South Korea Counters North Korean Missile Test Last Month With Sanctioned Missile Launched

South Korea on Wednesday, effectively test-fired two domestically manufactured ballistic missiles that had the capabilities of reaching any part of North Korea. According to the country's defense ministry, the missiles have a reported range of more than 500 kilometers (300 miles).

The president of the sovereign state, President Park Geun-hye personally monitored the dispatch of the guided test missiles from a launch pad that was located in the southern part of South Korea. The presidential Blue group declared that this is South Korea's continuing pursuit to bolster its defenses against their next door neighbor's mounting threat of nuclear attack.

"The test demonstrated improved ballistic missile capability that can strike all parts of North Korea swiftly, and with precision, in the event of armed aggression or provocation," a spokesperson from South Korea's presidential office stated in a Huffington Post report.

In 2012, South Korea and America signed an agreement that the former can possess longer-ranged weapons which was enacted last Wednesday.

BBC reports that North Korea earlier last month, despite under sanctions from the United Nations which banned the country from developing or using ballistic missile technology stubbornly had a test-firing of missiles from a submarine. The military display was also witnessed by North Korea's enigmatic leader, Kim Jong Un from an offshore location.  

Despite the clear violations the United States remained well-mannered and instead called on North Korea to avoid doing from actions that can only inflame tensions in the region according to The Guardian.

"We call on North Korea to refrain from actions that further raise tensions in the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its international commitments and obligations," a State Department official said in an email.

The Korean Peninsula officially remains in conflict after the Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice negotiation. Presently, the United States has a strong military presence in South Korea as reinforcement for a potential hostility with North Korea.