War on the Horizon? N.Korean Sub Attempts Ballistic Missile Launch (Video)
(N.Morgan) MBN reported that on Wednesday morning North Korea attempted the launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a Sinpo-class submarine.
The article stated that the submarine left the port early in the morning, but returned to the dock near Wonsan at 9 a.m. local time, which South Korean experts saw as indicating a failed fourth SLBM launch attempt.
“The submarine would have not returned to the port that quickly if it were scheduled to take part in another training or operation,” a former South Korean admiral told NK News on condition of anonymity.
“It seems that the submarine dealt with a malfunction during the process of their fourth SLBM test launch, and decided to return.”
The Sinpo-class submarine took an abrupt route toward the East Sea on early morning Wednesday, according to MBN. South Korean intelligence immediately started to track the whereabouts of the submarine.
However, no provocative actions followed and the submarine returned.
The South Korean Defense Ministry would not confirm or deny MBN’s claim.
“All we can say is that our military, with the close cooperation with the U.S., is keeping an eye on North Korea’s SLBM development trends,” the military official from South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said during Thursday’s press briefing.
The exact location of where the event took place was not disclosed either by the report or by the South Korean Defense Ministry.
However as the report said the submarine returned to the port near Wonsan, the failed launch attempt likely took place somewhere at the east side of Korea, possibly between Wonsan and Mayang Do Naval Base – one of two North Korean submarine bases – located in South Hamgyong Province.
Pyongyang’s most recent successful SLBM launch took place on May last year, in which their state-run media claimed as evidence “that the ballistic missile fired from the submarine fully met the requirements of the latest military science and technology.”
Even if their most recent launch was a failure, another South Korean expert said that, assuming the report is true, this would be one of many SLBM launch attempts to come.
“To raise the degree of completion of SLBMs, North Korea will execute dozens more tests in the future,” Moon Keun-sik, the director at the Korea Defense and Security Forum told NK News.
“Perfecting SLBM technology requires a numerous tests … both on the ocean and on the ground. Pyongyang has been miniaturizing their nuclear weapons, and this launch – if it were successful – could’ve been their message to claim that they have completed adapting their warheads to a SLBM.”
On the same day as the reported test, the South Korean Defense Minister said the chances of North Korea conducting another nuclear test are high.
References:
https://www.nknews.org/2016/04/n-korean-submarine-attempts-to-test-fire-ballistic-missile-mbn/
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A number of years ago it was believed that WW3 would start in Korea.
Hello Angle #3(Fullprelim),
Charlie here. LOL! The headlines should of read, Rust bucket tries to launch a missile using firecracker technology.
It is not America that will explode but North Korea will IMPLODE under the weight of its own dicktator, er communism.
North Korea and Cuba are the last two countries not to have THEE Gospel preached there and then the end shall come.
Signed,
Charlie (…imagine, if you will, a country without doughnuts – Rod Sterling)
Possibly up to retrofitting nuclear warhead considered that they can successfully already launch them?
Well if MBN says so then it must be true because we all know how the press tells us the truth on things like building that just fall over on 9/11.
NK would had been invaded like Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afganistan if it didn’t have nukes and its got a darn site less nukes than the crazzys in Israel have who want to attack Iran and are using the USA to enforce there will on the world.
Look at Turkey if you want to see someone thats sending tanks down the streets to kill there own people and not NK