USA y South Korea launched eight ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan (called the East Sea in Korea) in response to similar actions carried out by the neighboring country.
According to information from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), collected by the Yonhap agency, military forces from both countries fired the projectiles of the Army’s Tactical Missile System (Atacms) in a period of 10 minutes during the early hours of this Sunday 5.
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“The combined launch of surface-to-surface missiles between South Korea and the United States demonstrated the ability and posture to launch immediate precision strikes on provocation sources and their command and support forces,” the entity said in a statement.
The South Korean military “strongly condemns the North’s series of ballistic missile provocations and strongly urges it to immediately stop the acts that raise military tensions on the peninsula and add to security concerns,” the JCS added.
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Seoul, under the government of the conservative president Yoon Suk-yeolSince May 10, he advocates hardening his position once morest his neighbor following a more conciliatory stage with his predecessor. Furthermore, he has said that they will respond accordingly to North Korean actions of this kind.
This coordinated action by Seoul and Washington It came a day following Pyongyang fired an identical number of short-range ballistic missiles from various locations across its territory, in an apparent show of muscle following allied naval exercises near the Korean peninsula.
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During those exercises, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was deployed, something that had not happened since the end of 2017.
North Korea has carried out a record number of 18 missile launches so far this year, the most recent being the day before.
In its previous test, on May 25, the regime led by Kim Jong-un fired two short-range projectiles and an apparent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) following more than four years.
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On that occasion, South Korea and the US also responded with a combined launch similar to this Sunday, the first they had also carried out since 2017 during a period of special friction between the powers before a few years of detente.
Pyongyang, which used to publicize this type of protest launches in its state media, has not commented on its most recent tests for the moment.
