Pentagon Confirms North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan
Missile broke apart in air.
The Pentagon has confirmed that North Korea fired a missile over Japan early Tuesday morning local time. From ABC News:
“We assess North Korea conducted a missile launch within the last 90 minutes,” Col. Rob Manning, director of press operations at the Department of Defense, said Monday evening in a statement. “We can confirm that the missile launch by North Korea flew over Japan. We are in the process of assessing this launch.
“North American Aerospsace Defense Command, or NORAD, determined the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America. We are working closely with Pacific Command, Strategic Command, and NORAD, and we’ll provide an update as soon as possible,” Manning added.
CBS News reported that broadcaster NHK stated that the “missile broke into three pieces and fell into the waters off Japan’s Hokkaido island in the Pacific Ocean.” As of now, no one has not confirmed any damage or injuries from the missile.
BREAKING: South Korean military: North Korean missile flies 2,700 kilometers (1678 miles), with height of 550 km (341 miles)
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 28, 2017
Path taken by North Korea’s missile, over Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido (@NHK via @martyn_williams) pic.twitter.com/z8jgPnuIfo
— Hiroko Tabuchi (@HirokoTabuchi) August 28, 2017
Japan issued an alert to the people:
J-Alert on @nhk TV screens right now concerning threat from #DPRK missile. pic.twitter.com/oTO94plnK3
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 28, 2017
The government also stopped the bullet train service in northern Japan. From CBS News:
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday the missile launch was a threat that Tokyo would respond to firmly, Reuters writes.
“This ballistic missile launch appeared to fly over our territory. It is an unprecedented, serious and grave threat to our nation,” the top government spokesman said.
Tuesday’s news comes on the heels of Kim Jong Un’s firing of several short-range missiles into its East Sea on Friday. Those failed and exploded upon launch.
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Let’s fire a missile over North Korea… Same altitude, no warhead, just tit-for-tat.
KANYE: You need to control Kim……
My first thought was, “Why didn’t the Japanese shoot it down?”, but I forgot that the Japanese don’t have any missile systems which will shoot down a missile in space like the THAAD. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
This last N. Korean missile passed over Japan at an altitude of more than 300 miles. This is way beyond the 100 mile tests of anti-ballistic missiles as far as I know however there was an Aegis test on a failing satellite at an altitude of 150 miles but shooting down a satellite and shooting a ballistic missile are two different things. You got to shoot them on the way up or the way down or if chance presents when they are launched at a lower ballistic trajectory. This is why it is essential to have tactical deployment over a wide area land and sea for a theoretically effective missile defense strategy.
Thanks!
What he said.
I normally don’t use wikipedia as a source but I have to be careful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atago-class_destroyer
“…The Atago class is fundamentally an improved and scaled-up version of the Kongō-class destroyers.”
The Kongo class was, is, capable.
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/kongoclassdestroyer
Now what shout we do…
Do you remember this remarkable journalistic bloviating by Alisyn Camerota earlier this month?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/08/cnns-camerota-if-n-korea-fires-at-but-misses-guam-consider-it-just-a-missile-test/
The woman is a prophet!
Each of these launches must cost $100 million or so. Where do the Norks get the money?
I have often wondered if the new Navy laser weapon (LaWS) could be used against a missile? A laser does not lose coherence over distance. Also, targeting does not need to account for “lead”.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/politics/us-navy-drone-laser-weapon/index.html
We’ll find out, won’t we?
The space station only orbits at around 250 miles overhead. 341 miles is very, very high.