Pyongyang released images of the launch and claims this missile is equipped with new precision technology.
North Korea reportedly launched a short-range “Scud-type” missile Monday, the country’s third missile test in about as many weeks. North Korea appears to have successfully tested medium-to-long-range missiles in the past two weeks, after a series of failures in April.
The South Korean military said the missile flew approximately 450 miles east and landed in the Sea of Japan, within Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
North Korea, releasing images of the alleged blastoff, bragged about what it claims was a “successful” test of a new and more accurate ballistic missile — one that is “capable of making ultra-precision strike on the enemies’ objects at any area, ” claimed KCNA, North Korea’s state-run media arm. North Korea also claimed that it used a mobile launching system, which, if true, would allow the country to more swiftly deploy its missiles. According to Reuters, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un boasted in the state-run paper that North Korea would continue to develop more weapons, and plans to send a bigger “gift package” to the “Yankees.”
“Whenever news of our valuable victory is broadcast recently, ” the KCNA also reported Kim as saying, “the Yankees would be very much worried about it and the gangsters of the South Korean puppet army would be dispirited more and more.
