{"id":2153,"date":"2017-09-15T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:27:41","slug":"north-korea-extended-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/north-korea-extended-range\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Another launch, extended range."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just the Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On September 15th, North Korea launched another missile, for the first time crossing over Japanese landmass. This one flew for 19 minutes, flew 2300 miles, and was likely a variant of the Hwasong-12 missile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2154 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NKoreaRadius.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1206\" height=\"991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NKoreaRadius.png 1206w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NKoreaRadius-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NKoreaRadius-768x631.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NKoreaRadius-1024x841.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NKoreaRadius-676x555.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1206px) 100vw, 1206px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the extended range, it puts more airspace at risk from debris fields. \u00a0Once can reasonably exclude quite a bit of this airspace, as all launches are easterly.<\/p>\n<p>This launch passed over the airways below off the coast of Japan:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airways.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1303\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airways.png 1303w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airways-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airways-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airways-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airways-676x364.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1303px) 100vw, 1303px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continued caution should be taken in oceanic airspace west of North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>For more reading, read our post on the missiles specific to the Sea of Japan:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/heres-why-north-korean-missiles-are-now-a-real-threat-to-civil-aviation\/\">https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/heres-why-north-korean-missiles-are-now-a-real-threat-to-civil-aviation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the Facts: On September 15th, North Korea launched another missile, for the first time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,319],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"category-news-item"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}