How to launch a new WSL bash window from an existing WSL bash window

Question

I am struggling to figure out how to launch a new "command prompt" window via a bash command in WSL. The goal is to launch a second prompt preferably already in bash.

I have already tried running cmd.exe yet that just drops me to a standard windows command prompt cmd from with in the bash shell.
https://i.imgur.com/tIdRMvR.png

Running the bash.exe or wsl.exe commands just takes me to another bash shell from within that same bash shell.
https://i.imgur.com/OM1XTlG.png

I am using the Debian distribution for WSL though that should not matter.

I know you can make a new window from the standard command prompt by putting the start command before the program. Yet I can not find the *nix equivalent or how to call a bash command from within WSL that does the same thing.

Answer 1

This works from a bash prompt in WSL.

cmd.exe /c start cmd.exe /c wsl.exe

(Solution found here)

Answer 2

There is no need to call cmd twice. I use this kind of thing:

cmd.exe /c start wsl.exe -d $WSL_DISTRO_NAME --user $LOGNAME -- ssh -p 23 -L 80:10.0.0.1:80 -L 443:10.0.0.1:443 username@remoteserver

this will open another wsl window for the same user and distribution of the caller window and start ssh session in it. The ssh session can be replaced with whatever you want to run in the new window ... if you want just the shell prompt omit everything after $LOGNAME