North Korea is expected to launch a missile between 4th – 8th of April which it claims is to put a satellite in orbit.
The US and Japan are embraced for the imminent launch, which they believe is a cover for a test of the previously unsuccessful North Korean Taepodong-2 missile.
The US has stated that it will not intervene unless it deems it a threat to US territory (such as Hawaii) and Japan has it’s anti-air muscle out for defense purposes. Japan has followed a strict defense-only doctrine since the fall of it’s imperial ideology and shooting it down as an agression would be against the Japanese constitution. The Japanese military will only shoot debris falling towards Japanese territory which is not an unlikely situation as the previous test of the missile failed after a few seconds and the missiles path will actually pass over Japan.
It seems several countries are saying that this is a cover for a missile TEST and not a satellite launch, but what’d be the point of that unless it is using the attention seeking tactic. Can it not test these missiles over it’s own territory and not over other countries territories and possibly their civilian populations?
However, the concept of North Korea launching a harmless satellite is weak seeing as a large portion of its population is suffering from food shortages and the political ideology states that the military comes first. One would assume it’d be a military satellite, but who knows – we can keep guess – this is one of the wonders of the most secretive state in the world.
The likely outcome of this would probably be the usual all-round condemnation of the launch and the international communities grudge over this incident will probably be shrugged off in a short time as they have learned from past experience.
Tags: Military Test, Missile, Missile Launch, Satellite, Taepodong
