North Korea today fired two unidentified ballistic missiles into the Sea of ??Japan (called the East Sea in both Koreas), in what is a new reply to the great spring maneuvers they are carrying out these days in the south of the Seoul peninsula and Washington.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed in a statement that the two launches had occurred from Junghwa county, in the North Hwanghae province (southwest of the country) at around 07:47 local time (22:47 GMT on Sunday).
This is the eleventh launch carried out this year by North Korea, half of them carried out to replicate South Korea and the US, which these days are carrying out their largest joint military maneuvers since 2018.
The allies ended their Freedom shield command post exercise (CPX) last Thursday, but are still holding drills that correspond to the Warrior shield troop on the ground (FTX) exercises.
As part of the latter, South Korea and the US last week mobilized F-35, F-15, F-16 and F-4 stealth fighters as well as an A-10 attack aircraft for a series of maneuvers in those that fired air-to-air missiles and dropped air-to-ground bombs.
In addition, in the coming days it is expected that a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join the exercises in the southern waters of the peninsula.
The latest North Korean weapons test comes after Pionyang reported last Friday that it recently tested an underwater drone capable of generating radioactive tsunamis, just like the Russian Poseidon system does.
Although many analysts doubt that the Kim Jong-un regime was able to develop such a sophisticated weapon in a short time, the announcement represents a new significant gesture by Pyongyang, which has greatly sophisticated and diversified its arsenal in the last five years.
The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 in which North Korea, which has rejected offers to return to dialogue, carried out a record number of weapons tests and in which the allies once again carried out large maneuvers and deployed aircraft carriers. nuclear-powered or strategic bombers on the peninsula.
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