The situation around North Korea becomes more intense — on Sunday morning, the country has carried out another test launch of a rocket, but this time her target was in the vicinity of the Russian Federation. According to the us military, the missile landed in the sea of Japan less than 100 km from Vladivostok, where the Russian Pacific fleet. Before that, she covered about 700 miles in 30 minutes.
Experts believe that with the help of this provocative step, Kim Jong-UN decided to demonstrate their power to Moscow and to hint to the allies of China on the independence of their opinions.
Carl Schuster, a former Director of operations at joint intelligence center Pacific command of the United States, convinced that the time to start was chosen. On this day in Beijing held a major trade summit, which was attended by Vladimir Putin.
Schuster believes that Kim Jong-UN, wanted to attract the attention of the Russian leader and to force him to speak about the situation on the Korean Peninsula or even influence the ending of international sanctions against North Korea, supported by the United States.
In response to a test run of the White house has released an official statement calling for tougher sanctions against the DPRK, and assuming that Putin is unlikely to be thrilled.
«Since the rocket actually fell much closer to Russia than to Japan, the President cannot imagine that Russia will be satisfied,» — the document says.
White House calls on ‘all nations to implement far stronger sanctions against North Korea’ after the latest missile test https://t.co/eWjVkck5Nc pic.twitter.com/Z8GGncilMV
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) May 14, 2017
Meanwhile, in Russia the incident reacted quite restrained — in the Ministry of defense said that the missile posed no threat to Russia, as its trajectory took place at a considerable distance from the border of the Russian Federation.
Much more impressive was the reaction of the new leader of South Korea who, before the provocation has declared its readiness to dialogue with the DPRK. Moon Jae-In called the rocket launch a violation of resolutions of the UN Security Council and a major security challenge on the Korean Peninsula and around the world.
