North Korea Fires Missiles, Provoking Tensions

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

(Worthy News) – North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan in the first such test since Joe Biden became U.S. president.

Japanese and U.S. officials said the projectiles were launched on North Korea’s east coast and are believed to have landed in the sea outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

“It’s been a year since they last launched a missile, ” Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, noted to reporters. “This threatens the peace and security of our country and the region. It is also a violation of the UN resolution.”

South Korea’s military said the North fired two “unidentified projectiles” into the Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in Korea, from South Hamgyong province. No further information on the device type was immediately available.

Pyongyang is banned from carrying out ballistic missile tests under the U.N. Security Council resolution. Japan said no debris had fallen within its territorial waters. It comes just days after North Korea fired two non-ballistic cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea.

The nuclear-armed, highly secretive communist state has been using weapons tests as provocations to reach its objectives.

Thursday’s firing of potentially nuclear-capable missiles came as a warning to U.S. President Biden after a tense relation between leader Kim Jong-un and then president Donald Trump. Pyongyang has been biding its time since the new administration took office, not even officially acknowledging its existence until last week.

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