North Korea Fixes New Long Range Missile – US Warn

South Korea – Seoul: North Korea has built new ballistic missiles that make threats to American military bases in Guam and can reach Australia. The new intermediate-range missile can carry a 1,400-pound warhead and travel about 1,800 miles and prepare for war against South Korea.

 

On Monday the South Korean Defense Ministry report released and the biannual defense report also said that in the past two years, the North has boosted the number of its special operations troops by 50 percent to 180,000, focusing on night-time and mountain and urban warfare based on “the lessons it had learned while watching the war in Iraq.”

 

In 2007 during military parade the South Korean officials detected the new missile that is the first time the North have publicly confirmed its deployment. In recent days North Korea is preparing for the test-fire a longer-range missile. The recent satellite image clearly shows that east coast missile base Musudan-ri is ready for the launch of its Taepodong-2 missile.

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton the US Secretary of States and Yu Myung-hwan the South Korean Foreign Minister warned the North Korea not to conduct a test. The US believes the North is also maintaining technological ties with Iran’s missile programs.

 

North’s longest-range missile the Taepodong-2 is an estimated range of more than 4,000 miles, putting Hawaii and Alaska under potential threat.

 

The South Korean Defense Ministry report says, “North Korea’s conventional force, its development and reinforcement of weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons and missiles, and the forward deployment of its troops, are a direct and serious threat to our security.”