NKorea Could Launch Nuclear-Capable ICBM by Next Year — WashPost

The Pentagon has picked up signs that North Korea is prepping for another missile test, a US defense official said Tuesday, as the United States cited progress in pushing China to impose tough new U.N. sanctions.

The system was deployed in March despite fierce opposition from China and Russian Federation, which regard it as a threat to their security and accused the U.S. of using it to spy on them.

The Chinese ambassador declined to comment on talks with Russian Federation, saying that all Security Council members will be involved in decisions about the new sanctions.

“There is certainly light at the end of the tunnel and we are working towards that light, and I can’t really tell how much time we would need”, Liu said.

Haley said “I think we are moving”.

The assessment is based on recent missile tests indicating that the country’s nuclear weapons programme has advanced faster than anticipated. “We will step up efforts to sanction individuals and entities enabling the DPRK regime, including those in China”. Choke them off with tougher sanctions.The above writer, Don E. Porter, American veteran of the Korean War, lives in Oklahoma City, OK, the United States.

North Korea launched its Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on July 4 from North Pyongan, a new type never seen before, according to the Pentagon.

“But we are perfectly prepared to act on our own”, she said.

“The stakes are huge”, retired US Adm. Mike Mullen said past year. But there is a lurking sense, one senior intelligence official said last week at the Aspen Security Forum, that at this point the best the United States can do is delay the day when North Korea demonstrates it can reach beyond Alaska and Hawaii.

“In the past, Russian Federation seemed to follow China’s lead on the North Korean issue, but now Moscow seems to be taking the reins”, a government source here said.

Liu said “the most important thing is to have. a draft resolution that everybody can support”.

According to another government source in south korea cited by Yonhap, a submarine, north Korean of 1,800 tons in the sea of Japan could gather information to prepare a test ballistic missile from a submarine.

Russian Federation has questioned whether the missile actually was an ICBM, though China did not.

“Everyone that we have dealt with acknowledges that it’s an ICBM”.

“They are scheduled well in advance of any other real world geopolitical events going on”.

Beyond handling a possible refugee crisis from a collapsed North Korean regime, Beijing has now assembled forces sufficient to shape the outcome of any possible conflict between the West and Pyongyang.

A fresh resolution drafted by the USA includes restriction on crude oil exports to the North and a ban on hiring North Korean slave laborers.

“Although his reckless remarks are just balderdash of a guy who has become so angrily desperate due to the ever-increasing nuclear strike capability of the DPRK, they have gone over the line”, said a spokesman for the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as quoted by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.