On Wednesday, North Korea fired 3 ballistic missiles, including a long-range capability (ICBM) missile, a day after US President Joe Biden ended his first visit to Asia, the South Korean military said.
A statement issued by the South Korean Army's Chief of Staff said that the first ballistic missile (a supposed ICBM) had a range of about 360 km at a maximum altitude of 540 km.
The second ballistic missile reached an altitude of 20 km and “vanished”, and the third was a short-range ballistic missile that crossed about 760 km at an altitude of 60km.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense said that one of these missiles traveled on an “unnatural trajectory”.
Pyongyang is working on developing technologies that allow missiles to change their course after launching them, especially “Hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs)”, increasing the difficulty of intercepting these missiles by air defense systems.
Following this series of North Korean missile tests, the South Korean National Security of Council held a meeting, after which it said Pyongyang’s consecutive launch of a supposed ICBM and two short-range ballistic missiles today was an illegal act that represents a direct violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
South Korea and the US conducted “surface-to-air missile firing exercises” and put combat aircraft on alert, in response to what was described as “the alleged provocations by North Korea related to ICBMs and missiles.”
These three missile tests come at a time when Biden ended a visit to South Korea and Japan, while Pyongyang has intensified its missile tests since the beginning of the year, in defiance of international sanctions imposed on it.
The US president stressed that his country the US was “prepared for anything North Korea does”.
The US warning came after South Korean intelligence announced that the North had completed preparations for a new clear test.
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