North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast on Monday into the Sea Of Japan, South Korean and Japanese officials say, its ninth
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast on Monday into the Sea Of Japan, South Korean and Japanese officials say, its ninth launch this year.
The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff described it as a Scud-type missile which flew for some 280 miles, NPR’s Jihye Lee tells our Newscast unit, from Seoul.
« The military is saying that the launch took place from Wonsan, home to a test site of intermediate-range missiles, » Lee reports.
The Associated Press adds:
» [The missile] landed in Japan’s exclusive maritime economic zone, which is set about 200 nautical miles off the Japanese coast, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said.
