Ahead Of The US Election, North Korea Launches Numerous Ballistic Missiles Into The Ocean

Hours before America’s presidential election, North Korea continued its weapons tests on Tuesday, firing several short-range Projectile toward its eastern sea, according to the South Korean military.

The JCS of South Korea stated that the missiles traveled roughly 250 kilometers, although they did not say how many were shot. According to Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba, there were no early damage reports after landing in waters outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

North Korean leader inspected a flight test of the nation’s newest ICBM, which is intended to reach the U.S. mainland, just days before the firing. As a show of force in reaction to that launch, the United States conducted a trilateral exercise with South Korea and Japan on Sunday, flying a long-range B-1B bomber. Un’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong condemned that on Tuesday, accusing North Korea’s adversaries of inciting tensions by aggressive and daring war threats.

Although analysts say the solid-fuel missile was too large to be of any use in combat, North Korea declared this week that the Hwasong-19, which it launched on October 31, was the strongest intercontinental ballistic missile in the world. According to experts, North Korea still lacks several essential technologies needed to construct a working ICBM, like making sure the warhead can withstand the extreme conditions of atmospheric re-entry.

As Kim has frequently demonstrated his growing nuclear weapons and missile programs and allegedly supplied Russia with troops and armaments to back Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, tensions between the Koreas have reached their greatest degree in years.

Up to 10,000 North Korean soldiers are in the Kursk region of Russia and are getting ready to join Moscow’s war against Ukraine in the next few days, Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday. If they fight, it would be the first time North Korea has taken part in a major conflict since the Korean War ended in 1950–1953.

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have been upgrading their nuclear deterrence plans based on U.S. strategic assets and increasing their joint military exercises in response to North Korea’s increasing nuclear threat.

In order to defend its unrelenting pursuit of nuclear weapons and missiles, North Korea has depicted the joint military exercises conducted by its adversaries as invasion preparations.

North Korea’s envoy, Kim Song, defended the North’s nuclear and ICBM programs during a UNSC meeting on Monday, arguing that they are vital for the nation’s self-defense and a required reaction to what it believes to be nuclear threats from the United States. To confront any threat posed by adversarial nuclear-armed powers, he emphasized that North Korea would expedite the development of its nuclear force.