North Korea fires two ballistic missiles: JCS
![A trail of what appears to be a North Korean missile launch is seen near South Korea's northwestern border island of Yeonpyeong on Wednesday. [NEWS1]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2024/07/01/16d63a0c-d08a-4094-a25c-095f1459f9c0.jpg)
A trail of what appears to be a North Korean missile launch is seen near South Korea's northwestern border island of Yeonpyeong on Wednesday. [NEWS1]
North Korea launched two ballistic missiles in the early hours of Monday, South Korea’s military announced the same day.
One short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Jangyon area at around 5:05 a.m., and another unidentified ballistic missile was launched at around 5:15 a.m., the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced through a text message sent to reporters.
“While strengthening our monitoring and vigilance against additional launches, our military is maintaining a full-readiness posture while sharing North Korean ballistic missile data with the United States and Japanese authorities,” the JCS said.
Monday’s provocation comes five days after North Korea launched a ballistic missile Wednesday and claimed through its state media that it was a successful test to secure multiple warhead capabilities, contrary to Seoul’s assessment that the test has been a failure.
It also comes after Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry on Sunday blasted South Korea, the United States and Japan for carrying out the Freedom Edge, the first trilateral multi-domain military exercise, the day before.
Pyongyang has recently been scaling up its provocations by launching ballistic missiles and sending waste balloons across the border to South Korea. In response to the distribution of anti-North Korea leaflets by defectors and activists in the South, North Korea sent thousands of waste balloons across the border in a total of seven rounds between May 28 to June 26.
BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]
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