On the morning of the 7th, the General Staff Department of the North Korean Armed Forces announced through the state-run Korean Central News Agency that it will conduct four days from the 2nd to the 5th of this month to respond to the large-scale training by the US and South Korean air forces that was held until the 5th. , announced that it had conducted a military operation, including the launch of ballistic missiles.
Among them, on the first day of the training on the 2nd of this month, 23 surface-to-air missiles were fired assuming an attack on the enemy's air base, and it was the first time since the North and South were divided that they were launched across the sea boundary. Regarding missiles, it said, "We launched two strategic cruise missiles into the high seas 80 kilometers off the coast of Ulsan."
In addition, regarding the launch of a ballistic missile presumed to be a new ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile class "Hwasong-17 type" on the 3rd of this month, it is said that "a tactical ballistic missile was launched in accordance with the instructions of the Academy of Defense Science." increase.