North Korea launches 23 missiles as Kim Jong Un escalates

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's military fired a record 23 ballistic missiles on Wednesday, sending residents of a South Korean island to underground shelters.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired more than 20 ballistic missiles on Wednesday, a record, sending residents of a South Korean island to underground shelters as the rivals engaged in a series of launches around their tense sea border. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's military began the exchange by test-firing multiple ballistic missiles, one of which landed south of the buffer zone in the sea border between the two countries for the first time since the Korean Peninsula was divided in 1948. South Korea responded by firing three air-to-surface missiles toward the northern side of the border, which North Korea followed with 100 rounds of artillery and additional missile launches that lasted into the evening.

The exchange marked the latest significant escalation between the two neighbors after months of provocations from Pyongyang. Analysts said they were likely a sign of Kim Jong Un’s desire to ratchet up tensions as he seeks to develop his regime’s nuclear arsenal, pressure the United States to ease crippling sanctions and challenge the South’s new conservative leader.

As his repeated weapons tests make less of a splash internationally, Kim is “salami slicing the escalation ladder,” searching for new ways to grab the world’s attention, said Christopher Green, a senior consultant on the Korean Peninsula for the International Crisis Group. North Korea’s provocations on Wednesday, while highly symbolic, are “more for show than for military escalation,” he told NBC News. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-south-air-raid-alert-missiles-rcna55166


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