North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile towards the sea, said the South Korean military, days after it refused to denounce Russia by not backing a UN resolution over their invasion of Ukraine.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement on Saturday that North Korea had fired an unidentified projectile towards the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula, while the office of Japan's Prime Minister said it was a suspected ballistic missile.
The launch of the missile is just days before the South's presidential election and would be the ninth this year.
