North Korea advances hidden into the fog

Another country that does not rest nor let rest: The multiple launch of tuesday 14th comes a day before the South holds parliamentary elections, and at a time when the world’s attention has been largely focussed on the Covid-19 pandemic, which Pyongyang insists it has so far escaped.

Taking advantage of the pandemic of Covid-19, North Korea has been carrying out tests of new advanced multiple launch rocket systems; but in this case it is suspected that has tested a new type of surface-to-ship cruise missile designed to hit “any enemy Warship”.

This launch takes place just when the pandemy of Covid-19 is hitting the aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson, USS Ronald Reagan and other US Navy ships, and a day before the 108th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current leader Kim Jong Un.

The missiles flew some 200 kilometres over the Sea of Japan, which analysts said was an improvement on a 2015 test that flew only 100 kilometres.