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North Korea fired two unidentified shells on Monday, the South Korean army reported a few weeks after Pyongyang announced the end of its moratorium on long-range ballistic missile tests.
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The two projectiles were fired eastward, over the sea, from the Wonsan region, on the east coast, the South Korean General Staff said in a statement.
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“The army monitors other possible launches and is prepared,” It reads in the note.
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North Korea conducted a series of shots at the end of last year, the last one in November. He sometimes said that they were firing of ballistic missiles or test of the “multiple-caliber guided rocket launch system.”
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In December he also tested an engine.
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The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced at the end of December the end of the moratorium on nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missiles during a meeting of dignitaries of the ruling party in North Korea. He also threatened to exhibit a “new strategic weapon.”
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The peninsula showed signs of relaxation in 2018, coinciding with the historical meetings between Kim and the American president Donald Trump
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But the denuclearization negotiations have stalled since the second summit between the two leaders, in February 2019 in Hanoi.
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In the past Pyongyang fired missiles capable of reaching the entire continental United States. North Korea also conducted six nuclear tests. The last one was the test of a device 16 times more powerful than the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945, according to some estimates.
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