Report: North Korea Says It Plans On Conducting ‘Weekly’ Missile Tests
- 7 years ago
North Korea has indicated that it plans to ramp up its missile-testing activities.
North Korea has indicated that it plans to ramp up its missile-testing activities.
The country’s Vice Foreign Minister, Han Song-Ryol, told the BBC on Monday, “We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.”
He also said that if the U.S. decided to react militarily, there would be “all out war.”
His words were released the same day that Vice President Mike Pence issued his own warning during a stop in South Korea, notes the New York Times.
According to Reuters, as he stood with South Korea’s acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn, Pence said, “Just in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan.”
He then added, “North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."
Despite Pence’s tough talk, he also spoke about the possibility of resolution through diplomacy, or, in his words, “through peaceable means, through negotiations.”
There had been increased tension over speculation that North Korea might try to test a nuclear weapon on Saturday, which would have been founding father Kim Il-sung’s 105th birthday, in what officials heralded as “a big and important event.”
However, CNN reports based on inside military sources that even though the country tried to launch what may have been a medium-range missile on Sunday, that effort appears to have failed.
North Korea has indicated that it plans to ramp up its missile-testing activities.
The country’s Vice Foreign Minister, Han Song-Ryol, told the BBC on Monday, “We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.”
He also said that if the U.S. decided to react militarily, there would be “all out war.”
His words were released the same day that Vice President Mike Pence issued his own warning during a stop in South Korea, notes the New York Times.
According to Reuters, as he stood with South Korea’s acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn, Pence said, “Just in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan.”
He then added, “North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."
Despite Pence’s tough talk, he also spoke about the possibility of resolution through diplomacy, or, in his words, “through peaceable means, through negotiations.”
There had been increased tension over speculation that North Korea might try to test a nuclear weapon on Saturday, which would have been founding father Kim Il-sung’s 105th birthday, in what officials heralded as “a big and important event.”
However, CNN reports based on inside military sources that even though the country tried to launch what may have been a medium-range missile on Sunday, that effort appears to have failed.