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Chronology of North Korea's missile/rocket program
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Chronology of North Korea's missile/rocket program
[ Hermit : One man's missile being another man's rocket, I added rocket to the caption for this helpful guide. Worth remembering the back story as you study this. The Clinton administration made a series of deals addressing the desperate food and energy situation in North Korea (which is indubitably exacerbated by the DPRK's adherence to strict Maoism and even more significantly through US pressure preventing access to development funding and aid.) in exchange for freezes in the DPRK's missile development and nuclear programs, both of which were resumed after the Bush administration unilaterally broke the conditions of the deals and illegally threatened attacks on North Korea with Bush referring to them as a component of his manicheistic "Axis of Evil".
I have normalized the dates using 00 where a day was not specified.
Worth noting that most countries with strong military programs (naturally including the US) are firing missiles all the time, but due to their generally having defined missile test areas and on going programs, these are not as visible or newsworthy as the North Korean programme. ]
Source: Associated Press
Authors: Not Credited (AP News)
Dated: 2009-04-04
A timeline of developments in North Korea's missile program:- 1998-08-31: North Korea fires suspected missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean, calling it a satellite.
- 1999-09-13: North Korea pledges to freeze long-range missile tests.
- 2001-06-00: North Korea warns it will reconsider missile test moratorium if Washington doesn't resume contacts aimed at normalizing relations.
- 2001-07-00: U.S. State Department reports North Korea developing long-range missile.
- 2002-09-00: North Korea pledges in summit talks with Japan to extend its moratorium on missile tests beyond 2003.
- 2003-01-10: North Korea announces withdrawal from Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
- 2001-03-10: North Korea fires a land-to-ship missile off east coast into waters between South Korea and Japan.
- 2003-10-00: North Korea fires two land-to-ship missiles.
- 2004-05-00: North Korea reaffirms its missile moratorium in summit talks with Japan.
- 2005-05-00: North Korea fires a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan.
- 2006-03-08: North Korea fires two short-range missiles.
- 2006-06-18: North Korea vows to increase its "military deterrent" to cope with what it calls U.S. attempts to provoke war.
- 2006-07-05: North Korea launches seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a long-range Taepodong-2.
- 2006-07-15: U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 1695 demanding North Korea halt missile program.
- 2006-10-09: North Korea conducts underground nuclear test blast after citing "extreme threat of a nuclear war" from U.S.
- 2006-10-15: U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 1718 condemning test, imposing sanctions and banning North Korea from activities related to its nuclear weapons program, including "their means of delivery and related materials."
- 2007-07-14: North Korea shuts down its main Yongbyon reactor, later starts disabling it.
- 2008-06-27: North Korea destroys cooling tower at Yongbyon.
- 2008-09-19: North Korea says it is restoring a key atomic reactor.
- 2008-10-11: U.S. removes North Korea from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
- 2009-02-15: North Korea claims it has the right to "space development."
- 2009-02-23: South Korea says North Korea has a new type of medium-range ballistic missile capable of reaching northern Australia and Guam.
- 2009-03-11: North Korea declares satellite launch will take place between April 4-8.
- 2009-04-05: North Korea launches long-range rocket from its base at Musundan-ri on the country's northeast coast.
Source: South Korean defense and foreign ministries and presidential office.
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