Coincidence or deliberate? North Korea launches missiles as Yoon Seok-yue is 100 days into office! In the early hours of this morning, North Korea fired two cruise missiles into the western waters in Onsen County, South Pyongan Province; Coincidentally, the day North Korea launched the missile also coincided with Yoon Seok-yue's 100th day as President of South Korea.
South Korean media later said that although cruise missiles do not belong to the type of missiles that the United Nations Security Council prohibits North Korea from launching, they will still pose a certain threat because of their long-range precision strike capabilities. In addition, South Korean media also pointed out that if you count the test launch in the early morning this morning, this is already the second time that North Korea has launched a cruise missile since January this year, and the fourth time since Yoon Seok-yue took office.
However, there are also views that North Korea's choice to launch cruise missiles today is not necessarily aimed at Yoon Seok-wook personally, but is likely to protest the upcoming U.S.-South Korean "Shield of Freedom" joint military exercise on August 22; Because in Pyongyang's view, the joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises have always been the culprits in exacerbating regional military tensions. The choice to launch missiles in protest on the occasion of Yoon's 100-day appointment is to increase South Korea's emphasis on North Korea's dissatisfaction.
Yoon Seok-yue also held a press conference on the occasion of his 100-day presidency of South Korea, and naturally talked about issues related to North Korea. Yoon Seok-wook said: Seoul does not want to forcibly change the regime in Pyongyang, and is willing to help normalize relations between North Korea and the United States on the premise that Pyongyang stops developing nuclear weapons; As a sign of Seoul's sincerity, Yoon also said he would consider reducing South Korea's conventional weapons while North Korea stopped developing nuclear weapons.
However, Yin Xiyue's suggestions and ideas have not been widely recognized, and skeptics believe that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula cannot be solved by his two words!
