{"id":75225,"date":"2022-01-25T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75225"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:03:36","slug":"north-korea-appears-to-have-fired-cruise-missiles-seoul-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75225","title":{"rendered":"North Korea appears to have fired cruise missiles, Seoul says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> North Korea appeared to have fired two cruise missiles Tuesday morning, South Korea's military said, in what would be the nuclear-armed country's fifth weapons test this month.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang has rebuffed US offers of talks and embarked on a flurry of sanctions-busting tests in 2022, flexing its military muscles and ramping up the rhetoric against Washington.<\/p>\n

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“North Korea fired two suspected cruise missiles,” South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, without giving further details.<\/p>\n

The US and South Korean intelligence agencies are analysing the launch, the JCS added.<\/p>\n

Since leader Kim Jong Un avowed his commitment to military modernisation at a key party speech in December, North Korea has conducted a string of weapons tests.<\/p>\n

Washington imposed fresh sanctions earlier this month, which Pyongyang called a “provocation”, later hinting it could resume banned nuclear and long-range weapons tests in response.<\/p>\n

North Korea's cruise missile launches are not banned under the current United Nations sanctions regime.<\/p>\n

The tests come at a delicate time in the region, with Kim's sole major ally China set to host the Winter Olympics next month and South Korea gearing up for a presidential election in March.<\/p>\n

The impoverished country, reeling economically from a self-imposed coronavirus blockade, quietly restarted cross-border trade with China earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Russia and China last week blocked the UN Security Council from imposing fresh sanctions in response to the recent tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: North Korea appeared to have fired two cruise missiles Tuesday morning, South Korea’s military said, in what would be the nuclear-armed country’s fifth weapons test this month. Pyongyang has rebuffed US offers of talks and embarked on a flurry of sanctions-busting tests in 2022, flexing its military muscles and ramping up the rhetoric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n