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More bad news on North Korea's accelerating nuclear weapon program and specifically on North Korea's December 21, 2015 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) ejection test. World powers remain powerless.
In its January 4, 2016 report Washington Free Beacon only had sufficient information to indicate an ejection test had been conducted with no evidence of subsequent ignition of the missile's first stage rocket motor.
In a new report of January 8, 2016 Washington Free Beacon has received extra information from North Korea indicating first stage (rocket motor) ignition occurred (see above Youtube). If true this means North Korea has progressed further along secure lethal nuclear missile delivery than first feared by Western intelligence.
The North Korean SLBM tested is known as the KN-11 "Musudan" believed to be based on a SS-N-6 SLBM obtained covertly from Russia then reverse engineered by North Korea.
The actual submarine type thought to have ejected the KN-11 is known as the "Gorae" (Whale) believed by US intelligence to be either a refurbished Russian Golf II-class submarine (Project 629A built between 1966 - 1972). Or the ejection test submarine may be an indigenous North Korean submarine based on the Golf II design.
These disturbing North Korean developments are becoming an urgent international matter. Meanwhile President Obama is caught like a deer in the headlights by his fruitless gun control campaign - his preferred legacy. US gun control policy has been failing since about 1645 when the US was a motley collection of British colonies.
Pete