an altitude of around 25 kilometers... and flew some 220 kilometers... recording a maximum flight speed of Mach 6-point-9, that's around eight-thousand-five hundred kilometers an hour.
The type of projectile is still not known... or at least been made public yet.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff says it's monitoring the situation while maintaining a defense posture in case of additional launches.
And this follows the two short-range ballistic missiles fired by the North a couple of days ago....
That's right.
The missiles fired last Thursday and on Wednesday according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff were both short-range and ballistic... and were fired in the early hours... in a northeasterly direction towards the East Sea... all flying at altitudes of less than 50 kilometers.
The missiles were presumed to have been launched from the ground using a transporter erector launcher,... which is used to move missiles to a desired launch location.
That means the missiles are not bound to a fixed launch site and the North's movements are therefore harder to predict.
North Korea has already released a report and photos of its military activity of Wednesday.
The regime stated it tested a new multiple rocket launcher... (quote)"newly developed, large-caliber multiple-launch guided rocket system"... countering the assessment by the Joint Chiefs of Staff that they're short-range ballistic missiles... that had characteristics similar to Russia's Iskander-class ballistic missiles.
Military experts invited by officials from Seoul's defense ministry on Thursday said further analysis is needed to verify the North's claim that it has succeeded in test-firing a "guided" rocket system... implying its multiple rocket launchers are now equipped with weapons that can track and destroy targets accurately.
The experts corroborated the Joint Chiefs of Staff's statement that the South Korean military is capable of intercepting all missiles launched by North Korea so far this year... with the existing Patriot anti-missile system... based upon simulations.
The military experts said the South Korean military already acquired the missile technology touted by the North during the early 2000s.
Although North Korea could have acquired the technology, the experts said it's sti