After the U.S. carrier participation naval joint maneuver exercise ends… 11th government inauguration
North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the East Sea on the 9th, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Military authorities are analyzing specifications such as range, altitude, and speed.
After the end of the joint maritime maneuver exercise in which the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan participated, it was launched as a provocation, particularly one day before the founding day of the 77th anniversary of the Labor Party (10th).
Although it is not an important retirement anniversary (a year that breaks every 5-10 years) that is important in North Korea, the possibility that North Korea may raise the level of provocations has been raised.
North Korea has launched its seventh ballistic missile in a fortnight since the 25th of last month.
Short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) were fired once from the Taecheon area in Pyeongbuk on the 25th of last month, two from the Sunan area in Pyongyang on the 28th, two launches from the Suncheon area in Pyeongnam on the 29th, two launches from the Pyongyang Sunan area on the 1st of this month, and the Pyongyang Sunan area on the 6th. Two were fired each into the East Sea.
On the 4th, an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), presumed to be a Hwasong-12, was launched with the maximum range, recording a flight range of 4,500 km.
A series of recent provocations were a protest against the arrival of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan (CVN-76, 103,000 tons) in Busan on the 23rd of last month, the South Korea-US joint maritime exercise on the 26th and the 29th, and the South Korea-US-Japan anti-submarine warfare exercise on the 30th. is analyzed as
After North Korea’s IRBM provocation, the United States dispatched an aircraft carrier to the East Sea on the 5th, and the South Korea-US-Japan missile defense training was held on the 6th. again attacked.
In a statement in the name of a spokesperson for the National Aviation Administration on the 8th, North Korea said, “Our missile test launch is a normal and planned self-defense measure to protect the safety of the country and regional peace from direct military threats from the United States that have continued for more than half a century.” claimed that
A spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense slandered the Reagan’s re-entry into the East Sea as “a military bluff to send a so-called warning against the South Korean military’s legitimate response to the extremely provocative and threatening joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea.”
North Korea has launched ballistic missiles 23 times and cruise missiles twice this year.
It is the 11th missile launch since the inauguration of the Yun Seok-yeol administration.
/yunhap news