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North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile, second in a week

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By SRI NewsDesk Published January 11, 2022
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– North Korea fires ‘ballistic missile’ into the sea– North Korea announced it tested ‘strategic’ cruise missile– What is behind the growing militarisation of South Korea?

North Korea fired what may have been a ballistic bullet on Tuesday morning, Japan and South Korea said, lower than a week after Pyongyang tested what it said was a hypersonic armament.

“ Our military detected a suspected ballistic bullet fired by North Korea from land towards the East Sea at around7.27 am (2227 GMT on Monday) moment,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The launch was also reported by Japan’s seacoast guard, which said the North had fired a “ ballistic bullet-suchlike object”.

The gunshot appeared to have landed outside Japan’s exclusive profitable zone (EEZ), the Kyodo news agency reported, citing government sources in Tokyo.

“ That North Korea continues to launch dumdums is extremely tragic,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told journalists.


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– North Korea fires ‘ballistic missile’ into the sea

– North Korea announced it tested ‘strategic’ cruise missile

– What is behind the growing militarisation of South Korea?


South Korea’s public security council, which held an exigency meeting, expressed “ strong remorse” over the test, the presidential Blue House said.

The rearmost launch comes after six countries, including the United States and Japan, prompted nuclear-fortified North Korea to end “destabilizing conduct” ahead of a United Nations Security Council closed-door meeting to bandy last week’s test.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the latest missile launch was ‘extremely regrettable’ [Jiji Press via AFP]

France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Albania also inked the statement.

“ These conduct increase the threat of misapprehension and escalation and pose a significant trouble to indigenous stability,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, said in the statement on Monday.

“ (North Korea) makes these military investments at the expenditure of the good of the North Korean people,” she said.

Denuclearisation addresses have been stalled since a flurry of summitry between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and also US President Donald Trump collapsed in 2019.

Thomas-Greenfield reiterated calls for North Korea to return to addresses and abandon its dumdums and nuclear munitions.

“ Our thing remains the complete, empirical, and unrecoverable demilitarization of the Korean Peninsula,” she said.

Pyongyang is banned from testing all kinds of ballistic and nuclear munitions tests by the United Nations and is subject to UN warrants.

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North Korea’s state media said last Thursday that it had launched a hypersonic bullet, adding that the armament had successfully hit a target. The launch had been detected by Japan and South Korea the day ahead.

Japan and South Korea said they detected a suspected missile launch from North Korea, the second in less than a week [Anthony Wallace/AFP]

Kim Jong Un has said he’s committed to modernizing the North’s service, and the country preliminarily claimed to have tested a hypersonic bullet last September.

Unlike ballistic dumdums that fly into external space before returning on steep circles, hypersonic munitions fly towards targets at the lower mounds and can move at further than five times the speed of sound – or about kilometers per hour ( country miles per hour).

In 2021, it also tested what it said was a new type of submarine-launched ballistic bullet (SLBM), a long-range voyage bullet, and an armament launched from a train.

North Korea insists accommodations can only renew when the US and other countries end what it considers “ hostile” programs.

But the service’s advances have come as the frugality has come under adding pressure not just from warrants, but strict border closures as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic.

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