Page 2 - Kn 23 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Pyongyang Confirms Tactical Guided Missile Tests

The new “railway-borne missile regiment” is only as useful as North Korea’s railway system.

Welcome back on some break news from north korea. two military officials telling nbc news that north korea has just fired two short-range ballistic missiles. nbc news' courtney kube is joining me now from the pentagon. this is the third launch it seems in eight days or so. tell us what more you know. >> reporter: that's right. and so far they seem to be pretty consistent. all three of the launches, there are two blizic missiles, they've all been short-range. we don't yet know exactly what kind of missiles were launched today. but i can tell you that there was one earlier this week and then one...

Has launched at least two short-range ballistic missiles. the launch coming just hours after the president said he had a good relationship with north korean leader kim jong-un. let me bring in now nbc's national security and pentagon correspondent courtney kube. what more do we know about the launches and the reaction from the u.s. side? >> at this point this appears to be very similar to the most recent launch. they're short-range ballistic missiles. they're similar to what the russians have which is called an is scanneder. it's what we call something similar to a kn-23. it's short range, but...

It's okay if north korea launches missiles as long as they are short ray range missiles he says. your reaction. >> it's disjointed policy, erin. let me first define a short range missile. this kn 23, the missile mr. trump is talking about has a range of 200 kilometers and 420 kilometers. let's put that in miles. that's about 120 miles to about 260 miles. you could shoot a missile from washington, d.c. to new york and hit it with precision with this kind of short range missile. it's not incongroups. most of the american forces on the korean peninsula are within that range. 28,000 u.s. troops, a...