This is the seventh and eighth in less than two weeks: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on the night of Saturday October 8 to Sunday October 9, reports the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea , quoted by the Yohnap news agency. The Japanese Prime Minister’s office confirmed the shooting on Twitter. “North Korea has carried out an alleged ballistic missile launch. More details will follow »they said.
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North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile. More updates to follow.
The missiles appear to have landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, Japanese government officials said, and according to that country’s coast guard, no damage to a Japanese vessel was reported.
Nuclear power “irreversible”
The missile launches are part of a record year of weapons testing by North Korea, which leader Kim Jong-un has declared to be a nuclear power “irreversible”, thus ending the possibility of denuclearization talks. Pyongyang fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, where the affected populations had to be asked to take shelter.
North Korea justified this series of tests by the “military threats” Americans and issued a new press release where she affirmed “follow very closely the extremely worrying development of the current situation”in reference to the deployment of the American aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan during the joint American-South Korean maneuvers in which a Japanese destroyer took part. These joint exercises between Seoul and Washington arouse the anger of Pyongyang, the North Korean regime considering them as rehearsals for an invasion.
Analysts say Pyongyang has taken advantage of the stalemate at the United Nations to carry out ever more provocative weapons tests. In addition, Seoul and Washington have been warning for months that Pyongyang will conduct another nuclear test, likely after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress on Oct. 16.