North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered to create a special investigation team to examine the causes of the recent missile launch failure, media reported on Friday, referring to the head of a North Korean dissident group.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The North Korean leader reportedly accused US and South Korean spies of the failed test of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile, claiming they had damaged some of missile parts.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The North Korean leader reportedly accused US and South Korean spies of the failed test of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile, claiming they had damaged some of missile parts.
"Kim has instructed the special investigation team to implement a probe into the national defense sector starting on Nov. 1 to make the causes for the launch failures clear," Kim Heung-kwang, the executive director of Seoul-based dissidents' group North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.
The investigation team is expected to include about 60 experts, while all the people involved in missile construction would be subject to the probe.
On October 14, North Korea carried out a failed test of the Musadan intermediate-range ballistic missile near the northwestern city of Kusong.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula intensified in September after the North claimed to have successfully exploded a nuclear warhead, having previously detonated a hydrogen bomb in January.
The September 9 test is believed to be the fifth and largest blast since Pyongyang began pursuing nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The UN Security Council condemned it as a repeated violation of its resolutions.
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