N.Korea fires two missiles, warns of action over US sanctions push

A missile is launched during what state media report is a hypersonic missile test at an undisclosed location in North Korea, January 11, 2022, in this photo released on January 12, 2022 by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency . KCNA via REUTERS -REUTERSPixNorth Korea fired at least two ballistic missiles today, its third test in less than two weeks, just hours after criticising a US push for new sanctions over the previous launches as a “provocation” and warning of a strong reaction.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected what it presumed were two short-range ballistic missiles launched eastward from Uiju, in North Pyongan province on the North’s west coast, near its border with China. The launch is be the third since New Year’s day, an unusually rapid pace of such tests. The previous two were of “hypersonic missiles,” North Korean state media said, or projectiles capable of high speeds and manoeuvering after launch.In contrast to today’s tests, each of the earlier launches involved a single missile fired from Jagang province, neighbouring North Pyongan.

The North’s recent development of a “new type” weapon was just part of efforts to modernise its national defence capability, and did not target any specific country or harm the security of neighbours, the ministry said in a statement on the KCNA state news agency.

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