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North Korea fires projectiles again, for the sixth time this month

North Korea is believed to have fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of ​​Japan, east of the Korean peninsula. That says the South Korean army, reports news agency Yonhap.

It is the sixth time since the beginning of the year that Pyongyang is conducting missile tests. The country says the tests are necessary to defend itself, but is believed to want to put pressure on stalled negotiations with South Korea and the United States.

South Korea’s military command says the test was held around 8 a.m. local time in and around the town of Hamhung, on North Korea’s east coast. The rockets covered a distance of 190 kilometers and reached a height of 20 kilometers. “Our military is closely monitoring North Korea’s movements and is on standby,” the army chief said.

According to Japanese media, it appears that the projectiles ended up outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

Series of missile tests

On Tuesday, the communist regime also carried out a missile test from. It is believed to have involved two cruise missiles. North Korea also claimed to have previously tested hypersonic missiles, which have five times the speed of sound and hardly need to leave the atmosphere. South Korea contradicted that claim.

The US and Japan have condemned the series of missile tests. The US recently imposed additional sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s regime and against Russian individuals suspected of supporting North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The US also called on the UN Security Council to impose new sanctions.

North Korea has stopped testing intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons since 2017, but after a failed nuclear summit with the US in 2019, the country did start testing short-range missiles again.

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