North Korea launches missile toward sea after U.S.-South Korea drills

A person walks previous a tv report exhibiting a information broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile check, at a railway station in Seoul on October 6, 2022. –

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South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile towards its japanese waters, the most recent in a barrage of weapons assessments in latest days.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Workers says the launch was made early Sunday however gave no additional particulars like how far the weapon flew.

The Japanese authorities additionally says North Korea has fired a doable ballistic missile.

The launch, the North’s sixth spherical of weapons assessments in two weeks, got here hours after the US and South Korea wrapped a brand new spherical of naval drills off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast. The drills concerned a U.S. plane service.

North Korea’s navy warned Saturday that the U.S. redeployment of the plane service close to the Korean Peninsula is inflicting a “significantly big damaging splash” in regional safety.

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Originally published at Gold Coast News HQ