North Korea fires 2 missiles into the sea
This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test fire of newly developed new-type tactical guided projectile by the Academy of Defense Science, at an undisclosed place in North Korea, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
North Korea has fired two missiles into its eastern waters on Thursday as it revives its testing activities. Their intent is two fold- to expand military capabilities and pressure the Biden administration while nuclear negotiations remain stalled.
North Korea confirms it tested new guided missile as Biden warns of response
Hyung-Jin Kim
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Friday confirmed it had tested a new guided missile as President Joe Biden warned of consequences if Pyongyang escalates tensions amid stalled nuclear negotiations.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the two “new-type tactical guided projectiles” accurately hit the target off the eastern coast on Thursday. Photos on the website of the North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a missile lifting off from a transport erector launcher amid bright flames.
KCNA quoted top official Ri Pyong Chol, who supervised the test, as saying that the new weapon’s development “is of great significance in bolstering up the military power of the country and deterring all sorts of military threats existing on the Korean Peninsula.”
Japanese officials said both weapons tested Thursday were ballistic missiles, which are prohibited by U.N. Security Council resolutions. According to South Korean officials, North Korea fired two other missiles on Sunday but they were likely cruise missiles, which are not banned.
The test-firings were the North’s first major provocation since Biden took office in January. Some experts say North Korea aimed to apply pressure on the Biden administration to boost its leverage in future talks.
“We’re consulting with our allies and partners,” Biden told a news conference Thursday. “And there will be responses if they choose to escalate. We will respond accordingly. But I’m also prepared for some form of diplomacy, but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization.”
Translation: “We have no idea what to do, or when, but are willing to engage in the same hard nosed negotiations we had with Iran and their nuclear program.”
Lil’ Kim and his dragon lady sister are all smiles. Read the entire article here: Military Times
Category: Biden, Foreign Policy, North Korea
Guided Missiles: The Cuff Links 1959 on the Dootone label.
They managed to hit the ocean. Good for them! Bless their godless commie hearts.
With a target THAT large, how difficult is it to miss? Wait……….nebber’min. I retract that question.
I think 1st Sister Kim is probably manning the power train right now. ND:tBF is only making occasional appearances lately.
There’s another sister: we’ll just call her The Spare.
“We’re consulting with our allies and partners…” Prezzy Sniffy is waiting on Xi to return his call.
Hmmm, let’s see…Chinese Communists still stirring up sh^t in Korea…Trolling back and to in the Formosa Strait…Steady building out in the South China Sea…Saw how easy it was to block the Suez Canal…Already control the Panama Canal…making all kinds of inroads in Africa…fishing fleets depleting the waters off of South America…has the “leader” of the free world in their watch pocket…Wonder when we’ll see ZeDong Missiles in Gibraltar?
Prezzy Sniffy puts the Dem in Dementia. As for waiting for the call, Xi has been busy with his new best buddy, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Their foreign ministers just hugged and signed what they call a “historic 25-year strategic roadmap”.
The deal reportedly envisions increasing bilateral trade over 10-fold to $600 billion per year, and promises Iran Chinese investment of as much as $400 billion into the Middle Eastern nation’s oil, gas, petrochemicals, renewable energy and nuclear energy infrastructure, with Tehran committing to becoming a major reliable source of energy for Beijing.
Big win for the dems’ foreign policy! Not so much for America, but the dems’ goals are being met nicely.
I’m still amazed at his ability to fall UP the stairs. Not once, not twice, but three times.
And he followed that up with a nice crisp salute to no one at all once on top.
North Koreans gonna North Korea.
Next time they launch one of these, can we ask ’em to include President Slow Joe as the payload so he can become the Norks’ first astronaut?
Whoa, whoa. Slow down, cowboy.
I am too busy learning how to climb stairs in the wind.
It’s a perishable skill…
Looks like an old Atlas “Inter-County Ballistic Missile”. (As old Misslemen called them.)
But, they are surging ahead towards 1960’s designs.
Don’t scoff, Sparks. Solid fuel and mobile launchers are no joke. Which raises the question, where did the Norks get the technology?
Okay, it’s a rhetorical question.
Yup, a little bigger and fatter than the SS-26 Son-of-SCUD– different TEL, too– so they hatched a new missile and didn’t just copy one. Probably got the know-how from the Russkies and Chicoms to do it themselves.
“We’re consulting with our allies and partners” it’s that kind of decisive, experienced leadership we needed in the White House.
Since Biden’s been wrong on everything the last 50 years, I anticipate being unhappy with whatever course he takes. I assume it’ll be prostrating himself before Fatty Kim. The same hard-nosed stance O’Biden took when Putin annexed the Crimea. Something appeasing.
Joe will send in sKerry and some washed up ‘60s folk singer. Again.
Bang-up job last time:
Bite’M will send Kimmy a Stimulus Check….
I bet tubby Kim-Cheese is expecting slow Joe Biteme to send him money for launching missiles into the sea.
Mr. President, what should our response be?
“Let me be perfectly clear, I don’t know.”
Mr. President, what should our response be?
“Dementia? Bullsquabble, I’ve always been this, uh, what was the question? It’s not on the teleprompter”.
“C’mon man!”
The Biden response; “C’mon man! North Vietnam needs to stop…you know, the thing! My administration – I like kids playing with my leg hairs!”
“So, the best way to get something done if you, if you hold near and dear to you that you, uh, umm, like to be able to…… anyway…..”