North Korea launched two more short-range ballistic missiles yesterday. It is the seventh and eighth launch from North Korea in two weeks.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the US Navy Ronald Reagan, which had approached the South Korean coast on September 23, began a new round of naval exercises last Friday in response to North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch and the flight of warplanes near the South Korean border.
The Japanese Defense announced that the two missiles reached an altitude of 100 km and reached a distance of 350 km. The two missiles were fired from the city of Munchon shortly before two and the second immediately after and both fell out of Japan's exclusive economic zone.
Despite a brief summer lull this year, North Korea launched 43 missiles until 6 October, including two unspecified cruise missiles and 41 short-range ballistic missiles up to intercontinental range. On March 25, we recall, that the largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ever was fired in order to "strengthen its defenses and prepare for a long confrontation with the United States ". That missile was launched from Pyongyang airport, it flew for about 1100 km reaching a maximum height of 6.248 km.
On October 4, the first North Korean missile was launched that flew over and over Japan since 2017 reaching a distance of about 4500 kilometers and a height of 620 miles, finishing its run in the Pacific Ocean not too far from the island of Guam ( Pacific territory of the United States).
President Kim said these tests are one "Right reaction" and the Korea Central News Agency reported that "it is a normal self-defense measure planned to protect our country's security and regional peace from direct US military threats. "
The exponent of the Japanese government, Hirokazu Matsuno, said that "North Korea's series of actions, including its repeated ballistic missile launches, threaten the peace and security of Japan, the region and the international community and pose a serious challenge to the entire international community, including Japan" .
The presence in the seas surrounding the Korean peninsula (Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan and East China Sea) of American and South Korean air and naval vehicles allow North Korea to support the thesis of the invasion and the consequent need to test nuclear weapons to defend itself.
The KCNA news agency also said the missile launches did not damage civil aviation safety or pose a threat to neighboring countries.
Former US official Vann H. Van Diepen wrote that this continued North Korean activity "Has implications for the security of the United States, South Korea and Japan" including “Further evidence that North Korea's new solid-fueled short-range missiles have the potential to substantially improve Pyongyang's conventional combat capabilities if deployed in sufficient numbers. Maintaining this deterrence, however, will require continued efforts to bolster US military and political credibility, alliance solidarity, and South Korean and Japanese conventional military capability. "
President Joe Biden reiterated the United States' commitment to defending Japan during an interview with Japanese President Fumio Kishida who has defined the launch a "Violent behavior". Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada he said that Japan is not ruling out any options, including counterattack, as it seeks to strengthen its defenses in the face of repeated missile launches from North Korea. South Korea has also announced that it will strengthen its armed forces and increase cooperation with allies.
Pyongyang exploited the war in Ukraine to forge closer ties with Moscow and the tensions between the US and China in the Taiwan Strait to get closer to Beijing. Russia, for her part, would be1 by purchasing rockets and artillery shells from North Korea to support its war in Ukraine, reinforcing suspicion that the Russian military continues to suffer severe supply shortages in Ukraine, partly due to sanctions. Moscow has deepened ties with countries like North Korea and Iran since its invasion of Ukraine has attracted international condemnation and sanctions that have made it more difficult to keep its army stocked with weapons and equipment. The Kremlin also backed Pyongyang by condemning the resumption last month of large-scale joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea. In the October 5 session of the UN Security Council, Russia and China argued that the tests North Korean missiles were a reaction to US-led military exercises in the region.
In early September, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the Supreme People's Assembly that the country's nuclear status was "irreversible". and passed a law that allows it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike.
The new law will allow North Korea to carry out a preemptive nuclear strike "automatically" and "immediately to destroy hostile forces" when another country poses an imminent threat to Pyongyang.2. The legislation also prohibits any sharing of nuclear weapons or technologies with other countries.
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1 source of the news The Guardian
2 KCNA
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