MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The North Korean Army has assured this Wednesday that the launch of a series of projectiles against a “buffer zone” on the border with South Korea, designed to reduce tensions between the two nations, is a “serious warning” by the military exercises being carried out by Seoul.
The General Staff of the North Korean People’s Army has said that the “enemies” committed “another military provocation”, for which its Armed Forces “fired dozens of multiple rocket launcher projectiles” during Tuesday.
“The situation on the Korean peninsula is worsening due to repeated military provocations by enemies in the so-called buffer zone,” a spokesman for the Pyongyang Army said in a statement collected by the North Korean state agency KCNA.
Likewise, it has asked the Yoon Suk Seol Administration to immediately stop the “reckless and inciting provocations that increase military tension in the area”, since it has taken note of “the especially provocative movements” that are developing “frantically “, added the spokesman.
Seoul denounced on Tuesday that Pyongyang launched about a hundred artillery shells into the Yellow Sea at the last minute and that hours later, around midnight, it did the same with another 150 missiles into the Sea of Japan, known as the sea. East in Korea.
The South Korean military authorities denounced what happened, as they consider it “a clear violation” of the military agreements signed with their neighbor to the north, with which they urged Pyongyang to “immediately stop” this type of “provocations” that do nothing more than “undermine peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the international community.”
These new launches have come after Seoul reported dozens of artillery shells fired by Pyongyang into the waters of the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan last week, as well as the launch of a short-range ballistic missile and a series of overflights. of fighter planes over territory near the border.