North Korea has fired a pair of ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its first weapons test in a month. It came two days after it claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the US mainland.
South Korea’s military detected the launch of two North Korean ballistic missiles from its north-west Tongchangri area. The missiles flew across the country toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
It said the missiles were fired about 50 minutes apart but gave no further details, like precisely what type of weapons North Korea fired and how far they flew.
