South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called the North’s launches an ‘effective act of territorial encroachment’
North Korea has been carrying out weapons tests at an unprecedented pace this year, firing more than two dozen ballistic missiles, including one that flew over Japan. File photo: SOUTH KOREAN DEFENSE MINISTRY/DONG-A DAILY via GETTY IMAGES
The South’s launches came after Yoon’s office vowed a “swift and firm response”, so North Korea “pays the price for provocation”. “We heard the siren at around 8.55am and all of us in the building went down to the evacuation place in the basement,” an Ulleung county official told Reuters. “We stayed there until we came upstairs at around 9.15 after hearing that the projectile fell into the high seas.
“The hostile forces’ inordinate moves for military confrontation have created a grave situation on the Korean peninsula,” Pak said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA. In a phone call with US secretary of state Antony Blinken, foreign minister Park Jin called the North Korean missile launch “unprecedented” and a “grave act of military provocation”. The two officials condemned the launch and agreed to co-operate against North Korean threats, Park’s office said in a statement. said that because of the launches, some air routes over the sea between North Korea and Japan would be closed until Thursday morning.
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