The South Korean government did not participate in the UN's draft resolution on human rights in North Korea and analyzed the North Korean ballistic missile as 'Hwasong 15'. emphasis was placed on
On the 26th, Voice of America (VOA) reported that South Korea was confirmed not to participate in the list of co-sponsors of 47 countries in the draft resolution on human rights in North Korea of the UN Human Rights Council, led by the European Union.
The first co-sponsoring countries were the 27 member states of the European Union and many European countries such as Ukraine and Turkey, and the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan were on the list.
The South Korean government reported on the 27th that the North Korean ICBM, which was analyzed by the ROK and the US, was "judging that it was the existing 'Hwasong-15' rather than the 'Hwasong-17' of the ICBM launched at Pyongyang Sunan Airfield on the 24th," an anonymous source reported on the 27th. did."According to information released by Japan and South Korea, the trajectory is more consistent with the Hwasong-17 than with the Hwasong-15," Van Van Difen, former senior assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, told VOA.
“The South Korean military and intelligence authorities are open to the possibility that North Korea launched the Hwasong-15 on the 24th and released photos of the launch of the Hwasong-17,” said former Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary Van Diefen. how do you see In response to the question of whether North Korea could have succeeded in launching the Hwasong-17 after 8 days of failure, “First of all, we do not know exactly which missile failed. “The most convincing thing is that, according to information released by Japan and South Korea, the trajectory is more consistent with the Hwasong-17 than with the Hwasong-15.” .
Regarding the rationale for the Korean government's analysis, Nocut News said, "It was because the ICBM used at that time had the same two engine nozzles as the Hwasong-15, and the combustion time of the first stage was almost the same as that of the Hwasong-15." My brother's engine nozzles are much stronger with four engine nozzles.”
The Gyeonghang Shimbun reported on the 28th, "The Joint Chiefs of Staff, who received instructions from the Blue House Security Office, asked Paul Lacamera, commander of the USFK and the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, to perform live-fire fire with him. “I understand that he refused the combined live-fire training because of the instructions,” he said. It has been confirmed that the U.S. has refused counter-response training to North Korea's provocative launch of an ICBM>. The South Korean military responded with a joint ground, sea, and air strike exercise,” he said. etc. The next day, the 25th, the level of confrontation was raised with the ‘Elephant Walk’ exercise that mobilized 28 F-35A under the field command of Defense Minister Seo Wook. This is in contrast to the joint strike exercise conducted by South Korea and the United States during North Korea's Hwasong-15 launch in September 2017, five years ago.>
The North Korean announcement said, “The ‘Hwaseongpo-17’ ICBM flew 1,090 km to the maximum peak altitude of 6,248.5 km in 4,052 seconds (67 minutes) and landed accurately in the planned waters on the high seas of the East Sea of Korea.”
North Korea announced that the test-fired ICBM “Hwasong-15” flew for about 53 minutes with a peak altitude of 4,475 km and a range of 950 km at the “Hwasong-15” test-fired on November 29, 2017. and an extended flight range of 140 km.
North Korea announced that the elevation of the launch was 6,200 km higher than the normal angle (30-45 degrees), the highest elevation in the history of ballistic missile development in the world.
At the time of launch, Japan's Minister of Defense Oniki said, "It is estimated that the North Korean ballistic missile flew for about 71 minutes and fell into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), Japan's exclusive economic zone, around 3:44 PM, about 150 km west of the Oshima Peninsula in Hokkaido. It is estimated that the flight distance is about 1,100 km and the maximum altitude is over 6,000 km.”
On the 24th, President Moon Jae-in described the North Korean launch as “abandonment” as “a voluntary abrogation of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch suspension promised by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the international community.”
State Department spokeswoman Ned Price said in a statement on the 24th that "this launch, like at least two ICBM tests and other escalating tensions this year by North Korea, is in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions." expressed as
Reuters reported on the 24th that the North Korean launch was "an ICBM that had a dramatic end to a self-imposed moratorium" as "the end of the promise North Korea gave itself".
"The failure of the ICBM test-fire a few days ago may have been related to the upsetting reason," said Sullivan, a security adviser to North Korea, on a plane visiting Poland on the 25th. "It's done according to North Korea's point of view, and it has nothing to do with the schedule of President Biden's tour," he said.