{"id":432,"date":"2021-09-15T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2021-09-15T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:08:21","slug":"north-korea-fires-2-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-seoul-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/north-korea-fires-2-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-seoul-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles into sea, Seoul claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Pyongyang also carried out test of its new long-range cruise missile over weekend<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANKARA, September 15, (AA):North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that the missiles were fired from central inland areas of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seoul and Washington intelligence authorities are analyzing the latest missile fire, the JCS added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our military maintains a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the US,&#8221; the agency quoted JCS as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend, North Korea also carried out a test of its new long-range cruise missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cruise missiles are not banned under UN Security Council resolutions on North Korea, but ballistic missile tests are a violation of the resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the US and South Korea held joint military exercises opposed by Pyongyang, which called them &#8220;a threat to their security.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, just hours after US President Joe Biden took office, Pyongyang conducted a cruise missile test while later in March North Korea again tested a new tactical short-range ballistic missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting to the North Korean move, Biden warned there would be &#8220;responses&#8221; if North Korea continues with such escalations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, North Korea said Washington might face &#8220;undesirable happenings&#8221; if it continues its provocations and &#8220;habitual hostility&#8221; against Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Washington&#8217;s special envoy for North Korea, Sung Kim renewed its call for dialogue with North Korea and said Washington has no hostile intent toward Pyongyang.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang also carried out test of its new long-range cruise missile over weekend ANKARA, September 15, (AA):North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military claimed. According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that the missiles were fired from central inland areas [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,6],"tags":[138,137,139,136,140,141,74],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-world","tag-ballistic","tag-korea","tag-missile","tag-north","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}