North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, the South‘s military said, the latest in a blitz of launches amid tensions over US-led military exercises in the region, Yonhap reported.
The South Korean military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that the launches — the seventh and eighth in two weeks — came from the southeast of the country, without giving further details.
“While strengthening our monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, according to Yonhap.
North Korea on Saturday had defended its recent flurry of missile tests as a legitimate counter to US military threats, following days of joint military exercises between the South, Japan and the United States.