North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, according to Tokyo and Seoul on Thursday, the latest in a string of banned weapons tests carried out by Pyongyang so far this year
North Korea has conducted multiple sanctions-busting launches this year, including test-firing its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles, and last month attempting to put a military spy satellite into orbit.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North Korean launches from its capital region on Thursday evening. It said South Korea's military boosted its surveillance posture and maintains readiness in close coordination with the United States. "Two ballistic missiles fell inside the EEZ," said Kimi Onoda, parliamentary vice-minister of defence.The launch came after North Korea's military vowed an unspecified response to South Korean-US drills at a front-line South Korean firing range earlier on Thursday. The exercises were the fifth and last round of South Korean-US firing drills that began last month. This year’s drills were the biggest of their kind since they began in 1977.
In response, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has bolstered defence cooperation with the United States, staging regular large-scale joint military drills, including live-fire"annihilation" exercises which are currently ongoing.Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, with diplomacy stalled and Kim Jong Un declaring his country an"irreversible" nuclear power, as well as calling for ramped-up weapons production, including tactical nukes.
But after that process collapsed and relations deterior ated, North Korea demolished the building in June 2020.
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