Seoul: North Korea fires several projectiles to sea | Inquirer News

Seoul: North Korea fires several projectiles to sea

/ 07:17 AM August 26, 2017

In this July 29, 2017, file photo, people watch a TV news program showing an image of North Korea’s latest test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. When North Korea makes a threat, the government in Seoul vents its anger while South Korean citizens mostly shrug off what can seem like a daily barrage of hostility. Trump has introduced a new wrinkle to this familiar pattern. His recent Pyongyang-style threat to unleash “fire and fury” on the North has been met with silence from the top levels of government in Seoul – and worry, sometimes anger, from the country’s citizens. The signs read “North Korea launched in the same way as last July 4.” (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

SEOUL — South Korea says North Korea has fired several unidentified projectiles to the sea in what appears to be the latest weapons tests for the country that has been rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons and missile program.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday that that the projectiles were fired from an area from the North’s eastern coast and flew about 250 kilometers (155 miles).

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The JCS says the South Korea and U.S. militaries were analyzing the launch.

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The launch comes weeks after North Korea created a tense standoff with the United States by threatening to lob some of its missiles toward Guam.

North Korea also successfully flight-tested a pair of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July that analysts say could reach deep into the U.S. mainland when perfected

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