North Korea fires around 10 short
Short-range ballistic missiles are being fired in this file photo from the North Korea's Korean Central Television on July 26, 2023. Yonhap
North Korea fired around 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Thursday, the South Korean military said, a day after sending hundreds of large balloons carrying trash and manure into the South.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the flight vehicles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 6:14 a.m. toward the East Sea. It did not provide further details as an analysis is currently under way.
Though the North has used missile launches as a message to the outside world, it is unusual for it to fire a barrage of some 10 missiles at one time.
The South Korean military condemned the launches, which put the Seoul metropolitan area and key air bases within range, as a "provocative act" that threatens the Korean Peninsula and vowed a stern response to the North's provocations.
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The missile launches came after the North sent hundreds of large balloons carrying trash and fecal matter to the South on Tuesday and Wednesday after warning of a "tit-for-tat action" against anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent by activists in South Korea.
The firings also came after the North failed in an attempt to launch a second military spy satellite Monday as the space rocket carrying the satellite exploded during the first-stage flight shortly after liftoff.
The latest launches mark Pyongyang's first ballistic missile launch since May 17, when it test-fired tactical ballistic missiles equipped with what it called a new "autonomous" navigation system, considered to be short-range ballistic missiles. (Yonhap)
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