North Korea launches two missiles, hours after US and South Korean military exercises.

North Korea launched two cruise missiles from a submarine on Sunday, the North Korean agency Kcna announced, a few hours before the joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States.

The shot was fired towards the sea off the coastal city of Sinpo (eastern North Korea) on Sunday morning, according to Kcna.

The South Korean army, quoted by the Yonhap agency, confirmed for its part that it detected a new missile launch. North Korea had warned that such military exercises might be seen as a “declaration of war.”

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The Kcna information indicates that the launch “shows the unwavering” determination of North Korea to face a situation in which forces “of US imperialism and its puppet South Korea show more and more clearly that they are maneuvers” once morest the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Kcna indicates that the exercise was successful and the missiles hit their unspecified targets in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.

According to Kcna, the launch made it possible to “verify the current operational posture of the nuclear deterrence means in different spaces.”