By: EFE Updated 27 Jan 2022, 0: 18 am EST
North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday night , reported the South Korean Army, in what constitutes the sixth test of this type in Pyongyang so far this year.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of South Korea reported that the launch occurred around 8:00 00 local time from the Hamhung area on the east coast of North Korea .
The Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, denounced the launch of the projectiles
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“Include ballistic missiles it is a violation of the resolution of the UN Security Council, which we denounce and regret”, the Japanese Prime Minister told the media.
The Japanese Prime Minister declared that by compiling the information, although no damage to Japanese ships or planes has been reported so far.
The launch took place from after last Tuesday the regime fired another two apparently cruise projectiles from inside the country, and after other tests carried out in previous weeks that included ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The JCS indicated in a statement that continues to analyze the movements of the North and the details of the launch.
The missiles did not fall into the waters of the exclusive zone of Japan, according to sources from the Japanese Executive told the state broadcaster NHK, so Tokyo does not consider the test to have posed a threat to its security.
The sixth round of launches of North Korean missiles so far this year takes place amid the deadlock in the denuclearization dialogue between the secretive regime and the United States.
In this context, Pyongyang threatened last day 20 with a possible resumption of its nuclear tests and d and intercontinental ballistic missiles, noting that it is considering resuming all its “temporarily suspended actions” in the area of Defense.
The North Korean regime contemplates returning to this type of measure that it decided to suspend unilaterally within the framework of the inter-Korean thaw process, and in response to the “increasingly aggravating hostile actions” of the United States, as decided at a meeting of the highest government body of the country led by Kim Jong-un and collected by the state media.