Kim Jong-un's regime troops fired two cruise missiles off North Korea's east coast, Tuesday (25/1/2022) morning.
This is the fifth such maneuver so far this month. South Korean military sources confirmed both cruise missiles were fired into the East Sea or Sea of Japan this morning. The South Korean military, as quoted by Yonhap, is assessing the launch to determine the nature of the projectile.
South Korea's office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has yet to receive confirmation of reports of the missile's test firing.
North Korea's launch of cruise missiles is not prohibited under UN sanctions imposed on Pyongyang.
The country has defied international condemnation and carried out four rounds of ballistic missile tests, with the last on January 17. On January 17, Pyongyang conducted a tactical missile test.
According to North Korean state media; KCNA, it's a short-range ballistic missile. North Korea claims to have successfully tested a hypersonic missile on January 5 and 11. Then on January 14, they test-fired a short-range ballistic missile from a train carriage.
Pyongyang is prohibited by international law from developing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. After the test firing of a missile from a train carriage, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman rebuked the United States for its stance on Pyongyang's weapons development.
"If the US takes such a confrontational stance, the DPRK will be forced to take a stronger and definitive reaction against it," the spokesman said, referring to the country by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
