According to the South Korean military, a news broadcast showed footage of a North Korean missile test, at a station in Seoul on January 17, 2022, after North Korea fired an unidentified projectile. headed east in the country’s fourth suspected weapons test this month.
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South Korea and the United States fired eight face-to-face surface-to-surface missiles on Monday off the east coast of South Korea after North Korea launched a salvo of short-range ballistic missiles at South Korea, a South Korean defense ministry official said. Sunday, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing South Korean military sources, said the move was a demonstration of “the ability and willingness to carry out precision strikes” against the source of the missile launches. North Korean fire or command and support centers.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office last month, has vowed to take a tougher line on North Korea and agreed with US President Joe Biden at a summit in May in Seoul. Seoul to upgrade their joint exercises and combined deterrence posture.
The South Korean and U.S. militaries fired eight surface-to-surface missiles at approximately 10-minute intervals, beginning at 4:45 a.m. Monday (Sunday, 1945 GMT) in response to eight missiles fired by North Korea at Sunday. Japan, Yonhap reported.
An official from South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense confirmed that eight Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) were fired.
North Korea’s short-range ballistic missile, fired toward the sea off the country’s east coast on Sunday, is likely to be North Korea’s largest single test and comes a day after South Korea and the US ended joint exercises.
North Korea, which is within weeks of battling the first known Covid-19 outbreak, has criticized previous joint exercises as an example of Washington’s continued “hostile policies”. towards Pyongyang, despite its talk of diplomacy.
North Korea has conducted a flurry of missile launches this year, from hypersonic weapons to its largest test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time in nearly five years.
Washington and Seoul officials also recently warned that North Korea appeared poised to resume nuclear weapons tests for the first time since 2017.
Last month, North Korea fired three missiles, including one said to be the country’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile, after Biden wrapped up a tour of Asia where he agreed to the new measures to prevent nuclear-armed states.
The combined forces of South Korea and the United States also fired missiles in response to those tests, which the two allies said were in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
