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North Korea tests another missile, spurring angry retort from Trump

By Emily Rauhala July 3 at 10:49 PM

BEIJING — North Korea has test-fired another ballistic missile, defying international pressure and earning a swift and angry rebuke from President Trump.

The launch was made Tuesday morning from a site in North Korea’s North Phyongan province, according to U.S. Pacific Command. The missile was tracked for 37 minutes and landed in the Sea of Japan, it said.

The test comes after a string of recent tests, including a salvo of missiles last month and three tests in May alone. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has now launched more missiles in one year than his father launched during 17 years in power.

The rate and variety of tests has alarmed experts, who see the launches as part of an effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.

Trump has made tackling the issue a priority, focusing his efforts on getting China to pressure the Kim regime and cut off its nuclear weapons program.

As news of Tuesday’s test emerged, Trump weighed in on Twitter, calling out Kim and appearing to call on China to do more to pressure him.

“North Korea has just launched another missile,” Trump wrote. “Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?

“Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer,” he continued. “Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all.”

In recent weeks, there have been signs that the U.S. president is frustrated with China’s progress. On June 21, he tweeted that, while he appreciated Beijing’s efforts, “it has not worked out.”

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared to share his frustration. In remarks to the the press on Tuesday, Abe vowed to work closely with the United States and South Korea, but called on China and Russia to do more.

“North Korea forcibly launched a ballistic missile again. This ignores repeated warnings by the international community. This launch clearly shows its threat has increased,” he said, according to NHK, a Japanese broadcaster.

“I’d like to strongly urge international society’s cooperation on the North Korea issue and urge China’s Chairman Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Putin to take more constructive measures.”

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Trump Warns China He Is Willing to Pressure North Korea on His Own

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WASHINGTON — President Trump, frustrated by China’s unwillingness to lean on North Korea, has told the Chinese leader that the United States is prepared to act on its own in pressuring the nuclear-armed government in Pyongyang, according to senior administration officials.

Mr. Trump’s warning, delivered in a cordial but blunt phone call on Sunday night to President Xi Jinping, came after a flurry of actions by the United States — selling weapons to Taiwan, threatening trade sanctions and branding China for human trafficking — that rankled the Chinese and left little doubt that the honeymoon between the two leaders was over.

After returning from his weekend getaway in Bedminster, N.J., late Monday, Mr. Trump noted on Twitter that North Korea had launched another ballistic missile, which landed in the sea between North Korea and Japan. He suggested it was time for China to act.

“Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!” Mr. Trump wrote.
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American officials, who would not be named talking about the continuing dialogue with the Chinese, said they hoped the tough steps by the United States would spur Mr. Xi to reconsider his reluctance to press the North. But Mr. Trump, one official said, now has fewer illusions that China will radically alter its approach to its reclusive neighbor, which is driven more by fear of a chaotic upheaval there than by concern about its nuclear and missile programs.

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That leaves the president in a familiar bind on North Korea as he prepares to leave for a Group of 20 meeting this week in Germany, where he will meet Mr. Xi as well as the leaders of Japan and South Korea, nations Mr. Trump has also turned to in navigating his approach to the North.

Without the full weight of China, pressure tactics are unlikely to force North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to change course. Yet diplomatic engagement — which Mr. Xi continues to push, according to officials — is not a step that Mr. Trump is ready to consider, after the death last month of an American college student, Otto F. Warmbier, who was held captive in Pyongyang for 17 months, then freed in a coma.

A go-it-alone approach by Mr. Trump would also further antagonize China, since it would require blacklisting multiple Chinese banks and companies that do business with the North. The United States began doing so on a modest scale last week by designating four Chinese entities and individuals.

The precarious state of United States-China relations was captured by the way the two sides characterized the call. The White House said only that Mr. Trump had raised the “growing threat” of North Korea’s weapons programs with Mr. Xi. The Chinese, in a more detailed statement, said the relationship was being “affected by some negative factors.”

The latest of these — and perhaps the most grating to the Chinese — was a naval maneuver in which an American guided-missile destroyer sailed near disputed territory claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea. The movement by the warship, the Stethem, off Triton Island in the Paracel archipelago prompted a furious response from China’s government, which called it a “serious political and military provocation.”

Still, neither leader appeared ready to abandon the rapport that Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi established in April at a summit meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Trump avoided any personal jabs at Mr. Xi; the Chinese government said tensions were to be expected in a relationship this complex. But each leader has learned a hard lesson about the other, according to officials and outside analysts.

Mr. Xi, they said, miscalculated what China needed to do to satisfy Mr. Trump, thinking he could buy him off with a few highly visible measures, like banning coal purchases from the North. Mr. Trump overvalued the personal touch by betting that a few hearty handshakes with Mr. Xi would overcome China’s deep-rooted resistance to pressuring North Korea.

“The Chinese tried to figure out what was the absolute minimum they needed to do,” said Bonnie S. Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The administration has signaled repeatedly that they had to shut down these banks and front companies in northeast China that enable North Korea.”

Chinese officials professed surprise last week when the White House rolled out three tough steps, back to back. It imposed sanctions on a Chinese bank, accusing it of acting as a conduit for illicit North Korean financial activity, as well as on a Chinese company and two Chinese citizens.

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It approved the sale of $1.4 billion in weapons to Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province. And it labeled China one of the worst offenders in an annual State Department report on human trafficking.

The White House also signaled it would act against imported Chinese steel as part of a broader campaign against steel dumping around the world. But the Commerce Department’s report on the steel market, which would be the basis for tariffs and other sanctions, is still undergoing revisions and will not be released before the Group of 20 meeting.

The American destroyer’s cruise past Triton appeared to be especially offensive to China. It was only the second time since Mr. Trump took office in January that an American warship had ignored China’s claims in the South China Sea. On May 24, another guided-missile destroyer, the Dewey, traversed Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands.

“The Chinese side strongly urges the U.S. side to immediately stop such kind of provocative operations that violate China’s sovereignty and threaten China’s security,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lu Kang, said on Sunday. “The Chinese side will continue to take all necessary means to defend national sovereignty and security.”

Washington and Beijing confirmed that Mr. Trump requested the call on Sunday. But American officials said their Chinese counterparts signaled that they were eager to clear the air after a bumpy week.

Cheng Xiaohe, an associate professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, said it was “a little bit odd” that Mr. Xi had agreed to the call. Still, he said, the gesture indicated that China was seeking to maintain “stability and some momentum” with Mr. Trump and perhaps deter him from taking more extreme measures, such as military action.

“The actions the administration has taken have upset the Chinese, no doubt about it,” Professor Cheng said. “The conversations demonstrate that China is still willing to talk with Trump and work with the U.S. government to deal with North Korea’s nuclear issues.”

China’s resistance has led Mr. Trump to turn to other nations, notably Japan and South Korea, for help in resolving the crisis.

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He had a warmer call with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, who praised his decision to penalize Chinese entities accused of doing illicit business with the North, according to Kyodo News, a Japanese news agency. Mr. Trump will host a dinner with Mr. Abe and Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s new president, at the Group of 20 in Hamburg on Thursday.

Some former officials said the tensions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi were neither new nor particularly troubling.

“We’ve had similar dynamics under Bush, Clinton and Obama,” said Jeffrey A. Bader, a China adviser to President Barack Obama. “It’s not an either-or. We operate in a nether zone with the Chinese.”

Mark Landler reported from Washington, and Javier Hernández from Beijing. Motoko Rich contributed reporting from Tokyo, and Rick Gladstone from New York. Iris Zhao contributed research from Beijing.


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North Korea successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday morning, the country’s state television reported. The Hwasong-14 ICBM flew some 933 kilometers in 39 minutes reaching an altitude of 2,802 kilometers.

The ICBM is capable of reaching any target in the world, North Korean state TV said, as cited by Reuters. The test was reportedly carried out under the supervision of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un.

“The test launch was conducted at the sharpest angle possible and did not have any negative effect on neighboring countries,” North Korean state media said, as cited by Reuters.
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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said earlier that Pyongyang had conducted another ballistic missile test on Tuesday morning. The projectile, described by the South as an “unidentified ballistic missile,” was launched towards the Sea of Japan.

“North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the East Sea from the vicinity of Banghyon, North Pyongan Province, at around 9:40am,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

The missile flew more than 930km, according to the South Korean military. The US military tracked the projectile – adjudged to be a single, land-based intermediate range ballistic missile – for 37 minutes before it fell in the Sea of Japan.

"The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) assessed that the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America," the US military's Pacific Command said in a statement.

President Moon Jae-in, who was immediately informed of the incident, has convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) in response to the latest launch. He said Seoul is not ruling out the possibility that the projectile might have been an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Pyongyang, has meanwhile said, that it will make an “important announcement” Tuesday afternoon, Yonhap reports.
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Tuesday’s launch is the latest in a series of missile technology tests North Korea has carried out this year.

Last month, North Korea tested four anti-ship missiles off its east coast. On May 14, Pyongyang conducted a ballistic missile test which flew for some 30 minutes covering a distance of 700 km. In April, the country conducted at least three other tests of its indigenous ballistic technology, all in violation of UN sanctions.

While the North conducted numerous short and medium range missile tests, experts believe that Pyongyang does not yet have the technology to manufacture a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the US mainland or be armed with a nuclear warhead.

Despite Western skepticism over of Pyongyang’s current ballistic capabilities, North Korean media boasted last month about a looming ICBM launch.

The latest launch comes shortly after Beijing warned of “disastrous consequences” should the North Korean crisis spiral out of control. Taking over the rotating presidency of the Security Council, China's ambassador called Monday for urgent dialogue to ease tensions on the peninsula.

“Currently tensions are high and we certainly would like to see a de-escalation,” Ambassador Liu Jieyi said. “If tension only goes up… then sooner or later it will get out of control and the consequences would be disastrous.”

President Trump responded to the latest North Korean provocation by wondering if Kim Jong-un is preoccupied with anything else besides struggling to obtain a nuclear deterrent.

“North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer,” Trump said over a series of two tweets.

The American leader also urged China to once again exert more pressure on the North.

“Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!” Trump said.

North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2017

China and Russia have been pushing for a resumption of the six-party talks – negotiations aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs. The six-nation initiative were hosted by Beijing but stalled in 2008. The Obama administration attempted to resurrect the negotiations in 2012, but a deal to provide food aid in exchange for a nuclear deal collapsed.

Describing the ongoing tensions as “very, very serious,” Ambassador Liu, according to the Japan Times, stressed that “we cannot afford to wait for too long without dialogue taking place.”

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While it remains to be seen if the six-party talks between US, South and North Korea, Japan, Russia and China will be revived, Beijing is urging, at the very least, for Pyongyang and Washington to open communication channels.

“The Chinese side welcomes communication between the US and the ROK who are major parties to this issue,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang’s told reporters Monday.

“We have kept stressing that all parties, under such circumstances, should play their due roles, assume their due responsibilities and make concerted efforts to bring the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue back to the right track of peaceful settlement through dialogue and consultation at an early date,” the spokesman added.

US President Donald Trump has made solving the North Korean nuclear threat his top priority. Over the last several months he has been pressuring China to influence its neighbor to curb their nuclear ambitions.

On Sunday, Trump called his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping to reiterate the “growing threat” posed by North Korea.

Despite repeated Xi-Trump exchanges, Washington went on to sanction a Chinese logistics firm, China’s Bank of Dandong and two Chinese nationals for their role in helping the North Korean regime.

On Monday, Ambassador Liu condemned the move.

“We have always been opposed to unilateral sanctions outside the framework of the UN,” Liu said of American measures, Nikkei quoted him as saying.

China has already taken a number of steps to pressure North Korea to come to the negotiating table. Just last week the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) ceased fuel sales to its neighbor. In February, China also stopped buying coal from North Korea, Pyongyang’s key export.




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North Korea missile 'can reach anywhere in the world,' state media says


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North Korea announces successful first test of long-range missile
Test comes after Trump phoned leaders of China and Japan

(CNN)North Korea claims it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time, saying the weapon could "reach anywhere in the world."
Tuesday morning's missile test, which was conducted on the orders of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, reached a height of 2,802 kilometers (1741 miles), according to state broadcaster Korea Central Television (KCTV).

"As a strongest nuclear state with the best ICBM rockets, North Korea will end the US nuclear war threats and defense peace and stability of the Korean peninsula," the announcer said on air.
North Korea often times its missile tests to have maximum geopolitical impact and Tuesday's looked to be no exception, coming on the July 4 holiday in the US, ahead of the G20 meeting later this week and after US President Donald Trump spoke with Japanese and Chinese leaders Sunday about the North Korea threat.
A missile capable of reaching the United States topped with a nuclear warhead is thought to be Pyongyang's ultimate goal.
The missile, referred to as Hwasong-14 on state TV, flew into waters east of the Korean Peninsula and may have landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from its coastline, according to a Japanese defense official.
"It didn't give any negative effects to neighboring countries' safety," the KCTV report stated.
It was launched from Panghyon, in North Pyongan province and traveled more than 930 kilometers (578 miles) according to South Korea's military -- further than a May 14 missile launch that analysts described as its most successful test ever.
That launch reached a then-record altitude of around 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles).
It's North Korea's 11th missile test this year and comes amid increasing frustration from Trump about the lack of progress in curbing Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Trump quickly reacted to the launch on Twitter. "North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?" he asked, referring to Kim.
"Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"

North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2017

....and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2017

Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said the ICBM test puts the US in a difficult negotiating position.
"I think there's room for negotiation, but it's not the kind of negotiations we want," she said.
The US can now only work toward limiting, not eliminating the North Korean missile threat to the US mainland, she added.
North Korea analysts are awaiting the country's sixth nuclear test, and are watching for signs that the regime is able to miniaturize a warhead and fit in on a missile.
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The US Pacific Command said it tracked the missile for 37 minutes and described it as a "land-based, intermediate range ballistic missile." Japan reported that its flight time was 40 minutes.
"The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) assessed that the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America," a statement from US Pacific Command said.
David Wright, director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said if US Pacific Command reports on the distance and flight time of the missile are correct, the missile could have a maximum range of 6,700 kilometers (4,160 miles).
"That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska," Wright wrote on the All Things Nuclear blog.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters Tuesday that the launch "ignores repeated warnings from the international community," and that "the launch this time shows its threat was further increased."
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Trump has repeatedly urged China, North Korea's neighbor to the north and one of the only countries in the region with diplomatic ties to Pyongyang, to bring its influence to bear on the issue.
He recently tweeted that Chinese efforts on North Korea, while appreciated, had "not worked out."
On Monday Liu Jieyi, China's ambassador to the UN, warned of the risk of escalating tensions on the peninsula.
"Certainly we would like to see a deescalation of tension," he said in remarks to the press as China assumed the United Nations Security Council presidency for July.
"Certainly if tension goes up and goes up only then sooner or later it will get out of control and the consequences will be disastrous," Liu said.

CNN's Paula Hancocks in Seoul, Yoko Wakatsuki in Tokyo and K.J. Kwon in Atlanta contributed to this report. Journalist Yoonjung Seo also contributed reporting from Seoul.



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North Korea Says It Has Successfully Tested ICBM
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Tuesday that it had successfully conducted its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, claiming a milestone in its efforts to build nuclear weapons capable of hitting the mainland United States.

The announcement came hours after a launch that the United States military said sent the missile aloft for 37 minutes. That duration, analysts said, suggested a significant improvement in the range of the North’s missiles, and it might allow one to travel as far as 4,000 miles and hit Alaska.

In initial statements, the United States Pacific Command and the State Department described the weapon as an intermediate-range missile rather than an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The missile took off from the Banghyon airfield in the northwestern town of Kusong and flew 578 miles before landing in the sea between North Korea and Japan, the South Korean military said in a statement.
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The Japanese government said the missile landed in its so-called exclusive economic zone off its western coast. It was the first missile test by the North since it launched land-to-sea cruise missiles off its east coast on June 8. Under a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions, North Korea is prohibited from developing or testing ballistic missiles.

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While the North is believed to have made significant progress in its weapons programs, experts believe it still has a long way to go in miniaturizing nuclear warheads for intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The missile test adds a volatile new element to the Trump administration’s efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, which have included naval drills off the Korean Peninsula and pressure on China, Pyongyang’s longtime ally. In a blunt phone call Sunday, President Trump warned President Xi Jinping of China that the United States was prepared to act alone against North Korea.

If the missile took 37 minutes to fly 578 miles, as the South Korean and United States military analysts said, that would mean that it had a highly lofted trajectory, probably reaching an altitude of more than 1,700 miles, said David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Such a missile would have a maximum range of roughly 4,160 miles, or 6,700 kilometers, on a standard trajectory, he said. North Korea said the missile flew for 39 minutes.

“That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska,” Mr. Wright wrote in a blog post.

The missile looked like the longest-range missile that North Korea had ever tested, and its long flight time was “more consistent with an ICBM that can target Alaska and perhaps Hawaii,” said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

“It’s a very big deal — it looks like North Korea tested an ICBM,” he said by email. “Even if this is a 7,000-km-range missile, a 10,000-km-range missile that can hit New York isn’t far off.”

But analysts also cautioned that although they have been impressed by the rapid and steady progress in the North’s missile programs, the long flight time itself did not suggest that North Korea had mastered the complex technologies needed to build a reliable nuclear-tipped ICBM, such as the know-how to separate the nuclear warhead and guide it to its target.

By lofting some of its recent missiles to higher altitudes and letting them crash down toward the Earth at greater speeds, North Korea has claimed that it tested its “re-entry” technology, which can protect a nuclear warhead from intense heat and vibrations as it crashes through the Earth’s atmosphere. But it is still unclear whether the North has successfully cleared that technological hurdle, missile experts said.

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Kim Dong-yub, a defense analyst at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University in Seoul, said that the Hwasong-12, which the North tested in May, flew 489 miles in 30 minutes, soaring to an altitude of 1,312 miles. Such a missile could deliver a standard 1,430-pound nuclear warhead over a range of 2,800 miles, not enough to reach Hawaii and Alaska, as North Korea claimed at the time.

North Korea may have launched the Hawsong-12 again or a new, more powerful missile on Tuesday to prove that its missiles could reach Hawaii and Alaska, Mr. Kim said.

North Korea announced the missile launch in a broadcast on state television after a series of patriotic music videos. “As a proud nuclear power that possesses not only nuclear weapons but also the most powerful ICBM that can target any part of the world, North Korea will root out the United States’ threat and blackmail of nuclear war and solidly defend the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the region,” the North Korean statement said.

North Korea called the test “a momentous event in the history of the country” and said it had brought a “great joy” to North Koreans.

Chinese officials on Tuesday criticized the North’s missile test, saying it violated United Nations rules. At the same time, the Chinese government offered no signs that it was preparing to take more drastic action against the North, urging a return to diplomatic talks instead.

“I have to reiterate that the current situation in the Korean Peninsula is complicated and sensitive,” Geng Shuang, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular news conference in Beijing. “We hope all sides concerned can remain calm and restrained so that tensions can be eased as soon as possible.”

Austin Ramzy contributed from Hong Kong, and Javier Hernández from Beijing.
 

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Kim Jong Nuke surely 1000% had deliberately picked 4th July USA NDP to fire ICBM! HUAT AH! Congratulations to Pyongyang for ICBM success!


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Gold Prices +$5 After N.Korea's 4th of July ICBM Test, Trump Calls on China to 'End This Nonsense'

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GOLD PRICES in London's wholesale market recovered $5 per ounce from an overnight drop below $1220 on Tuesday, rallying from that 8-week low as North Korea marked US Independence Day by announcing the successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The isolated regime of Communist founder Kim Il-sung's grandson said dictator Kim Jong-un personally supervised the launch, with state newsreader Ri Chun-hee saying the "landmark" Hwasong-14 missile confirms North Korea as "a strong nuclear state which [will] proudly protect peace and security...in the region."

The US Dollar pushed the Euro 1 cent down from the single currency's new 14-month high above $1.14 hit late Monday.

That helped gold priced in Euros hold above the March 2016 low of €1078 per ounce hit Monday.

China's benchmark gold price however fell Tuesday, fixing in Shanghai below ¥270 per gram for the first time since start-February.

South Korea and Singapore government bonds also fell in price, bucking a rally in other Asian and European debt which pulled yields lower from their recent multi-month highs.

With US markets shutting for the Fourth of July holiday, 10-year US Treasury yields yesterday closed at 2.35%, their highest level since early May.

Jumping more than one-fifth of a percentage point over the last week, 10-year T-bond yields have made the fastest weekly rise in borrowing costs since Donald Trump won the US presidential election last November.

Gold prices then lost $55 per ounce. The metal has dropped $15 since the start of last week.

Chart of 10-year US Treasury bond yields vs Dollar gold price. Source: St.Louis Fed

"Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?" asked US President Donald Trump of North Korea's Kim Jong-un on Twitter today.

Ahead of this week's G20 summit in Hamburg, "Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer," Trump added.

"Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"

While N.Korea may not yet have the technology to put a nuclear warhead on the ICBM, its range could reach Singapore, Alaska, Australia or Moscow according to analysts cited by AFP.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng stock index lost 1.5% today while mainland China's key share index fell 0.8% but Japan's lost only 0.3%.

Agricultural commodities rose sharply, but energy prices fell back.

"We have a view that real rates go sideways. So the pickup in nominal rates will be equally matched by the pickup in inflation," said Swiss investment and bullion bank UBS Asian commodities and foreign exchange director Wayne Gordon to Bloomberg today.

So while "we're not saying we have a bullish bias [on gold prices]," he went on, "we're saying that tactically, people should be buying [gold] somewhere near $1200 and selling it again somewhere near $1300."

Press reports from India – world No.2 gold buying nation behind China – meantime said today that consumer interest has halved and more since the weekend's introduction of 3% GST sales tax on bullion, with an extra 18% charge on jewelry fabrication costs.

"The GST rate has increased the incentive to bring in smuggled gold," Reuters quotes one Mumbai jeweler.

"The government should reduce import duty and make smuggling unviable."


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North Korean missile flies higher, farther than any previous test
Published July 04, 2017
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Kevin Corke reports from the White House



The ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Tuesday flew longer than any missile test conducted by the rogue regime to date, U.S. Pacific Command said -- meaning Kim Jong Un's dictatorship may now possess the ability to strike Alaska.

North Korea launched a missile on Mother's Day that flew for 30 minutes and reached an altitude 1,000 miles higher than the international space station. But Tuesday's missile flew for 37 minutes and reached a height of 1,500 miles, leading missile experts to conclude it could have reached a target 4,000 miles away, putting Alaska in its cross-hairs.

"The threat is much more immediate now," National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters prior to the launch. "So it's clear we can't repeat the same failed approach of the past."
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He added: "So the president has directed us not to do that, and to prepare a range of options -- including a military option, which nobody wants to take, right?"

Vice Adm. James Syring, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, previously said, if it didn't already exist, it would only be a matter of time until North Korea was able to attack the U.S.

"We have to assume that the capability exists today to attack the United States," Syring said.
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If the U.S. decides the threat posed by North Korea is too great, the nation has options.

For the first time since the 1990s, the Pentagon ordered two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups to be positioned off the Korean Peninsula last month. Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also said the U.S. could use other means to undercut and diminish Pyongyang.
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"We do have covert capabilities, and I think it would be wise for the United States to use those covert capabilities as a way to continue to undermine the North Korean government," Panetta said. "If they do anything stupid, it could end their regime, period."

Russia and China, in a joint statement released by each country's foreign ministry on Tuesday, tried to de-escalate the situation by proposing that North Korea declare a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests and the United States and South Korea refrain from large-scale military exercises.

The statement was issued following talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is set to have a bilateral meeting with President Trump on Friday at the G-20 summit in Germany. The North Korea crisis is now likely to be one of the topics the two leaders will discuss.
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North Korea claimed its launch marked the “final step” in creating a “powerful nuclear state that can strike anywhere on Earth.” State media said it was ordered and supervised by dictator Kim Jong Un, according to Reuters.

President Trump immediately responded to the launch in a flurry of tweets.

"North Korea has just launched another missile,” Trump wrote. “Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!”

The launch sends a political warning to Washington and its chief Asian allies, Seoul and Tokyo, while also allowing North Korean scientists a chance to perfect their still-incomplete nuclear missile program. It came on the eve of the July 4 holiday, days after the first face-to-face meeting of the leaders of South Korea and the United States, and ahead of the G-20 summit set to take place in Germany.

TRUMP TWEETS ANGRY RESPONSE TO LAUNCH

The missile test could invite a new round of international sanctions, but North Korea is already one of the most sanctioned countries on Earth. U.N. Security Council resolutions ban it from engaging in any ballistic activities. Since late 2012, North Korea has placed two satellites into orbit with long-range rockets, each time triggering new U.N. sanctions and worldwide condemnation.

TRUMP: ERA OF 'STRATEGIC PATIENCE' WITH NORTH KOREA 'IS OVER'

Last year, North Korea conducted its fourth and fifth atomic bomb tests and claimed a series of technical breakthroughs in its efforts to develop long-range nuclear missiles. The fifth nuclear test in September was the North's most powerful atomic detonation to date.

In their meeting last week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Trump vowed to oppose North Korea's development of atomic weapons.

Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Days before world leaders are set to meet for the Group of 20 summit, North Korea claims it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. (Reuters)
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BEIJING — North Korea on Tuesday claimed it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, a potential milestone in its campaign to develop a nuclear-tipped weapon capable of hitting the mainland United States.

In a special announcement on state television, North Korea said it launched a Hwasong-14 missile that flew about 579 miles, reaching an altitude of 1,741 miles. The U.S. military said it was in the air for 37 minutes, a duration that signals a significant improvement in North Korea’s technology, experts said.

South Korean and Japanese authorities are now looking into whether it was indeed an ICBM; U.S. Pacific Command’s first statement on the test called it an intermediate range missile.

Whatever the missile’s classification, Tuesday’s news will renew questions about the development of weapons that Trump, as president-elect, vowed to stop. It also looks set to put North Korea back at the top of the president’s agenda, most immediately at Group of 20 meetings in Germany this week.

As news of the test broke, but before North Korea claimed it was an ICBM, Trump took to Twitter, calling out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and appearing to once again urge China to do more to pressure him.
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“North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?” Trump wrote.

“Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer,” he continued. “Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all.”

[With South Korean president, Trump denounces ‘reckless and brutal’ regime in North Korea]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared to share Trump’s frustration, if not his tone. In remarks to the press, he vowed to work closely with the United States and South Korea, but called on China and Russia to do more.

“I’d like to strongly urge international society’s cooperation on the North Korea issue and urge China’s chairman, Xi Jinping, and Russia’s President Putin to take more constructive measures.”

In a daily news conference, Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, condemned the test but countered that Beijing had “spared no effort” in its fight.

Analysts are still looking for clues about the missile and parsing what those clues might mean, both in terms of North Korea’s capability and the international community’s response.

The launch was made from a site in North Korea’s Phyongan province and the missile flew more than 500 miles before landing in waters off Japan’s coast, U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials said.

As with other recent launches, the missile appears to have been fired at a very steep trajectory in an effort to avoid flying over neighbors.

Multiple independent analyses of the test showed that the missile flew at a high-altitude trajectory, soaring to about 1,700 miles before landing in the Pacific off the Japanese coast, about 580 miles from its launch point.

If the missile had flown at a standard trajectory, it could have traveled a distance of more than 4,100 miles, David Wright, senior scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an analysis posted to the group’s website. To qualify as an ICBM, a missile must have a minimum range of 3,400 miles.

“That range would not be enough to reach the Lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska,” Wright said.

Melissa Hanham, a North Korea expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, called Tuesday’s test a “huge milestone” for North Korea. Still, she stressed, the Alaska range is only a theoretical possibility — for now.

Hanham said North Korea is not known to have tested components necessary for such a hit, but may do so in the future. The point is that they are moving quickly. “Is this particular ICBM going to hit D.C.? No. But are they working toward it? Yes,” she said.

The launch comes after a string of recent moves, including a salvo of missiles last month and three tests in May alone. Kim has now launched more missiles in one year than his father did in 17 years in power.

The number and variety of tests worry experts who see each step as part of a march toward a missile capable of striking the mainland U.S. Many believe North Korea already has weapons that could hit East Asia, including U.S. bases in the region.

[U.S. Treasury Department announces new sanctions to increase pressure on North Korea]

The North’s ICBM claim adds a new complication to the relationship between the United States and China under Trump.

Since taking office, Trump has made North Korea’s weapons program a priority, focusing his efforts — and tweets — on getting China to pressure North Korea to back down, in part by choking of the regime’s access to resources.

In recent weeks, there have been signs that he is frustrated with China’s progress. On June 21, Trump tweeted that, although he appreciated Beijing’s efforts, “it has not worked out.”

China insists it is doing all it can and seems angry about being singled out. “The United States itself should take actions, not always depend on China for everything,” said Zhang Liangui, a retired professor from Communist Party's Central Party School.

Beijing last week condemned U.S. sanctions that target Chinese business, warning of consequences to U.S.-China ties. They maintain the issue should be handled by the United Nations, not the United States.

It is not yet clear how the latest news will shape this diplomatic impasse. John Delury, an Asia expert at Seoul’s Yonsei University, said there maybe a political imperative for Trump to downplay the significance of the test.

Trump “set an implicit red line,” Delury said, “and it doesn’t look good if the North Koreans skipped across the line when he wasn’t looking, especially after a tweet that played it down.”

Kim, meanwhile, will want to play up the test to bolster his domestic credibility and send a signal to the United States, South Korea and Japan.

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Unsurprisingly, in North Korea, the launch was indeed hailed as a historic triumph.

“The success in the test-fire of intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14 is a powerful manifestation of the invincible state might and the tremendous capability of the self-reliant national defense industry of the DPRK,” read one North Korean account, according to Chinese state media.

“It is also a great auspicious event to be specially recorded in the history of the DPRK.”

Joby Warrick reported from Washington; Shirley Feng and Yang Liu reported from Beijing.

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Dead on the Fourth of July. When three presidents died on the holiday, Americans saw the work of God
Three of the first five presidents died on July 4. From left, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James

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Three of the first five presidents died on July 4. From left, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. (Getty Images)
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On July 4, 1831, James Monroe died from heart failure and tuberculosis at his daughter’s house in New York City. The fifth U.S. president had attempted to write an autobiography, but was unable to complete it as his health slowly deteriorated after his wife died the year before.

Thousands of mourners crowded the narrow New York City streets to see the 73-year-old’s hearse make its way to the family vault in Marble Cemetery.

With his death came an eerie coincidence that many people couldn’t ignore: Monroe had become the third president and Founding Father to die on the Fourth of July.
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Five years earlier, on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, longtime friends and occasional rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams also died.

“Thomas Jefferson survives,” were rumored to be among Adams’ last words from his deathbed in Quincy, Mass. He was unaware that his friend died that day, July 4, 1826, at his beloved Monticello estate more than 500 miles away in Virginia.

To many Americans in the early 19th century, the timing of the deaths of three men who helped found and guide the young United States went beyond sheer coincidence.

“Again our national anniversary has been marked by one of those events, which it may be scarcely permitted to ascribe the chance,” the Boston Traveler newspaper wrote on July 8, 1831.

“Three of the four presidents who have left the scene of their usefulness and glory expired on the anniversary of the national birthday, a day which of all others, had it been permitted them to choose [they] would probably had selected for the termination of their careers,” wrote the New York Evening Post the day after Monroe’s death.

Adams served as the second president from 1797 to 1801, followed by Jefferson, who served until 1809. But long before the 13 colonies had won their independence, Adams and Jefferson played vital roles in creating the document that declared men were created equal and entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Adams, in a letter to a friend in 1822, recalled how Jefferson was placed on the committee to write the document. “Mr Jefferson came into Congress in June 1775 and brought with him a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent at composition. Writings of his were handed about, remarkable for the peculiar felicity of expression,” Adams wrote.

The irascible Adams also described why he insisted that Jefferson write the draft:

“Jefferson proposed to me to make the draught. I said I will not; You shall do it. Oh No! Why will you not? You ought to do it. I will not. Why? Reasons enough. What can be your reasons? Reason 1st. You are a Virginian, and Virginia ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason 2d. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; You are very much otherwise. Reason 3d: You can write ten times better than I can. ‘Well,’ said Jefferson, ‘if you are decided I will do as well as I can.’”
Thomas Jefferson died at his beloved Monticello estate in Virginia on July 4, 1826.
Thomas Jefferson died at his beloved Monticello estate in Virginia on July 4, 1826. (Richard Derk)

The importance of July 4 might have surprised some Founding Fathers. The Continental Congress declared freedom from Britain on July 2 and approved the Declaration on Independence on July 4. Most members signed the document in August.

Adams thought Americans would remember July 2 as their “Day of Deliverance” from Britain. In a letter to his wife, Abigail, he wrote, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

While Adams and Jefferson represented their states in the Continental Congress, a teenage Monroe dropped out of college in 1776 to fight in the Revolution, enlisting in the 3rd Virginia Regiment, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Many historians consider Monroe the last president from the Founding Fathers.

Adams and Jefferson would live to see the country expand well beyond the original 13 states. Adams was 90 when he died of a heart attack. Jefferson had been in declining health for years before dying at 83.

“People interpreted their deaths in a religious manner,” said Michael Meranze, a U.S. history professor at UCLA. “It was clearly taken symbolically as both the birth and growth of the early republic.”

In 1826, for instance, Rep. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts delivered a two-hour-long eulogy in Boston suggesting their deaths were a sign that God was protecting the nation.

“As their lives themselves were the gifts of Providence, who is not willing to recognize in their happy termination, as well as in their long continuance, proofs that our country and its benefactors are objects of His care?” Webster said.

Religion played a prominent role in the lives of many Americans during the early 19th century — an era known as the Second Great Awakening that took off around the late 1820s and early 1830s. It was only natural that many Americans of the era saw religious significance in the timing of the deaths of Adams, Jefferson and Monroe.

Although scholars are typically weary of analyzing unexplained phenomena, in 2005 historian Margaret P. Battin entertained the meaning behind the same-day deaths of Adams and Jefferson by offering six possibilities:

Coincidence.
Divine intervention.
“Hanging on” to life in order to ensure death on July 4.
Caused to die by others.
Allowing oneself to die.
Causing oneself to die.

Each of these theories, she said, lacks historical evidence.

It’s been 186 years since the last U.S. president died on the Fourth of July. And history tells that only one president was ever born on the nation’s birthday: Calvin Coolidge in 1872.
 

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Kim Jong Nuke really is a serious military leader. Sit himself under hot summer sun to attend to every details of the ICBM launching. USA is doomed.

A country that practice the correct system and have a truly good leadership will starve the useless peasants dead, leaving only good useful citizens who can contribute and fight enemy, will be able to overcome any embargo and sanctions, and counter any strong power or superpower, fearlessly and score with positive results. Unlike SG52.




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North Korean missile new type, launched from new location - Pentagon

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The missile launched by North Korea on July 4 was a new type that “we have not seen before,” and launched from a location different from previous missile tests, the Pentagon said.

The missile was fired from a mobile launcher and had a reentry vehicle, Reuters reported, quoting US Department of Defense spokesman, Captain Jeff Davis. The launch was a danger to shipping in the Sea of Japan, as well as aircraft and satellites in space, Davis said.

US missile defenses are capable of dealing with the “limited threat” posed by North Korea’s ICBM capability, Davis added, referring to the successful test intercept of an ICBM-like target in May. The US has also deployed a number of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) launchers in South Korea.

On Tuesday, Pyongyang claimed it had successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, Hwasong-14, which is capable of carrying a “large, heavy nuclear warhead.” The missile, which can reportedly strike the US mainland, was called “another brilliant victory of the Korean people in their struggle against the US-led imperialists,” according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

BREAKING: Missile launched by #northkorea was intermediate range, not ICBM – Russian Defense Ministry https://t.co/wrQDxky7Iipic.twitter.com/myh4LviiMJ
— RT (@RT_com) July 4, 2017

After the launch, the Hwasong-14 ICBM flew some 933 km in 39 minutes, reaching an altitude of 2,802 km, the North Korean state television reported.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry data, however, North Korea launched an intermediate range missile (IRBM), which flew some 535 kilometers, reached an altitude of 510km, and fell into the Sea of Japan.

Washington insists that North Korea cease all missile testing and has called for the immediate and unconditional de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang is saying its nuclear and missile programs are non-negotiable, “unless the US hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK are definitely terminated,” according to KCNA.
 

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Why US star wars lasers in outer space don't blast N Korea's ICBM as it enters outer space trajectory? Show of this kind of force and technology would make all future N Korea's ICBMs totally futile.
 

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Why US star wars lasers in outer space don't blast N Korea's ICBM as it enters outer space trajectory? Show of this kind of force and technology would make all future N Korea's ICBMs totally futile.

USA talk cock full of shit just like Ah Neh.
 
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