On Monday morning, North Korean state TV released footage claiming to be of the ballistic missile they fired on Sunday.
As a reminder, earlier in the day, North Korea said it had successfully launched a new type of ballistic missile in its latest test which it said was aimed at building capacity to launch nuclear missiles. The North fired a ballistic missile that landed in the sea near Russia on Sunday in a launch that came just days after South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-in, who has called for closer engagement with Pyongyang, was inaugurated in Seoul.
The missile was launched at the highest angle so as not to affect the security of neighbouring countries and flew 787km reaching an altitude of 2,111.5km, KCNA said. Experts said the altitude reached by the missile tested meant it was launched at a high trajectory, which would limit the lateral distance it travelled. But if it was fired at a standard trajectory, it would have a range of at least 4,000km, according to experts.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 15, 2017.
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