BREAKING: North Korea fires two cruise missiles toward Yellow Sea

ACCORDING to initial reports on Wednesday, August 17, it appears that North Korea test-fired two cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea.

“The North’s ICBM launch is yet another case of its breach of a moratorium on ICBM launches that it itself pledged to the international community, and the launch is violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and a serious provocative act,” the JCS said at the time.

“Our military is monitoring related movements in preparation against the possibility of additional provocations by the North, and is maintaining a full readiness posture to ensure an overwhelming victory at all times,” it added.

Prior to that on Friday, March 24, North Korea also carried out intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) testing.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un gave the orders for testing, which was the first full ICBM test by nuclear-armed North Korea since 2017, who oversaw the launch of what was described as a “new-type” of ICBM, the Hwasong-17.

In retaliation to North Korea’s missile testing, South Korea launched ‘ground, sea, air missiles’ on March 24.

“In response to North Korea’s ICBM launch, our military jointly fired missiles from ground, sea, air at 4.25 pm in the Sea of Japan,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement at the time.

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