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The diet of North Korea reported that he had launched two cruise missiles from a submarine.

The North Korean launch comes hours before the The armed forces of the United States and South Korea begin a series of joint military maneuvers in the region on Monday with the aim of “protecting freedom” in the region.

United States Forces Korea (USFK) said in a statement that the exercises, under the name of “Shield of Freedom”, will take place over eleven days, until March 23. These are the longest maneuvers ever carried out by the two countries.

With these maneuvers, the two countries they seek to send a message to North Korea as it threatens to expand its nuclear program.

“‘Escudo de Libertad’ is designed to strengthen the defense capability of the alliance and focus on specific scenarios within the framework of regional security”, indicates the text.

Thus, the maneuvers make it possible to face a possible North Korean aggression and “to put into practice the lessons learned recently from other wars and conflicts”, as he indicated.

They include the FTX Warrior Shield maneuvers, designed to improve military collaboration in the air, land, sea, space, cyberspace and special operations, South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.

North Korea criticized these maneuvers and announced “important and practical” measures for the “offensive use” of deterrent means of warfare. South Korean media assume that there will be North Korean military tests coinciding with joint exercises with the United States.

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