North Korea: Following the return of a US aircraft carrier to the area and a meeting of the UN Security Council in response to the North’s recent launches, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean on Thursday, aimed at Japan.
The missile launch was the first since North Korea fired an IRBM over Japan on Tuesday, which sparked joint US and South Korean missile drills in which one weapon went off-course. It was the sixth missile launch in the previous 12 days.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea and the Japanese government both reported the launch.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters, “Just counting the ones from the end of September, this is the sixth time in the short period.” “This can in no way be permitted.”
The launch took place around an hour after Pyongyang, implying that the missile tests are a response to the alliance military actions, denounced the US for speaking to the UN Security Council against Pyongyang’s “legitimate counteraction measures of the Korean People’s Army on south Korea-US joint drills.”
North Korea also criticised Washington for moving a U.S. aircraft carrier off the Korean peninsula, claiming that it constituted a major threat to the stability of the situation in a statement issued by the hermit country’s foreign ministry.
In response to North Korea’s IRBM launch over Japan, the USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group of accompanying vessels were quickly redeployed.
According to a State Department official, the United States strongly denounced Thursday’s launch, describing it as a breach of UN Security Council resolutions and a danger to both the international community and the region’s neighbours.
However, the official stressed that Washington is dedicated to using a diplomatic strategy and urged the North to start a discussion.
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Yoon Suk-yeol, the president of South Korea, told reporters that his nation will maintain its security through its alliance with the United States and cooperation with Japan. Yoon Suk-yeol is scheduled to call Kishida on Thursday.
He claimed that late on Wednesday, the US ship approached the waters off South Korea.
Yoon’s national security council issued a warning that the nuclear testing would draw a harsh response from the international community.
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According to Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada, Tokyo sent “vehement protest” to North Korea on Thursday’s launches through delegations in Beijing.
The second missile on Thursday had an estimated altitude of 50 kilometres (31.07 miles) and reached 800 km, possibly flying in an erratic trajectory. The first missile on Thursday likely flew to an altitude of roughly 100 kilometres and a range of 350 kilometres.
Many of North Korea’s most recent short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) have lower, depressed flight trajectories and the capability to manoeuvre, making it more difficult to track and intercept them.
Hamada told reporters that North Korea had intensified its provocations unilaterally and continuously, particularly since the year’s beginning.
According to JCS of South Korea, the missiles were fired from a location close to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
This year, North Korea has launched around 40 missiles. Its record-breaking schedule started in January with the launch of a brand-new “hypersonic missile,” and later included the firing of long-range cruise missiles, SRBMs from airports, rail carriages, and submarines, its first ICBM launches since 2017, and the IRBM blasted over Japan.
Officials in Seoul and Washington also claim that it appears prepared to carry out a nuclear test for the first time since 2017.
Although the U.N. Security Council has already passed resolutions prohibiting the North’s missile and nuclear development, the United States and its allies have increased their military presence in the area. However, it seems unlikely that further international sanctions will be imposed on the North.
Geng Shuang, China’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, stated that the Security Council should take a proactive approach “instead of depending simply on harsh language or pressure.”
For the first time since the Security Council began punishing Pyongyang with sanctions in 2006, the Security Council was split publically when China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-led effort to impose extra United Nations penalties on North Korea in May due to its resumed ballistic missile launches.
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