North Korea today fired three apparently ballistic missiles at Japan’s March as reported by the State Major Ensemble (JCS) South Korean.
The missile test, the 17th of its kind since the beginning of the year, comes a day after the US president, Joe Biden will conclude in Tokio an Asian tour that also took him to South Korea, and which was focused on addressing Pyongyang’s weapons challenges, among other issues.
The first of the launches took place around 6:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday (9:00 p.m. GMT on Tuesday), and the other two occurred in a period of about 45 minutes later, according to the South Korean Army, which also pointed out that all of them took place from the area of Namein the North Korean capital.
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The Japanese authorities also detected the launches and affirmed that the projectiles fell outside of waters belonging to the exclusive economic space of Japan, according to the state chain NHK.
Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishidastated that Japan “is compiling more details” of the missile test and that the Government “has given instructions to guarantee the safety of ships throughout the area”, in statements collected by the aforementioned media.
South Korean President, Yoon Suk-yeolalso called a meeting of the National Security Council to analyze the latest North Korean test and try to determine what type of ballistic missiles it was.
The launches come after Pyongyang fired three missiles on the 12th that were considered ballistic and short-range by the south, also from el Sunan area in Pyongyang. Washington, Seoul and Tokyo They had been warning for weeks that they had detected Pyongyang’s preparations to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) imminently.
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Added to this is the fact that the regime has been preparing for months what would be its first nuclear test since 2017 in Punggye-ri (northeast of the country), where according to the allies everything is ready in the absence of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un , choose the right moment to detonate an atomic device
During your visit to South Korea Last weekend and his subsequent trip to Japan between Sunday and last Tuesday, Biden highlighted the need to increase deterrence capacity on the Korean peninsula in the face of North provocations, although he also left the door open to dialogue with Pionyan