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North Korea fired two cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea (called the West Sea in the two Koreas) on Wednesday, according to the Yonhap agency, citing South Korean military sources.
This is the first launch of cruise missiles by North Korea since last January.
The missiles have been fired from Onchon, in the North Korean province of South Pyongan, according to the same sources cited by Yonhap, who have not given, for the moment, more details of the launches.
They added that the intelligence services of
South Korea
and the
United States
are analyzing the new North Korean weapons test and that
the allies maintain their position of military readiness
.
The North Korean action comes just two days after South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol
offered an economic aid plan to North Korea
should the regime opt for denuclearization.
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The North Korean launch also occurs in the absence of a few days for the
US and
South Korea
to resume large-scale military maneuvers
that they had put on hold to favor rapprochement with the North, a process that was aborted after the failure of the summit on denuclearization of Hanoi in early 2019.
In any case, the use of this type of projectile by North Korea is not punished by UN sanctions, which focus on the regime's ballistic missiles and nuclear tests.
North Korea
has been isolated from the outside world since the pandemic began in 2020 and has carried out a record number of projectile tests this year after approving a weapons modernization plan last year.
The regime has rejected health aid
and offers of dialogue from Washington and Seoul, which are responding in turn with "extended deterrence," and has already completed preparations for
its first nuclear test in five years
.
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