• Asia North Korea launches two ballistic missiles into the Sea of ​​Japan

North Korea launched

at least one unidentified missile into the Sea of ​​Japan

(called the East Sea in the two Koreas) on

Tuesday

, according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), which is investigating the details of the new test.

At the moment

, the number of projectiles fired

by Pyongyang in this arms test

is unknown

, which comes after North Korea tested two other ballistic missiles on the 15th.

The Ministry of Defense of Japan, which also detected the launch, said for its part that it could again be

a ballistic-type projectile,

the use of which is sanctioned by the UN.

The test takes place the same day that the North holds a session of its parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly, from which it is believed that

some diplomatic message

could come out

,

and after the mixed signals about a possible reopening of the dialogue sent by the hermetic regime in the last days.

On the 15th, the North launched two other ballistic missiles

from a train

, as announced by the regime, in which it was its first test from this type of platform and after not having tested ballistic missiles since last March.

The South responded to that launch with other weapons tests that seemed to show a

new escalation in the peninsula,

although in the following days the two countries made apparent gestures of willingness to return to the talks that have remained stagnant since 2019.

After South Korean President

Moon Jae-in

spoke at the UN about the need to sign a treaty that seals peace and officially ends the conflict that opened in 1950 between the two neighbors - which was stopped with a ceasefire in 1953 - North Korean leader

Kim Jong-un's

sister

, Kim Yo-yong,

issued two somewhat more conciliatory statements last Friday and Saturday.

However, in both he urged Seoul and Washington to improve their rhetoric towards Pyongyang if they wanted to make progress for the dialogue on the peninsula.

These messages make analysts think about the possibility that North Korea may want to initiate a rapprochement.

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