North Korea Continues to Launch Ballistic Missiles in Protest of the Freedom Shield Military Exercise
The fact that North Korea has been launching missiles to protest the Freedom Shield exercise is about the most unsurprising news of the past week:
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday in yet another provocation amid South Korea’s combined military exercise with the United States.
Korea Times
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that it detected the missile launched from Dongchang-ri, North Korea’s key long-range rocket shooting site in its northwestern coast, at 11:05 a.m. It flew about 800 kilometers across land before falling into the waters off its east coast.
It was North Korea’s fourth weapons test apparently targeting the Freedom Shield exercise that began last Monday. On Thursday, only several hours before President Yoon Suk Yeol’s summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, the North fired a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile into the East Sea between the two countries ― after launching two short-range ballistic missiles on March 14 and two cruise missiles from a submarine on March 12.
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