In a previous article by Techtimes, North Korea has "unidentified projectiles" towards Japan earlier this month and it seems that Kim Jong Un has decided to do this again!
With the whole world dealing with the coronavirus (covid-19) and North Korea claiming zero cases despite recently building a new "modern" hospital, Kim Jong Un has decided to launch another set of two projectiles which appear to be short range ballistics!
Kim Jong Un's sister Yo Jong scolds South Korea for its "perfectly foolish" condemnations regarding the tests that happened earlier this month.
South Korea and Japan reports the incident
Just recently, North Korea has fired two different projectiles which are believed to be short-range ballistic missiles to the sea off of the country's east coast according to Seoul's military. The projectiles were launched from North Pyongyang province into the great Sea of Japan which is also known as the East Sea
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff has given their statements about this matter including "The military is monitoring for additional launches and maintaining readiness," but has withheld further detail as to the specifics of the event.
The defense ministry of Japan has just stated that North Korea has launched "ballistic missile-like objects" following their statement by adding that there are still no indications of anything intruding Japanese territory or even its exclusive economic zone.
The similar events which happened this month leading to the current launch
In this very same month, North Korea has just deployed similar launches on two different occasions. Pyongyang had already said that they had conducted "long-range artillery" drills but Japan clarified that the projectiles appeared to be ballistic missiles.
The launch happened during prolonged disarmament talks with the United States after more than a year between the meeting of both Kim Jong Un and president of the United States, Donald Trump, in Hanoi.
Right before the projectiles launched, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency or KCNA has just reported that the whoule country would convene its rubber-stamp parliament known as the Supreme People's Asssembly or SPA on April 10 despite panic of the coronavirus.
A personal letter was sent to the South's very own President Moon by Kim Jong Un which offered "comfort" for the raging covid-19 outbreak within the country.
During the time of the letter, South Korea was hit heavily by the global pandemic and was one of the alarming countries aside from China. Seoul has reported to have the pandemic brought under control while Pyongyang still insists that there is not a single case that exists in North Korea.
The United Nations and United States on North Korea
Pyongyang is now under multiple sets of sanctions being upheld by the United Nations as well as the United States over their very own weapons programs in existence.
North Korea has already carried out a series of trials for their weapons around late last year, the last of them being on November 2019.
The heightened tension way back 2017 was followed by two years of diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington which included three meetings between Trump and Kim, so far, there is very little tangible progress.
