Quartz: The surprise location of North Korea’s latest missile test is making the US and China nervous
When North Korea launched its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) last week, of immediate concern was how far the missile traveled, and where it could have reached had it been sent on a lower trajectory (most of the US, as it turns out). But the launch location mattered, too.
In a first, the missile took off from the northern Chagang province. Geolocation wizards quickly found the precise coordinates.
That location will bother both the US and China. In a straight line on the map, from there it’s only about 50 km (31 miles) to the China border—Pyongyang is actually further away.
From Beijing’s perspective, it’s uncomfortably close. That’s no doubt fine with Pyongyang since it isn’t happy with China anyway. Earlier this year it criticized its neighbor for halting imports of North Korean coal. The location “appears to be a message for China,” Kim Yong-hyun, a professor at Seoul’s Dongguk University, told UPI.
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I doubt that the launch "concerns" China or makes her "nervous" at all.
ReplyDeleteAn ICBM that can hit most of the US, can hit anywhere in China, no matter where it's launched from,
China also sold the NORK's the TEL platform, (Transporter, Erector, Launcher), and this launch looks as much like a test of the TEL's mobility, the ICBM's transport reliability, and the ability to shuffle them around safely, as much as the missile itself.
Jay,
ReplyDeleteIts not the North Koreans that the Chinese are concerned or nervous about.
It is what South Korea, Japan, the U.S., etc. will do.
China's not worried about what the US, South Korea, Japan will do,
DeleteSouth Korea will come up with a "fatter" Sunshine offer, while beefing their military a little,
Japan will do nothing,
Hair Twitler will tweet, the US will deploy more THAAD and Ageis, but the canction's won't have any China bite, because the Koch's and the Walton's live off the China trade,
And the Republicans, hundreds of so called "think tanks" and so called media outlets, live off their donations.
Jay,
ReplyDeleteTrump has no care about Koch's and Walton's because they was undermining his Primary and Presidential campaign's. It will be a delicious revenge against them.
For China, I don't worry about it: they will do as USSR, Japan, Europe...that's easy to catchup but a little bit harder to get over US. That's only a matter of freedom, and America is unbeatable for that. (Look the technology).
https://www.google.ca/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/08/03/trump-billionaire-backers-list/%3fsource=dam
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https://theintercept.com/2016/08/23/trumps-new-billionaire-backer-also-funds-huge-stockpile-of-human-urine/