The launch comes after Pyongyang yesterday demanded an end to massive military exercises by the US and South Korea, calling them provocative and perhaps necessitating “more powerful measures.”
According to the WTN TV, a warning regarding an airstrike on the South Korean island of Olong was given close to the launch of the missile. According to a representative for the South Korean army, they are investigating if the missile launch and the air strike warning are related.
Hundreds of jets from both sides conducted fictitious strikes around the clock as part of one of the largest joint military air exercises between the United States and South Korea that started on Monday.
After months of frequent threats from Washington and Seoul that Pyongyang Kim Jong Un would soon order a nuclear test, tensions on the North Korean peninsula are at an all-time high.
This experiment will be the seventh test of its kind in the country and the first since 2017.
Air exercises between South Korea and the US got underway on Monday with the involvement of more than 200 “Veglant Storm” jets.
The Korean Workers Party’s Secretary-General Pak Jong Chun characterised these exercises as hostile and provocative.
Back claimed that the “Desert Storm” operation, a military assault on Iraq that the United States led in 1990–1991 following the invasion of Kuwait, is the reason for the name of these military drills.
Back was quoted by the official Central News Agency as saying, “If the United States and South Korea tried to use military force against democratic Korea, the Armed Forces of Democratic Korea will implement its own strategic mission without delay, and the United States and South Korea will have to face a terrible situation and pay the greatest price in history.”
Launching Pallowsia, Pyongyang cautions Washington and Soul not to pay a high price.
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