Missile launch by North Korea at the same time as Blinken’s trip

, at the same time as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Seoul, the capital of South Korea, North Korea launched several short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea.

Anthony Blinken has left for Seoul to participate in a conference on advancing democracy hosted by South Korean President Yoon Seok-yul.

The South Korean military announced in a statement that at the same time as this trip, several short-range ballistic missiles were launched from Pyongyang and traveled about 300 kilometers and fell into the sea on the east coast.

South Korea called the move a clear provocation and said it was sharing information about the launches with its American and Japanese allies.

The Ministry of Defense of Japan also stated that three rockets were launched by Pyongyang and they flew about 350 km at a maximum height of 50 km from the surface of the earth.

After confirming this missile launch by the Japanese Coast Guard, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida strongly condemned this action. Shortly after the launch, the Japanese coast guard stated that these missiles fell outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. North Korea endangers the peace and security of our region and the international community and is absolutely unacceptable and a clear violation of UN resolutions.

This Meanwhile, in recent weeks, North Korea has conducted drills and exercises using conventional weapons, and most of them have been personally visited by the president of this country, Kim Jong Un.

Also, this missile launch took place while the American and South Korean military finished their 10-day annual joint exercise aimed at countering North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats last Thursday.

Meanwhile, South Korea’s military on Sunday demonstrated its naval forces, attack helicopters and amphibious assault vehicles in an exercise aimed at increasing the number of troops. in order to strengthen the western islands located on the sea border with North Korea. North Korea shelled these islands in 2010.

According to this report, Blinken is one of the highest-ranking officials around the world who He has gone to Seoul to participate in a conference to promote democracy. Blinken is supposed to have a separate meeting with his South Korean counterpart during this trip.

While Pyongyang on November 21 last year the first The spy and reconnaissance satellite was successfully launched into the Earth orbit and this satellite was successfully placed in the Earth orbit after 12 minutes. North Korea described this spy satellite as a sign of a “new era of space power” for the country.

North Korea’s official news agency stated that Pyongyang plans to launch satellites More detection will be launched in the near future. Launching more satellites into Earth orbit will improve our ability and capacity to obtain information from areas adjacent to North Korea, especially in South Korea.

North Korea also in the early days of this year on January 14 A medium-range, solid-fueled hypersonic rocket was successfully tested.

Accordingly, the purpose of this launch is to test the reliability of high-thrust, multi-stage solid fuel engines, as well as to test a medium-range hypersonic maneuverable control warhead. is.

A few days later, North Korea fired several cruise missiles within a week. .

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A few days ago, the state media of North Korea announced that “Kim Jong-un”, the president of the country, visited the operational training camp of the army in the west of North Korea, referring to the military exercises. The United States and South Korea said: “The military must continuously conduct real military exercises with the aim of immediately improving combat capabilities in order to be fully prepared for a full-scale war.”

Since 2006, North Korea has been under numerous UN sanctions due to its nuclear program and ballistic missiles, these sanctions include a ban on the development and expansion of missiles. It is ballistic. This technology was used to launch Pyongyang’s first spy satellite into Earth orbit and has been used to test dozens of ballistic missiles over the past 20 months. America has repeatedly warned that Pyongyang is ready to conduct its seventh nuclear test.

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