SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, the latest launch from Pyongyang following a record-breaking testing blitz earlier this month.
“North Korea fires an unspecified ballistic missile towards East Sea,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.
The military did not give any further details.
Japan also confirmed the launch, with the government tweeting that Pyongyang “has launched a suspected ballistic missile”.
Meanwhile, South Korea’s military said Wednesday it had retrieved and analyzed debris from a missile the North fired across the two countries’ de facto maritime border during a recent blitz of launches.
North Korea fired more than 20 missiles on 2 November, including one short-range ballistic missile that crossed the Northern Limit Line, prompting a rare warning for residents of South Korea’s Ulleungdo island to seek shelter in bunkers.
Seoul’s military said at the time it was the “first time since the peninsula was divided” at the 1953 end of Korean War hostilities that a North Korean missile had landed so near the South’s territorial waters.