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http://hotair.com/archives/2016/07/09/seoul-north-korea-tried-to-launch-sub-missile-and-failed/by: Ed Morrissey
North Korea has long claimed that they can fire missiles from submarine platforms, but until now they haven’t entirely proven that boast without additional photoshopped fakery. Remember this from last year?
Three months ago, there seemed to be some “credible evidence” of a successful test, but later evidence showed that the missile only traveled 19 miles from its launch before exploding in flight. A test early this morning appears to have met a similar fate, but with an even shorter distance:
North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday but the launch appears to have failed in the early stages of flight, South Korea’s military said.
The launch comes a day after the U.S. and South Korea pledged to deploy an anti-missile system to counter threats from Pyongyang, and two days after North Korea warned it was planning its toughest response to what it deemed a “declaration of war” by the United States. That followed Washington’s blacklisting of the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un for alleged human rights abuses.
A single missile, presumed to be a SLBM, was launched off southeastern shore off Shinpo, Hamkyung Namdo located in northern North Korea at around 11:30 am Seoul time, according to a statement from the South Korea Ministry of National Defense.
“We can confirm that North Korea succeeded in launching off from the submarine but the ballistic missile failed in the initial part of flying,” a military officer from South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense told NBC News.
That’s the good news. The bad news, as the Chicago Tribune points out, is that the Kim regime isn’t getting discouraged by their failures.
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