North Korea test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles Thursday -- just after the U.S. and South Korean militaries conducted massive live-fire drills that were personally witnessed by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
military officials told the Yonhap news agency that launches of short-range intercontinental ballistic missiles from the North were detected at 12 minutes apart Thursday evening local time. Both reportedly splashed in the Sea of Japan.
The conservative Mr. Yoon took office last May, replacing liberal President Moon Jae-in, whose key policies included engaging with. Mr. Yoon’s has instead moved to deepen ties with Washington, repairing relations with Tokyo and robustly facing off against Beijing and Pyongyang. Analysts say the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has multiple motivations behind the latest test, including displaying the strength of its country’s deterrent capabilities to adversaries and to the regime’s own citizens. Mr. Kim has repeatedly ignored offers by the Biden administration to resume direct diplomacy to ease tensions in the region.should expect the “inevitable” response in light of this week’s drills.
“Our army strongly denounces the provocative and irresponsible moves of the puppet military authorities escalating the military tension in the region,” the ministry said in a statement reported by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. Thursday’s tit-for-tat is hardly unusual, but in the wake of a failed May 31 North Korean satellite launch and a nasty diplomatic spat between China andSouth Korean and China have both deployed naval vessels to the southern area of the Yellow Sea to retrieve parts of a North Korean rocket and its reconnaissance satellite payload after the May 31 crash.
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