North Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles into East Sea: JCS

Citizens watch a news report on North Korea's firing around 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea at Seoul Station in central Seoul on Thursday morning. [NEWS1]

 
North Korea fired a number of short-ranged ballistic missiles (SRBM) into the East Sea on Thursday morning, a day after flying hundreds of feces-filled balloons across the border to South Korea.
 
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced Thursday that the SRBM launches were fired from Pyongyang’s Sunan area at around 6:14 a.m. the same day. The missiles flew about 350 kilometers (217 miles) before landing in the East Sea.
 

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Although North Korea has continued to engage in ballistic missile provocation under the pretext of test launches, it is unusual that a launch involving such a large number of missiles took place.
 
“We strongly condemn North Korea’s missile launch as an act of provocation that seriously threatens the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula,” the JCS said. “Our military has strengthened monitoring and vigilance against additional launches, while closely sharing information related to North Korean ballistic missiles with the U.S. and Japanese authorities.”
 

BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]