US EditionSouth Korea says North Korea has launched ballistic missiles toward the North’s eastern waters
The launch was North Korea’s seventh ballistic missile test this year and its fourth in April, South Korean officials said.
- On Sunday, North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the East Sea from the Sinpo area at around 6:10 a.m., detected by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff and Japan.
- This incident marks the North's seventh ballistic missile test this year and fourth in April, violating United Nations Security Council resolutions that ban the country's missile program.
- South Korea's presidential office convened an emergency security meeting, while Japan and the United States coordinated closely with Seoul to bolster surveillance and intelligence sharing.
- Kyungnam University professor Lim Eul-chul noted Pyongyang perceives the current U.S. focus on Iran as a "golden time" to upgrade its nuclear power and missile capability.
- Earlier this month, Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry declared South Korea its "most hostile enemy state," deriding Seoul as "world-startling fools" and signaling rejection of diplomatic engagement.
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North Korea launches ballistic missile as UN warns of nuclear advances
North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea on Sunday, its neighbours said, days after the UN’s nuclear watchdog warned that North Korea was making “very serious” advances in efforts to build nuclear weapons. The missiles fired from the North’s Sinpo area flew about 140 kilometres (87 miles) each towards the country’s eastern waters, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. It said South Korea maintains a readin…
North Korea again provokes by firing military missiles. Despite the United Nations ban, short-range missiles are being tested. South Korea and the US are now investigating the incident.
North Korea fires ballistic missiles again, flexing muscle amid US-Iran war
North Korea fired ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, accelerating its missile launches amid United States-Iran war tensions and talk of possible meetings with the US and South Korea. Pyongyang's intense missile activity - this was the fourth such launch this month and the seventh of the year - is meant to display its self-defence capabilities while gaining international leverage, some experts said. "The missile launches may be a way o…
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