Pyongyang pulled a dozen missiles on Wednesday, before Seoul replied. This rise in tension constitutes a North Korean response to the joint military maneuvers between the United States and South Korea.
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The tension suddenly mounted an additional notch between the two Koreas, Wednesday, November 2: Pyongyang fired a dozen missiles, which caused an alarming reaction from the South Korean president, Yoon Seok-Youl. The latter went so far as to denounce a “de facto territorial invasion” by his rival. One of the North Korean missiles had just crashed not far from the South Korean territorial waters, an unprecedented fact. According to the South Korean army, in fact, it is “the first time, since the peninsula division”, at the end of the fights of the Korean War, in 1953, that a North Korean missile is Fallen so close to the territorial waters of the South. Seoul immediately retaliated by making three air-ground missiles pulled by hunters from his air army. Barely a few hours later, North Korea resumed the initiative by firing “four ballistic missiles of short-range” additional, according to the South Korean army.
This sudden worsening of relations between the two rivals is not really a surprise, insofar as North Korean shots are obviously a replica to the joint military maneuvers of the United States and Korea of the South, which started on Monday. These exercises, called “vigilant storm”, are the most important ever organized by the two countries, with 240 war planes and several thousand soldiers of the two armies mobilized. According to a press release from the United States Air Force, the combined forces combined American-south-Korean should proceed to some 1,600 aerial outings by Friday, the day scheduled for the end of the maneuvers.
Pyongyang had reacted verbally to these exercises on Wednesday by the voice of Marshal Pak Jong-Mong, secretary of the North Korean worker party, who called “vigilant storm” as “aggressive and provocative” maneuvers “, according to Interview by the official press.
“Dangerous and unstable situation”
Field exchanges began on Wednesday with the sending of a short-range North Korean ballistic missile, which crossed the “northern limit line”, de facto the maritime border between the two countries . The shooting caused a rare alert to the air raid asking the inhabitants of the South Korean island of Ulleungdo to take refuge in underground shelters.
The South Korean presidency said in a statement that “the North Korean provocation is a de facto territorial invasion by a missile which crossed the northern limit line” of the country. The missile, fell closest to South Korea, has bitter in waters located just 57 kilometers east of Continental South Korea, explained the army of Seoul, which described as “very rare and intolerable “Pyongyang shooting. “We declare that our army will respond decisively,” added a military statement. Shortly after, Seoul announced that he had drawn three air-ground missiles near the place where the North Korean missile had fallen. President Yoon then summoned a meeting of the National Security Council, South Korea ordering “rapid and severe measures so that the provocations of North Korea are paid at a high price”.
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