GOOD MORNING WORLD, OUR COMRADES OF NORTH KOREA DPRK FIRE OFF ANOTHER BALISTIC MISSILE, IN YOUR FACE DONALD TRUMP ! (VIDEOS)

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile in the early hours of Saturday morning, amid rising military tensions with the US. (VIDEOS)

RUSSIA SENDS TROOPS TO NORTH KOREA ~
Russia has moved heavy military equipment towards its border with North Korea amid mounting fears of a military clash between Pyongyang and the United States over the North’s nuclear program.

The missile, launched from a region north of the capital, Pyongyang ~

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The ballistic missile launch came amid a flurry of rhetoric from North Korea warning of “imminent” war against the US. US officials said the missile did not leave North Korean territory and was probably a medium-range missile known as a KN-17.

“North Korea fired an unidentified missile from a site in the vicinity of Bukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province) early this morning,” Yonhap reported, quoting a statement issued by South Korea’s military.

Donald Trump, the US president, said that North Korea “disrespected the wishes of China” with the missile test.

OFFICIAL TWEET FROM THE PRESIDENT ~
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
North Korea disrespected the wishes of China & its highly respected President when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today. Bad!
4:26 PM – 28 Apr 2017

On Friday, Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state, warned that failure to curb North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes could lead to “catastrophic consequences”, while China and Russia rebuked Washington’s threat of military force, Reuters reports.

The showdown in a meeting of the UN Security Council on North Korea highlighted the diplomatic challenges of resolving tensions over Pyongyang, with the Trump administration aggressively pressing Beijing to rein in its ally, and China and Russia pushing back against Washington’s rhetoric.

He called for a greater enforcement of UN sanctions against North Korea and requested the help of the rest of the world in pressuring North Korea to step back from its military threats.

China said it was not only up to Beijing to solve the North Korean problem. “The key to solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula does not lie in the hands of the Chinese side,” Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister said.

North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador responded by stating US efforts to get rid of his country’s nuclear weapons through military threats and sanctions were “a wild dream”.

Mr Trump told Reuters in an interview on Thursday that a “major, major conflict” with North Korea was possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

The top US military commander in the Pacific warned earlier this week that North Korea could strike American soil.

“I don’t share your confidence that North Korea is not going to attack either South Korea, or Japan, or the United States … once they have the capability,” Admiral Harry Harris, who heads the US Pacific Command, told Congress.

He was defending the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile defence system by the US in South Korea.

The move was “in response to North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile threat”, a US military statement said, amid concerns that Pyongyang was planning its sixth nuclear test since 2006.

RUSSIA SENDS TROOPS TO NORTH KOREA ~

Russia has moved heavy military equipment towards its border with North Korea amid mounting fears of a military clash between Pyongyang and the United States over the North’s nuclear program.

A flurry of military activity in Russia’s far east came as the UN Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s latest missile test and threatened to impose new sanctions against Pyongyang for its “highly destabilizing behavior.”

In a unanimous statement, the council demanded that North Korea “conduct no further nuclear tests” and said Pyongyang’s “illegal missile activities” were “greatly increasing tension in the region and beyond.”
North Korea carried out a failed missile test on Sunday, a day after displaying missiles at a parade in Pyongyang.

The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said in an editorial on Thursday: “In the case of our super-mighty preemptive strike being launched, it will completely and immediately wipe out not only US imperialists’ invasion forces in South Korea and its surrounding areas but the US mainland and reduce them to ashes,”.

**** RUSSIAN tanks sent by Vladimir Putin to North Korea border
RUSSIAN tanks and soldiers are hurtling towards the border of North Korea as war fears continue to rage with Kim Jong-un.
Vladimir Putin’s forces have been caught on camera heading towards the nation’s 11-mile frontier with the DPRK.
Video shows a train packed with military equipment allegedly hurtling towards the border with the rogue state.
Russia’s actions come as tensions rage between North Korea and the US amid fears war could explode in the Korean Peninsula.
Other footage shows Russian military helicopters stepping up patrols, while combat vehicles rumble near the frontier with North Korea.