The Japan Times:
North Korea’s extended-range Scud missiles are capable of reaching the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, a Seoul daily reported Tuesday.
“We previously assumed the Scud-ER, a modified version of the Scud-C, could fly about 700 km. But our joint assessment with U.S. intelligence indicates that it can fly more than 1,000 km,” a senior South Korean military official told the JoongAng Ilbo.
If launched from a frontline unit on a mobile launchpad, the Scud-ER, also known as the Hwasong-7, could hit the Yokosuka Naval Base to prevent deployment of U.S. 7th Fleet assets based there to the Korean Peninsula, the report said.
Yokosuka is the largest strategically important U.S. naval installation in the Western Pacific.
