SEOUL: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday (Feb 20), Seoul said, Pyongyang's second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a 'firing range'.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday , Seoul said, Pyongyang's second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a"firing range".
North Korea issued a statement soon after saying it had"fired two shots using 600mm multiple rocket launchers", into the East Sea, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile on Saturday, which it said demonstrated North Korea's capacity to carry out a"fatal nuclear counterattack".
"The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces' action character," she said in a statement carried by the official KCNA, which also strongly critiqued outside assessments of the Saturday ICBM launch. "Kim's strong and angry reaction on outside assessment of its ICBM launch show the North really cares about delivering a message that it is capable of hitting the US mainland," he said.
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