South Korea is monitoring additional launches and maintaining readiness. FMTNews Korea
Pyongyang no longer considers itself bound by moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile.
After last week’s launch the North’s state media said leader Kim Jong Un had overseen a “long-range artillery” drill but it was not clear if those two incidents last week were the same. The North carried out a series of weapons tests late last year, the last of them in November, which it often described as multiple launch rocket systems although others called them ballistic missiles.At a party meeting at the end of that month, Kim declared that Pyongyang no longer considered itself bound by its moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, and threatened a demonstration of a “new strategic weapon” soon.
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