Read the artcle again:
cited a "security source" in China
The agency also cited a "Western military source"
"Indications are"
"Japan's Defense Ministry said it couldn't confirm the report"
"officials in South Korea who monitor the North also said they didn't have any information on the reported launches."
All sources unconfirmed and un-named.
"At least one of the missiles landed in the sea about 100 kilometers (62 miles)"
So the DPRK conducted a short range missle test within the confines of it's international boundries. So fucking what.
North Korea reportedly fired two surface-to-air missiles near its border with China, a poignant reminder of the communist regime's ability to foment instability in the region amid the ongoing standoff over its nuclear weapons program.
DPRK has several rocket testing ranges along the Chinese border. Thus it is likely that the rockets would be launched "near it's border with China". The article contradicts itself again by claiming that no one knows if they even have nuclear weapons. And what SAMS have to due with nukes is beyond me.
the short-range missiles were test-fired in an eastern direction from the North's eastern coast, toward the Sea of Japan.
Why wouldn't they fire in an easterly direction? That's where the ocean is.
n Washington on Tuesday, the commander of the U.S. military in South Korea, Army Gen. B.B. Bell, said reports indicated the North was "preparing to field a new intermediate-range ballistic missile which could easily reach United States facilities in Okinawa, Guam and possibly Alaska," according to prepared comments.
Yet in the very next paragraph, this point is completely contradicted:
However, Bell noted there had been "very little activity" by the North Koreans in recent years on long-range ballistic missiles. Instead, he said officials have seen increasing work on short-range missiles that could be used on the Korean Peninsula.
Mister Bushice wrote:NK has a history of that shit. They launched missiles over Japan back in 98. Last year they shot some into the SoJ.
The safest area to test fire missiles would be over the East Sea ("Sea of Japan"). Japan essentially blocks Korea from the Pacific ocean. How do you conduct a missile test without flying it over Japan? Fly it into China? As Zo Zun Il from KFA expressed it,
"There is no trajectory at which the DPRK could fire a LONG RANGE missile from the northeastern missile bases without either violating another nation's airspace or physically attacking another country.
Keep mind mind that the ROK is between the DPRK and the Pacific to the south. I've traced sample trajectories from Northeastern DPRK and expanded them into the surrounding region. There is literally nowhere they could perform a long range missile test without infringing upon someone. The only possible solution would be to launch from the southern section of the country, which would open a small strip of ocean less than 100 miles wide to the south. If something were to go wrong, and the missile missed its target (remember, this is a test), it would likely hit the east coast of China. Launching over Japan is obviously the safest and least provocative option"
This is NOT news, it's propaganda passing as news. It's like that myserious website where Al-Queda claims responsibility for everything, but no one knows the web-address.
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