a sharp escalation in military tension between north and south korea, with both sides firing missiles into the sea near each other s coasts. he shouldn t be doing that. and the drivers who think cyclists shouldn t be on the road and deliberately drive too close to them. coming up on the bbc news channel, india hang on to win a rain affected nailbiter in the t20 world cup against bangladesh and put themselves top of group b. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the prime minister rishi sunak said the migrant crisis is a serious and escalating problem and admitted that not enough asylum claims are being processed. the prime minister insisted
two state is where most people are concerned. there s been international condemnation of north korea after it fired a record number of missiles into waters near south korea. seoul responded, in a major escalation in military tension between the two. pyongyang fired a total of 23 missiles, including one which landed less than 60 kilometres from the city of sokcho, crossing the de facto maritime border for the first time since the peninsula s division in 1945. the demarcation line marks the rough midway point in the sea between the two koreas. the north has never accepted the boundary. hours later, seoul retaliated with warplanes firing three air to ground missiles over the disputed maritime demarcation line. pyongyang then fired six more missiles and a barrage of 100 artillery shells near the maritime border. here s one analyst s view of the significance of the day s events. it is precisely that one of these
air defence systems. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news, kyiv. there s been a sharp escalation in military tension between north and south korea, with both nations firing missiles into the sea off each other s coastlines. pyongyang initially sent off a barrage of more than a dozen missiles, one of which landed on the south korean side of the maritime border. the south korean president described the strike as an effective territorial invasion and responded with warplanes firing three air to ground missiles over the disputed maritime demarcation line. pyongyang responded with six more missiles and a wave of artillery shells. a day earlier, north korea warned that south korea and the us would pay the most horrible price in history if they continued joint military drills, seen as a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons. jean mackenzie has the latest from seoul.
and it is after recent high profile officials met with taiwan. they say that it will seriously jeopardize america s ties with beijing. for more, i m joined by professor of war and strategy in east asia at kings college london. thank you so much for being here with us. so this is the first arms sale to taiwan under the biden administration. how significant is this for taiwan? this is very significant. if anything, it is a powerful reminder of the fact that the military balance across the straight, it is a constantly moving target. and since 2020 when the president was reconfirmed with a landslide victory, the military tension has been consistently and constantly increasing. so the biden administration has played this very carefully to avoid precisely giving the