North Korea fires an unidentified ballistic missile into the Sea of ​​Japan

North Korea today fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the Sea of ​​Japan (called the East Sea in both Koreas), in what is a new reply to the great spring maneuvers that are being carried out these days in the south of the Seoul and Washington peninsula.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) limited itself to informing in a brief statement about the launch without offering more details about the projectile or the place and time of launch.

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This is the eleventh launch this year by North Koreahalf of them carried out to replicate South Korea and the US, which these days are carrying out their largest joint military maneuvers since 2018.

The allies wrapped up their Freedom shield command post exercise (CPX) last Thursday, but are still holding drills that correspond to the Warrior shield troop on the ground (FTX) exercises.

As part of the latter, South Korea and the US last week mobilized F-35, F-15, F-16 and F-4 stealth fighters as well as an A-10 attack aircraft for a series of maneuvers in those that fired air-to-air missiles and dropped air-to-ground bombs.

In addition, in the coming days it is expected that a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join the exercises in the southern waters of the peninsula.

The latest North Korean weapons test comes after Pionyang reported last Friday that it recently tested an underwater drone capable of generating radioactive tsunamis, just like the Russian Poseidon system does.

Although many analysts doubt that the Kim Jong-un regime was able to develop such a sophisticated weapon in a short time, the announcement represents a new significant gesture by Pyongyang, which has greatly sophisticated and diversified its arsenal in the last five years.

The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 in which North Koreawhich has rejected offers to return to dialogue, carried out a record number of weapons tests and in which the allies once again carried out great maneuvers and deployed nuclear-powered aircraft carriers or strategic bombers on the peninsula.

Source: Elcomercio

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