The Communist country carried out six launches in less than two weeks, the last of which was that of two ballistic missiles on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the North launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) over Japan, forcing some of the archipelago’s residents to take cover.
“The DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) missile test launch is a regular and planned self-defense measure to defend the country’s security and regional peace against direct US military threats that have lasted for more than half a century,” he said. the North Korean civil aviation agency without specifying what the launch was, according to the official agency KCNA.
State media released the statement after the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which holds its annual meeting in Montreal, on Friday condemned Pyongyang’s ballistic tests in recent months and called them a danger to civil aviation.
The lonely country sees this resolution adopted by the ICAO as “a political provocation by the United States and its vassal forces aimed at undermining the sovereignty of the DPRK”.
For their part, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington have stepped up their joint military exercises in recent weeks and on Thursday carried out new maneuvers involving a US Navy destroyer belonging to the strike group of the USS aircraft carrier. Ronald Reagan.
The launches come in the midst of a record year of weapons testing by North Korea, which leader Kim Jong-un called an “irreversible” nuclear power, ending nuclear war and the possibility of denuclearization talks.
Analysts say Pyongyang has taken advantage of the standoff at the United Nations to carry out increasingly provocative weapons tests.
Additionally, Seoul and Washington have been warning for months that Pyongyang will conduct another nuclear test, likely after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress on October 16.
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The Communist country carried out six launches in less than two weeks, the last of which was that of two ballistic missiles on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the North launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) over Japan, forcing some of the archipelago’s residents to take cover.
“The DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) missile test launch is a regular and planned self-defense measure to defend the country’s security and regional peace against direct US military threats that have lasted for more than half a century,” he said. the North Korean civil aviation agency without specifying what the launch was, according to the official agency KCNA.
State media released the statement after the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which holds its annual meeting in Montreal, on Friday condemned Pyongyang’s ballistic tests in recent months and called them a danger to civil aviation.
The lonely country sees this resolution adopted by the ICAO as “a political provocation by the United States and its vassal forces aimed at undermining the sovereignty of the DPRK”.
For their part, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington have stepped up their joint military exercises in recent weeks and on Thursday carried out new maneuvers involving a US Navy destroyer belonging to the strike group of the USS aircraft carrier. Ronald Reagan.
The launches come in the midst of a record year of weapons testing by North Korea, which leader Kim Jong-un called an “irreversible” nuclear power, ending nuclear war and the possibility of denuclearization talks.
Analysts say Pyongyang has taken advantage of the standoff at the United Nations to carry out increasingly provocative weapons tests.
Additionally, Seoul and Washington have been warning for months that Pyongyang will conduct another nuclear test, likely after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress on October 16.
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