North Korea sacked several ballistic missiles on Monday, a few hours after condemning South Korean and US militants, calling Pyongyang a “dangerous provocative act”, which mistakenly triggered the risk of promoting the collision.
The South Korean military said the missiles were fired from the North Korean western region to the Yellow Sea. The launch was the first ballistic missile test after US President Donald Trump took office in January.
The missiles are nearby ballistic missiles, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said.
In a statement, the US military condemned the missile launches and called on North Korea to “refrain from more illegal and unstable activities”. The Hindu Pacific Command added that it would oversee the situation, which he said was not an immediate threat to the United States or its allies.
The allies’ annual Freedom Shield exercises are underway until March 20, though South Korean jets were suspended directly after the bombing of a civilian town near the border last week, which injured 29, injuring 29.
North Korea has generally demanded that the US South Korea’s joint exercises be stopped, and that they should be deployed. The South Korean military has said that the joint exercises are aimed at strengthening the preparations for the alliance to face threats such as North Korea.
According to the North Korean Foreign Ministry, “this is a dangerous provocative process that leads to a severe situation on the Korean Peninsula, which can accidentally lead to an extreme point of physical conflict between the two sides through a single shot.” KCNA. The ministry added that exercises will damage US security.
South Korean Air Force Chief Lee Young Soo on Monday apologized for the “extraordinary” accident last week, in which two jets mistakenly bombed a South Korean village. “It was an accident that should never have happened, and that should never happen,” Lee told reporters.
A South Korean military official said at the interim to investigate the army that a pilot was pressed for time in a jet and did not check the target points, while another pilot in the other jet left behind the bombs without seeing the wrong points.
The area was affected by an accidental bombing in Pukuon, which is about 40km northeast of Seoul, about 40 km northeast, out of the training area near the North Korean border. Residents of the area have long complained about the problems and risks coming from the exercises.
