North Korea on Tuesday launched at least two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) towards the East Sea, as the area on the Korean Peninsula is known as the Sea of ​​Japan, from Tokyo, the statement said. General Headquarters in Seoul. a few hours after the start of new large-scale joint US-South Korean military exercises.

The joint universities of the armed forces of Seoul and Washington, called the “Shield of Freedom”, are characterized as the largest in the past five years. They began against the backdrop of yesterday’s announcement by Pyongyang about the launch of two cruise missiles from a submarine.

The exercises will last at least ten days and their goal is to prepare the armies of the two countries to deal with the “increasing” threats from North Korea. On Monday, Pyongyang said the cruise missile test is aimed at testing the performance of its “deterrents” “in various areas.”

In general, joint American-South Korean high schools are characteristic of North Korea as rehearsals for an invasion of its territory. Washington and Seoul deny this accusation.

In 2022, the North Korean leadership declared its nuclear status “irreversible” and conducted an unprecedented number of ballistic missile tests in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions that theoretically forbid it from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been rising since last year. On Friday, North Korea’s official news agency KCNA reported that the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, had ordered his military to increase the number of high schools for a “real war.”

On the other hand, the US government has repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to defend South Korea using “the full range” of US military capabilities, “including nuclear.”

Source: RES-IPE