On Monday during the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Bangkok as leaders debated the fate of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, North Korea shot a test missile into the Sea of Japan. It was a surface to ship missile, apparently part of an annual military exercise, and came nowhere near Japan.
On Tuesday there was a report on NHK, based on US intelligence, of another test firing. You have to wonder how well defended we are here when you read a quote like this from the Defense Agency a couple of hours after the missile was launched, “We are aware of unconfirmed information of that nature. We are now trying to confirm it.”
South Korea says there was no second missile, though everyone agrees the DPRK did fire one on Monday. I wonder what the truth is here?
Some reports on the subject:
Al Jazeerah - North Korea had right to test-fire missile: Putin
MSNBC - S.Korea says no evidence of 2nd North missile test
Tribnet - orth Korea rejects U.S. offer as ‘laughing matter’
The Toronto Star - North Korea tests anti-ship missile as leaders meet
