N. Korean Mobile Ballistic Missile Called Top Threat by U.S.

North Korea continues to develop a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that “would likely be capable of reaching much of the continental United States,” the Pentagon said in a new report to Congress on the secretive regime’s military capabilities.

The KN-08 missile would have an estimated range of more than 3,400 miles (5,500 kilometers), and North Korea already has six “road-mobile” launchers for it, according to the annual report delivered to congressional committees Friday and obtained by Bloomberg News. A mobile missile can be harder to track than a silo-based weapon, although the threat from the KN-08 depends on whether it’s “successfully designed and developed,” the Defense Department cautioned.

The new report, reaffirming a judgment about the KN-08 made by the Pentagon in 2013, arrives amid rising tensions after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Jan. 6 and launched a long-range rocket on Feb. 7. South Korea and the U.S. have said they will begin talks about deploying an American ballistic missile interceptor system known as Thaad on the Korean peninsula.

In the U.S., the House sent legislation to President Barack Obama on Friday authorizing new sanctions against North Korea. The measure, H.R. 757, would impose sanctions against individuals, companies and foreign governments that contribute to North Korea’s nuclear program and ballistic missile development. It also would penalize those who send luxury goods enjoyed by the regime’s elite or aid in its censorship or human rights abuses.

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미국이 북한의  이동식 탄도 미사일이 미국에 대한 위협  1 순위로 꼽았습니다.  블름버그 뉴스에서 입수한  국회 연례 보고서에 의하면 북한이   KN-8 미사일을 탑재한 이동식 발사대를 이미  6대나 보유하고 있다고 합니다.   

그래서  미 하원에서  북한에 대한 새로운 제재 ( secondary boycott) 를 승인한 법안을 금요일에 오바마에게  보냈다고 합니다.   아마도 담주 월요일에  오바마가 사인 하면  효력을  발하게    됩니다. 

이 법안은 북한의 핵개발과 탄도 미사일 개발에  도움을 주는 개인과 기업 그리고 외국 정부에 대해서  제재를 가하게 될 거 라고 합니다.   또한 북한의  언론 검열과  인권 유린에 관여하는  엘리트 계층과  측근에게  사치품을 제공하는  개인들에게도  제재를 가하겠다고 하네요.  

P.S.:  정은아 축하 한다.  니네 나라가  1등 먹엇어!  오바마 형님이 축하해 준데.