North Korea ‘Sends a Signal Missile’ to Washington, Beijing

Wednesday, April 5, 2017
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
05.04.2017

Kim Dongyeop, professor of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University spoke to Sputnik Korea about North Korea’s recent missile launch and whether it was a signal to Washington and Beijing.

“The launch which was carried out on April 5 could have been carried out using Pukykson-2 type missile or could have been the first experimental launch of a new type of solid-fuel missile Pukykson-3,” Dongyeop said.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Korea, the missile was launched from Sinpo in the province of North Pyongan using a stationary launcher at an angle of 93 degrees at a maximum altitude of 189 kilometers. It flew 66 kilometers toward the Sea of Japan.

Talking about this recent launch, the professor said that although the command of the US Navy and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Korea said that it was a Pukykson-2 (KN-15), such a conclusion may have been hasty.

“We cannot judge from the short range of the flight that the launch was unsuccessful without knowing exactly what kind of missile was launched,” Dongyeop said.

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