North Korea has condemned the United States for having decided to return
the aircraft carrier Us Ronald Reagan
to the waters east of South Korea, considering the move a "serious threat to the stability of the region".
This was reported by the Foreign Ministry, in a note relaunched by the official agency Kcna.
Yesterday, Reagan returned to the Sea of Japan for a joint exercise with South Korea and Japan in response to the North launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile that flew over the Japanese archipelago.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Reagan had left the Korean peninsula after completing the joint US-South Korea naval exercises about a week ago which, later, also involved Japan: these were large-scale operations. for the first time in five years.
"Our message to North Korea:
enough with the reckless
, provocative attitude that leads to exclusion. Go back to dialogue", tweets the American ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The South Korean General Staff has meanwhile announced that
today Pyongyang has launched two new short-range ballistic missiles
, which follow Tuesday's test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile that flew over Japan.
The recent missile tests carried out by North Korea are "retaliatory measures" against the joint military exercises of the United States and South Korea, the Pyongyang Foreign Ministry said.
The launches, the ministry explained, represent "the just retaliatory measures of the Korean People's Army against the joint exercises between South Korea and the United States that are increasing military tensions on the Korean peninsula".