How North Korea threatens civil aviation

Photo: Department of State

28 November 2017, the crew of a passenger aircraft flying from San Francisco to Hong Kong, saw parts of a North Korean intercontinental rocket flying in the sky, writes Share America.

“The possibility that the North Korean rocket or its parts will shoot down a passenger plane is very high,” said US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a meeting of foreign ministers of the 20 states held on January 16 in Vancouver.

Tillerson cited such data from the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States: the plane was only in 280 nautical miles from the site of the rocket crash and at the same time there were also 9 passenger planes nearby.

In total that day, according to the Secretary of State, 716 routes of airliners with 152 110 passengers were on board in the specified area.

“The lives of a large number of people from many countries were endangered by irresponsible tests of ballistic missiles,” said Tillerson.

He added that “the readiness of North Korea at any time, at its own discretion, to launch rockets represents a daily threat to the peoples of all countries of the region.”

The Secretary of State recalled that in 2017, over the airspace of Japan, North Korea had twice launched rockets that could hit densely populated cities.

“The security threat posed by the North Korean nuclear and missile programs now concerns not only Northeast Asia, it has become a global threat,” said Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyong-hwa.

The meeting participants drew attention to the fact that the probable landing zone north korean missiles more and more expanding.

During the meeting, the ministers agreed on joint actions to ensure strict compliance with the sanctions against the DPRK and on measures to prevent their circumvention by North Korea.

The UN Security Council, which approved sanctions against North Korea in 2006 after the country’s first nuclear tests, approved new sanctions in connection with the sixth nuclear tests that took place 3 September 2017 of the year. In November of the same year, the President Trump called North Korea “a state sponsor of terrorism” and at the end of the year expanded US targeted sanctions on a number of individuals and transport companies.

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