Pyongyang’s KCNA news outlet said hours later that leader Kim Jong Un was on the ground to witness “a powerful volley” by an artillery unit “ready to respond to actual war”. theSun theSundaily pyongyang KimJongUn northkorea
: North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Thursday, Seoul's military said, in Pyongyang's latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises.
Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their worst points in decades, with the nuclear-armed North conducting ever more provocative banned weapons tests as Seoul moved to ramp up security cooperation with Washington in response. It added it was analysing “the possibility that North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles from the same region simultaneously”.
Earlier this week, North Korea accused the US of “intentionally” ramping up tensions, and Kim’s powerful sister warned that if the US were to intercept one of Pyongyang’s missile tests, it would be seen as a “clear declaration of war”.After talks between Kim and then-US president Donald Trump collapsed in 2019, diplomacy has stalled and the North has doubled down on military development.
“This is likely only the beginning of a series of provocative tests by North Korea,“ said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.
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