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N.Korea fires multiple missiles; S. Korea, US begin joint drills
North Korea’s leader Kim Jung-Un is sending thousands of his soldiers to fight in Ukraine. (File Photo By Kremlin.ru/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)
By Yonhap, Philippine News Agency
SEOUL – North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Monday as Seoul and Washington launched their annual military drills, South Korean officials said.
It marked the North’s first known ballistic missile test since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch from the inner land of the North’s Hwanghae Province at around 1:50 p.m. but did not provide further details.
The JCS said it has bolstered surveillance and maintained a full readiness posture under close cooperation with the United States.
South Korea and the US launched their annual Freedom Shield exercise on Monday for an 11-day run.
North Korea has long denounced the allies’ joint exercises as a rehearsal for an invasion against it and has a track record of staging weapons tests in response.
The North released back-to-back statements denouncing the latest joint drills, threatening that Seoul and Washington will pay a “horrible” price for their “dangerous provocative act.
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