DPRK failed the next launch of the rocket

The next launch of the rocket carried out on Sunday DPRK ended in failure. This was reported by Yonhap with reference to the Joint Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of South Korea.

According to NBC News, the shell was launched at 5:51 local time (0:21 Moscow time) from the landfill in the city of Synpho on the east coast of the country, about 650 kilometers from the coast of Japan. The attempt fell "almost immediately", sources in the Pentagon told the channel.

The interlocutors of NBC News also said that the rocket was not intercontinental, designed for a blow to the United States.

Earlier, the United States announced that this weekend the DPRK is preparing a new test of nuclear weapons. On Thursday, it became known that Washington had prepared for a preventive blow to North Korea in order to disrupt the test. Meanwhile, Pyongyang stated that they would use nuclear weapons for any signs of the upcoming American attack.

Meanwhile, the Japanese National Security Council discussed the measures necessary for the evacuation of 57 thousand subjects of the country from South Korea in case of exacerbation of relations with the DPRK.

On Saturday, however, it was reported that the US presidential administration Donald Trump abandoned the preventive blow to the DPRK , deciding in return to strengthen political and economic pressure on Pyongyang. At the same time, it was noted that the Pentagon still does not exclude the use of military force if the DPRK conducts nuclear weapons or attacks South Korea, Japan or the United States itself.

Meanwhile, the Vice -Marshal of the Korean People's Army of the Choi Ryon Hee at the parade in honor of the anniversary of the founder of the DPRK Kim Il Sena confirmed: "We are ready to answer the total war - a total war, to a nuclear war - a nuclear blow."