North Korea on Friday fired unidentified short-range projectiles off its east coast, South Korean military said.
The projectiles were fired at 2:59 am (local time) and 3:23 am from the South Hamgyong Province, into the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, as cited by Yonhap news agency.
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The JCS added that it is monitoring the situation in case of additional launches and maintaining a readiness posture.
This is the third such projectile launch by North Korea in just over a week. The first launch was downplayed by US President Donald Trump, who argued that that the country tested a “smaller missile”, which is something that a lot of countries do.
The recent launches have come less than a month after Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a surprise meeting at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom and agreed to resume working-level nuclear negotiations.
(ANI)