Military magazine: North Korea before the end of February may start a ballistic missile

By the end of February, North Korea may make launch medium-range ballistic missiles reported with reference to the US-British military Weekly Jane's Defence Weekly.

This conclusion of the experts come on the basis of analysis of images trigger polygon Musudan in Hamgen-Pukto obtained from commercial satellite company DigitalGlobe 18 February.

According to the publication, these images suggest that Pyongyang is about to launch a prototype of a ballistic medium-range missiles "Tephodon-2. The last time North Korea experienced "Tephodon-2" in July 2006. Then test ended in failure - the missile flew only 40 seconds and collapsed in the air.

In anticipation of a possible test U.S., Japan and South Korea intensified reconnaissance aircraft flights and sent to District vehicles, fitted with a system for tracking and guidance "Aegis", as well as special reconnaissance ships.