The South Korean Army has advanced that “it will respond decisively to it.” These latest launches have increased the already existing tension on the peninsula.
Euskaraz irakurri: Ipar Koreak jaurtitako missile bat erori da lehen aldiz Hego Koreako uretan
For the first time since the division of the Korean Peninsula, today a North Korean ballistic missile has crashed in South Korean territorial waters. Seoul has described this action as “absolutely unacceptable” and has advanced that the Army “will respond decisively to it.”
South Korea initially detected the launch of three short-range ballistic missiles fired from North Korea’s eastern coast into the Sea of Japan. One of them landed in the East Sea (the name given to the Sea of Japan in the two Koreas), 57 kilometers east of the coastal city of Sokcho (160 kilometers northeast of Seoul) and 167 kilometers northwest of the island of Ulleung. Shortly after, the Army reported that North Korea today fired 10 different types of missiles.
The South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) after the launches, and assured at the end of it that there will be a quick response and urged to “prepare for more provocations” from the regime of Kim Jong Un.
East launchthe number 36 that North Korea does this year (a record number), coincides with the celebration of the first large-scale aerial maneuvers by the Air Forces of the South and the United States.
Tension on the peninsula has increased in recent months, given the insistent launches from the north, the maneuvers by the allies and the possibility that Pyongyang will carry out its first nuclear test in five years, as indicated by the satellites.
Source: Eitb
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