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North Korea Conducts Its Sixth Round of Missile Tests This Month

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By SRI NewsDesk Published January 28, 2022
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North Korea fired two suspected ballistic dumdums Thursday, Seoul said, its sixth munitions test this month in one of the most violent floods of launches on record that has delivered an emphatic rejection of Washington’s offers for addresses on its nuclear program.

Pyongyang has not fired this numerous Missile in a timetable month in decades, according to data collected by the Center for Strategic and International Studies– a Washington- grounded think tank.

The last time they came near was in 2019 after high-profile accommodations between leader Kim Jong Un and also-United States chairman Donald Trump collapsed. With US addresses stalled since also, Pyongyang has doubled down on Kim’s pledges of military modernization, embarking on a string of warrants- busting launches this month, including hypersonic dumdums.

The smalls-word-rattling comes at a delicate time in the region, with Kim’s sole major supporter China hosting Winter Olympics coming month and South Korea gearing up for a presidential election in March.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected two suspected short-range ballistic dumdums fired from the Hamhung megacity area towards the East Sea from around 8 am (2300 GMT).” The shells flew 190 kilometers (118 country miles) at an altitude of 20 km,” they said.

Read More: North Korea fires two missiles, warns of strong action over US sanctions push

Pyongyang fired two suspected voyage dumdums on Tuesday and tested ballistic dumdums on January 14 and 17. It also fired what it said were hypersonic dumdums on January 5 and 11.” I believe, if we include the two voyage Missiles, this is now the most recorded North Korean bullet launches in any month ever,” critic Ankit Panda wrote on Twitter.

The shower could be part of North Korea’s regular military training, or linked to ongoing fests of Kim’s decade in power or forthcoming domestic anniversaries, he added. The country is preparing to mark the 80th anniversary of the birth of Kim’s father, late leader Kim Jong Il, in February, as well as the 110th birthday of its founding leader Kim Il Sung in April.

North Korea is reeling economically from transnational warrants and a two-time-long epidemic leaguer but has managed to develop an” emotional” array of obnoxious artillery. Some of the recent tests aim”to develop new capabilities, especially for escaping bullet defenses,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Seoul’s Ewha University.

Read More: North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile, second in a week

” Other launches are intended to demonstrate the readiness and versatility of bullet forces that North Korea has formerly stationed.”Pyongyang is running hard in what it perceives as an arms race with Seoul,” Easley added.

The distances and altitude of the Thursday tests indicate the launches are part of North Korea’s regular military training, said Hong Min, an elderly experimenter at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul.

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