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North Korea has fired two "unidentified" projectiles from its eastern coast into the sea on Wednesday, the South Korean Army has reported, while the Japanese government has indicated that it could be two ballistic missiles.
After a first and concise statement in which little details were provided, the
South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
has expanded the information stating that "
North Korea
has fired two unidentified projectiles from
South Hamgyong
province
this morning" and that
Seoul
and
Washington
are "analyzing additional information."
For their part, the Japanese authorities have stated that the test took place around 7.09 on Wednesday, local time (22.09 GMT on Tuesday), and that the projectiles have not landed in their territorial waters.
This is the regime's second weapons test in a week after testing two cruise missiles last Sunday at a time marked by North Korean pressure to resume the denuclearization dialogue as Washington conducts a review of its strategy to deal with North Korea.
The Japanese authorities believe that the weapons test has included two missiles and that they would have been short-range ballistic projectiles, as confirmed by an executive officer to local media before an emergency meeting of the
Ministry of Defense
.
"We are analyzing all the available information and trying to confirm the maritime and air security in our territory," asserted the Prime Minister of
Japan
,
Yoshihide Suga
, who also indicated that the Executive "has prepared to take all possible measures in response to the situation ".
One year without ballistic missile testing
The last time
North Korea
tested projectiles with a ballistic trajectory was on March 29 last year, when it conducted tests with the so
-
called
KN-25 system
, described by the North Korean regime as a "super large" multiple rocket launcher.
However, the size and range (they have a range of more than 300 kilometers) of the projectiles that this system fires, which could have been tested again this Wednesday, causes them to be classified as short-range ballistic missiles (
SRBM
) and not like an artillery piece.
Based on a self-imposed moratorium to facilitate dialogue with the
US
,
North Korea
has not tested
ICBMs
since November 2017, and its last nuclear test dates from September of that year.
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