Asia: North Korea launches unidentified projectile

North Korea launched an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of ​​Japan on Tuesday, the South Korean army announced, a week after Pyongyang claimed to have tested a new “hypersonic missile” and a few days before the inauguration of Donald Trump.

“North Korea launched an unidentified projectile towards the East Sea,” another name for the Sea of ​​Japan, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, without giving further details in the statement. immediate.

The launch comes a week after Pyongyang fired what North Korean leader Kim Jong-un described as “an intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile” intended to deter “all rivals” of the country in the Pacific region.

Troops in Ukraine

The test took place during a visit to South Korea by outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and was the North’s first since President-elect Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November. South Korea, an ally of the United States, is a fierce rival of North Korea, with which it remains technically at war.

In November, nuclear-armed North Korea tested what it claimed was its new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the most advanced in its arsenal. In response, the South Korean military fired a ballistic missile.

Washington has accused Pyongyang of receiving support from Russia in exchange for sending its troops to Ukraine to fight there. But neither North Korea nor Russia has officially confirmed that North Korean forces are fighting for Moscow.

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