Red Alert: NK Missile Launched Toward Japan

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It would appear that North Korea’s authoritarian dictator Kim Jong Un is feeling feisty again, as he has reportedly just fired off another ballistic missile in Japan’s direction.

According to Bloomberg, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the missile of unspecified type was launched at approximately 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, and flew over the island nation of Japan toward the Pacific Ocean.

Japan’s military did not make any effort to shoot down the missile as it passed overhead.

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Reuters reported that South Korean military observers spotted the missile as it was launched from the Sunan district of the North Korean capitol of Pyongyang and began heading in an easterly direction toward Japan.

South Korean military officials and their American counterparts are currently analyzing the details of the launch, and will likely release more information as it becomes known.

According to a separate report from Reuters, the launch came less than a day after the North Korean state-run news agency KCNA published a statement that openly threatened to “sink” the entire island chain of Japan and reduce the U.S. to “ashes and darkness” with nuclear weapons, likely in response to the latest economic sanctions imposed on the rogue regime by the United Nations.

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“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” declared the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, an external propaganda outlet for the communist regime, in a statement carried by KCNA.

“Juche” is a sort of ideological mixture of extreme Marxist nationalism that was championed by the nation’s nuclear-ambitious founder and current leader’s grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, as per the Reuters report.

The committee’s statement also expressed their desire to “reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now.”

As our readers are well aware, tensions on the Korean peninsula and across the broader east Asian region have been remarkably high in recent weeks following a nuclear test explosion on Sept. 3, which came close on the heels of a ballistic missile that was fired over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido on Aug. 28.

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As of yet, there has been no official response from the White House, but given President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks along the lines of the time for talk being over, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ reassurances to allies that the American military is more than ready to end the North Korean threat, it will be interesting to see what the Trump administration’s reply to this latest provocation will be.

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