US’s Latest ICBM Test: Message for Pyongyang, or for Moscow and Beijing?
SputnikNews.com
04.05.2017
The US Air Force has conducted another test of a Minuteman III ballistic missile, the second in a week’s time. Speaking to Sputnik, respected Russian military observer Konstantin Sivkov made clear that Moscow is surely aware that the tests are not connected to the tense situation in the Korean peninsula.
On Wednesday, a dummy Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, flying about 6,800 km and touching down in the Pacific Ocean in the Marshall Islands’ Kwajalein Atoll.
The test, which the military said took ten months to plan, was the second Minuteman III launch in a week’s time.
Following the first test, which took place April 24, media reports hinted that the test may have been meant as a show of force amid growing tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s own nuclear and missile testing programs.
After Wednesday’s test, US media again speculated that the missile testing was probably connected to tensions with North Korea.
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