North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the East Sea on the 1st, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Military authorities are analyzing specifications such as range, altitude, and speed.
Today is our Armed Forces Day, and a large-scale ceremony is scheduled at Gyeryongdae in Chungcheongnam-do.
North Korea fired ballistic missiles four times in the past week from two days following the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) entered Busan on the 23rd of last month.
On the 25th of last month, one short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) was fired from Taecheon, North Pyongan Province, two SRBMs from the Sunan area of Pyongyang on the 28th, and two SRBMs from the Suncheon area of South Pyongan Province on the 29th.
It is analyzed that this launch was also an armed demonstration in protest once morest the South Korea-U.S.-Japan anti-submarine warfare exercise held the day before.
From early morning to evening, South Korea, the United States and Japan conducted joint anti-submarine exercises assuming a situation of tracking and detecting a North Korean submarine equipped with a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in the high seas of the East Sea east of Dokdo.
It is also presumed that Vice President Kamala Harris criticized North Korea’s ballistic missile launch program from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the 29th of last month.
North Korea has launched 20 ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles this year.
It is the eighth missile launch since the inauguration of the Yun Seok-yeol government.
/yunhap news
