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North Korea fires missile, vows ‘fiercer’ responses to U.S., allies

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By SRI NewsDesk Published November 17, 2022
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North Korea has fired a ballistic bullet towards its eastern waters, according to officers in Seoul, hours after hanging a “fiercer military response” to sweats by the United States to boost its security presence in the region.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the “unidentified ballistic bullet” was fired on Thursday, but gave no further details.

Pyongyang has tested a record number of dumdums this time, including a possible failed multinational ballistic bullet, while Washington and Seoul have expanded the compass and scale of their common service exercises.

Some of the drills have involved Japan.

Amid the pressures, leaders of the US, South Korea, and Japan held trilateral addresses on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Cambodia last week and pledged to work together to further “ strengthen deterrence ”.

In a statement after the conversations, US President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk- yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida “explosively condemned” North Korea’s “unknown number of ballistic bullet launches” and pledged to “forge still-near trilateral links, in the security realm and beyond ”.

Recent North Korean missile tests taken at undisclosed locations and released on November 7, 2022 by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency [KCNA via Reuters]

They also advised Pyongyang against conducting a seventh nuclear test, with Biden reiterating that the US’s commitment to defending Seoul and Tokyo was “backed by the full range of capabilities, including nuclear”.

North Korea condemned the trilateral peak on Thursday, with Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui saying the three countries ’ “war drills for aggression” would not rein in her country but would rather bring “more serious, realistic and ineluctable trouble” upon themselves.

“The plant the US is on the ‘bolstered offer of extended deterrence’ to its abettors and the more they consolidate instigative and bluffing military conditioning the fiercer the DPRK’s military balance will be,” Choe said in a statement carried by the sanctioned KCNA news agency.

She appertained to her country by the initials of its sanctioned name, the Popular People’s Republic of Korea.

Read More:  What is behind the growing militarisation of South Korea?

“The US will be well apprehensive that it’s gambling, for which it’ll clearly lament,” she said.

Choe added that the North’s service conditioning is “licit and just balances” to the US-led drills.

Judges said the signals coming from Pyongyang were significant given the indigenous summitry of the once-a-week, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s participation after times of tone-assessed epidemic insulation.

China is the insulated North’s main supporter and trade mate.

“Beijing may not incontinently come more collaborative in dealing with North Korea, indeed after the Kim governance conducts another nuclear test,” Leif- Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, told Al Jazeera by dispatch. “But at some point, Chinese interests will prefer plying pressure on Pyongyang rather than face a more strategically united U.S., South Korea and Japan.”

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

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