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North Korea released the details of the military operation last week in response to the South Korea-U.S. joint aerial exercise.
There were many parts that were different from what our military had detected, and our military said that North Korea was lying.
Ahn Jung-sik, a reporter specializing in North Korea, reports.
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a press release in the name of the General Staff, North Korea claimed that it launched a cruise missile off the coast of Ulsan on the 2nd, during the 'Vigilant Storm' exercise.
[Chosun Central TV: In North Hamgyeong Province, two strategic cruise missiles struck in retaliatory strikes in the high seas, 80 km in front of Ulsan.]
On the day that the missile was launched into the East Sea area south of the NLL for the first time since division, the South Korean military fired in response The missile was fired off the coast of Ulsan.
The military said it was groundless.
North Korea made a different claim to the South Korean military's assessment of the failure of the Hwasong-17 ICBM launch on the 3rd.
They released photos of what appeared to be an improved or new medium-range missile of the Hwasong-15, and claimed that it was a test to paralyze the enemy's communication system by generating electromagnetic waves from an aerial explosion.
The military also dismissed this.
[Kim Jun-rak/Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: We are paying attention to the fact that the ICBM did not report abnormally (properly).
The evaluation results of our military (called the Hwasong-17 failure) have not changed until now…
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North Korea claimed that it was a sortie of 500 fighter jets about 180 North Korean military aircraft in motion on the 4th, but the military's response is baseless.
Military authorities said they were conducting detailed analysis, saying that the remnants of missiles fired by North Korea into the region south of the NLL were collected in the East Sea.