North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Tests While Blinken Is in Seoul

People walk past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 18, 2024. North Korea fired a ballistic missile on March 18, Seoul's military said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited South Korea to meet top officials and attend a democracy summit.orth Korea launched ballistic missiles early Monday morning local time, marking the first such test in about a month.

The Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida said that no damage was reported but nevertheless condemned the missile launching. “North Korea’s series of actions threaten the peace and security of our region and the international community, and are absolutely unacceptable,” he said during a parliamentary session, per

The U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken was in Seoul when the missiles were launched, along with high profile representatives from several other countries who were attending the. The annual summit was created by the Biden Administration in 2021 to address the threats to the democratic process worldwide. This year’s summit focused on threats from technology including deepfakes, generative artificial intelligence, and misinformation.

The U.S. The State Department condemned the launches saying that they were a threat to the security of the region and reaffirmed its commitment to protect South Korea and Japan from the North Korean threat. North Korea has increased the frequency of its ballistic missile tests in the last few years, testing 33 missiles in the year 2023 alone according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. In 2021, for comparison, it tested.

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