N. Korea fires another missile, flies warplanes near border

[Coss]

Not that I think we'll care in a couple of years. Little Kim is stamping his little foot, as a precursor to a more or less, serious distraction in the Korean/Japanese area, he's at it again.

Note the delight he's displaying,  as they watch the latest launch, on their two flat screen TVs, smuggled into North Korea via tunnel.
Also smoking cigarette, tsk tsk...

 

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea early Friday launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea, the South’s military said, further raising animosities triggered by the North’s recent barrage of weapons tests.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the missile lifted off from the North's capital region at 1:49 a.m. (12:49 p.m. EDT Thursday).

It said South Korea boosted its surveillance posture and maintains military readiness in close coordination with the United States.

The Japanese Defense Ministry and prime minister’s office also tweeted that North Korea launched a possible missile.

It’s the latest in a series of missile launches by North Korea in recent weeks. North Korea said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-launches of long-range cruise missiles that he said successfully demonstrated his military’s expanding nuclear strike capabilities.

North Korea said Monday that its missile tests in the past two weeks were simulated nuclear attacks on key South Korean and U.S. targets. North Korea said the weapons tests were meant to issue a warning to Seoul and Washington for staging “dangerous” joint naval exercises involving a U.S. aircraft carrier.

The North Korean launches, part of its record-breaking run of weapons tests this year, were seen as an attempt by Kim to acquire a more intimidating arsenal to pressure its rivals to accept his country as a legitimate nuclear state and lift economic sanctions.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff also said in a statement that North Korea had flown warplanes near the rivals’ border late Thursday and early Friday, prompting South Korea to scramble fighter jets.

The North Korean planes flew as close as 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of the inter-Korean border. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it responded by scrambling F-35 jets and other warplanes, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

There were no reports of clashes. A similar incident took place earlier this month, but it was still uncommon for North Korea to fly its warplanes near the border. Also, in the previous flight this month, North Korean warplanes flew much farther from the border than their flights between Thursday and Friday.

North Korea’s military also issued a statement early Friday accusing South Korea of carrying out artillery fire for about 10 hours near the border Thursday. It didn’t say whether the artillery fire was an exercise or firing at North Korea. The North Korean military said it took unspecified “strong military countermeasures” in response.

“The (North) Korean People’s Army sends a stern warning to the South Korean military inciting military tension in the front-line area with reckless action,” an unidentified spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

The public affairs office at the South Korean Defense Ministry said it has no immediate comment.

After Wednesday's cruise missile tests, Kim Jong Un praised the readiness of his nuclear combat forces, which he said were fully prepared for “actual war to bring enemies under their control at a blow” with various weapons systems that are “mobile, precise and powerful,” according to KCNA.

Kim said the tests send “another clear warning to enemies” and vowed to further expand the operational realm of his nuclear armed forces to “resolutely deter any crucial military crisis and war crisis at any time and completely take the initiative in it," KCNA said.

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Associated Press journalist Haruka Nuga in Tokyo contributed

 

https://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-flies-warplanes-near-165414273.html

[Coss]

North Korea launches test missile with range to hit United States

https://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korea-launches-test-missile-range-hit-united/story?id=93550236

 

 

*note - cunning Kiwis hiding between South America and Africa.

[My Penis is hungry]

This is rocket science so to speak

 

Must be some pretty smart people working for the regime, 

[Mekong]

Many are educated in Russia and China

Education

[Coss]

Found an interesting North Korea news site - https://www.nknews.org

Some amusing stuff - including this gem:

North Korea lauds event with pro-regime groups on promoting ‘Juche idea’

High-profile seminar aims to convince North Koreans that foreigners admire state ideology of Kim regime, experts say... 

https://www.nknews.org/2024/04/north-korea-lauds-event-with-pro-regime-groups-on-promoting-juche-idea/

 

[Old Hippie]

So while the Middle East explodes further, China and Russia and North Korea will make their. Move…the west will have to decide where to prioritize…WW3…good knowing you guys…

[bust]

This is why we need 'The Donald" back in office.

 

[Mekong]

8 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

So while the Middle East explodes further, China and Russia and North Korea will make their. Move…the west will have to decide where to prioritize…WW3…good knowing you guys…

But will it? 

Israel “Had” to strike back, but thy chose strategic targets, rather than go for population they struck here Iran Nuclear research centre is, sort of “We know what you are up to”  I don’t think Iran will strike back agains Israel, they will I’ll blame those “Capitalist Pigs Americans” for supporting the “Yahud” and strike a base in Iraq in retaliation. They know Israel has their number, so to speak, so will do something symbolic to appease the masses.

As for Russia, they are now into the 27th Month of an offensive that Putin said would take 10 days. If they are having such a problem against a rag tag army led by a comedian what chance do they have with the West?
 

China has to do nothing, the US is already $850 Billion in debt to China and receives 18% of its imports from their, the US is a superpower in name only, and they know it.

As for little missiles man firing off into the Pacific, let him carry on, the more missiles he wastes the less he has

[Old Hippie]

1 hour ago, Mekong said:

But will it? 

Israel “Had” to strike back, but thy chose strategic targets, rather than go for population they struck here Iran Nuclear research centre is, sort of “We know what you are up to”  I don’t think Iran will strike back agains Israel, they will I’ll blame those “Capitalist Pigs Americans” for supporting the “Yahud” and strike a base in Iraq in retaliation. They know Israel has their number, so to speak, so will do something symbolic to appease the masses.

As for Russia, they are now into the 27th Month of an offensive that Putin said would take 10 days. If they are having such a problem against a rag tag army led by a comedian what chance do they have with the West?
 

China has to do nothing, the US is already $850 Billion in debt to China and receives 18% of its imports from their, the US is a superpower in name only, and they know it.

As for little missiles man firing off into the Pacific, let him carry on, the more missiles he wastes the less he has

Iran and Israel, who knows, both crazy. China wants or needs to try something regarding Taiwan, as their economy is supposedly in the shit and there could be domestic problems…Russia is like the USA, can’t really or doesn’t really want to accomplish an objective.  Are there really any real super powers left? 

[bust]

A lot of people seem to have forgotten what triggered the current Gaza conflict.