It’s official! The North Korean regime just fired a surface-to-air missile into waters off its east coast facing Japan.
The missile launch was timed to happen while world leaders are attending President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.
It was fired this morning from North Korea’s South Hamgyong Province, which is in their northeastern area, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The missile is the latest in a series of weapon launches by the North in an apparent response to ongoing military exercises between the United States and South Korea. North Korea views the drills as an invasion rehearsal.
“If the United States continues (drills with the South), then we have to make the countermeasures also, as I told you. So, we have to develop and we have to make more deterrence, nuclear deterrence,” the North’s ambassador to the United Nations, So Se Pyong, told the Reuters news agency in Geneva.
So told Retuers the military exercises were an overt U.S. threat of “decapitation of the supreme leadership” of North Korea, adding that the peninsual was in a state of “semi-war.”
Via CBS News
This comes after the Korean regime has launched a series of ballistic missiles recently. One flew 800 kilometers on March 18, in a protest against growing international pressure and against ongoing joint South Korea-U.S. military exercise.
This is a serious threat to the world, which is why we need a real leader in the White House to put a stop to this! North Korea launching missiles near our allies is unacceptable.
