He had been on the first shot since January 30th. Pyongyang would have avoided missile tests during the Beijing Olympic Winter Games, its traditional ally.
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Northern Korea proceeded to a missile shot on Sunday, February 27, a few hours after attributing the United States the responsibility of the conflict in Ukraine. The announcement of the launch was made by the South Korean army that did not specify what type of projectile it was. Japanese coastguards added that “an object that could be a ballistic missile” was launched from North Korea. It would be shown at sea, east of the Korean peninsula.
This shot is the first since January 30th. Pyongyang would have avoided missile testing during the Beijing Olympic Winter Games, its traditional ally and the main economic support.
The last shot could also concretize the brandished threat on January 20 by the Pyongyang regime to end the moratorium in place since 2017 on the long-range missile shots and nuclear tests, to “prepare even more at a Long-term confrontation with American imperialists “.
The January 30 test involved a ballistic missile at the interim range. Pyongyang had not shot out of this type since 2017 and the moratorium decided in the drop in tensions in the peninsula in 2018, which had resulted in the first summit between the North Korean and American leaders in Singapore between Kim Jong-one and Donald Trump. The last nuclear test goes back to September 2017 and the last intercontinental ballistic missile shot (ICBM) in November of the same year.
New hardening
Since 2019 and the enlightening of talks with Americans, Pyongyang has only proceeded with short-range model launches, or even tests of new capacities such as cruising missiles or missile Mer-ground ballistic strategic (MSBS) from submarine.
A new hardening of its policy and a lift of tensions in the peninsula could complicate the task of the United States, the attention of which has been concerned for several months on the crisis in Ukraine, and their South Korean allies, which Elect their president on March 9th.
Sunday shot follows the first reaction of Pyongyang to the offensive launched by Russia against Ukraine. In a comment on the 26th of February on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RI Ji-Song, a researcher of the International Policy Study Society, attributes the full responsibility of the crisis in the United States, accused of Look for “military supremacy” in defiance of Russia’s security concerns. “The deep cause of the Ukrainian crisis lies in the authoritarianism and arbitrariness of the United States, which clung to sanctions and unilateral pressures while seeking global hegemony,” writes the researcher.
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