South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says the missiles were a 'grave provocation.'
A TV screen shows a report of North Korea's missile launch with file image during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 15, 2023.North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Thursday, its neighbors said, in a resumption of weapons tests to protest just-ended South Korean-U.S. live-fire drills that it viewed as an invasion rehearsal.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the missiles landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone. He called the launches a "violent action" that threatened international peace and safety. "Our response to is inevitable," an unidentified spokesperson of the North Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement carried by state media. "Our armed forces will fully counter any form of demonstrative moves and provocation of the enemies."
"This launch is not to make up for the recent failure, because North Korea will almost certainly make another attempt later to put a spy satellite into orbit," said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. "The message of today's missiles is more likely Pyongyang's protest against South Korea's combined defense exercises with the United States, as well as a demonstration of North Korea's own military capabilities and readiness.
"Only a strong military - which can fight and defeat the enemy and which the enemy can't even dare to challenge - can guarantee the freedom, peace and prosperity of the Republic of Korea," Yoon said at the training site, using South Korea's official name.
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