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Reuters also quoted two US officials as saying North Korea fired two short-range missiles over the weekend. The ABC broadcast said US officials confirmed it was two shots.
North Korea’s missile test launch is generally made public through announcements from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Joint Chiefs of Staff). It is very unusual to be known a few days after launch through foreign media reports.
Given that the media first reported on the missile launch, the analysis suggests that authorities in the ROK and the US may have delayed catching the launch. Some analyzes have also been raised that the identity of the missile has not been confirmed.
“If the missile launched by the North is Venus 3 and the Republic of Korea and the United States cannot detect it, it could be a nightmare for Seoul,” said Vinpin Na and professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (MIT). The Korean missile defense system may have a hole. Professor Narang presented that the Geumseong 3 was a cruise missile.
WP didn’t specifically mention the test launch and range. The Republic of Korea and the United States began the joint training on the 8th and ended on Thursday the 18th. According to the WP report, a test launch was carried out on the 21st, three days after the joint training of the the Republic of Korea and the USA.
The WP said that US authorities were able to understand the launch of the test through a collection of espionage outside North Korea. North Korea, which generally praised the test launch results, was assessed as having baffled the ROK and US authorities without discussing the missile launch.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby avoided a specific response, saying, “I have nothing to say at this time,” when a question about the WP report was raised at the briefing.
