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N Korea fires 3 missiles, including ICBM, as Biden ends Asia tour

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May 25, 2022 - Updated on May 26, 2022
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Seoul, South Korea – North Korea has test-fired three missiles off its east coast, including a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), according to the governments of South Korea and Japan.

The tests on Wednesday came hours after Joe Biden, the president of the United States, left the region following a five-day tour during which he pledged to defend South Korea and Japan in the face of North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile arsenal.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the first missile was launched from the Sunan area in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, at 6am local time (21:00 GMT) on Wednesday.

The second was launched 37 minutes later and the third five minutes after that.

The military said the first of the three projectiles was a suspected ICBM and flew about 360km (224 miles) with a maximum altitude of 540km (336 miles).

If confirmed, this will be the second ICBM test North Korea has conducted since Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un ended a four-year self-imposed moratorium on long-range missile tests in March.

The second projectile appears to have failed after reaching an altitude of 20km (12 miles), the military said, while the third – a suspected short-range ballistic missile – flew about 760km (472 miles) with a maximum altitude of 60km (37 miles).

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-Yeol, who convened a meeting of his National Security Council, condemned North Korea’s latest launches as a “serious provocation threatening international peace”. He also ordered “practical measures for the activation of extended deterrence and strengthening of the South Korea-US combined defence posture,” a statement from his office said.

‘Overwhelming power’

Shortly afterwards, the JCS said in a statement that the South Korean and US militaries fired two missiles to demonstrate their determination to respond firmly to any North Korean provocations, including an ICBM launch. The missile launches were also aimed at showing that “we have the ability and readiness to precision-strike the origin of the provocation with overwhelming power”, it said.

The JCS added that it had detected signs of a possible North Korean missile “provocation” in advance and said that the South Korean Air Force had conducted a drill on Tuesday known as the “elephant walk”, which involved 30 fighter jets taxiing on the runway, in preparation for the actual weapons tests.

In Tokyo, Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi denounced the North Korean missile launches as “clear provocations” and told reporters that Japan will not tolerate Pyongyang’s attempts to advance its missile technology.

Wednesday’s launches marked North Korea’s 17th weapons test this year. The show of force came after officials in the US and South Korea warned that Pyongyang was likely to test a nuclear weapon or a long-range missile soon, perhaps even during Biden’s Asia tour.

The US president, who left Tokyo on Tuesday night, had been briefed on the latest launches, the White House said.

During his summits with Yoon and with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Biden had promised measures to deter North Korea, including by potentially expanding the scope and scale of the US-South Korean joint military exercises.

The White House said that US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke to his South Korean counterpart, Kim Sung-han, following the North Korean missile launches on Wednesday and condemned the “destabilizing ballistic missile tests”.

Sullivan also reaffirmed the US’s “steadfast commitment to the defense of ROK,” it said, referring to South Korea by its official name.

The latest tests also come as North Korea grapples with its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic. More than three million people have shown symptoms of fever and at least 68 people have died since the outbreak began in late April, according to North Korean state media.

The Korean Central News Agency said on Wednesday that 115,970 people had come down with a fever the previous day, a dramatic decrease from the 392,920 cases reported on May 15.

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