North Korea launches an unknown projectile… Three days after our military service member was injured

Three days after the military's request for an apology from North Korea for landmines

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Hyo-jung = The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that North Korea launched an unknown projectile into the East Sea on the morning of the 3rd.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff is analyzing the specifications and range of North Korean projectiles.

If the North Korean launch vehicle is confirmed to be a ballistic missile, it will be the first launch in 13 days.

Previously, on the 22nd of last month, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles three hours apart from the Wonsan area into the East Sea. Two days later, North Korea announced that it was a launch test of an improved version of the hypersonic missile 'Hwasong-11Ma'.

This launch took place while our military authorities demanded an apology and responsible action from North Korea in relation to the recent incident in which three South Korean soldiers were seriously injured by a North Korean landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of the 25th Division on the Western Front.

The previous day, Kim Yo-jong, head of the North Korean Workers' Party's General Affairs Department, criticized President Lee Jae-myung's Armed Forces Day commemoration speech saying that he would continue to take measures to reduce military tensions between North and South Korea as a "self-made farce," and dismissed Unification Minister Chung Dong-young's proposal for inter-Korean dialogue as "a delusion and one-sided complaint that is not worth responding to."