The South Korean Armed Forces describe the launch as “intolerable” and warn that they will respond “severely” North Korea launched at least ten missiles this Wednesday morning, one of which fell near the coast of the South Korean island of Ulleung, thus activating the air alert in part of the country, as detailed by the South Korean Army. The missiles launched by Pyongyang have activated the air attack alert system throughout the South Korean island when one of them has crossed the Korean maritime border del Sur, which is why thousands of residents have been evacuated to basements, the Yonhap agency has collected. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff has detailed that North Korea has fired three short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan (also known as the East Sea), as well as seven other missiles of different types.” One of the missiles (… .) headed towards Ulleung Island, near Dokdo, before falling into the international sea, prompting local authorities to issue an airstrike alert,” he said. This is the first launch of a ballistic missile from North Korea in an area of international waters close to South Korea since the division of the peninsula, a fact that the South Korean Armed Forces have described as “intolerable.” “Our Army will never be able to tolerate North Korea’s act of provocation and will respond severely in close cooperation with the United States,” said the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to the aforementioned agency. Although the South Korean Armed Forces have not yet determined the specifications of the Such as the range, altitude and speed of the missiles, it has pointed to the fact that they have been fired while carrying out large-scale joint air exercises with the United States. The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has condemned the launch of the three missiles by North Korea and has described the projectile that fell near the South Korean coast as a “de facto violation of the territory”. , the South Korean president has ordered the Army to take “rapid action” so that the North pays for “the provocations”, and has also ordered the military to be “prepared for additional provocations”, as he stated at a meeting of emergency of the National Security Council after the launch and has collected Yonhap. Yoon has affirmed that “the provocations” with missiles from North Korea violate the inter-Korean military agreement signed between the two countries on September 19 in order to prevent military confrontations in the border. This new launch by Pyongyang further escalates tensions in the region, after North Korea has launched several Bali missiles in recent weeks s in tests prohibited by resolutions of the UN Security Council, in response to the US-Korean military maneuvers that it considers an invasion test. The United States, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have shared their evidence on that North Korea is “likely” to carry out a nuclear missile test, the first since 2017.