North Korea fires ballistic missile amid rising animosities
Source: AP
By HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG and MARI YAMAGUCHI
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to speed up the development of his nuclear weapons at the fastest possible pace and threatened to use them against rivals.
The launch, the Norths 14th round of weapons firing this year, also came six days before a new conservative South Korean president takes office for a single five-year term.
South Koreas Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was fired from the Norths capital region and flew to the waters off its eastern coast. It called North Koreas repeated ballistic missile launches a grave threat that would undermine international peace and security and a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning any ballistic launch by the North.
The statement said that Won In-Choul, the South Korean JCS chief, held a video conference about the launch with Gen. Paul LaCamera, an American general who heads the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command in Seoul, and they agreed to maintain a solid joint defense posture.
People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear arsenal "at the fastest possible pace" and threatened to use them against rivals. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Evolve Dammit
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(6,265 posts)for me to realize that there is a distinct possibility that one of these insane narcissistic psychopaths may just resort to using these., What did Vlad say? A world without Russia or, as implied by Vlad, a Russian feeling threatened, is not a world he wants to live in...nor can the rest of the world. Paraphrasing here. I just did not care to look up this POS's exact quote.