Dies ist der erste ICBM-Start Nordkoreas in diesem Jahr und der erste seit zehn Monaten. Zuletzt hatte das Land am 18. Dezember letzten Jahres eine Interkontinentalrakete mit Feststoffantrieb vom Typ Hwasong-18 abgefeuert.
Hinter dem Raketenstart wird die Absicht Nordkoreas vermutet, im Vorfeld der US-Präsidentschaftswahlen am 5. November mit einer Interkontinentalrakete Präsenz zu demonstrieren. Denn eine solche Rakete könnte auch das US-Festland erreichen.
The missile landed in waters between North Korea and Japan.
The military said it was analyzing data to learn more about the missile, but that it believed it was an ICBM. North Korea last tested a long-range missile in December, when it test-fired its solid-fueled Hwasong-18 ICBM.
North Korea confirmed later Thursday that its military had launched an ICBM, saying that its leader, Kim Jong-un, had been present.
(23 August 2023)
“It is disgusting and disappointing to hear that arms companies will be sponsoring talks at the Labour Party conference,” Emily Apple, media coordinator at Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), told openDemocracy. “These companies should not be given this legitimacy or the opportunity to lobby policy makers in order to continue making profits for their shareholders from a deadly trade that causes destruction and misery around the world.”
She added: “Accepting sponsorship from these companies sends a bleak message to anyone thinking a future Labour government will adopt any kind of ethical stance towards the arms trade.”
Open Democracy reported that Boeing, Babcock International, and Palantir, will join fossil fuels firms, private healthcare companies, and banks as sponsors at the conference, which takes place in Liverpool this October. Many of the fringe events will be hosted by The New Statesman Media Group.
Boeing, one of the largest US arms companies, manufactures the land-based Minutemen Intercontinental Ballistic Missile for the US Air Force. The UK-based Babcock, which operates the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth, has been involved in designing components for and maintaining Britain’s nuclear-armed fleet for over 50 years.
Today the US National Missile Defence effort is explicitly limited to defence against the sort of attack that might be mounted by a rogue state such as North Korea: it is specifically forbidden to work on things which might be able to stop Russia’s vast ICBM force, to avoid panicking Vladimir Putin.
(Sep 4, 2021)
This cost-exchange ratio was so heavily biased towards the attacker that the concept of mutual assured destruction became the leading concept in strategic planning and ABM systems were severely limited in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in order to avoid a massive arms race.
(26.04.2017)
Eine besondere Herausforderung für die Raketenabwehr ist die Bestückung von Interkontinentalraketen mit mehrfachen Nuklearsprengköpfen (MIRV). In diesem Fall sendet die Rakete aus ihrem Orbit nicht einen sondern bis zu zehn einzelne Atombomben zurück in die Atmosphäre.
Um auch gegen solche Angriffe gewappnet zu sein, arbeiten verschiedene Hersteller an Raketen, die dann auch mehrere Kill Vehicle gleichzeitig absetzen können. Es ist bislang nicht absehbar, ob solche Systeme tatsächlich funktionieren können.
Die russische Armee hat den ersten erfolgreichen Test der ballistischen Interkontinentalrakete »Sarmat« gemeldet. Die Waffe werde »jene, die in der Hitze der aggressiven Rhetorik versuchen, unser Land zu bedrohen, zwei Mal nachdenken lassen«, sagte Präsident Wladimir Putin in einer Fernsehansprache am Mittwoch. Diese »einzigartige« Rakete werde »das Kampfpotential unserer Streitkräfte stärken« und »die Sicherheit Russlands vor äußeren Bedrohungen zuverlässig gewährleisten«.
(today)
It was however, not immediately clear when the US plans to introduce the new UNSC resolution
(25.03.2022)
China and Russia should tell North Korea to avoid more „provocations“ after it resumed intercontinental ballistic missile testing this week, U.S. State Department spokesperson Jalina Porter said on Friday.
Pyongyang‘s show of force, the 12th this year, means an end to its self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and a long-range missile testing.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that it detected the launch from the Sunan airfield in Pyongyang at 2:34 p.m. and the missile flew some 1,080 kilometers at a top altitude of over 6,200 km.
Südkoreas Vereinigter Generalstab (JCS) teilte mit, dass der Abschuss vom Sunan-Flugplatz in Pjöngjang um 14.34 Uhr bemerkt worden sei. Die Rakete sei 1.080 Kilometer weit geflogen und habe eine Höhe von 6.200 Kilometern erreicht.
Nach Einschätzung des JCS sei die Rakete offenbar in einem steilen Winkel abgeschossen worden und nach Angaben eines weiteren Militärbeamten 70 Minuten lang in der Luft gewesen.
The area it photographed, located west of Beit Shemesh, appears on ordinary Israeli maps as open space and on civilian flight maps as an off-limits area. But according to numerous foreign reports, this area is home to the Kanaf 2 Israel Air Force base. The website of GlobalSecurity.org says that three squadrons of Jericho surface-to-surface missiles are stationed at this base.
The new deal with the United States – known as the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) – is the culmination of 15 years of research between the two nations on hypersonic scramjets, rocket motors, sensors and advanced manufacturing materials.
Pyongyang has promised to deliver a “Christmas gift” if there is no progress on easing up on sanctions. But any movement on that front seems nearly impossible at this stage considering talks with Washington have stalled and the North Korean regime is once again insulting Trump regularly. As tensions with North Korea increase, and especially if there is a test around the holidays, it would mark a huge blow to one of President Donald Trump’s major foreign policy initiatives. And it would happen right as he gears up for the presidential campaign.
„As you do that step by step, that‘s in essence how you develop some trust that lets you go to the final goal, which is elimination of nuclear weapons and the means to produce them, and integration of North Korea into the community of nations and the international economic system,“ he added.
Hecker was in Seoul to attend a forum on geopolitics and the denuclearization of the North hosted by the Korean National Diplomatic Academy and the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network.
„I‘d be surprised if North Korea acted hostilely,“ Trump was quoted as telling reporters at the White House. „He knows I have an election coming up. I don‘t think he wants to interfere with that. But we‘ll have to see.“
The remark came as the North has increased pressure on the United States to meet its demand for a new negotiating proposal by year‘s end, strongly suggesting that otherwise, it could restart testing of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
The U.N. bans North Korea from launching satellites because it is considered a forbidden test of long-range missile technology.
After repeated failures, North Korea successfully put a satellite into orbit for the first time in 2012 in a launch from the same site. North Korea had another successful satellite launch in 2016.
(06.12.2019)
(05.12.2019)
France, Germany and the United Kingdom said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres circulated Wednesday that Iran was developing „nuclear-capable ballistic missiles,“ which they say is in violation of a Securiy Council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal.
The letter cites footage released on social media April 22, 2019, ..
Mit der chinesischen Seite hätten die USA das Thema während der laufenden Handelsgespräche angesprochen. China sei „begeistert“ darüber gewesen. „In dieser Hinsicht können einige sehr gute Dinge geschehen.“
The test launch was carried out to check the readiness and flight performance of the missile, the ministry said in a statement.
The Topol-M entered service in 1997 and has a range of some 11,000 kilometres (6,800 miles).
Auf Anordnung des Weissen Hauses hat U.S.-Verteidigungsminister Patrick Shanahan verschiedene Kassen des Pentagons „geplündert“ und zusätzlich 1,5 Milliarden U.S.-Dollar aus dem Etat für diese Mauer entnommen.
Kim reviewed the procession from a balcony in Kim Il Sung Square, alongside other senior officials, including Li Zhanshu, a special envoy sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Kim and Li locked hands and raised arms at the end of the event.
Ein kommerzieller Satellit habe am 1. September Aufnahmen erstellt, aus denen hervorgeht, dass die Anlagen in der Autofabrik „16. März“ in Pyongsong vollständig verschwunden seien. Auch Satellitenfotos von Planet Labs ließen keine Spuren der ICBM-Montage-Anlagen mehr erkennen, berichtete „Voice of America“ am Donnerstag. Dort hatte Nordkorea im November letzten Jahres die ballistische Interkontinental-Rakete des Typs Hwasong-15 abgefeuert.
Der US-Auslandsdienst Voice of America (VOA) berichtete, dass er Satellitenaufnahmen von der 16. März-Fabrik, einer Automobilfabrik in Pyongsong, vom 20., 21. und 24. Juli mit Aufnahmen vom 30. Juni verglichen habe. Ein Gelände, auf dem sich früher eine Montagewerkstatt für Raketen befunden habe, stehe leer.
(14. May) The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation expressed concerns about the Monday morning’s test.
”When it comes to ballistic missile tests, the U.S. continues to operate on a hypocritical double standard,” said David Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.(…)
Another Minuteman test occurred on April 25, after the military called off tests that had been planned near the Olympic Games in South Korea.