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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol described the firing of more than twenty North Korean missiles – one of them hit near his territory – as “a de facto territorial invasion.” The North also fired a hundred artillery rounds at a maritime border area. Experts see it as part of an “aggressive and threatening” response by Pyongyang to the military exercises carried out by the United States and South Korea.
The South Korean Army has assured that this is the first time that one of the projectiles of the Pyongyang regime has flown over the maritime border with South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953. In a statement, the South Korean president He assured that this “constitutes a de facto territorial invasion.” The closest missile fell into the sea just 57 kilometers east of the South Korean mainland, with the South Korean military describing the launch as “highly unusual and intolerable.”
In response to these actions, the South Korean military fired three air-to-ground missiles near the point where the controversial North Korean projectile landed.
Most aggressive trials since 2010
In just 2022, the communist regime led by Kim Jong-un has carried out an unusual number of ballistic tests: about thirty tests with missiles of different ranges. Among them, he has tested the largest intercontinental projectile, known as “the monster” and, less than a month ago, he fired a long-range ballistic missile that flew over Japan and forced some of its citizens to take refuge.
The recent North Korean gunfire is reminiscent of rehearsals in March 2010, when a submarine torpedoed a South Korean ship, killing 46 crew members, 16 of whom were doing their mandatory military service. In November of that same year, Pyongyang bombed a South Korean border island, killing two young sailors.
South Korea and the “Storm Watcher”
These North Korean shots come amid the largest joint maneuvers ever carried out by South Korea and the United States, dubbed “Storm Watcher,” involving hundreds of warplanes from both sides.
Pak Jong Chon, a senior North Korean official, called these exercises aggressive and provocative, according to a report in state media on Wednesday. The official said the name of the exercises is reminiscent of Operation Desert Storm, the US offensive on Iraq in 1990-1991 in response to the invasion of Kuwait.
