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South Korea warns it may aim weapons at North Korea’s missile test site

After North Korea was reported to have fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), South Korea test-fired a series of missiles in response. Seoul also warned that it could aim weapons at Pyongyang’s weapons launch site if necessary.

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A North Korean missile test (Picture: KCNA).

Yonhap Citing an announcement on March 24 of the South Korean Army, the country’s armed forces carried out a live-fire exercise with Seoul’s key missiles.

South Korea fired missiles from land, sea and air around its eastern seaboard, hours after North Korea launched what was believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, the statement said. continental shelf (ICBM) to the sea. This could be Pyongyang’s first ICBM test after five years of halting firing of the weapon in pursuit of diplomacy for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

While, Sputnik South Korea’s military said in a statement that it was “ready and able” to launch precision weapons “if necessary” against the sites North Korea used to fire missiles, as well as its control systems. of Pyongyang.

The Korean weapons that have been mobilized to participate in the live-fire exercise are Hyunmoo-2 surface-to-surface missiles, ATACMS tactical missiles, Haesung-II ship-to-surface missiles and JDAM air-to-surface missiles.

The drill is said to send a message to warn North Korea’s moves, according to Yonhap.

Earlier, Japan said that North Korea’s launch appeared to be a “new type” ICBM and it flew 1,100 km from the launch site. The Japanese coast guard said that the suspected missile object landed in the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), about 170 km west of Aomori Prefecture, at 3:44 pm (local time).

South Korean President Moon Jae-in accused North Korea of ​​violating a ban on launching intercontinental ballistic missiles. Pyongyang had previously signaled that it might cancel the ban after efforts to negotiate denuclearization of the Korean peninsula stalled.

The US Indo-Pacific Command also condemned North Korea’s missile test, and urged Pyongyang to stop taking actions that could destabilize the situation.

This was North Korea’s 13th weapon launch this year, marking an unprecedented frequency of tests by Pyongyang. The incident continued to escalate tensions in the region.

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