North Korea fired an artillery barrage, says South Korea

North Korea fired an artillery barrage on an area supposedly excluded from hostilities at night, the army said on Friday South Koreancontinuing an intense series of projectile launches in recent days.

In response to this barrage of fire, the United States and South Korea extended until Saturday joint air exercises in the area, the largest ever deployed by these two countries.

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Just after the decision was announced Thursday, Pyongyang launched three short-range ballistic missiles and said the extension “It was a wrong and very dangerous choice.”

Shortly before midnight, at 11:28 p.m. Thursday (14:28 GMT), the North fired 80 artillery rounds in a “buffer zone” maritime.

The download was “clear violation” of a 2018 agreement that left this border area out of hostilities between the two countries, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Between Wednesday and Thursday, the communist country launched some 30 missiles, including a failed intercontinental missile and one that landed near South Korean territorial waters for the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said that this launch was “in fact a territorial invasion”.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the intercontinental missile launch was “illegal and destabilizing”.

Experts indicate that Pyongyang is multiplying its tests in protest at military maneuvers by Seoul and Washington, who warn that leader Kim Jong Un is preparing the country’s seventh nuclear test.

Current air exercises “Storm Watcher” They’re a “aggressive military maneuver against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” affirmed the North Korean regime, which threatens Seoul and Washington with “Pay the most horrible price in history.”

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In addition to extending this operation until Saturday, the South Korean army announced that next week it will carry out the Taegeuk exercise, annual maneuvers to “improving the performance of the transition to wartime”.

This computer simulation exercise will be carried out to reinforce “the ability to carry out practical missions in preparation for various threats such as nuclear weapons, missiles and recent North Korean provocations”he pointed.

Source: Elcomercio

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