South Korea is looking for fragments of the North Korean rocket

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea continue to search for wreckage of the exploding large-range “Yunh-3”, launched in the DPRK on Friday and fell apart shortly after the start .

The search for fragments of the rocket began immediately after it became known that they fell into the international waters of the yellow sea near the island of Anendo of the Chonghon-Namdo Province and Port Kunsan Cholla-Poom Province on the western coast of South Korea, reminds ITAR-TASS.

According to the day before, the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Korea, the South Korean military comb the area of ​​the fall, which is within the exclusive economic zone of the country. For search work, ships and helicopters were involved.

South Korean military consider the possibility of using fishing vessels if necessary, as was the case during the rescue of the South Korean corvette Chhonan, which in 2010 sank into the Yellow Sea as a result, according to Seoul and Washington, a torpedo attack by the DPRK.

The Ministry of Defense reports that the receipt of fragments of the Yunh-3 rocket will determine the real level of Pyongyang technology in the development of long-range missiles.