North Korea announced today that the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that fired Thursday was a Hwasong-17the one that has the most potential range in its arsenal, a launch that was attended by the dictator kim jong un and that it intends to respond to the military maneuvers that Seoul and Washington are carrying out these days in the south of the peninsula.
Kim “stressed the need to instill fear in enemies, to effectively deter the possibility of a war breaking out, and to reliably guarantee the peaceful life” of North Koreans, the state agency reported. KCNA.
The text indicates that the launch was carried out “in view of the serious situation in which the most unstable security environment is being generated on the Korean peninsula due to the frenetic, provocative and aggressive large-scale war simulations” that are being carried out. South Korea and USAwhose spring maneuvers, freedom shieldThey will end on March 23.
The most recent launch took place hours before South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will travel to Tokyo to meet with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidawith the aim of improving bilateral relations and consolidating a trilateral security cooperation agreement with the United States to counter North Korean threats.
The rise to power of the conservative Yoon last May and the weapons advances shown by Pyongyang are serving to boost cooperation, especially in the military field, after a period in which relations between Seoul and Tokyo went through their worst moment in years.
For its part, the Japanese Ministry of Defense indicated that the projectile flew for about 69 minutes and crashed in the waters of the Sea of Japan at around 8:18 a.m. local time (23:18 GMT on Wednesday) about 250 kilometers west of Oshima Island. , which lies off the southwestern coast of the northern island of Hokkaido.
The allies have warned that North Korea, which considers the exercises as a test to invade it and has promised to give an “unprecedented response” to these maneuvers, has everything ready to carry out a new nuclear test whenever it wants and some experts believe that the regime could choose to test its first solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)more efficient than those that use liquid propellants.
Last year, Pyongyang tested more than 70 missiles, including nuclear-capable missiles aimed at South Korea, Japan and the mainland United States. North Korea said many of those tests were a warning from previous US-South Korean military drills.
(With information from EFE)
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