[정치]”North Korea launches two cruise missiles on the 21st” belatedly released…

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It was belatedly known that North Korea launched two cruise missiles into the West Sea on the morning of the 21st.

Not only did the ROK and the United States not disclose this until a media report was released, and North Korea, which launched its first missile this year, has remained unusually silent.

Links to reporters from the Ministry of Defense. Reporter Kim Moon-kyung!

Military authorities belatedly revealed the North Korean missile launch?

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That’s right. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea launched two missiles into the West Sea on the 21st.

The type of missile was estimated to be a cruise missile, and the time was on the morning of the 21st, and it was said that it was launched from the Oncheon area of ​​Pyeongnam.

However, it did not disclose specific launch times, missile specifications, and flight distances.

In the past, military authorities have usually disclosed launch times, flight distances, and projectile types, but this time, all the information has not been disclosed and only briefly answered that it is being analyzed.

This is a very unusual thing that would have passed without knowing that if foreign media had not first reported the missile launch this morning.

Also, North Korea, which has been publicly disclosed through the media since the missile launch, has closed its mouth this time.

For this reason, there are speculation that there was no local map of Chairman Kim Jong-un.

A senior US official said the launch was evaluated as a normal North Korean weapon test and that it does not violate the resolution of the UN Security Council.

President Biden also said, “According to the Ministry of Defense, it is the same as usual,” and it is interpreted as refraining from responding to stimulating North Korea.

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It seems that both North and South America were silent about the missile launch before the news report. Has North Korea ever launched a cruise missile in the past?

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Yes, there are traces of firing a short-range cruise missile that is believed to be a large-scale cruiser in 2017.

In April of last year, it also launched a missile, believed to be a short-range cruise missile.

However, if the missile launched this time is a cruise missile, it is of interest whether it is a short range or whether an improved cruise missile with an increased range was tested.

North Korea unveiled an improved missile that is believed to be a cruise missile at the 8th Party Congress in January.

At the time, North Korea emphasized that the defense science division developed super-sized missiles and advanced nuclear tactical weapons, including mid- and long-range cruise missiles.

Ballistic missiles can fly out of the atmosphere, so they are fast, but cruise missiles have the advantage of being able to guide them until they reach the target instead of being slow by flying below the atmosphere.

North Korea, which has been silent since this year, launched the missile for the first time, but the ROK and the United States did not disclose it until foreign media reports, and North Korea is still silent by protesting with a cruise missile that is not subject to UN sanctions, and the background is drawing attention. .

So far, YTN Kim Moon-kyung from the Ministry of Defense[[email protected]]is.

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