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North Korea fired Friday Friday (August 16th) two "unidentified projectiles" that fell at sea, a launch that is the sixth of its kind in three weeks.
The South Korean staff reported that the projectiles were fired from near Tongchon, a town in southwestern Kangwon Province, and fell into the sea of Kangwon. 'East, also called Sea of Japan.
This is the sixth test conducted by Pyongyang since July 25th. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in early August that the shooting was " a solemn warning " to South Korea and the United States because of joint military maneuvers by both countries.
Pyongyang disapproves of these regular joint exercises . The North Korean authorities regard them as hostile maneuvers prefiguring an invasion of North Korea. He warned that the start of these announced maneuvers would prevent the resumption of talks between Pyongyang and Washington on the North Korean nuclear arsenal.
"Nothing to discuss"
On Friday, August 16, the Commission for the Pacific Reunification of the Country, an institution of North Korean power, announced in a statement that Pyongyang rejected the statements made on Thursday, the day before, by South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the process. of peace in the peninsula.
In a speech on the occasion of the anniversary of Korea's liberation from the Japanese Occupation (1910-1945), Mr. Moon said that his goal was "to achieve peace and unification". here 2045 ", although the unique presidential mandate to which he was elected ends in 2022.
North Korea has ruled out in the statement released Friday an upcoming resumption of talks with South Korea. " We have nothing to discuss with the South Korean authorities and we have no intention of meeting with them again ," the document says.
Trump minimizes
After the previous test of North Korean missiles, the fifth, US President Donald Trump said Saturday, August 10 in a tweet that Mr. Kim had presented in a letter an " apology " for these launches.
Since the beginning of this series of tests, Donald Trump has downplayed its importance, stating in particular that they were short-range missiles whose launch did not constitute a violation of what has been agreed since the beginning of the war. dialogue between. Mr. Kim and the US President. Trump even once again criticized maneuvers conducted by his own army with South Korean forces, calling them " expensive and ridiculous exercises ".
( with AFP )