North Korea: Kim Jong-un resumes missile tests

Created: 07/10/2022 07:14

By: Daniel Dillmann, Stefan Krieger

The situation on the Korean peninsula is more tense than it has been for years.

Kim Jong-un flexes his muscles.

The news ticker.

• More and more missile tests:

  North Korea provokes neighboring countries.

• Situation remains tense:

  Kim Jong-un sends fighter jets, the USA sends an aircraft carrier.

• All information and news about the situation on the Korean peninsula in our new ticker.

Update from Friday, October 7th, 7:15 a.m .:

Despite strong protests, North Korea has continued its series of missile tests.

South Korea's military said North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles again toward the Sea of ​​Japan (Korean: East Sea) on Thursday (October 6), South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

The missiles were launched near the North Korean capital Pyongyang.

One flew 350 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 80 kilometers, the other 800 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 60 kilometers. 

Despite strong protests, North Korea has continued its series of missile tests.

© dpa

North Korea: Kim Jong-un sends fighter jets to southern border

First report from October 6th, 2022: Seoul – North Korea has flown twelve warplanes over the border with South Korea.

news agency

, citing information from the South Korean government in Seoul.

The South then put 30 of its own combat aircraft on alert.

The sighting of North Korea's fighter jets came just hours after dictator Kim Jong-un launched two ballistic missiles into the sea off the peninsula.

According to

, North Korea's squadron consisted of eight fighter jets and four bombers.

It is assumed that North Korea had carried out various exercises with the aircraft, which included attacks on ground targets from the air.

The planes approached South Korean airspace to within a few kilometers.

There have been no clashes between machines from the north and the south, a military spokesman told

.

Dictator Kim Jong-un inspects the flight of North Korean fighter jets.

(archive image) © str/afp

It's not the first time North Korea has flown planes near the border.

However, there have never been so many aircraft in action in previous incidents of this type.

This is reported by the South Korean news

.

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North Korea: Kim Jong-un tests missiles at record level

The maneuvers of the fighter jets are the culmination of a series of provocations from the empire of dictator Kim Jong-un.

North Korea launched a missile over Japan earlier this week.

In response, the United States had sent an aircraft carrier and numerous escort ships into the straits between the Korean peninsula and Japan.

North Korea, in turn, saw this as a provocation and on Thursday morning (CET) fired two more short-range ballistic missiles into the waters east of the country.

For several years, North Korea has been causing tension in the region with missile tests.

This year the tests reached a new record.

In total, the country has already fired 40 ballistic missiles.

Experts fear that Kim Jong-un will also conduct nuclear weapons tests later this year.

The last attempts of this kind took place in 2017.

(dil/skr/afp/dpa)