After North Korea successful test of ICBM, Now South Korea and US conduct joint missile drills

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After North Korea successful test of ICBM, Now South Korea, US conduct joint missile drills
After North Korea successful test of ICBM, Now South Korea, US conduct joint missile drills

Seoul : South Korea and the US on Wednesday conducted joint ballistic missile exercises a day after North Korea declared a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a media report said.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement that the missile units of South Korea and the US carried out the joint ballistic missile drills in the East Sea at 7 a.m. in response to Pyongyang's repeated provocations.

The joint exercises mobilised the South Korean military's Hyunmoo-II ballistic missiles and the eighth US Army's ATACMS ground-to-ground missiles to show their combined capability in emergency situations, the statement said.

The joint missile drills followed Pyongyang's claim on Tuesday that it successfully test-fired a new type of ICBM, called Hwasong-14, which flew about 930 km and was lofted as high as some 2,800 km.

The joint drills were conducted as South Korean President Moon Jae-in proposed it to US President Donald Trump, Yoon Young-chan, Moon's senior press secretary, told reporters.

Moon said it would be necessary to clearly show the South Korea-US combined missile preparedness to Pyongyang as just announcing a statement was not enough.