Details
The table below shows the time for all the seven missiles launched. Of particular interest is the 4th launch, a Taepodong-2 rocket. Reports that the missile flew for only 42 seconds were contradicted by a confidential report by South Korea's National Intelligence Service. They contended, according to a Chosun-Ilbo article published July 6, that instead the missile flew for seven minutes before veering from its trajectory. However, DoD officials indicated that the stable missile boost phase of 42 seconds and the subsequent tumbling out of control to impact into the Sea of Japan was only airborne for close to two minutes.
| # | Launch time (July 5, Korean local time = UTC+9 h) |
Launch site | Type | Impact time (in minutes) | Impact site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03:23/03:33 (= July 4 18:33 UTC) |
Kittaeryong | Scud-C | Sea of Japan | |
| 2 | 04:04 | Kittaeryong | Nodong-A | Sea of Japan | |
| 3 | 04:59 | Kittaeryong | Scud-C or Nodong-A | 07:17 | Sea of Japan |
| 4 | 05:01 | Taepodong/Musudan-ri (40°50′50″N 129°37′43″E / 40.8471°N 129.6285°E / 40.8471; 129.6285) |
Taepodong-2 | Failed after 42 seconds |
Sea of Japan |
| 5 | 07:12 | Kittaeryong | Nodong-A | 07:36 | Sea of Japan |
| 61 | 08:20 | Kittaeryong | Scud-C/Nodong-A | Sea of Japan | |
| 7 | 08:22 | Kittaeryong | Nodong or Scud | 17:28 | Sea of Japan |
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