Kim Jong Un Fires Missiles As US Submarine Arrives In South Korea

A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on May 31, 2023. North Korea launched its purported spy satellite on May 31, the South's military said, prompting confusion in Seoul as the city briefly issued an evacuation warning in error. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Kim Jong Un on Wednesday launched two ballistic missiles just hours after a U.S. ballistic missile submarine arrived in a South Korean port for the first time in four decades.

U.S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield reads a joint nation statement on North Korea after a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on February 20, 2023, in New York City. The UN Security Council held a meeting after the launch of two ballistic missiles into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula early Monday by North Korea and a warning from Kim Yo-jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, of the firing of more missiles if the U.S. and South Korea do not halt military drills.  (MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES)