North Korea has launched an “unknown” missile into the sea east of the peninsula, according to the South Korean General Staff, citing the South Korean national news agency Yonhap, before completing a week of testing ultrasonic rocket.
The Japanese Coast Guard also pointed to the launch, talking about a weapon that looks like a “ballistic missile”. A little while ago, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that the rocket fell into the sea, outside the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Japan, citing government sources in Tokyo.
The South Korean staff did not provide details about the type of weapon tested.
Last Wednesday, North Korea announced that it had launched an “ultrasonic missile” and that its test was successful, as it hit the predetermined target “at a distance of 700 kilometers”, according to it.
The new nuclear test by Pyongyang, which has a nuclear arsenal, came just days after Kim Jong Un pledged to strengthen the North Korean military’s capabilities to deal with the volatile international situation as it sees it.
It was also recorded just hours after six UN Security Council member states (US, UK, France, Japan, Ireland, Albania) called on it to refrain from “any further destabilizing action”, warning of a looming “miscalculation”. .
“We urge North Korea to refrain from any new provocative action, to abandon its prohibited programs (for development) of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles, and to engage in a constructive dialogue with our common people in order to achieve full denuclearization,” the statement said. the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Her weapons tests “increase the risk of error and escalation and pose a major threat to regional stability,” the diplomat added, reading the text of the six-nation joint statement during a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on the launch of the UN Security Council. last week.
North Korea “must now choose dialogue and peace over its threatening and illegal armaments program,” said Thomas-Greenfield.
Pyongyang says it needs its arsenal to defend itself in the event of a US invasion.
The term supersonic rocket refers to a weapon that develops five times the speed of sound, about 6,180 kilometers per hour. Weapons of the type are generally very difficult to restrain.
For years, North Korea has been developing missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, in defiance of international sanctions.
Negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington are at a standstill following the failure in 2019 of a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and then-US President Donald Trump in Hanoi. Intercourse talks have also come to a standstill.
Since Joe Biden took office a year ago, Washington has repeatedly assured that it is ready to resume talks anywhere and without preconditions with North Korea. Pyongyang is rejecting this offer at this stage.
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