North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward waters off its eastern coast Monday, adding to a recent flurry in weapons tests as the United States prepared to deploy an aircraft carrier strike group to neighbouring waters to step up military exercises with the South.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from a western inland area south of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang from around 7:47 a.m. to 8 a.m. and travelled around 370 kilometres before landing at sea. It condemned the missile launches as a "serious provocation" threatening regional peace and violating U.N. Security Council resolutions and added that the U.S. and South Korean intelligence departments were analyzing the launches more closely.
The allies completed their biggest springtime exercises in years last week, but North Korea is expected to further step up its testing activity as the United States moves an aircraft carrier group to the peninsula this week for another round of joint drills. North Korea's launches this month included a flight-test of an intercontinental ballistic missile and a series of short-range weapons intended to overwhelm South Korean missile defences as it tries to demonstrate an ability to conduct nuclear strikes on both South Korea and the U.S. mainland.
The North's tests also included a purported nuclear-capable underwater drone that the North claimed is capable of setting off a huge "radioactive tsunami" that would destroy naval vessels and ports. Analysts were skeptical about the North Korean claims about the drone or whether the device presents a major new threat, but the tests underlined the North's commitment to expand its nuclear threats.
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