North Korea fired two cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea on August 17. (called the West Sea in the two Koreas), according to the Yonhap agency, citing South Korean military sources.
This is the first launch of cruise missiles by North Korea since last January.
The missiles were fired this Wednesday from Onchon, in the province north korean from South Pyongan, according to the same sources cited by Yonhap, who did not give more details of the launches at the moment.
They added that the intelligence services of South Korea and the United States are analyzing the new North Korean weapons test and that the allies maintain their position of military preparation.
The North Korean action comes just two days after South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol offered an economic aid plan to North Korea. in case the regime opted for denuclearization.
The North Korean launch also occurs in the absence of a few days for the US and South Korea to resume large-scale military maneuvers that they had put on hold to favor rapprochement with the North, a process that was aborted after the failure of the summit on the denuclearization of Hanoi in early 2019.
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In any case, the use of this type of projectiles by North Korea is not punished by UN sanctions, which focus on the regime’s ballistic missiles and nuclear tests.
North Korea has been isolated from the outside since the pandemic began in 2020 and this year has carried out a record number of projectile tests after approving a weapons modernization plan last year.
The regime has rejected health aid and offers of dialogue from Washington and Seoul – which are responding in turn with “extended deterrence” – and has already completed preparations for its first nuclear test in five years.
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