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North Korea Fires Three “Short-Range” Ballistic Missiles

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Update: according to Reuters, the US military's Pacific Command announced that it has detected 3 short-range North Korean ballistic missile launches.

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After going weeks without a ballistic missile test – which some analysts had taken as indication that Trump's hard-ball tactics with Kim are working – moments ago Yonhap reported, and ABC confirmed, that North Korea has reportedly launched what appear to be several short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea.

JUST IN: U.S. official confirms that North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan – @LMartinezABC

— ABC News (@ABC) August 25, 2017

According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the North fired several "unidentified projectiles" from the vicinity Gitdaeryong in Gangwon Province at around 6:49 a.m local time. The projectiles flew more than 250 kilometers in the northeastern direction, it added. South Korea and U.S. militaries are analyzing additional information.

"Our military is closely monitoring for North Korean additional provocation and strengthened surveillance and security postures and maintaining readiness postures," the South Korean release said.

A South Korean military official told NBC News that the launch was immediately reported to President Moon Jae-In.

Japanese government officials told Japan's Kyodo news service that the North has fired "a projectile" into the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan. If confirmed, it will be the North's fifteenth missile test this year, and its first since restrictive new UN sanctions were imposed earlier this month. In July, the rogue state launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles, which North Korea claims could reach "anywhere in the world."

And now that Kim John Un has once again provoked and openly defied Trump before the entire world, the ball is in the US president's court, which is problem as Trump had escalated the mutually assured jawboning to such a degree, that following this stark provocation by Pyongyang, any non-response by the US president will be perceived as a sign of great weakness, and will hardly be approved by either of the two Generals that now advise Trump on a daily basis.

 
 
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