China tests new guided missile in Bohai Sea

Times of India ^ | 9 May, 2017 | Staff

[MtnClimber]

BEIJING: China on Tuesday said it has successfully tested a new guided missile in the Bohai Sea near the tense Korean peninsula to raise the operational capability of its armed forces and "effectively respond to threats" to national security.

The People's Liberation Army Rocket (Missile) Force tested the new missile in the Bohai based on annual training programme, the defence ministry said in a brief statement.

The missile was designed to "raise operational capability" of the armed forces to "effectively respond to threats" to national security, it said, adding that the test had "achieved an expected result." However, the statement did not specify when the missile was tested. It just said the test was carried out recently.

The ministry has not released any further information about the missile, state-run CGTN reported on Tuesday. The Bohai Sea is a body of water off the coasts of Tianjin municipality, Shandong, Hebei and Liaoning provinces.

The test was carried amid China's vociferous protests over US deployment of THAAD interceptor missiles in South Korea, whose powerful radars could see through most part of China including its missile development programme.

[MtnClimber]

I am always amused at their term “People’s Liberation”. Trump should remind China that if they shoot at an aircraft carrier we may help them with “People’s Liberation” through liberal application of Minuteman and Cruise missile technology.

[Delta 21]

China has vowed appropriate response for THAAD missile batteries.

WHat, exactly, is the appropriate response for the Terminal High Altitude Area DEFENSE missile?

[Phil DiBasquette]

Why is the Korean Peninsula “tense” exactly? No one in the press anywhere seems to comment that one rogue nation is unilaterally (although likely not without tacit support from other bad actors) is acting not just as an ineffectual irritant but a threat and not fostering peace, trade, scientific advancement or cultural exchange. It’s as if they had some inalienable right to do whatever it is they do without consequence.