Launched just before the presidential election, the whereregardings of the Korean election, etc.
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(Masatoshi Muto: Former Ambassador of Japan to Korea)
The Ministry of Defense announced on the 11th that North Korea has launched at least one projectile that may be a ballistic missile from the land area of the country to the east. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said, “It is estimated that the aircraft flew regarding 700 kilometers and fell outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).” He announced an analysis that he may have flown regarding a kilometer in an irregular orbit with a maximum speed of regarding Mach 10.
Generally, those with a Mach number of regarding 1.3 to 5.0 are called “supersonic”, and those with a Mach number over 5.0 are called “hypersonic speed”, but the fact is that the speed of North Korean missiles was regarding Mach 10. For example, Kim Jong-eun, the general secretary of the Korean Labor Party, has acquired a hypersonic weapon.
North Korea going “my way”
North Korea launched a hypersonic missile on the 5th, and the UN Security Council just opened on the 10th (local time). A foreign ministry official pointed out, “I think I was aiming for this timing on purpose.”
However, South Korean military officials argued that the missile on the 5th was “a general ballistic missile, not a hypersonic missile as announced by North Korea.”
According to the Korean military’s view at this time, the missiles launched by North Korea were “ballistic missiles with mobile wings, not hypersonic missiles claimed by North Korea.” “Hypersonic missiles as a whole The speed exceeded Mach 5 in two-thirds of the flight, and although the missile had a maximum speed of Mach 6, it slowed down much following that. “
However, only six days later, the missile that was re-launched on the 11th was near Mach 10. It is even speculated that North Korea launched the missile to refute the analysis that South Korean troops denied North Korea’s launch of hypersonic missiles.
Citizens watching the news of the “hypersonic missile” launched by North Korea the day before at Seoul Station on January 12 (Photo: AP / Afro)
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Considering these actions of North Korea as a whole, it can be said that North Korea has indicated its intention to continue to improve the performance of missiles without accepting criticism from the international community by launching this missile. Isn’t it?
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