The North Korean threat is growing

The DPRK leader Kim Jong-un this Sunday visited the tests of a new missile engine at the SOCE cosmodrome in the Pyenan-Poom province. The Korean leader remained impressed by what he saw, after the test he announced the birth of the national missile industry, which would not depend on technologies in this area developed in other countries, TASS reports citing the Korean agency of the CTAT.

At the cosmodrome, Kim Jong -un demonstrated a new missile engine and talked about its technical characteristics. The head of the republic has high hopes for new developments, according to him, they will allow the country to bring the means of delivering satellites to outer space to the world level. In addition, Kim Jong -un said that "the world will soon be able to make sure that the DPRK tests of this powerful Korean model engine."

The world is unlikely to be glad to these news as the head of the DPRK. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson these days just holds visits to a number of Asian countries, and is discussed, among other topics, opposition to the North Korean missile-nuclear threat. At negotiations in the capital of South Korea, Seoul Tillerson said that the United States is moving from a expectant policy to new diplomatic, economic and military methods of influence on the DPRK.

In North Korea, such tests are carried out regularly, and the country's leadership relies on the development of this industry. The USA and DPRK neighbors in the Asian region are concerned about these events. The other day, it became known that Japan was especially seriously referring to this: for the first time, civil defense exercises were held there, on which the population worked out evacuation in the case of a missile attack by the DPRK in a critical lack of time. During this training, all its participants left the house and quickly took refuge in the basements of city municipal buildings and schools.

The exercises were conducted in the prefecture of Akita in the north of the island of Honsu, where the launches of the DPRK ballistic missiles are often sent. Just two weeks ago, North Korea sent four medium -range ballistic missiles to this zone at once, one of them fell into the ocean 200 kilometers from the Japanese coast, three more fell about 300 kilometers from the coast. Later, the DPRK authorities explained this launch of missiles by military exercises in case of a strike on US bases, which are located in Japan.

In response to this incident, the American side sent two Thaad anti -missile systems to the peninsula for deploying in South Korea. “The acceleration of the DPRK program for testing nuclear weapons and the launches of ballistic missiles pose a threat to the international world and security and are a violation of several resolutions of the United Nations Security Council,” this decision explains in the official statement of the Pacific command of the US Armed Forces.

The authorities of the countries and the USA neighboring with the DPRK consider different options for countering the North Korean threat. Tillerson did not rule out that nuclear weapons may appear in Japan and South Korea. He also stated that if Pyongyang does not abandon plans to develop weapons of mass destruction, then the United States can resort to military measures against the DPRK. US President Donald Trump, while still a candidate for this post, said that Tokyo and Seoul should provide himself with nuclear weapons, but Tillerson already did not support this idea.

Military expert Vasily Kashin on the air of the Sputnik radio connected the growing concern of the United States with the realization of the real threat from Pyongyang to create his new military developments: “In the United States, a deep reassessment of the DPRK’s ability to create new types of missile weapons, including nuclear ones, has occurred. If earlier there was a tendency to relate on this, then after North Korea over the past couple of years showed several types of completely new ballistic missiles, which are more or less successfully tested, it became clear that they are moving forward, and it was impossible to restrain them with any sanctions. For Americans, the idea that North Korea may have a means that can reach Hawaii, of course, is rather painful, ”the expert said .

The current trend, when the DPRK experiments are followed by the activation of the military exercises of the United States, Japan and South Korea, and then the reaction of Pyongyang and new trials, in Russia is perceived as a “vicious circle of tension”, which must be broken. So the situation was described by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Morgulov. He emphasized that the current situation in North-East Asia makes you worry, and the factors of instability are growing. Therefore, you should consider the problem comprehensively in order to solve it. Morgulov calls the common goal “Solving the problems of the Korean peninsula with peaceful political and diplomatic agents in the context of general military-political discharge, creating a strong mechanism of the world that would create reliable guarantees of security for all countries located in the region without exception”, quotes his interview to the Japanese agency RIA Novosti.