North Korea fires 3 missiles into the East Sea.
The information was provided by the South Korean Ministry of Defense and confirmed by the Japanese government; initially, the tests conducted this Saturday are not expected to violate any international regulations, since the missiles launched were all short-range.
247 with international agencies North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) from its eastern coast on Saturday, South Korean Defense Ministry sources said. Ministry officials, quoted by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, said two launches were detected this morning and a third shortly after noon.
According to sources, the North Korean Armed Forces have increased surveillance of the movements of neighboring North Korea, with which Seoul is still technically at war, since the conflict fought between 1950 and 1953 was ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.
The Japanese government also confirmed the three launches carried out by the North Korean army and that none of the projectiles landed in Japanese waters. Initially, the tests conducted on Saturday are not expected to violate any international regulations, as the missiles launched were all short-range.
Several UN resolutions, approved after Pyongyang conducted underground nuclear and ballistic missile tests, prohibit the communist regime from launching projectiles with greater range and payload, considering them part of a program for the development of intercontinental nuclear weapons.
This is the first belligerent move in recent weeks by the North Korean regime, which has toned down its recent campaign of belligerent threats since the end of April.
The communist regime began issuing aggressive warnings of "atomic war" to South Korea, the US, and Japan after the UN Security Council unanimously sanctioned its nuclear test conducted last February, and also in protest against recent joint military maneuvers carried out by Seoul and Washington on the Korean peninsula. (Information from EFE)