North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into its territorial waters on Friday, days after the United States and South Korea held joint military exercises, a South Korean military source said.
It is the latest display of North Korean military might and appears to be in retaliation for joint US-South Korean military exercises, seen by Pyongyang as a rehearsal for an attempted invasion of North Korea, which it has carried out. an unprecedented number of missile tests.
In that sense, some experts believe that Pyongyang is trying to strengthen the capacity of different types of weapons and pressuring the West to make concessions, such as sanctions relief, in future negotiations.
North Korea also recently claimed to have conducted the tests necessary to build the first spy satellite and a more mobile ICBM capable of reaching the continental United States.
The South Korean military detected the two missile launches near the North Korean capital.
Japan also confirmed at least one missile launch by North Korea.
It is not yet clear what kind of missiles were launched.
The South Korean Armed Forces said one of the missiles flew about 250 kilometers and the second 350 kilometers before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
Source: TSF
