North Korea fires 7 surface-to-air missiles into the East Sea
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired seven surface-to-air missiles into the sea off its east coast on March 12.
Yonhap news agency and YTN television channel quoted a spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of Defense as saying that the missile launch was carried out by Pyongyang within the framework of a drill supervised by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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| Nuclear missiles are paraded during a ceremony in Pyongyang. (Source:AP) |
The missiles were fired from Sondok town in South Hamkyung province in eastern North Korea at around 6-7 p.m. local time (around 8-9 p.m. Vietnam time).
The move comes as the US and South Korea are conducting two annual exercises in parallel, called Key Resolve and Foal Eagle.
The Key Resolve exercise ended on the morning of March 13 while the Foal Eagle exercise will last until April 24.
Pyongyang has issued a statement strongly protesting the joint US-South Korea military exercises, accusing them of being "an invasion rehearsal."
On March 2, North Korea fired two short-range missiles believed to be Scud ballistic missiles into the East Sea, while warning of a "merciless" response to the joint US-South Korea military exercises./.
According to VNA
