North Korea launched a ballistic missile during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to South Korea, prompting concerns about escalating tensions and cooperation between North Korea and Russia.
North Korea fired a missile on Monday as United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited South Korea . Blinken warned that Pyongyang was working ever more closely with Russia on advanced space technology. Blinken's trip came as investigators were trying to arrest conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has entrenched himself in his residence after being impeached for a failed attempt to impose martial law last month.
Blinken, who had planned to encourage South Korea to maintain Yoon's policy of enhancing cooperation with Japan, was in talks in the South's capital Seoul, when the North fired a ballistic missile that fell into the sea. The missile flew around 1,100 kilometers (680 miles), the South Korean military said. 'Today's launch is just a reminder to all of us of how important our collaborative work is,' Blinken said, pointing to increased three-way exercises and intelligence-sharing on North Korea. Blinken and his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae-yul condemned the launch at a joint news conference, where the outgoing US top diplomat warned that Russia was stepping up support for North Korea as a reward for its help fighting Ukraine. North Korea 'is already receiving Russian military equipment and training. Now we have reason to believe that Moscow intends to share advanced space and satellite technology with Pyongyang,' Blinken said. He also renewed concern that Russia, a veto-wielding United Nations Security Council member, would formally accept North Korea as a nuclear state, which would be a major blow to global consensus that Pyongyang must end its program.US and South Korean intelligence believe that the North late last year sent thousands of troops to fight against Ukraine and has already suffered hundreds of casualties. In Tokyo, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba voiced alarm that North Korea's 'technology has been improving
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