Seoul [South Korea], March 16 (ANI): North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile towards the East Sea on Thursday, hours earlier than the leaders of South Korea and Japan meet to debate the recalcitrant regime’s evolving threats and different shared challenges, Yonhap News Agency.
Notably, that is the third missile that has been launched this week. The final one passed off on March 14.
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) stated that it had detected the launch from the Sunan space in Pyongyang at 7.10 am.
“While strengthening its monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States,” the JCS stated in a textual content message despatched to reporters, based on Yonhap News Agency.
The newest launch additionally got here amid the continuing South Korea-US Freedom Shield (FS) train, which the North has decried as “preparations for a war of aggression” in opposition to it.
Earlier, on Tuesday, North Korea fired two “strategic cruise missiles” from a submarine in waters off its east coast over the weekend, state media stated on Monday, reported Yonhap News Agency.
The missiles have been fired from 8.24 Yongung in waters off Kyongpho Bay within the East Sea in an underwater launching drill held at daybreak Sunday, based on the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The drill confirmed the reliability of the weapon system and examined the underwater-to-surface offensive operations of submarine items that represent one of many different main forces of the DPRK nuclear deterrent,” the KCNA stated.
“The missiles precisely hit preset targets in the East Sea after “touring the 1,500 km-long eight-shaped flight orbits for 7,563 to 7,575 seconds,” the KCNA stated, adding, “The drill…verified the present operation posture of the nuclear warfare deterrence means in several areas.”Meanwhile, on Thursday, South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol will go to Japan for a long-awaited summit with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
South Korean and Japanese leaders are set to satisfy in Tokyo, within the first official bilateral assembly between the 2 nations’ leaders in 12 years, JT reported.
A possible thaw in ties between these two key US allies may yield huge dividends for the Biden administration and its Asia coverage. (ANI)