North Korea test-fires ballistic missile in defiance of world pressure

[bathroommonkey76]

Source: Reuters

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that failure to curb Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs could lead to "catastrophic consequences".

U.S. and South Korean officials said the test, from an area north of the North Korean capital, appeared to have failed, in what would be the North's fourth straight unsuccessful missile test since March.

The test came as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group arrived in waters near the Korean peninsula, where it began exercises with the South Korean navy on Saturday, about 12 hours after the failed launch, a South Korean navy official said.

Tillerson, in a U.N. Security Council meeting on North Korea on Friday, repeated the Trump administration's position that all options were on the table if Pyongyang persisted with its nuclear and missile development.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN17U2XB

[OldRedneck]

1. If . . .

If Kim-The-Young-Un executes a couple of rocket scientists every time a launch fails, the NKorean missile program soon will be dead in the water for lack of personnel.

[christx30]

4. These scientists have families.

Or... rather... had.

[dalton99a]

2. So they may have blown it up on purpose

Kim Dong-yub, an expert at Kyungnam University's Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, said North Korea might have got the data it wanted with the missile's short flight, then blown it up in a bid to limit the anger of China.

[Brother Buzz]

3. That, or as some are suggesting....

The Chinese have tapped into the system and have the ability to terminate the missile shots at will.

[elleng]

5. 2 defiant ones.

[bdamomma]

6. why don't these

two dicks meet at Mar a Lago, they could play golf or eat cake. And leave the rest of the world out their temper tantrum.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Some how I think that...

Dennis Rodman will be unavailable that day