Category: Space

A U.N. expert team has concluded that parts needed to make North Korea’s missiles and rockets work are supplied by firms from China.

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North Korea has tested technology necessary to give its Scud-ER ballistic missiles with an anti-ship capability, JoongAng Ilbo reports.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said North Korea has launched four ballistic missiles today and three of those missiles flew approximately 1,000 km into the East Sea, within Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

South Korea’s intelligence service told lawmakers this morning that the North’s Pukguksong-2 solid fuel ballistic missile was fired at an angle of 89 degrees. If it had been traveling on a normal trajectory of 45 degrees, the canister launched missile could have a range of 2,000km.

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