{"id":37301,"date":"2024-01-29T03:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37301"},"modified":"2024-01-29T03:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:16:22","slug":"north-korea-fires-cruise-missiles-off-east-coast-seoul-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37301","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires cruise missiles off east coast, Seoul reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>North Korea has fired several cruise missiles in waters off its east coast, South Korea&#8217;s military says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months the nuclear-armed communist state has tested missiles repeatedly, raising regional tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday&#8217;s launch took place near the port of Sinpo. Neither the number nor type of missiles is clear yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday North Korea test fired a new strategic cruise missile called Pulhwasal-3-31, South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap news agency says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporting the new launch, which took place at 08:00 (23:00 GMT Saturday), South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said &#8220;our military has been closely coordinating with the United States to monitor additional signs of North Korea&#8217;s provocations&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-68052515\">Is North Korea&#8217;s leader actually considering war?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un described the test as a success. He said it is &#8220;of strategic significance in carrying out the plan&#8230; for modernizing the army which aims at building a powerful naval force&#8221;, Pyongyang&#8217;s state news agency KCNA reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kim has been increasingly aggressive in his policy direction and rhetoric in recent months, ending several agreements aimed at peace-keeping and ramping up military action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pyongyang has claimed a test of a new solid-fuelled missile, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-68027356\">underwater attack drones<\/a>, which can supposedly carry a nuclear weapon, since the start of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They follow on from two years of near-monthly missile launches and weapons development in blatant contravention of UN sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, Kim Jong Un declared the former bedrock goal of re-unification with South Korea was over, designating the South as the &#8220;principal enemy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has led to concerns that North Korea is preparing for war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol told his cabinet this month that if the North carried out a provocation, the South &#8220;will retaliate multiple times stronger&#8221;, pointing to the South Korean military&#8217;s &#8220;overwhelming response capabilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: North Korea has fired several cruise missiles in waters off its east coast, South Korea&#8217;s military says. In recent months the nuclear-armed communist state has tested missiles repeatedly, raising regional tension. Sunday&#8217;s launch took place near the port of Sinpo. Neither the number nor type of missiles is clear yet. On Wednesday North Korea test fired a new strategic cruise missile called Pulhwasal-3-31, South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap news agency says. Reporting the new launch, which took place at 08:00 (23:00 GMT Saturday), South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said &#8220;our military has been closely coordinating with the United&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37303,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions\/37303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}