North Korea maintains the escalation of tension with two new missiles in "retaliation" for the US and South Korean exercises

The war games continue in Asia, raising the already heated temperature a few more degrees.

North Korea launched two new ballistic missiles on Thursday, adding to Tuesday's rocket, a projectile that flew over Japan and forced Tokyo authorities to ask some citizens to take refuge.

Pyongyang has assured that its recent weapons tests are "retaliatory measures" in the face of the military exercises deployed in the area by the United States and South Korea, which it accuses of raising military tension in the area.

The missiles with which the communist regime in the North has threatened this Thursday are short-range projectiles, less powerful than the launch on Tuesday, according to Seoul.

One of them traveled a distance of 350 kilometers at a maximum height of 80 kilometers and the other flew about 800 kilometers with a height of 60 kilometers, before falling into the waters of the Sea of ​​​​Japan, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

The previous one, in addition to causing evacuation orders in Japan, set a distance record in the history of the North Korean arsenal: it traveled some 4,500 kilometers with a maximum height of close to 1,000 kilometers.

The country commanded with an iron fist by the supreme leader Kim Jong-un has multiplied its missile tests this year: it has launched nearly 40 rockets, including the largest intercontinental projectile, known as "the monster", in March -although both the United States United as South Korea consider that launch was a failure.

Sources from the Government of Seoul and Washington quoted by Reuters assure that the North is prepared to carry out a new atomic test.

The last one dates back to 2017. In less than two weeks, the Kim Jong-un regime has fired six projectiles.

In its first public statement about its recent activity, North Korea has claimed in a brief statement from its Foreign Ministry that it is due to joint maneuvers by the South and the US around the peninsula, including the aircraft carrier's involvement in exercises with the South Korean and Japanese navies last week.

The ship is scheduled to participate in new trilateral maneuvers in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo in the coming hours.

The South Korean army believes that the North regime has tested two different types of missiles this time, including an improved version of the Russian Iskander projectile, characterized by low-flying and irregular trajectory.

The Japanese Coast Guard has confirmed the detection of two possible ballistic missiles.

The country's prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said that this recent series of shootings is "unacceptable".

Division at the UN

Japan on Thursday lamented the division in the United Nations Security Council over the increase in missile launches from North Korea.

"It is unfortunate that the Council cannot act in the face of these provocative acts, so we will continue to cooperate with the international community so that North Korea fulfills all the obligations of the Council's resolutions," Japanese government deputy spokesman Seiji said at a press conference. Kihara.

Kihara called on the Council to "assume its responsibility and role in maintaining peace and security."

The UN Security Council met the day before to discuss the recent increase in missile launches by the North Korean regime.

The meeting, however, revealed the current fissure within the body, after Russia and China, permanent members of the Council with the right to veto, distanced themselves from the general condemnation of the trial.

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