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North Korea Conducts Hwasong-18 ICBM Launch Training with Offensive Response from Kim Jong-un
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“Unlike Iran, there is no advance warning of a North Korean attack, and the missile is likely to arrive in a matter of minutes.”
North Korea reports Hwasong-18 ICBM launch training… Kim Jong-un: “A more offensive response”
The Korean Central News Agency reported on the 19th that a launch exercise of the Hwasong-18 solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was held in the presence of North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un on December 18, 2023. [조선중앙통신 연합뉴스 자료사진. 국내에서만 사용가능. 재배포 금지. For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution] [email protected]
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Correspondent Hwang Cheol-hwan = Foreign media analysis said that the incident when Iran attacked mainland Israel with about 300 missiles and suicide drones last month was a great opportunity for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to measure came the performance of his country’s weapons out
The American daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said this in an article on the 3rd (local time) entitled ‘Iran’s attack on Israel gives Kim Jong-un a ‘test case of western defenses’.
Iran has a history of trading arms with North Korea since the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, and Iran’s main intermediate-range ballistic missile, ‘Shahab 3’, is believed to have been developed on the basis of North Korea’s Rodong missile.
In recent years, there has been no evidence to reveal that Iran and North Korea continue military cooperation, but as a North Korean government delegation visited Iran on the 23rd of last month, there is speculation that the two could country is deepening military cooperation again with a ‘pro-Russia’ focus. WSJ said this was an emerging situation.
From that point of view, the media said, “(Iran’s attack on Israel) would have increased North Korea’s understanding of the extent to which weapons (made by North Korea) could be effective in the event of an attack on Japan or South Korea.”
From the night of the 13th of last month to the morning of the next day, Iran launched about 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles on the Israeli mainland.
Israel, which operated a multi-layered air defense network, shot down about 99% of the missiles and drones launched by Iran with the help of its allies, including the United States, and suffered no significant damage.
An Iranian woman walks past a mural themed after a missile attack targeting Israel.
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However, unlike Iran, which is more than 1,000 kilometers away from Israel, South Korea shares a border with North Korea, and the distance from the capital, Seoul, to the line is only a few tens of kilometers stop fire. The fact that the land area of the country is almost five times that of Israel (22,072㎢) is also considered an unfavorable condition for defense.
Derek Grossman, a security expert at the Rand Institute, an American think tank, said, “The Israeli case should be considered an exception in principle,” and added, “It is very difficult to hit an incoming bullet with another bullet.”
The WSJ said that unlike Iran, which gave Israel more than 10 days to prepare a defense system before the attack, “Chairman Kim is unlikely to give such advance warning of a possible attack on South Korea or Japan, can (missiles) get in. just a few minutes.” “Experts’ analysis is that it’s not big,” he said.
Another lesson North Korea may have learned from Iran’s attack on Israel is that it should target the other party’s air defense system first, said David Maxwell, a security expert and former colonel in the US Army’s Special Operations Forces.
It is not clear whether this was intentional, but Maxwell pointed out that Iran had not focused its attacks on Israel’s air defense system in its first attack against Israel, and as a result, the results were far fewer than the number of missiles. was used.
“The main principle of all air attacks is to suppress enemy air defenses,” he said.
WSJ also presented the comments of Army Reserve Major General Bang Jong-kwan, that if North Korea were to launch an air strike using an Iranian-style mix of missiles and drones right now, South Korea, the United States and Japan might not be able to shoot. down even half of them.
Grant Newsham, a senior researcher at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (JFSS), said that unlike Israel, South Korea and Japan do not have much experience in responding to missile salvoes, and added, “We expect that they will have difficulty to respond to that of North Korea. an unannounced missile attack,” he told the WSJ
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Operation Praetorian: MP requests preventive detention for Madureira and “Polaco” | public ministry
This Tuesday, the Public Ministry (MP) requested preventive detention for Fernando Madureira, leader of the Super Dragões, and Hugo “Polaco”, a member of the cheer squad, within the scope of the Operation Praetorianand house arrest with electronic surveillance for Vítor Catão.
A judicial source told the Lusa agency that, in promoting the coercive measures to be applied to the defendants by the Criminal Investigation Court (TIC) of Porto, the MP prosecutor defended that Madureira and Hugo Carneiro (“Polish”) be subject to the coercive measure most serious: preventive detention.
For Vítor Catão, who chose not to make a statement before the criminal investigation judge Pedro Miguel Vieira, the MP defended the application of house arrest, with electronic surveillance.
For the remaining nine defendants, the MP prosecutor requested a ban on contact, a ban on access to sports venues and periodic presentations to the authorities.
After the MP’s promotions, the lawyers for the 12 defendants presented their respective arguments, but the coercive measures will only be known on Wednesday afternoon, at 4 pm.
However, at the end of the afternoon, Fernando Madureira’s wife, Sandra, and five of the seven detained at the Bela Vista police station (Hugo Loureiro, Fernando Saul, Vítor ‘Aleixo’, Vítor Bruno Oliveira and José Pereira) were released.
The investigations began with a significant delay, compared to the scheduled time (10 am), with the investigating judge Pedro Miguel Vieira arriving at the TIC at 11 am.
Last Wednesday, the PSP detained 12 people – including two FC Porto employees and the leader of the Super Dragões, Fernando Madureira -, as part of the Operation Praetorianwhich investigates the incidents that occurred at the extraordinary General Assembly (GA) of FC Porto on November 13th.
According to court documents, to which the Lusa agency had access, the Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the Super Dragões fans intended to “create a climate of intimidation and fear” at the FC Porto AG.
The District Attorney General’s Office of Porto announced that “crimes of harm to physical integrity in the context of a sporting spectacle or event related to the sporting phenomenon, coercion and aggravated threat, public instigation of a crime, throwing of objects or liquid products and also an attack on freedom of information”.
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