N.Korean Rocket Test Shows Worrying Progress

Choe declined to give technical details of North Korea’s latest rocket engine test on Sunday – seen as a possible prelude to a partial ICBM flight – calling it a great historical event that would lead to “fruitful outcomes”.

“Our military is prepared for the possibility of North Korea’s provocation including an additional missile launch”, Yonhap quoted a ministry statement as saying.

North Korea has issued a threat of nuclear war against the United States and its ally, South Korea, in retaliation for even the a misdirected shot fired in its direction during the war games being conducted by the US and South Korean militaries.

U.S. Pacific Command, based in Hawaii, said that the missile failed “within seconds of launch”.

“Working and training side-by-side with our ROK partners increases our ability to integrate air operations more effectively in order to deter aggression in the region”, Maj.

Leader Kim Jong-Un had released a comment saying North Korea would reduce the United States to “ashes” if “a single bullet” was sacked at his country.

They involve strategic nuclear bombers and a nuclear submarine, Columbus, that recently entered South Korean ports, he said.

North Korea has released an action-packed propaganda video showing a U.S. aircraft carrier being blown up.

The missile was launched from North Korea’s east coast at about 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning. China remains the North’s most powerful ally.

But if one intention of the video was to demonstrate how North Korea could disable the launch pad for the F-35C, the Navy’s carrier version of the stealth aircraft, the USA military signaled five days earlier that it doesn’t need a carrier for its Joint Strike Fighters to be a threat.

The South Korean embassy told its nationals residing in China, or travelling there for the game, to take extra caution and avoid inflaming passions. The “Foal Eagle” exercises began on March 1 and will end on April 30.

The annual exercises have provoked a flurry of missile-related activity from Pyongyang.

Kim said that “the whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries”.

Mr Yang added: “The US should say, “Let’s extend our cooperation to implementation of the United Nations resolutions on sanctions.’ They should say, ‘Starting with the Hongxiang case, let’s move forward”.

The second lesson from North Korea is that the USA needs to think much harder about the limits of military intervention and the unintended consequences of maintaining a forward military presence in troubled spots around the world.

“All options are on the table”, particularly if North Korea continues making advances in its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons technologies, Tillerson said last week at a news conference in Seoul.