North Korea Moves Missile to Coast, but Little Threat Is Seen

According to South Korean defense chief, North Korea had moved a missile to its east coast basis. However, this missile is not threatening to the USA due to its weak capabilities to reach the USA. This threatening movement is not the first of its kind. North Korea has recently threatened to hit American basis in Hawaii, Guam, and some other unnamed targeted bases if necessary. According to the article, ‘“The moment of explosion is approaching fast,” the general staff of the North Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. “The U.S. had better ponder over the prevailing grave situation.”’ Although many analysts believe that North Korea missiles are not powerful nor advanced enough to the reach the American’s land, they think the US should speed the process of an advanced missile defense system to Guam due to the North Korean threatening bellicose language. According to the South Korean Defense Minister, Kim Kwan-jin, he said, “’the missile North Korea had moved to the east coast, possibly “for demonstration or for training,” In addition, the missile that was moved to the east coast is a Musudan, which is capable of traveling 1,900 miles from its starting point. The good news is that Guam is nearly 2,200 miles from North Korea, said the South Korean Defense Ministry.North Korea is doing its best to threat South Korea. According to the article, last Thursday, many South Koreans were blocked by the North Korean’s government from “crossing the border to enter a jointly operated industrial park”. In top of that, North Korea has threatened to pull out more than 53,000 North Korean employees from the joint factory park if scoffs from the South Korean news media continued. At the end of the article it mentioned that the North Korean government accused the US and South Korea of hacking some of North Korean’s official websites. This made the South Korean Government suspect, doubt and investigates if the North Korean government was involved or has anything to do with the recent disruption of computer network of three banks and broadcasters.

Aljalidi Abdulrahman

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/world/asia/north-korean-missile-moved-to-coast.html?ref=world