general assembly and accuse the united states of hostile policies. it also demanded the united states and south korea stop carrying out military exercises here on the korean peninsula, and it said their mental development testing was needed as a war deterrent, so clear words from pyongyang but all of this comes just a few days after kim jong un s powerful sister dangled the prospect of talks with south korea, so what is going on? a bit of a hot and cold dance that pyongyang is playing, they want to raise the tension and perhaps try also to encourage soul to talk to pyongyang. so far there is no communication between the south and north, but i think south korea s hoping that at some point north korea will re establish communication lines and will try to talk to them, and certainly today the president
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firing this system. it s not ballistic missile technology, which means it doesn t violate the u.n. security council resolutions, but any weapons test from north korea is going to rattle the region and this is no different. japan says it s very concerned. the range that we saw or at least heard from north korea was just shy of a thousand miles. now, that would put japan in its sights. and of course, the u.s. military assets in both japan and south korea as well. now, we did expect something. we knew that previous plamilita parades, back in january and october of last year, there has been some significant weapons systems and missiles that had been unveiled. experts pointed out they hadn t been tested yet and at some point north korea would want to test them. we heard from kim jong-un s sister just last month slamming the u.s. for carrying out these joint military drills that infuriate them every year.
we heard from the south korean side, as well. they say that they are looking into this but they also said that there have been a couple of these kind of cruise missiles shorter ranger earlier in the year they haven t announced. they are also down playing this somewhat but certainly, any time north korea does test any kind of weaponry, there is concern in the region, the u.s. according to one u.s. official is aware of the reports. they re also looking into this. so the fact is, we know that in the past couple of parades, not the one last week but the one in january and october of last year, there were new weapons unveiled and we knew and experts told us at some point north korea would need to test the weapons systems. this appears to be what we have seen over the weekend, pamela. thank you so much for bringing us the latest there and thank you for joining me this evening. i m pamela brown and i ll see you again next weekend.