“The South Korean Army detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Samseok area in Pyongyang, North Korea, fired into the East Sea at around 6:01 and 6:23 (21:01 and 21:23 GMT on Wednesday),” the State reported. South Korean Joint Chiefs (JCS) in a statement.
Today’s is the sixth North Korean launch in the last ten days and comes after the day before Seoul and Washington announced the return to waters off the Korean peninsula of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in response to the intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that Pyongyang fired on Tuesday.
In fact, Pyongyang today condemned the return of the Ronald Reagan, which last week carried out exercises with the South Korean and Japanese navy in the area, in a brief statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (official name for North Korea) is watching as the US poses a serious threat to the stability of the Korean Peninsula and its environs by redeploying its aircraft carrier and strike group in waters alongside to the Korean peninsula”, explains the text.
The statement even acknowledges that the launch of the IRBM last Tuesday was a response to the Ronald Reagan maneuvers last week and criticizes that “the US and some of its satellites” now seek sanctions from the UN Security Council for their “fair response measures” to the “escalation of tension” that the aircraft carrier exercises entail.
For its part, the Japanese government believes that the missiles fired today traveled around 800 kilometers with a peak of about 50 and fell outside its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
The IRBM launched on Tuesday was North Korea’s longest-distance projectile ever, traveling some 4,500 kilometers after flying over northern Japan and landing in the Pacific Ocean.
In turn, North Korea, which has been completely isolated from the outside since the start of the pandemic and approved a weapons modernization plan in 2021, has been preparing for months to carry out a new nuclear test, according to satellites.
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