North Korea launches two ballistic missiles: what to know NOW
The test came two days before North Korea was set to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
As Washington and Seoul work to fortify their alliance, North Korea has responded by launching a barrage of missile tests, including strategic cruise missiles, short-range missiles and a bevy of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs.
Seoul and Washington have continued to ramp up their joint military exercises in recent months, some involving nuclear-capable American strategic bombers and large-scale live-fire drills near the inter-Korean border. Here is what we know about North Korea’s continued missile launches.
The missiles, launched from near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, shortly before midnight Monday, and fell in waters off the North’s east coast, the South Korean military said.
Earlier Monday, a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered United States submarine visited a naval port in Jeju, an island off the south coast of South Korea, for a military resupply. A week ago, an American nuclear ballistic missile submarine visited South Korea for the first time in four decades, prompting North Korea to warn of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Also on Monday, North Korea said that a Chinese delegation led by Li Hongzhong, a member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party will visit Pyongyang to take part in the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice. The Chinese visitors are the first large foreign delegation North Korea has invited since it shut its borders in 2020 for fear of the pandemic.
The Korean War was suspended in a truce signed on Thursday 70 years ago. North Korea celebrates the anniversary as a war victory day. Outside analysts have detected signs that North Korea was preparing for a military parade to celebrate the anniversary.
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