Pyongyang, North Korea.
North Korea launched this weekend several missiles short-range shortly after denouncing Washington for maintaining its military exercises annual with South Korea, informed anonymous sources this Tuesday in the Washington Post.
The launch, of which the sources they give few details, it is the first provocation from Pionyang in the new administration of the American president Joe Biden.
North Korea threatened last week to resume its arms tests if South Korea and United States they did not suspend theirs traditional maneuvers spring, something you usually ask for in the form of threats cada once these occur.
No test with short-range missiles had been made public until Tuesday, although it happened a few days ago, while the White house It remains unclear what his position is on the regime Kim Jong-un and his nuclear program, although he has promised a new strategy to the North Korean regime.
American intelligence has been suspecting that for weeks North Korea was preparing a release of missiles, especially as a message to the new administration.
the powerful Kim Yo-young, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Was who last week against the regular spring maneuvers that began in early March.
Kim Jo-jong threatened measures “such as the rupture of the inter-Korean military pact,” a major agreement signed in 2018 by Kim Jong-un and the southern president, Moon Jae-in, to reduce military actions and assets around the border per lower the tension on the peninsula.
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In turn, Kim took advantage of the message intended for Seoul to give “brief advice to the new US administration.”
“If your desire is to enjoy a pleasant dream for the next four years, it would be prudent not to create a problem that makes them lose sleep“, Wrote the leader ‘s sister in clear reference to the resumption of the weapons testing of mass destruction to which the regime already referred in January.
The Biden Administration has been trying unsuccessfully since February to restore communication channels with Pionyang with the aim of reducing the risk of military tensions on the Korean Peninsula and after the former president Donald Trump opens a precarious relationship with North Korea after the Singapore summit in 2018. EFE