Tuesday’s north Korean testuppskjutning was a newly-developed intercontinental ballistic missile that was successfully fired on the orders of the country’s leader Kim Jong-Un and met planned targets in the sea.
This is according to the north Korea in a state TV statement, according to Bloomberg News.
North korea also stated that they now have the capacity to strike at targets anywhere in the world.
Earlier in the day , there have been signals in that direction. The robot, who is reported to have reached a high altitude, landed, according to south Korea’s military in the sea between north Korea and Japan.
The robot traveled the equivalent of about 930 kilometres from north korea’s west coast during the approximately 40 minutes as it flew, it has been previously reported with reference to a statement from Japan’s kabinettsekreterare Yoshihide Suga.
President of the united states Donald Trump asked earlier on Twitter if ”this guy” (north Korean leader Kim Jong-Un) doesn’t have anything better to do with his life.
”It is hard to believe that south Korea and Japan will put up with this for very long. Maybe China will act hard against north Korea and put an end to this nonsense once and for all!”, tweeted Donald Trump.
South Korean president Moon Jae-in condemned the earlier the north Korean launch and stated that south Korea and the united states analyze if it was an intercontinental ballistic missile, i.e. a robot that could fly, for example, from north Korea to the united states. If it would be such a robot will south Korea to prepare measures, it was.
According to the UN resolutions get north Korea neither develop or testskjuta ballistic missiles.
The launch got the leading asian stock indexes to back on Tuesday. At 09:15 on Tuesday morning was trading both the Nikkei 225 around -0.12%, and the Hong Kong Hang Seng at -1.57%.
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