In a repeated move, North Korea has yet again fired a short-range ballistic missile near its eastern waters on Friday, said South Korean military. The military event happened amid rising tension on the border as South Korea alerts its territories.
In a statement by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), he said that the missile was launched from the area around North Korean capital, Pyongyang, at 1:49am on Friday (16:49 GMT on Thursday).
The statement also highlighted that South Korea rushed for F-35 fighter jets and other aircraft when a legion of 10 North Korean military aircraft flew close to 12 km to the border and North Korea fired some 170 artillery shots off its east and west coasts.
Similar events occurred the previous week, but this time the planes breached a “reconnaissance line” established by Seoul, which started an automated operational response.
North Korea’s actions were denounced by South Korea’s National Security Council as a violation of a 2018 bilateral military agreement that forbids “hostile acts” in the border region.
South Korea imposed the first of its sanctions against North Korea in almost five years under which it blacklisted the latter’s 15 people and 16 institutions embroiled in development of missiles.
North Korea news agency KCNA cited the statement by the military as saying that they have opted for “strong military countermeasures” after South Korean artillery-fire drills on Thursday.
North Korea’s actions were denounced by South Korea’s National Security Council as a violation of a 2018 bilateral military agreement that forbids “hostile acts” in the border region.
Yasukazu Hamada, the minister of defence for Japan, denounced the most recent weapons test and said that the missile flew on a “irregular” trajectory, possibly alluding to the KN-23, a missile based on the Russian Iskander.
