North Korea has fired a pair of short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, two days after the North resumed testing activities with an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
South Korea detected the two launches from a western coastal town, just north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Monday morning, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It also said South Korea boosted its surveillance posture and maintains a readiness in close coordination with the United States.
The coast guard, quoting Defense Ministry information, said the first missile was believed to have already landed in the water. Kyodo News said it landed outside the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone. "The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the U.S. forces' action character," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media."We are well aware of the movement of U.S. forces' strategic strike means recently getting brisk around the Korean Peninsula."
The B-1B deployment came as response to North Korea's launch of the Hwasong-15 ICBM off its east coast on Saturday in the country's first missile test since Jan. 1.
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