North Korea’s New Missile Test Triggers Warning on South Island

The North Korean dictatorship made new missile launches on the morning of this Wednesday (2) at local time, still on Tuesday night (1st) in Brazil.

There were at least two projectiles, according to the Japanese military, which flew at an altitude of up to 150 km and fell into the sea after traveling 200 km; neighboring South Korea talks about a third artifact, which fell about 60 km off the coast of the city of Sokcho.

According to Seoul, an air strike warning was issued on Ulleung Island in the east of the country shortly after the missile launch. Employees of some companies were even removed from the office and taken to shelters, according to the Japanese agency Yonhap.

Shortly after 20 minutes at 9 am local time, the attention state was suspended. The projectile fell into the sea 167 km from the island.

It is not yet known what kind of artifact was released.

Pyongyang’s new tests come hours after the dictatorship demanded that the United States and South Korea halt military exercises in the region. A new round began on Monday (31), with planes from both countries carrying out 24-hour air strike simulations.

Kim Jong-un’s regime calls the actions provocative, and a local official cited that they could be met with “more powerful measures”. It is a vicious cycle of accusations, as the US and its regional allies also claim to act in response to North Korea, always criticizing the escalation promoted by Pyongyang.

Indeed, on Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida convened a meeting of his security council given the increase in tensions on the Korean peninsula.

This year, there have been more than 40 launches by Kim so far, a scenario in which atomic threats have been renewed by Pyongyang in the most intense way since 2017. That year, a series of missile tests capable of hitting the US and the explosion of a hydrogen bomb led the administration of then President Donald Trump to negotiate directly with the North Korean.

It went wrong, not least because the American premise was to make the peninsula an area without nuclear weapons, and without them the communist dictatorship loses its main instrument of negotiation. Now the signaling appears to be the same, and there is an expectation that Kim could conduct a nuclear test at any time.

Last month, the US reacted to the firing of an intermediate-range missile that flew over Japan – Tokyo even asked part of the population to seek shelter, for the first time since 2017 – by sending aircraft carriers to the region and carrying out joint bombing exercises. with Japanese and South Koreans. Pyongyang retaliated with more ballistic missiles and fighter training.