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Seoul, Mar 27 (EFE).- North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Monday in a new response to the military drills Seoul and Washington are carrying out in the south of the Korean Peninsula. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the launches from Chunghwa county area …
South Korea’s military “strongly condemned” the launches as a grave provocation violating United Nations Security Council resolutions, and called for an immediate halt.
North Korea early on Monday fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward waters off its eastern coast. The launches, North’s seventh missile event this month, underscore heightening military tensions in the region as the pace of both North Korean weapons tests and the US-South Korea joint military exercises has accelerated.
The missiles were fired from North Hwanghae province at 7:47 a.m. (2247 GMT on Sunday) and flew about 370 kilometres (230 miles), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Monday, South Korea's military said, the latest in its flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks.