They blowed up real good.
While Americans watched in dismay media coverage of the ongoing slow-motion devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, North Korea staged new missile tests, this time three shorter-range missiles launched simultaneously.
It was another flouting of U. S. demands to halt the tests and broke the regime’s apparent acquiescence to threats by the Trump administration to halt its weapons of mass destruction development.
The tests were two-thirds successful, the U. S. Pacific Command said. One missile blew up shortly after launch, according to officials. The others flew only about 155 miles before splashing into the sea. Clearly, their range could not reach Guam, a U. S. territory with numerous military installations where Kim Jung-un has vowed to deliver “a ring of fire.”
However, such a range could easily hit Seoul and major U. S. and South Korean military installations south of the capital, including the developing site of advanced THAAD anti-missile missiles.
