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New episode of increased tensions between the two Koreas, this time with the response of the South Korean armed forces that “sent 80 combat aircraft, including F-35A” with great stealth capacity. Seoul’s decision comes after having detected, according to his Army, 180 North Korean fighter planes.
The aerial exercises sets of The United States and South Korea will last until Saturday after the apparently unsuccessful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by North Korea on Thursday morning. These maneuvers are among the largest ever madewith hundreds of warplanes involved on both sides.
Pyongyang called the extension of these joint exercises “a very dangerous and bad decision” and fired three short-range ballistic missiles late in the day on Thursday.
Shortly after this announcement, the Seoul army detected about 80 artillery shots carried out by the North in a maritime ‘buffer zone’ from the Kumkang region, in the Kangwon province, on the east coast of the country.
East bombing is ‘a clear violation’ of the 2018 inter-Korean agreement that established these buffer zones to reduce tensions between the two sides, said the South Korean General Staff.
For its part, The United States, an ally of South Korea, denounced “the illegal and destabilizing launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.” Seoul and Washington they promised to take further steps to demonstrate their “determination and capabilities” in the face of growing threats from the North.
In addition, North Korea would be preparing for its seventh nuclear test. Satellite images analyzed by the International Atomic Energy Agency reveal activities in several underground galleries at the North Korean test center.
