Posted on Dec 1, 2017
North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile in First Test Since September
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Thanks for sharing my friend LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. the unsurprising news that North Korea is continuing to rattle its ICBM nuclear saber as it attempts to demonstrate a capability to launch a ballistic missile with accuracy. Hopefully that will never be successful.
"North Korea has launched an unidentified ballistic missile after a two-month pause, according to initial reports from South Korean media.
A Defense Department official confirmed the Pentagon detected and tracked what was believed to be a single intercontinental ballistic missile that launched from North Korea at at 1:17 p.m. eastern standard time.
"We are in the process of assessing the situation," Pentagon spokesman Army Col Rob Manning told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday.
In an email a short time later, Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni in North Korea and traveled a lateral distance of about 1,000 kilometers before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, within Japan's Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ).
"We are working with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment of the launch," he said in the statement.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters in Tokyo that his government confirmed North Korea fired one missile on a lofted trajectory that may have reached an altitude of more than 4,000 kilometers.
The height and flight time of roughly 50 minutes could mark the highest and longest duration flight yet of any North Korean ballistic missile test.
The launch comes more than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump redesignated North Korea as a terrorist state."
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"North Korea has launched an unidentified ballistic missile after a two-month pause, according to initial reports from South Korean media.
A Defense Department official confirmed the Pentagon detected and tracked what was believed to be a single intercontinental ballistic missile that launched from North Korea at at 1:17 p.m. eastern standard time.
"We are in the process of assessing the situation," Pentagon spokesman Army Col Rob Manning told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday.
In an email a short time later, Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni in North Korea and traveled a lateral distance of about 1,000 kilometers before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, within Japan's Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ).
"We are working with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment of the launch," he said in the statement.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters in Tokyo that his government confirmed North Korea fired one missile on a lofted trajectory that may have reached an altitude of more than 4,000 kilometers.
The height and flight time of roughly 50 minutes could mark the highest and longest duration flight yet of any North Korean ballistic missile test.
The launch comes more than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump redesignated North Korea as a terrorist state."
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Joshua Caldwell LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon
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