North Korea fires ballistic missile: South Korea military
SEOUL – North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast, South Korea’s military said on Monday.Japan’s Coast Guard said North Korea launched three projectiles that could be ballistic missiles shortly after 2200 GMT , all of which fell within minutes.Soon after the missile was fired, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, warned of turning the Pacific into a “firing range”, heightening tensions in the region.
In a statement carried by KCNA, North Korea’s state media, Ms Kim warned against increased presence of US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula. “We are carefully examining the influence it would exert on the security of our state,” she said in the statement. “The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces’ action character.”
The launch comes just two days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea off Japan’s west coast, in what it called a “sudden launching drill”.Pyongyang had threatened an “unprecedentedly persistent, strong” response asMore On This Topic
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