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March 25, 2021New launch of short-range ballistic missiles by North Korea: a senior US official told CNN.

South Korea announced in the evening the launch of an unidentified missile that crashed into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan.


This is Pyongyang's first launch in nearly a year and the first of its kind since the administration of US President Joe Biden took office.

The developments come a few days after the military exercises carried out in the area by the US command in collaboration with South Korea and the visit of the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken together with the Minister of Defense, Lloyd Austin, first in Tokyo and then in Seoul, to strengthen relations with allied countries.

During the diplomatic meetings, Blinken stressed the importance of a process of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

Statements that have been called "rambling theories of a North Korean threat, based on baseless rhetoric" by Pyongyang's Deputy Defense Minister, Choe Son Hui.

Washington intends to re-establish negotiations with the hermit country but has reported that initial attempts at a confrontation have so far been ignored.



Meanwhile, an "emergency" meeting of the South Korean National Security Council is underway.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) has so far indicated that "North Korea fired two unidentified missiles this morning from South Hamgyong province (North Korea's east coast)" and that Seoul and Washington are standing ". analyzing more information ".

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also called an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council in Tokyo and told the media that, based on information from Japanese military intelligence, North Korea would launch two ballistic missiles.

According to another official of the Japanese executive to local media, the Japanese authorities believe that they are two short-range ballistic missiles.