Response came from North Korea Partial suspension of bilateral military agreement Announced by Güney on Wednesday launching a ballistic missile that failed in flight and announcing a complete abandonment of that agreementIt was initially aimed at reducing tensions in the border areas.
In a Ministry of National Defense statement published today by state agency KCNA, Pyongyang announced that its military “will never again be subject to the September 19 North-South military agreement” and will “immediately resume” all measures suspended under the North-South military agreement.
The regime thus responded to Seoul’s decision, which announced a day earlier that it was suspending a clause in the agreement that allowed military surveillance operations on the border to continue in response to the launch of a spy satellite on Tuesday. North Korea.
In response, Pyongyang fired a “ballistic missile of unknown type” late on Wednesday in the direction of the East Sea (the name given to the Sea of Japan in the two Koreas) that was “thought to have failed.” Statement from the South Korean General Staff (JCS).
The suspension of the 2018 military agreement, which reflected the brief rapprochement that both Koreas experienced five years ago and was an important step to reduce military tensions in the border areas. Another increase in the tension that the peninsula is currently experiencing.
We will cancel the military measures taken to prevent military tension and conflicts in land, sea, air and all other areas, and we will deploy stronger Armed Forces and new models of weapons to the regions around the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). dividing the militarized strip that divides both countries),” the KCNA text states.
In the letter, Güney is accused of turning the military agreement into “wet paper” with his “deliberate and provocative actions”. The text states that the launch of the North Korean reconnaissance satellite, which was condemned by most of the international community as a violation of UN sanctions, was aimed at “surveillance” by defending it as “a fair and legitimate exercise of the right of self-defense and sovereignty”. Deal with the various military movements of enemies on the Korean peninsula that become more alarming with each passing day.
Behind Failure of denuclearization talks with Washington In 2019, Pyongyang approved a weapons modernization plan that included the deployment of military satellites and the conduct of numerous missile tests; he also rejected resuming dialogue and sought greater rapprochement with Beijing and Moscow.
Meanwhile, Seoul and Washington have strengthened military cooperation with Tokyo and strengthened deterrence mechanisms by increasingly deploying US strategic assets to the peninsula, such as the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, which arrived in Busan (southeast of Seoul) this week. .