A good week after the last launch, North Korea fired another potentially nuclear-capable missile on Thursday, according to its neighbor South Korea. The ballistic missile flew toward the Sea of Japan, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the military. Further details were not initially given. Most recently, on November 9, North Korea tested a potentially nuclear-capable missile.
North Korea on Thursday announced “strengthened military responses” to efforts by the US and its allies to increase their military security presence in the region. “The US will realize that it is playing a game that it will surely regret,” North Korean foreign minister Choe Son-hui said in a statement released by the official KCNA news agency.
Military exercises are said to have exacerbated the security crisis
The recent joint military exercises between the United States, South Korea and Japan failed to contain the North, but rather exacerbated the security crisis. Such steps would result in “stricter countermeasures”. Choe criticized the recent trilateral summit between the leaders of the three countries. At the meeting, the United States, South Korea and Japan condemned the government’s weapons tests in Pyongyang and agreed to cooperate more closely on security issues.
UN resolutions prohibit North Korea, a self-declared nuclear power, from testing ballistic missiles of any range that can be armed with a nuclear warhead. Recently, tensions on the Korean peninsula had increased significantly. More than 50 North Korean missile tests have been conducted since the beginning of the year – in early November alone, the South Korean military recorded more than 25, including an ICBM.
Source: Krone
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