North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile Thursday toward its eastern waters, South Korea\u2019s military said, hours after the North threatened to launch \u201cfiercer\u201d military responses to the US bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan.
\nAccording to international media, South Korea\u2019s military detected the launch from the North\u2019s eastern coastal Wonsan area at 10:48am local time, the South\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It said South Korea has boosted its surveillance of North Korea while maintaining a military readiness and a close coordination with the United States.
\nIt was North Korea\u2019s first ballistic missile firing in eight days and the latest in its barrage of tests in recent months.
\nNorth Korea previously said some of the tests were simulations of nuclear attacks on South Korean and US targets. Many experts say North Korea would eventually want to enhance its nuclear capability to wrest bigger concessions from its rivals.
\nEarlier on Thursday, North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hue warned that a recent US-South Korea-Japan accord would leave tensions on the Korean Peninsula \u201cmore unpredictable.\u201d
\nChoe\u2019s statement was North Korea\u2019s first official response to president Joe Biden\u2019s trilateral summit with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Cambodia on Sunday. In their joint statement, the three leaders strongly condemned North Korea\u2019s recent missile tests and agreed to work together to strengthen deterrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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