(Seoul) North Korea has launched a new unidentified ballistic missile, the South Korean military announced on Tuesday. Several other shootings had been reported in the past few days.
Posted at 7:02 p.m.
Updated at 7:24 p.m.
The firing of this missile, which is part of an intensive test campaign launched by Pyongyang, took place in the “east”, said the high command of the South Korean army in a press release, without further elaboration. details.
The Japanese Coast Guard also confirmed the launch of a North Korean missile.
Pyongyang, which has nuclear weapons, embarked on an intensive campaign of weapons testing this year, which culminated last week with four short-range ballistic missile launches.
Seoul, Tokyo and Washington on Sept. 30 conducted trilateral anti-submarine drills for the first time in five years, days after U.S. and South Korean naval forces conducted large-scale maneuvers off the peninsula. .
US Vice President Kamala Harris was in Seoul on September 29 and visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas, on a trip to underscore Washington’s “unwavering” commitment to defending South Korea. against the North.
Pyongyang has stepped up its banned weapons programs amid long deadlock in negotiations, conducting a record number of weapons tests this year and revising legislation to make its status as a nuclear power “irreversible”.
North Korea, which is subject to UN sanctions for its weapons programs, generally seeks to maximize the geopolitical impact of its tests by choosing the moment that seems most opportune to it.