North Korea: Fired 23 missiles raising tension on the peninsula

The world watches with bated breath as she launches missiles North Korea. People on an island took cover as a missile landed near South Korean territorial waters. The South responded by launching three missiles of its own, the nytimes. North Korea launched at leastn 23 missiles from its east and west coasts, one of which landed 103 miles northwest of remote Ulleung Island, where people took cover. THE South Koreain response, fired missiles from fighter jets at waters near the land of the North.

It was the first time since the peninsula was divided in 1945 that a ballistic missile landed near South Korean waters, and it was the most missiles fired by North Korea in a single day, the Athens News Agency reported.

THE South Korea issued warnings of an airstrike, something it rarely does, and fired missiles of its own in response.

The North Korean missile fell outside South Korean territorial waters, but south of the disputed maritime border between North and South Korea, the Northern Limit Line (NLL).

South Korean warplanes responded by firing three surface-to-surface missiles into the sea to the north beyond the NLL, the South Korean military said. An official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER missile, which is a US-made precision strike weapon that can travel up to 270km with a 360kg payload.

Launches from South Korea came after Yun’s office announced there would be a “swift and decisive response.” “President Yun Seok-gil noted that today’s provocation by North Korea was an act of territorial invasion by a missile that crossed the NLL for the first time since the division” of the peninsula, his office said in a statement.

When asked if the missile flew into South Korean territory and should have been intercepted, a senior presidential official said: “Actually, it did not land on our territory, but in the Exclusive Economic Zone under our jurisdiction, so there was no question of interception.”

Air raid sirens

The missile was one of three short-range ballistic missiles fired from the North Korean coastal region of Gunshan towards the sea, the South Korean armed forces’ staff (JCS) announced. The JCS later announced that 14 other missiles of various types were fired from North Korea’s east and west coasts.

The JCS said at least one of the missiles fell 26 kilometers south of the NLL, 57 kilometers from the South Korean city of Sokcho on the east coast, and 167 kilometers from Uleung Island, where the air raid sirens sounded. “We heard the siren around 8:55 am. and everyone in the building went down to the basement evacuation area,” a Uleung County official told Reuters. “We stayed there until we went up again at around 9:15, after we heard that the missile fell into the sea.” North Korea also fired 100 artillery rounds from its east coast into the buffer zone established under a military agreement with South Korea, the South’s military said.

The shooting is a violation of his agreement 2018 for the creation of the marine zone security, according to a statement from the South Korean staff.

The Kremlin called on the parties to maintain “their calm”.

“All parties to this conflict must refrain from taking any measures that may cause an increase in tensions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, stressing that “the situation on the peninsula is already quite tense.” “We call on everyone to remain calm,” he insisted.