After Japan activated its warnings in the last few hours due to the impact of two North Korean missiles on its territory, the North Korean authorities justified their launch and they blamed the United States for these.
They did so after they fired two more bullets into the Japanese sea this Saturday, an action which – as they pointed out – is a measure of “personal defence” before military “threats” from Washington.
“The missile test is a regular and planned self-defense measure to ensure the country’s security and regional peace in the face of direct US military threats,” said the North Korean civil aviation organization.
The explanations were published in a statement released after the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) condemned the projectile drops in recent months and said they posed a danger to civil aviation.
In this sense, the country led by Kim Jong-un believes that the resolution approved by this body is “a political provocation by the United States and its vassal forces to transgress the sovereignty of the DPRK”.
For both the Americans and South Korea, the North Korean launches represent a “serious threat”: they prompted Japan to issue an evacuation alarm on the island after the last missiles hit the sea.
The missiles fell outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, into the sea, and the coast guard said they had not received any reports of damage to Japanese ships so far.
The launches come in a record year of weapons testing by North Korea, which Kim Jong-un has declared an “irreversible” nuclear power, ending the possibility of denuclearization talks.
Following the launches of recent days, the United States and South Korea have intensified their joint military exercises in the area in recent weeks.
In addition, last Thursday they carried out new maneuvers in which a US Navy destroyer of the strike group of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan participated.
The intelligence services of both countries have been warning for months of a possible new nuclear test in Pyongyang, which would be the first since 2017
North Korean missile tests
North Korea has conducted 23 weapons tests so far this year, totaling 43 ballistic and cruise missiles.
Last week it carried out four tests, in protest against the joint military exercises of the United States, South Korea and Japan.
President Joe Biden warned there will be “answers” if North Korea continues to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula, but his calls to the United Nations to impose more sanctions earlier this year were blocked by Russia and China.
The international community and the United States have repeatedly attempted both dialogue and sanctions to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
Neither worked.
With information from agencies
DB
Source: Clarin
