N. Korea fires 3 missiles amid tensions over drone flights

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By HYUNG-JIN KIM today

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its latest weapons display on Saturday, a day after rival South Korea conducted a rocket launch related to its push to build a space-based surveillance to better monitor the North.

Tensions between the rival Koreas rose this week when South Korea accused North Korea of flying five drones across the tense border for the first time in five years and responded by sending its own drones toward the North.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected the three launches from an inland area south of Pyongyang, the North’s capital, on Saturday morning. It said the three missiles traveled about 350 kilometers (220 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The estimated range suggests the missiles tested could target South Korea.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff called the launches “a grave provocation” that undermines international peace. It said South Korea maintains a readiness to “overwhelmingly” deter any provocation by North Korea.



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[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. As perfectly legal as the monthly military exercises preparing to invade NK, the other lead story.

[Javaman]

3. Wait, what?

What are you referring to?

[EX500rider]

5. lol

Lets look at the track record of who has invaded or attacked who

1950 N Korea invades the South and loses
Total civilian deaths: 2–3 million
South Koreans:
990,968 total casualties
North Koreans:
1,550,000 total casualties

1968 N Korea send commandos across the border in a attempt to kill the S Korean leaders at the Blue House (their White House)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_DMZ_Conflict#The_Blue_House_Raid

January 1968 North Korean patrol boats operating under cover of MiG-21 fighters captured the USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in international waters northeast of Wonsan, killing one crewman.

Ulchin-Samcheok landings
October 1968, 120 men of NK Unit 124 landed at 8 separate locations between Ulchin and Samcheok in Gangwon province and moved inland on a 30-day mission to create guerilla bases in the Taebaek Mountains of SK.

April 1969 (the birthday of Kim Il-sung), two KPAF MiGs shot down a USAF EC-121M Warning Star on an electronic intelligence mission 167 km off the east coast of North Korea, killing all 31 crewmen.

Korean axe murder incident
was the killing of two US Army officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean soldiers on August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The US Army officers had been part of a work party cutting down a poplar tree in the JSA.

The ROKS Cheonan
sinking occurred on 26 March 2010, when Cheonan, a Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy, carrying 104 personnel, sank off the country's west coast near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
A South Korean-led official investigation carried out by a team of international experts from South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Sweden presented a summary of its investigation on 20 May 2010, concluding that the warship had been sunk by a North Korean torpedo fired by a midget submarine.

Yes, it all SK & the USA's fault

[Turbineguy]

2. I wonder......

how many do they have left over after firing these "barrages" of missiles?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Betting the missiles far cheaper than the 4 million a pop patriots than dont work very well. So

the war factories make more versions, more cost of course.

[EX500rider]

6. In a country where much of the population is actually starving to death..

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...I doubt their missiles costs their society less then a Patriot costs ours.

As to the Patriot not working, the Saudi's who use it regularly to shoot down Iranian IRBM's fired from Yemen would disagree.

The issues when 1st used during the 1st Iraq war were unusual:

Patriot has been in service since 1984 and experienced its first sustained combat in 1990, when it was used against Iraqi SCUD ballistic missiles fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia. Its success rate, 40 to 70 percent, was mediocre at best. That was largely due to the improvised modifications Iraqis made to their SCUDs to extend their range. As a result, the SCUDs had a tendency to fall apart during the terminal (speeding down towards the target) flight phase which created unintended countermeasures. Some of the larger pieces of these modified SCUDs, like additional fuel tanks, broke away and were seen by Patriot radar as the actual missile warhead section. In some cases, non-warhead portions (like the fuel tanks carrying very toxic fuel) of the SCUD came down on military or civilian personnel on the ground. Subsequent upgrades to Patriot increased accuracy against deliberate or accidental countermeasures.