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VietPress USA (Aug. 29th, 2017): Kim Jong-un just fired a new tech "ultra-modern rocket system," for the first ICBM over the Japan. This is a new threat that makes hardest tensions between North Korea and USA with its allies. Read this from CNN at:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-guam-threat/index.html
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Next target Guam, North Korea says
(CNN)North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan was a
prelude to more military operations directed at the American territory of Guam,
North Korean state media warned Wednesday.
The country's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported
leader Kim Jong Un presided over the dawn launch Tuesday of the
"ultra-modern rocket system," the first missile ever fired from the
capital Pyongyang.
North Korean officials told CNN in Pyongyang that Kim was
"very satisfied with the performance of the missile."
The intermediate-range missile, identified by the North
Koreans as the Hwasong-12, flew over Japan, further fueling tensions between
North Korea and the United States and its allies, Japan and South Korea.
A photo released by North Korea state media appearing the
show the launch of a missile which flew from North Korea over Japan on August
29.
The launch was "the first step of the military
operation of the (North Korean military) in the Pacific and a meaningful
prelude to containing Guam," state media said.
Guam governor's office said in a statement there is no
change in the island's threat level.
"We knew, based on North Korea events in previous
years, that with the joint exercise between the US, South Korea, and its
Allies, we can expect rhetoric and activity in North Korea," said George
Charfauros, Guam Homeland Security Adviser.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe both now believe "pressure on North Korea should be
raised to its limit so that North Korea will voluntarily come to the table for
dialogue," South Korean presidential spokesman Park Su-hyun said in a
statement Wednesday.
The two also agreed that the United Nations Security Council
should enact more detailed and effective sanctions against North Korea. A new
round of sanctions against Pyongyang were unanimously approved by the Security
Council earlier this month.
Guam back in the crosshairs
Guam has long been a focal point of North Korea's anger
against the US and is often a target of North Korean saber-rattling.
It was threatened specifically by North Korea in 2013 and
again earlier this month, following a fiery exchange of threats and insults
between Trump and the North Korean regime.
The small island in the Western Pacific is the closest US
territory to North Korea and hosts two important US military installations.
One is Andersen Air Force base, from which the US has been
staging B-1 bomber flights over the Korean Peninsula, often in response to
North Korea's missile tests.
The US flew bombers over North Korea following Pyongyang's
two successful tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.
'All options on the table'
Tuesday's missile was fired just before 6 a.m. Japan time (Monday
5 p.m. ET). The launch set off emergency sirens in northern Japan, triggering
text messages that warned residents to seek cover.
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