North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of ​​Japan

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North Korea

fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the

(called the East Sea in the two Koreas) on Friday, according to the South Korean Army, in what is the fourth such test in the last week.

The South Korean

reported the new launches around 7:00 local time on Saturday (22:00 GMT on Friday), and specified that they were two short-range ballistic projectiles, without offering more details of the same for the moment.

The new test takes place after the visit to South Korea until last Thursday of the vice president of the United States,

, and that

carried out joint anti-submarine military maneuvers on Friday to counter Pyongyang's weapons developments.

The missiles fell outside the waters of

, according to the authorities of this country, who have no evidence of damage to Japanese ships or vessels as a result of the launches.

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of ​​Japan last Thursday hours after Harris took off from the South, following similar launches the day before and one more last Saturday.

During his trip to South Korea, Harris visited the militarized inter-Korean border and met in Seoul with South Korean President

's commitment to

deploy strategic assets to defend the South based on the actions of the North.

The succession of weapons tests in the North, which for the time being has not commented on them, is interpreted as a response to the deployment of the

on the peninsula.

The day before, the USS "Ronald Reagan" carried out joint exercises with the South Korean and Japanese naval forces in the Sea of ​​Japan in order to "detect, identify and track North Korean submarines equipped with technology to launch

(ballistic missiles that are fired from a submersible).

The last time that the "Ronald Reagan" traveled to the peninsula to carry out joint maneuvers of this type was in September 2017, in full escalation of tension after the last North Korean nuclear test to date.

Seoul and Washington sought with these exercises to send a message of strength at a time when their intelligence services assume that the hermetic regime has been ready for months to execute what would be its seventh underground nuclear detonation in its

(northeast of the country).

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