Today’s launch comes after the North Korean regime last Thursday fired two apparently short-range ballistic missiles.
North Korea today launched an apparently ballistic projectile into the Sea of Japan (called the East Sea in the two Koreas), which is its seventh launch of this type during this month of January, according to the South Korean Army.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of South Korea detected the launch, which occurred around 08:00 local time this Sunday (18:00 on Saturday for Ecuador), and would have been carried out from the area of the province of Jagang, located to the north of the neighboring country and adjacent to China, according to the South Korean Yonhap agency.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense, which also detected the launch, indicated that it would be a ballistic missile and is currently collecting information and contacting the ships in the area where it could have fallen.
Today’s launch comes after the regime fired two apparently short-range ballistic missiles last Thursday, as well as another cruise missile test carried out Tuesday from inside the country, added to others this month that included missiles. ballistic and hypersonic.
This is the seventh round of North Korean missile launches so far this year, amid a deadlock in denuclearization talks between the secretive North Korean regime and the United States.
Pyongyang recently threatened a possible resumption of its nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, stating that it is considering resuming all its “temporarily suspended actions” in defense matters.
The North Korean regime contemplates returning to this type of measure that it decided to suspend unilaterally within the framework of the inter-Korean thaw process, and in response to the “increasingly aggravating hostile actions” of the United States, as decided at a meeting of the highest government body of the country led by Kim Jong-un and collected by the state media. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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