South Korea recovers missile pieces while North Korea claims the launches were a simulated attack.
North Korea claimed that its recent missile launches were mock attacks on South Korea and the US as the two nations conducted a “dangerous war exercise,”
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On Monday, North Korea claimed that its recent missile launches were mock attacks on South Korea and the US as the two nations conducted a “dangerous war exercise,” while the South claimed to have found pieces of a North Korean missile close to its shore.
As South Korea and the United States conducted six days of air manoeuvres that finished on Saturday, North Korea conducted a series of missile tests last week, perhaps including a failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), as well as the firing of hundreds of artillery shells into the sea.
The military of the North said that the “Vigilant Storm” drills were “a risky war drill of very high aggressive nature” and a “open provocation aimed at purposely raising the situation.”
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The army of the North claimed to have practised mock attacks on air bases, aircraft, and a significant South Korean city in order to “smash the adversaries’ incessant war frenzy.”
The barrage of missile launches, which came amid a record year of missile testing by nuclear-armed North Korea, included the most ever in a single day.
Additionally, according to representatives of South Korea and the United States, Pyongyang has begun technical preparations to test a nuclear bomb, the first time since 2017.
The recent tests, including the “reckless” firing of a missile that landed off the coast of South Korea last week, were denounced by senior diplomats from the United States, Japan, and South Korea during a phone call on Sunday, according to a statement from the U.S. State Department.
A South Korean ship has reportedly found wreckage thought to be from that North Korean short-range ballistic missile, according to a Joint Chiefs of Staff member who spoke on the record on Monday (SRBM). This was the first time a ballistic missile from North Korea had landed close to South Korean waters.
The parts were recovered by the South Korean Navy rescue vessel using an underwater probe, and they are now being examined, the official added.
