{"id":27062,"date":"2016-07-20T02:37:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T02:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/north-korea-missile-launch-a-test-for-nuclear\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T02:37:11","slug":"north-korea-missile-launch-a-test-for-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/north-korea-missile-launch-a-test-for-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Missile launch a test for nuclear strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Supreme leader Kim Jong-un personally supervised Tuesday’s firing of three ballistic missiles, North’s state media says.}<\/p>\n

North Korea said Wednesday its latest ballistic missile tests were personally ordered and monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-un and simulated nuclear strikes on US bases in South Korea. <\/p>\n

The three missiles launched on Tuesday were a dry run for attacks on South Korean ports and airfields hosting US military “hardware”, the North’s official KCNA news agency said. <\/p>\n

The tests “examined the operational features of the detonating devices of nuclear warheads mounted on the ballistic rockets at the designated altitude over the target area”, it said.<\/p>\n

North Korea fired three ballistic missiles that flew between 500km and 600km into the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of provocative moves by the isolated country. <\/p>\n

The US military said it believed two of the missiles were Scuds and the other a Rodong, a home-grown missile based on Soviet-era Scud technology. <\/p>\n

North Korea is believed to be developing nuclear warheads and trying to miniaturise them to mount on ballistic missiles, but some experts say it may be a few years away from mastering the technology. <\/p>\n

But Tuesday’s missile launches were seen as a show of force rather than a test to improve missile capabilities, a week after South Korea and the United States chose a site in the South to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system to counter threats from the North. <\/p>\n

China has objected to the decision saying it would destabilise the security balance in the region. North Korea has threatened a “physical response” to the move. <\/p>\n

South Korea said it was again in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions that ban the North’s use of ballistic missile technology. <\/p>\n

North Korea came under the latest UN Security Council resolution after conducting its fourth nuclear test in January, and launching a long-range rocket the next month. <\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said the tests were “deeply troubling” and undermined efforts to reduce tension on the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n

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