Friday, February 5, 2016

S.Korea, US, Japan hold teleconference to share intelligence on DPRK missile launch

Defense authorities of South Korea, the United States and Japan on Friday held a video conference to share intelligence to prepare for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s planned launch of a long-range rocket.

An unidentified South Korean military official was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying that the three nations held a deputy department head-level video teleconference as scheduled earlier in the morning.

Senior military officials of the three allies shared intelligence relevant to the DPRK's missile launch, while assessing current situations of the pending launch of Pyongyang's long-range ballistic missile, according to the report.

The intelligence-sharing contact came as the DPRK announced its plan on Tuesday to launch a long-range rocket between Feb. 8 and 25 to put an observation satellite into orbit.

The announcement was made amid ongoing discussions in UN Security Council to add new sanctions against the DPRK for its claim on Jan. 6 that it had tested the first of its hydrogen bomb.

South Korea, the US and Japan exchanged intelligence on the DPRK's long-range missile within the framework of the intelligence-sharing pact signed in late 2014 by the three countries, the Seoul military official said.

Agreements to share intelligence on the DPRK's nuclear and missile threats had been reached between Seoul and Washington and between Tokyo and Washington each, but not between Seoul and Tokyo.

Military intelligence between South Korea and Japan can be shared only through the United States.

To detect and track the possibly launched DPRK rocket, the South Korean military deployed various surveillance assets, including Aegis-equipped destroyer, ground-based Green Pine radar and Peace Eye airborne early warning and control aircraft.

South Korea has warned of shooting down debris that fall on its territory or territorial waters from a DPRK rocket, which was estimated by the Seoul military to fly over its western border island of Baengnyeong at an altitude of about 180 km. The military regards its airspace as an area below an altitude of 100 km.
 [Xinhua]
5/2/16
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  1. La Corée du Nord pourrait lancer sa fusée dès dimanche ...

    La Corée du Nord a avancé la fenêtre de tir d'une fusée transportant un satellite prévu ce mois-ci au grand dam de la communauté internationale, qui pourrait avoir lieu dès dimanche, a rapporté samedi le gouvernement sud-coréen.

    Pyongyang a informé les agences de l'ONU qu'elle lancerait la fusée désormais entre les 7 et 14 février, selon un document dont le gouvernement sud-coréen a publié une copie.

    La Corée du Nord avait précédemment indiqué qu'elle procéderait au lancement entre les 8 et 25 février, autour de l'anniversaire, le 16, de l'ancien président Kim Jong-Il, père de l'actuel dirigeant Kim Jong-Un.

    La Corée du Nord affirme que son programme spatial a des visées purement scientifiques, mais les Etats-Unis et leurs alliés, dont la Corée du Sud, estiment qu'il s'agit d'un essai mené dans le cadre du développement d'un missile balistique intercontinental capable de frapper les Etats-Unis.

    Un test de missile balistique représenterait "un nouvel acte déstabilisateur et provocateur", ont souligné vendredi le président américain Barack Obama et son homologue chinois Xi Jinping.

    Ce lancement, s'il a lieu, constituerait une nouvelle violation nord-coréenne des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU à la suite du 4e et dernier test nucléaire de Pyongyang, le 6 janvier.
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