North Korean missile test fails. New engine which can be repurposed to missiles. North Korea celebrates the success of its missile tests.

Missile failure.

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Strange is the world of nuclear armaments with the nations engaged in a race to outdo each other. This has led to serious rivalries and divisions in the world.

Currently, there is a keen interest evinced by all the leading nuclear powers whenever North Korea is involved. NATO and its allies are particularly interested in everything this rogue state does.

South Korea being the neighboring state and an ally of the United States keeps monitoring activities across the border.

The news that raised some cheer for its adversaries was that a missile test by North Korea failed on Wednesday. The Defense Ministry of South Korea announced this earlier today.

The North Korean regime is in the habit of display its advances in missile technology and shows off quite often. It keeps conducting tests nearer to its adversaries like Japan to intimidate them.

Recently, the North Korean junta had fired four missiles in the region. North Korea fired the rockets as a drill to practice attacking US bases in nearby Japan.

One of these missiles, that was fired from The Wonsan Airbase, is reported to have failed. However, the South Koreans could not get the details about the failed missile.

However, they did not issue a public statement till the Japanese Kyodo News Agency announced the launchings. Japan announced that North Korea had launched several missiles with some of them failing.

China is a strong supporter of North Korea while the western countries led by the United States have imposed sanctions.

North Korea is trying to develop a long range missile that would be capable of striking the US mainland.

In pursuance of that aim, it had conducted two nuclear tests in addition to several missile launches. It had also exhibited advances in missile technology during those launches threatening Japan. The annoying factor was that it chose to the Japanese shores.

Reports indicate that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had personally supervised the launching of a missile. The North Koreans were jubilant after they tested successfully, had an updated engine that they could repurpose.
In addition, the South Korean Ministry of Defense also acknowledged this advancement in their missile technology. They just called it a meaningful success.

This development came even as the annual joint military exercises between US and South Korean forces were on. This show of strength shows the irritation it causes to the North Koreans.

They treat the exercises as a preparation for invasion.

Due to lack of authentic information, the opinions offered by the scientific / defense, experts are sketchy and varied.
However, this incident seems to related to the Asia visit of Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State of the United States who mentioned that the tensions at the regional level had reached a dangerous level.

The US is hinting at military action since its patience is running out; on the other hand, China is staunchly advocating a diplomatic approach. This prompted a remark from KCNA the North Korean mouthpiece to comment that all the efforts of the US towards depriving North Korea of a nuclear arsenal.

However, the North Korean regime is going ahead since it feels threatened by the US and its allies.

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Umrao Singh
Umraoz.wordpress.com
Written for: Lars Magnus Carlsson.
www.thephilippinepride.com
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

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