North Korea fired two missiles on Sunday March 21, 2021, shortly after a visit to Seoul by two US ministers – the first such tests since Joe Biden arrived at the White House – said Tuesday March 23 an American official. “We are aware of two missiles,” said the official to Agence France-Presse, on condition of anonymity. American media reported that they were short-range missiles.
Observers had expected a North Korean act of defiance since the arrival of the new US president in January. Unlike most previous shootings, this had not been reported by South Korea, Japan or the United States at the time. Several experts have estimated on Twitter that they were probably cruise missiles, a relatively moderate response to the joint military maneuvers that Washington and Seoul have just carried out.
“Hostile policy”
The Biden administration is in the process of developing its strategy towards North Korea, after its predecessor Donald Trump’s attempt at direct diplomacy with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which resulted in no progress on the denuclearization of the reclusive country. Since February, the new US administration has tried unsuccessfully to contact the North Korean leadership.
Last week, North Korea warned that it would not change its stance vis-à-vis the United States until it renounced its “hostile policy” towards it, as U.S. business ministers Foreign and Defense officials, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, were in Seoul in particular to strengthen Washington’s ties with South Korea against Pyongyang.
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