{"id":43009,"date":"2024-10-31T06:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=43009"},"modified":"2024-10-31T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:24:29","slug":"n-korea-fires-banned-missile-in-longest-flight-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=43009","title":{"rendered":"N Korea fires banned missile in longest flight yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes – the longest flight recorded yet – and over 1,000km, before falling into waters off its east coast, South Korea and Japan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles). This means that it if were launched horizontally, it would have covered a further distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The launch on Thursday comes at a time of deteriorating relations between the two Koreas<\/a> and Pyongyang’s increasingly aggresive rhetoric towards Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korea had also warned on Wednesday that the North was preparing to fire its ICBM close to the US presidential election on 5 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seoul’s defence ministry said the test was intended to develop weapons that “fire farther and higher”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korea said it would impose fresh sanctions on the North in response to the launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US called Thursday’s launch a “flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It only demonstrates that [North Korea] continues to prioritise its unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes over the well-being of its people,” the White House’s National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pyongyang last fired an ICBM<\/a> in December 2023, in defiance of long-standing and crippling UN sanctions. That missile travelled for 73 minutes and covered about 1,000km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a rare same-day report on state media, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday’s launch shows “our will to respond to our enemies” and described it as “appropriate military action”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I affirm that [North Korea] will never change its line of bolstering up its nuclear forces,” Kim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea experts believe the launch was aimed at increasing its missiles’ payload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pyongyang has been developing missiles that can “hit the US mainland even if it carries a larger and heavier warhead” or even multiple warheads, said Kim Dong-yup, an assistant professor at the University of North Korean Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neighbouring Japan said it monitored Thursday’s launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korean and US officials met after the launch and agreed to “take strong and varied response measures”, the South’s military said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our military maintains full readiness as we closely share North Korean ballistic information with US and Japanese authorities,” it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday’s launch comes after South Korea and US accused North Korea of sending troops to Russia to support Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon estimates that around 10,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed to train in eastern Russia<\/a>. A “small number” has been sent to Kursk in Russia’s west, with several thousand more on their way, the US said earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The alleged presence of North Korean troops in Russia has added to growing concerns over deepening ties between Putin and Kim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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