Test first ballistic missile North Korea – Onet.pl

US intelligence services are trying to confirm the credibility of the reports, but one of the interlocutors CNN estimated that “with a high degree of probability test was successful.” President Barack Obama, in turn, expressed his “growing concern” about the actions of Korea.

Obama: build a shield a defense against missiles North Korea.

United States also announced that they are preparing to defend against the threat from North Korea. and within the framework of these activities make up the shield, which is to protect against North Korean missiles – said on CBS President Barack Obama.

– One of the things that we do is devote much more time to set our missile systems, so even if you are trying to solve the growing problem of its nuclear program within North Korea, is set as a shield that at least be able to block threats lower level – Obama explained, referring to the missile, which has a regime in Pyongyang.

– our main priority is to protect Americans and our allies, the Republic of Korea and Japan, which are prone to provocative actions, which involved North Korea – said the US president. He estimated that the communist regime is “unpredictable enough,” and its leader Kim Jong Un “so irresponsible that we do not want to come close to us.”

In an interview with CBS, Obama said that North Korea is a problem for which there is no simple prescription. – Of course, we could destroy North Korea using our arsenal. However, apart from the cost of humanitarian nature (we must remember that) they are adjacent with our key allies – explained the American president.

last week, North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine, which was on its eastern shores. Therefore, the increase again begun speculation that Pyongyang may soon make another attempt to nuclear weapons before the May congress of the ruling Labour Party of Korea. It is expected that at the congress, the first for 36 years, Kim Jong Un declares that North Korea has a powerful army and nuclear weapons. The regime in Pyongyang continues to try to ballistic missiles though, adopted on 2 March by the UN Security Council resolution, which strongly tightened its sanctions against North Korea. The resolution was carried out in response to the country’s January 6 another test of a nuclear weapon.

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