South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea fired four short-range ballistic missiles into the Yellow Sea yesterday, Yonhap news agency reported, citing South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
According to the military, the DPRK launched four short-range ballistic missiles towards the Yellow Sea from Nonim County in the province of Pyongan Buktu. The missiles flew about 130 kilometers with a maximum speed of Mach 5 and a height of 20 kilometers, details are being analyzed by the intelligence services of South Korea and the United States.
North Korea has conducted several missile tests since late September, including the Hwaseong-12 medium-range ballistic missile and the Hwaseong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. On November 2, Pyongyang launched more than 20 missiles in four phases in one day. territorial waters of South Korea, and its course was directed south for the first time since the Korean War.
Also in recent weeks, a number of artillery firings and exercises of the Air Force and tactical nuclear units have taken place.
A Defense Department spokesman in Seoul announced that a US B-1B strategic bomber would take part in an ongoing joint air exercise with South Korea to show strength after North Korea launched missiles.
North Korean missile launches on Wednesday and Thursday included an ICBM and a missile that landed near South Korean territorial waters for the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
The United States and South Korea have warned that the missile launches could be a prelude to North Korea’s nuclear tests, and have responded by extending their largest aerial exercise of its kind until Saturday.
