Earlier this month, Pyongyang carried out a record-breaking blitz of weapons launches
SEOUL, Nov 9 (AFP) North Korea Launches ‘Unspecified Ballistic Missile’: Seoul Army Earlier this month, Pyongyang conducted a record-breaking blitz of weapons launches By AFP Nov 9, 2022. North Korea official A November 2022 publication by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows various missile tests being conducted by the North Korean People’s Army at undisclosed locations. –
North Korea fired at least one of her ballistic missiles on Wednesday, the Seoul military said. “North Korea has launched an unspecified ballistic missile in the East Sea,” the Seoul Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the waters also known as the Sea of ​​Japan. The South Korean military also said it had found and analyzed fragments of missiles fired by North Korea.
North Korea launched more than 20 missiles, including short-range ballistic missiles, on Nov. It crossed the line and issued a warning to residents of South Korea’s Ulleungdo Island to evacuate to bunkers. The Seoul military said at the time that a North Korean missile had landed so close in its southern territorial waters “for the first time since the division of the peninsula” at the end of hostilities in 1953. Shortly thereafter, South Korea sent a recovery vessel to search for the missile, which landed at a depth of about 5,000 to 6,500 feet (1,500 to 2,000 meters), the Seoul-based magazine NK News reported.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement that it had successfully recovered a fragment three meters long and two meters wide, identifying it as one of North Korea’s SA-5 missiles. said, “The SA-5 is a missile that can also be used as a surface-to-surface missile.” “Russia recently used surface-to-air missiles similar to surface-to-surface missiles in the Ukraine war,” the statement added. The announcement comes a day after North Korea dismissed US allegations that it was secretly supplying Russia with artillery shells for its war in Ukraine.
Last week, White House National Security Press Secretary John Kirby said North Korea was supplying Russia with a “significant number of artillery shells” under the guise of shipments to the Middle East and Africa, which Moscow received. Earlier this month, Pyongyang conducted a record-breaking blitz of weapons fire, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, in response to the largest-ever joint air exercise by Seoul and Washington. . The United States and South Korea have warned that such missile launches could lead to North Korea’s nuclear test.
