North Korea Fires Missile Across Japan
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Military History
- Subcategories: Communism, Communists, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: Korea, Japan, United States, North Korea
- Date: August 31, 1998
Article abstract: Communist North Korea surprised the world, firing a missile across Japan and thereby demonstrating its newly achieved missile and nuclear technology and the weakness of the U.S.-Japan mutual defense system in East Asia.
Nuclear Crisis
On August 31, 1998, using a crude three-stage rocket, North Korea launched a missile that traveled across Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean. The news shocked Japan because its national defense failed to respond or even warn its people. The undetected missile also worried the United States, which...
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