South Korea's military says North Korea has fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea. It's Pyongyang's sixth round of weapons launches this month, an apparent effort to pressure the Biden administration amid long-stalled nuclear talks.
FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in December 2021. North Korea on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea in its sixth round of weapons launches this month, South Korea’s military said. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons, which were likely short-range, were launched from an eastern coastal area, but it didn’t immediately say how far they flew. The North last week issued a veiled threat to resume the testing of nuclear explosives and long-range missiles targeting the American homeland, which leader Kim Jong Un suspended in 2018 while initiating diplomacy with the United States.
They say Pyongyang’s leadership likely feels it could use a dramatic provocation to move the needle with the Biden administration, which has been preoccupied with bigger adversaries including China and Russia. Experts say Kim is trying to apply more pressure on rivals Washington and Seoul to accept it as a nuclear power in hopes of winning relief from economic sanctions and convert the diplomacy with Washington into mutual arms-reduction negotiations.
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