Pyongyang continues its January shootout as it sees new rockets Weapons News

The South Korean military and the Japanese Coast Guard have predicted what will be the seventh shot this month.

North Korea has fired more shots into the sea from its east coast, the seventh in a row since the start of the year.

Leader Kim Jong Un has said he wants to boost the country’s military and modernize its weapons. hypersonic missile among the rockets tested since the beginning of the year.

Sunday’s tests were detected by the United States Chief of Staff and the Japanese Coast Guard, and it appears that North Korea fired a ballistic missile.

North Korea confirmed the test on Friday two long-range cruise missiles.

A country with nuclear weapons has been banned from testing ballistic missiles under UN sanctions, which has also strained its economy. Talks on denuclearization are at a standstill the fall of the summit Kim and Donald Trump between the President of the United States Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019.

In early January, it opened its border with China for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with reports of rising food prices and hunger.

“The international message behind North Korea’s missile test month is about price,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “The Kim regime listens to external debates about its internal weaknesses and sees South Korea as a growing force. So he wants to remind Washington and Seoul that it would be expensive to try to overthrow him. While threatening stability in Asia is depleting global resources elsewhere, Pyongyang is demanding compensation from the world for acting as a “responsible nuclear power.”

North Korea said earlier this month that it plans to start over. “all activities that are temporarily suspended”, Suggesting that the nuclear bomb and the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) could lift a self-imposed moratorium on testing.

The North has not tested a nuclear weapon since 2017, but a series of tests began after the Hanoi talks broke down over Kim’s call for a reduction in sanctions.