North Korean Missile Missile Missile: Alert in Japan

(To David Bartoccini)
15/09/17

At 6.57 in the morning (local time) a missile launched by a North Korean carrier in the Sunan area traveled 3.700 kilometers before it sank in the Pacific Ocean at 2.000 km from Japan. The missile, the subject of yet another Pyongyang ballistic test, should be considered as an IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile) - probably a Hwasong-12 (KN-17) - which flew over the island of Hokkaido, the northernmost of the archipelago Japanese.

This umpteenth ballistic test, the fifteenth conducted by North Korea this year, only serves to raise the level of tension in the Pacific, showing that American bases are within the reach of dictator Kim Jong Un: the Andersen base of the USAF, on the Guam Island, is 3.356,7 km from North Korea.

(photo: KCNA)