North Korea fired three unidentified missiles on Monday, the South Korean military said a few weeks after Pyongyang announced the end of its moratorium on long-range ballistic missile testing.
The three projectiles were fired from the Sondok region on the east coast towards the Sea of Japan, the South Korean headquarters said in a statement, without further details. "The military is watching for other possible shots and remains on high alert," he said.
End of the relaxation period
A Japanese army spokesman said that North Korea appeared to have fired "one or more ballistic missiles" which, to its knowledge, had not entered the territory or the exclusive economic zone of Japan.
North Korea announced a week ago that Kim Jong-un had overseen a "long-range artillery fire" after Pyongyang threatened to demonstrate a new weapon. Fire tests were carried out in late 2019, the last of which was in November, radically ending a period of relaxation in 2018. Kim Jong-un "continues to test, improve and operationalize his forces," commented on Twitter Vipin Narang, an MIT researcher specializing in nuclear weapons.
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