Time.news – La North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea. After the Japanese government, the South Korean army confirms it, according to the Yonhap news agency. The missile took off from the Yongseong area of the capital Pyongyang and landed in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, Yonhap said, citing the General Staff.
The military tensions on the Korean peninsula they rose sharply in 2022, as the North conducted anti-sanctions weapons tests nearly every month, including the launch of its most advanced ICBM ever. The North fired three short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, the Seoul-based military said, a day after South Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel space launch vehicle.
The North Korean launch followed the incursion of five North Korean drones in Southern airspace earlier in the week. North Korea’s drone raid on Monday was the first such incident in five years and prompted an apology from Seoul’s defense minister after the military failed to shoot down a single drone despite sending jets in a five-hour operation.