Pyongyang's new ballistic tests with missiles capable of "a tactical nuclear strike"

Pyongyang has announced that it has launched two missiles in these hours which, according to North Korea itself, would be capable of "a tactical nuclear attack" capable of destroying enemy air bases.

It is the second ballistics operation after Saturday's one with an intercontinental ballistic missile (icbm) in response to a military exercise planned by Washington and Seoul. The launch of this ICBM, which Tokyo said fell in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), led the US and South Korea to organize joint air maneuvers.

Meanwhile, at the request of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the United Nations Security Council will meet urgently tomorrow afternoon in New York to discuss these latest ballistic tests by North Korea.

(Unioneonline/ss)