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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Monday 22 May 2017





























             North Korea fires medium-range missile in latest weapon test




            KIM TONG-HYUNG                                                                                                      any  other  missile  previous-
            Associated Press                                                                                                    ly  tested  by  North  Korea,
            SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —                                                                                           and that it could one day
            In its latest effort to devel-                                                                                      reach targets as far away
            op its ballistic and nuclear                                                                                        as Hawaii and Alaska.
            weapons,     North   Korea                                                                                          Under  the  watch  of  third-
            fired a medium-range mis-                                                                                           generation  dictator  Kim
            sile Sunday that appeared                                                                                           Jong  Un,  North  Korea  has
            to  be  similar  to  one  the                                                                                       been pursuing a decades-
            country  tested  earlier  this                                                                                      long goal of putting a nu-
            year, U.S. and South Kore-                                                                                          clear warhead on an inter-
            an officials said.                                                                                                  continental  ballistic  missile
            The  rocket  was  fired  from                                                                                       capable  of  reaching  the
            an area near the North Ko-                                                                                          U.S. mainland.
            rean county of Pukchang,                                                                                            North  Korea  conducted
            in  South  Phyongan  Prov-                                                                                          two nuclear tests last year
            ince,  and  flew  eastward                                                                                          alone,  possibly  improving
            about  500  kilometers  (310                                                                                        its  ability  to  make  nuclear
            miles),  South  Korea’s  Joint                                                                                      weapons  small  enough  to
            Chiefs of Staff said. The U.S.                                                                                      fit  on  long-range  missiles.
            Pacific  Command  said  it                                                                                          The  country  has  also  con-
            tracked  the  missile  before                                                                                       ducted  a  slew  of  rocket
            it fell into the sea.                                                                                               launches as it continues to
            White  House  officials  trav-  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks to reporters on the latest missile launch test   advance its arsenal of bal-
                                         by North Korea, at his official residence in Tokyo Sunday, May 21, 2017.
            eling  in  Saudi  Arabia  with                                                                    Associated Press  listic  weapons,  which  in-
            President  Donald  Trump                                                                                            clude  midrange  solid-fuel
            said  the  system  that  was   fore  crashing  into  the  sea,  of  applying  the  econom-  to the world” that tramples   missiles that could be fired
            tested had a shorter range   according to South Korean  ic  pressure  as  well  as  the  international  efforts  to  re-  from  mobile  land  launch-
            than  the  missiles  fired  in   and U.S. officials.      diplomatic  pressure  to  the  solve  the  North  Korean   ers or submarines.
            North Korea’s most recent    The  February  launch,  the  regime in North Korea,” Til-  nuclear  and  missile  prob-  If  North  Korea  did  indeed
            tests. The missile appeared   North’s first missile test after  lerson said. “Hopefully they  lems peacefully. He vowed   fire   the   Pukguksong-2
            to be similar in range and   Trump took office, alarmed  will  get  the  message  that  to bring up the issue at this   again,  it  might  be  part  of
            maximum  altitude  to  the   neighbors  because  solid-   the path of continuing their  week’s G-7 summit in Italy.  attempts  to  stabilize  the
            missile  that  North  Korea   fuel  missiles  can  be  fired  nuclear  arms  program  is  At the United Nations, dip-  system  before  operation-
            test-fired  in  February,  an   faster  than  liquid-fuel  mis-  not  a  pathway  to  security  lomats from the U.S., Japan   ally  deploying  the  missiles,
            official  from  South  Korea’s   siles, which need to be fu-  or  certainly  prosperity.  The  and South Korea said they   said Kim Dong-yub, an an-
            Joint  Chiefs  of  Staff  said.   eled  before  launch  and  ongoing  testing  is  disap-  requested a Security Coun-  alyst at Seoul’s Institute for
            The  missile  launched  on   require  a  larger  number  pointing. It’s disturbing.”   cil consultation on the mis-  Far Eastern Studies.
            Sunday  reached  an  alti-   of  vehicles,  including  fuel  South  Korea’s  new  presi-  sile test. The closed discus-  Kim  said  there’s  also  a
            tude of 560 kilometers (347   trucks. Those vehicles could  dent,  Moon  Jae-in,  held  a  sion  will  take  place  Tues-  possibility  that  the  North  is
            miles), said the official, who   be spotted by satellites.  National  Security  Council  day.  The  diplomats  spoke   conducting  engine  tests
            spoke on condition of ano-   In   an    interview   with  meeting  to  discuss  Sun-   on  condition  of  anonym-   and  other  experiments  as
            nymity, citing office rules.  “Fox  News  Sunday,”  U.S.  day’s launch, which came  ity  because  the  meeting      it  pushes  for  the  develop-
            The  February  test  involved   Secretary of State Rex Tiller-  hours  after  he  named  had not been officially an-  ment  of  a  solid-fuel  inter-
            using  a  launch  truck  to   son said it was too early to  his  new  foreign  minister  nounced.                   continental  ballistic  mis-
            fire  a  solid-fuel  missile   know  whether  diplomatic  nominee  and  top  advis-    The  launch  came  a  week   sile  that  could  potentially
            that  North  Korea  calls  the   and  economic  pressures  ers for security and foreign  after  North  Korea  success-  reach  the  U.S.  mainland.
            Pukguksong  (Polaris)-2,  a   being exerted on the North  policy. He did not make a  fully  tested  a  new  mid-    If  the  North  ever  obtains
            land-based  version  of  a   Korean  government  are  public  statement  after  the  range  missile  that  it  said   a  solid-fuel  ICBM,  it  would
            submarine-launched  mis-     having  an  impact  in  the  meeting.                     could  carry  a  heavy  nu-  likely  be  a  rocket  pow-
            sile  the  country  revealed   wake  of  the  latest  missile  In  Tokyo,  Japanese  Prime  clear   warhead.   Experts   ered by a cluster of several
            earlier. That missile traveled   test.                    Minister  Shinzo  Abe  called  said that rocket flew higher   Pukguksong-2 engines, Kim
            about  500  kilometers  be-  “We’re  early  in  the  stages  the  launch  a  “challenge  and for a longer time than   said.q
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