SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, which has been ramping up rounds of ballistic missile tests since the start of the year, fired what appear to be two cruise missiles off its east coast on Tuesday morning, the official said on Tuesday. South Korean Army General Staff.
The South Korean army analyzes the tests carried out by Pyongyang to determine the nature of the projectiles.
North Korea has carried out five missile tests since the beginning of the month, while North Korea’s number one Kim Jong-un called during his New Year greetings for a strengthening of the country’s military capabilities, citing the context amid deadlock in talks with the United States on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The framework of sanctions imposed by the United Nations on North Korea since its first nuclear tests in 2006 does not prohibit the firing of cruise missiles, “slower than ballistic missiles, therefore considered a lesser threat, but capable of ‘hit their targets with high precision,” said Lee Sang-min, a military expert at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis in Seoul.
North Korea says it is open to discussions on regional security, making it a condition that the United States and other countries stop pursuing a “hostile policy” against it, through sanctions or military maneuvers.
China and Russia are campaigning within the UN Security Council to lift Pyongyang’s export ban on certain products such as seafood and textiles, and raise a ceiling on its imports. of refined petroleum.
(Jack Kim report; French version Jean Terzian and Jean-Stéphane Brosse, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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