{"id":9139,"date":"2022-09-29T01:05:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:05:18","slug":"north-korea-fires-two-more-ballistic-missiles-ahead-of-vp-harris-visit-to-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/09\/29\/news\/9139\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires two more ballistic missiles ahead of VP Harris\u2019 visit to Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Korea fired a short-range missile on Sunday, likely in response to US-South Korea drills. A file image of a prior missile launch is pictured.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Broadcasting News Corporation : North Korea fired two more ballistic missiles on Wednesday, a day before Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit South Korea. Seoul\u2019s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement that Pyongyang\u2019s short-range missiles lifted off 10 minutes apart from the capital region and flew toward the waters off North Korea\u2019s east coast. The twin launches come after a missile test by North Korea on Sunday.
\nJapanese Vice Defense Minister Toshiro Ino said Japan\u2019s military detected the missiles on Wednesday afternoon and that the weapons flew in an irregular trajectory. Ino said that \u201cNorth Korea\u2019s repeated missile firings amid [Russia\u2019s] invasion of Ukraine is impermissible.\u201d South Korea and Japan estimated that the North Korean missiles flew 185 to 220 miles with a maximum altitude of 19 to 30 miles. The low trajectories resembled the flight of the missile fired on Sunday, which some analysts said was likely a nuclear-capable, highly maneuverable weapon modeled after Russia\u2019s Iskander missile. The South Korean joint chiefs of staff said North Korea\u2019s provocations would only deepen its international isolation while pushing South Korea and the US to strengthen their deterrence. Harris is set arrive in South Korea on Thursday for talks with President Yoon Suk Yeol and other officials. She also will visit the tense border with North Korea, in what US<\/p>\n

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen during a parade ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the Korean People\u2019s Revolutionary Army in April.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

officials call an attempt to underscore the strength of the US-South Korean alliance and the Biden administration\u2019s commitment to \u201cstand beside\u201d Seoul in the face of any North Korea threats. Not to be outdone by Kim Jong Un\u2019s regime, US and South Korean naval ships were conducting drills off South Korea\u2019s east coast in a show of force against North Korea. The four-day exercise, which began Monday, involves the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. It is the first training exercise by the allies involving a US aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula since 2017. The short-range North Korean missile fired Sunday was seen as a response to the drills. North Korea has dialed up its missile testing activities to a record pace in 2022, launching more than 30 ballistic weapons, including its first intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017. Earlier this month, North Korea adopted a new law authorizing the preemptive use of nuclear weapons in some situations, as it continues to escalate its nuclear doctrine. Earlier Wednesday, South Korea\u2019s spy agency told lawmakers that a North Korean nuclear test could happen between mid-October and early November. With Post wires. NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broadcasting News Corporation : North Korea fired two more ballistic missiles on Wednesday, a day before Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit South Korea. Seoul\u2019s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement that Pyongyang\u2019s short-range missiles lifted off 10 minutes apart from the capital region and flew toward the waters off North …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions\/9142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}