Seoul: North Korea launches ballistic missile towards sea

South Korea says North Korea has test-launched a ballistic missile towards its jap waters

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile towards its jap waters Tuesday, the South Korean army mentioned, within the nation’s second weapons launch this week.

The launch got here a day after the U.S. and South Korean militaries started their largest joint subject workouts in years on Monday.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Workers mentioned the newest launch was made within the morning however didn’t supply additional particulars, similar to how far the missile flew.

A day earlier North Korea mentioned it had test-fired two cruise missiles from a submarine, the primary time the nation is understood to have performed a launch of that sort. Its earlier underwater launches all concerned ballistic missiles.

It was additionally the primary time North Korea fired a number of missiles from a submarine on a single launch occasion, observers say.

Pyongyang had vowed a powerful response to the U.S.-South Korean drills as a result of it views such army workouts by its rivals as a rehearsal for invasion.