Washington and Seoul seem determined to downplay Pyongyang’s missile tests. Is it wise?
A missile is seen being launched during a military drill in North Korea in a photo released May 10. By Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow May 24 at 1:00 AM TOKYO — Listening to President Trump, it is almost as though North Korea didn’t just conduct two separate missile tests, firing off at least three ballistic missiles in direct contravention of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
A commercial satellite image from May 4 shows what analysts at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California think is the launch point and exhaust trail of a new short-range ballistic missile test in North Korea. Five days later, on May 9, North Korea launched from the country’s west coast two more missiles, which flew 290 and 180 miles before landing in the sea.
So were they ballistic or not? “There is not a scintilla of doubt that North Korea fired at least three ballistic missiles,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California. Moon, his South Korean counterpart, has invested even more of his personal prestige in engaging with North Korea. His government has run into serious criticism from North Korea recently for continuing military exercises with the United States, and he’s struggling to make headway as the de facto mediator between Pyongyang and Washington.“I am always in favor of keeping a sense of perspective and searching for a diplomatic solution,” he wrote in an email.
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