TERRIFYING new missiles proudly unveiled in a parade by North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un may be FAKE, experts claim.
The weapons, unveiled during a parade marking 105 years since the state’s found Kim Il-sung was born, caused fears around the world that the secretive nation’s nuke programme is far more advanced than previously thought.
But Chad O’Carroll, managing director of specialist service NK News, expressed doubts after seeing the nosecone of one of the final group of missiles “wobbled quite noticeably”.
And Lee Il-Woo, a senior analyst at the private Korea Defence Network, told AFP: “I suspect they all might be mock-ups aimed to impress the outside world.”
Meanwhile, BBC footage of the parade shows some of the rockets appear to have wonky nosecones.
Today White House national security adviser H. R. McMaster said that North Korea’s missile test was provocative and that the United States was working with its allies, including China, to develop a range of options.
“This latest missile test just fits into a pattern of provocative and destabilising and threatening behavior on the part of the North Korean regime,” McMaster said on ABC’s “This Week” programme.
Earlier it was revealed the US may have sabotaged the missile test yesterday through a cyber-attack causing the rocket to spectacularly flop, according to a former British foreign secretary.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind claims American intelligence has used cyber warfare to successfully foil missile tests before and that there is a “strong belief” that President Trump’s administration was behind North Korea’s latest failed launch.
Speaking with the BBC, he said: “It could have failed because the system is not competent enough to make it work, but there is a very strong belief that the US through cyber methods has been successful on several occasions in interrupting these sorts of tests and making them fail.”
But Sir Malcolm, who served as foreign secretary from 1995 to 1997 in John Major’s government, did warn that despite the missile flop, North Korea remains a serious nuclear threat.
He said: “But don’t get too excited by that, they’ve also had quite a lot of successful tests.
“They are an advanced country when it comes to their nuclear weapons programme. That still remains a fact – a hard fact.”
TheSun.co.uk
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