First missile launch by Pyongyang since inauguration of hardline South Korea president
Seoul — North Korea fired three ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea said, in the latest such move by the isolated country racing to advance its weapons programmes on the day it first reported a Covid-19 outbreak.
South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said three short-range ballistic missiles were fired from the Sunan area of the North’s capital, Pyongyang, where an international airport is located and where the North had said it fired its largest intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17, on March 24. The launch, the North’s 16th known weapons test this year, also came hours after it reported its first coronavirus outbreak, declaring “gravest national emergency” and ordering a national lockdown.
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