South Korea on Wednesday test-launched a new ballistic missile that can hit all of North Korea, the president's office said, developed under a new agreement with the United States that lets Seoul extend the weapon's range to up to 800 km (500 miles).

President Park Geun-hye made a rare visit to a missile base on the west coast to watch the launch of the guided missile, which will be a key part of the South's defense against its neighbor's nuclear and missile threat, her office said.

"The test demonstrated improved ballistic missile capability that can strike all parts of North Korea swiftly, and with precision, in the event of armed aggression or provocation," the presidential Blue House said in a statement.

The launch comes a month after the North said it test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile. If true, the statement points to progress in the North's missile capabilities, although some experts and U.S. military leaders questioned the authenticity of the North's report.


A South Korean guided missile patrol gunboat fires a harpoon missile during a live-firing exercise at the sea off Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese June 20, 2014, in this picture provided by South Korean Navy and released by Yonhap.  © YONHAP/Newscom/Reuters A South Korean guided missile patrol gunboat fires a harpoon missile during a live-firing exercise at the sea off Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese June 20, 2014, in this picture provided by South Korean…
South Korea's missile is the first developed under new guidelines signed with the United States in 2012 to more than double the range of the South's missiles to tackle its disadvantage with Pyongyang's missile capabilities.

The North has a deployed arsenal of missiles of various ranges and is believed to be developing an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at delivering nuclear weapons.


In 2012, North Korea successfully launched what is generally considered a long-range rocket, putting what it said was a satellite into orbit. The North called it a space launch vehicle, but the international community said it was a missile that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions.

The North is under various sanctions for its missile and three nuclear tests.


Besides its missile pact with the United States, South Korea has an agreement limiting the range of the missiles and a pact on civil nuclear energy that bars Seoul from developing atomic weapons.



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So, I fire you, you fire me and we both obliterate ourselves into oblivion.
The human species sometimes makes me laugh...

dapyd1:
So, I fire you, you fire me and we both obliterate ourselves into oblivion.
The human species sometimes makes me laugh.

fight..fight...fight..fight

Why can't our Nigeria make a diplomatic pact with Russia China so as keep off inspector Uncle Sam...... Seems like Russia China ally are more protected and well faster than that of self centred Uncle Sam.

dapyd1:
So, I fire you, you fire me and we both obliterate ourselves into oblivion.
The human species sometimes makes me laugh...

It makes you laugh? Well, the thing they provoke me because, these zombies over there and their similars in other places, being pushed about by the Satanists control-United State of Torture, might one day take us all along with them, when their craze level reaches it peak.
At a time when people are concern with tackling human-lives threatening catastrophies and diseases such as earthquakes, global warming, cancer, Aids, etc, etc, etc; some 'cursed kids- are busy stockpiling weapons to destroy one another, even their own kinsmen. Very pathetic.

And like you said, ''i fire you, you fire me''...so both sides, instead of settle amicably, thinks that one can actually get a good, clean strike at the other, without repercussions by way of radiation, if it involves nuclear or chemical weapons, given the proximity of the two nations? Very funny, like you said...while the US is busy stoking the fire. As far as they are concern, the two Koreas musn't come together again, the challenges pose by China and Russia to the Hegemon is enough. Hence, the divide and conquer tactics employ by the US of A accross the globe. Just that these Koreans dont know it...

I wont be suprise if North Korea lunch another missile soon.