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Nork Fire 4 Missiles into East Sea | |
2014-02-28 | |
North Korea on Thursday afternoon fired four presumed ballistic missiles into the East Sea, just a day after the reunions of families separated by the Korean War ended. "The North fired four projectiles which we presume were short-range ballistic missiles from Kitdaeryong in Anbyon, Kangwon Province in a northeasterly direction into the sea," a Defense Ministry official here said. "We presume the missiles to have a range of more than 200 km." A military source said the firing was either an exercise or a show of force in response to the ongoing joint South Korea-U.S. military drills. The projectiles were probably Scud-series ballistic missiles, military authorities speculated. In Kitdaeryong, a mountainous area about 40 km south of Wonsan, trucks carrying missiles and launchers are easily concealed. On Monday, a North Korean patrol boat crossed the de facto maritime border in the West Sea three times, in what was probably another exercise in coat-trailing. Some other pundits speculate that the missiles were fired in response to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry describing the North as an "evil place."
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Posted by:Steve White |
#6 See also WORLD MILITARY FORUM > EXPERTS: BEIJING REMAINS COMMITTED TO A REUNIFIED KOREAN PENISULA WIDOUT THE US. And thus, Virginia, we once again see what the movie "Cool Hand Luke" called a "Di-i-i-lemma". |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-02-28 21:36 |
#5 "But most honorable komrade commander...they were supposed to land south of Haeju." ****shhhhh**** |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-02-28 18:27 |
#4 What's the CEP if you aim for the Pacific? In this case CEP = Range |
Posted by: Shipman 2014-02-28 15:55 |
#3 They are just jealous that the Ukraine is getting all the media and had to draw attention to their missile erections. To bad those erect missiles are short, don't go far and blow early. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2014-02-28 11:47 |
#2 What's the CEP if you aim for the Pacific? |
Posted by: Grunter 2014-02-28 09:56 |
#1 Missiles are bad for the sea and its' creatures. Where's Greenpeace? Why aren't they protesting and ramming Nork ships? |
Posted by: Frank G 2014-02-28 09:36 |