North Korea launches second ballistic missile

• North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Sunday.
• This comes just a few days after Pyongyang conducted its second ICBM test.
• Kim Jong Un has called for an “exponential” expansion.

According to a local South Korean news agency, North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Sunday. This was the most recent launch to occur when South Korea and the US are conducting significant military exercises.

According to Yonhap and citing Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, “North Korea fires ballistic missile towards the East Sea,” a reference to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.

Seoul and Washington have increased security cooperation following a record-breaking year of missile testing and rising nuclear threats from Pyongyang. On March 13, they began their largest combined military exercises in five years.

The exercises, called Freedom Shield, go for ten days.

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All of these training sessions are seen as invasion drills by North Korea, which has frequently threatened to respond with “overwhelming” force.

The launch on Sunday also occurs just a few days after Pyongyang conducted its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test of the year, in which it shot a Hwasong-17, one of its largest and most potent missiles.

The continuous, “frantic” US-South Korean maneuvers, according to the state-run media of the North, prompted the launch of the ICBM.

Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, traveled to Japan just hours after the ICMB was fired on Thursday. His goal was to repair long-frozen relations and foster collaboration in the face of Pyongyang’s growing aggression.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has called for an “exponential” expansion in the manufacturing of weapons, including tactical nukes. Last year, North Korea declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear power.

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