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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 25 2016, @12:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the it-will-end-in-tears dept.

North Korea (DPRK — Democratic People's Republic of Korea) has launched an SLBM (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile) from a submarine in the Sea of Japan, according to a Reuters story. The missile travelled about 300 miles (500 km). A similar launch last month seemed to fail.

Having the ability to fire a missile from a submarine could help North Korea evade a new anti-missile system planned for South Korea and pose a threat even if nuclear-armed North Korea's land-based arsenal was destroyed, experts said.

The ballistic missile was fired at around 5:30 a.m. (2030 GMT) from near the coastal city of Sinpo, where a submarine base is located, officials at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defence Ministry told Reuters.

The projectile reached Japan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) for the first time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a briefing, referring to an area of control designated by countries to help maintain air security.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @04:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @04:19AM (#392875)
    Doing this the wrong way would result in Seoul erupting into a sea of fire and blood, nukes or no nukes. Seoul is only about 50 km from the DMZ and well within the range of North Korean conventional artillery. If a cruise missile is launched at Pyongyang and even if it succeeds in a decapitation strike that kills Kim Jong-un and much of his high command, the commander in charge of the artillery batteries just beyond the DMZ has standing orders to attack if that ever happens. And then Korean War II will begin, which will make Korean War I look like a picnic.
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