North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern sea on Wednesday.
fired a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern sea on Wednesday, extending a recent barrage of weapons demonstrations including what it described as simulated attacks on South Korean and U.S. targets last week. Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile was launched from the western town of Sukchon, north of the capital, Pyongyang, and flew across the country toward waters off the North's eastern coast.
Recent North Korean missile tests are pictured in photos taken at undisclosed locations and released on November 7, 2022, by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency .South Korea's Foreign Ministry said its nuclear envoy, Kim Gunn, held separate telephone calls with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts to discuss trilateral cooperation to counter North Korea's increasing weapons tests and growing nuclear threat.
Wednesday's launch came after North Korea fired dozens of missiles last week in an angry reaction to a massive combined aerial military exercise by the U.S. and South Korea that the North described as an invasion rehearsal.Earlier Wednesday, South Korea's military said the recovered debris of one of the North Korean missiles that flew southward last week was determined to be a Soviet-era anti-aircraft weapon that dates back to the 1960s.
A photo provided by South Korean Defense Ministry on November 9, 2022, shows the debris of a missile retrieved from South Korea's East Sea, which the ministry identified as a Soviet-made SA-5 surface-to-air missile launched by North Korea on November 2, 2022.
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