South Korea denounces the tests, which are added to the dozens of launches this week and coincide with the joint military exercises in Seoul and Washington
North Korea continue with your tests missiles. This Saturday, Seoul has denounced that Pyongyang has launched other four ballistic rockets short-range that have fallen into the Yellow Sea. The missiles traveled about 130 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 20 kilometers, according to the South Korean Army.
The missiles left from Tongrim county, in the province of North Pyonyang, between 11:32 (05:32 in Spain) and 11:59 (05:59 in Spain), according to the military statement collected by the official South Korean news agency Yonhap.
This week, the Kim Jong-un regime has launched several missiles. On Thursday, it fired six missiles, including an intercontinental one, and a day earlier launched at least 25 more rockets into the Sea of Japan, one of which flew over the maritime demarcation line between the two Koreas for the first time since the war. The evidence drew condemnation from Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.
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This frenzy has fueled speculation that North Korea may be preparing for a nuclear test, which would be the first since 2017, and takes place while South Korea and the United States carry out large military exercises in the area. These exercises should have ended this Friday, but Washington and Seoul have decided to extend them without clarifying the end date.
It is the first large-scale aerial exercise in almost five years and has mobilized some 240 aircraft, in a drill harshly criticized by the North Korean authorities as a display of force and a security threat. The South Korean General Staff has described them as “a demonstration of Washington’s firm commitment to the extended deterrence strategy and the combined defense posture of both allied countries”, referring to the US.