S. Korea Says North Fails With Attempted Missile Launch

/0 Comments/in , /by

North Korea on Tuesday appeared to have tried and failed with a fresh ballistic missile launch in violation of existing UN resolutions, South Korea’s defence ministry said.

The ministry declined to speculate on the missile type, but local media cited military sources as saying it was a powerful, medium-range Musudan missile that has already undergone three failed launches this year.

UN resolutions ban North Korea from any use of ballistic missile technology, although it regularly fires short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast.

Tuesday’s failed effort came with tensions still running high on the divided Korean peninsula following the North’s fourth nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch a month later.

The defense ministry in Seoul said the missile test took place at around 5:20 am South Korean time (2020 GMT Monday) near the eastern port city of Wonsan. (Read more from “S. Korea Says North Fails With Attempted Missile Launch” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

You might also like
Time for the U.S. to Abandon the United Nations
New Evidence of North Korea’s EMP weapon; now developing nuclear “super-EMP bombs”
North Korea preparing for ‘sacred war’ during US-South Korea exercises
North Korean jamming of GPS shows critical system’s weakness
North Korea Says It Will Launch a Long-range Rocket Between Dec. 10 and Dec. 22
North Korea Extends Rocket Launch Period Over ‘Prospect of Dialogue’