North Korea has launched a long-range ballistic missile
South Korea’s military announced on Wednesday that it had detected a long-range missile launched by its northern neighbor, Pyongyang.
North Korea has launched several missiles since late May.
AFP
North Korea launched a suspected long-range ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said Wednesday, days after Pyongyang threatened to shoot down US spy planes that violated its airspace. “North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the East Sea,” South Korean joint chiefs said, using the Korean name for the Sea of Japan.
South Korea’s military “detected what was believed to be a long-range ballistic missile launched from the Pyongyang region at around 10:00 a.m. (0100 GMT) toward the East Sea,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The Korean name for the Sea of Japan. Tokyo confirmed the launch on Wednesday, with Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada saying North Korea had fired “at least one” suspected ballistic missile toward the east.
“At this time the ballistic missiles are still in the air … At this time, we estimate that they will fall into the Sea of Japan, about 550 kilometers east of the Korean Peninsula, outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone. Around 11:13 am
“Irreplaceable”
Relations between the two Koreas are at an all-time low. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last year called his country’s nuclear status “irreversible” and called for weapons development, including tactical nuclear weapons. Both Seoul and Washington have vowed to face Pyongyang’s nuclear response and “end” its present. If the government decides to use nukes against them.
This year, North Korea has conducted a series of weapons tests, including testing its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), in defiance of economic sanctions. On Monday, North Korea threatened to shoot down US spy planes that violate its airspace and condemned Washington’s plan to station a ballistic missile submarine near the Korean Peninsula.
According to a North Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, the US has “intensified its spying activities beyond wartime levels”, referring to US spy planes that conducted multiple flights in July, described as “provocatives”, for eight consecutive days. A spy plane “repeatedly” entered North Korea’s airspace over the Sea of Japan.
South Korea strengthens cooperation with US
In a statement cited by state news agency KCNA, the spokesman warned of the risk of an “accident” such as a US Air Force strategic reconnaissance plane falling into the sea from such an operation. Japan.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, said in a separate statement that a US spy plane had twice violated the country’s airspace. Kim Yo Jong said Pyongyang would not directly respond to US spying outside the country’s exclusive economic zone, but would instead take ‘decisive action’ if the US military crossed its maritime military boundary line.
Washington said in April that one of its nuclear-armed submarines would visit a South Korean port for the first time in decades, without specifying an exact date. In response to North Korean weapons tests, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol stepped up defense cooperation with Washington this year, holding joint military exercises.
Mr. South Korea and the United States are set to begin their major annual joint military exercises in August, known as the Ulchi Freedom Shield. North Korea views such drills as a rehearsal for an invasion of its territory.
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