North Korea had blamed a joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea for growing tensions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - North Korea on Thursday fired a short-range ballistic missile towards the Yellow Sea, located between China and the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s military said.
The launch follows a statement on Tuesday by Ms Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, thatThe missile was fired at about 6.20pm local time from around the North Korean city of Nampo, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. On Tuesday, North Korea blamed a joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea for growing tensions, state media KCNA said.
The United States and South Korea will conduct large-scale military exercises known as the “Freedom Shield” drills starting next week. “Since September 2022, North Korea has timed its missile launches and military demonstrations to counter US–South Korea exercises probably to attempt to coerce the United States and South Korea to change their behaviour,” US intelligence agencies said in a threat assessment report on Wednesday. REUTERS
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