North Korea yesterday fired four short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast, Seoul said, in an apparent response to annual South Korean-US military exercises that began this week, writes Simon Mundy in Seoul.
South Korea’s defence ministry said it had detected the missile launch late yesterday afternoon. It said they appeared to have been deliberately fired into the sea, and had not targeted South Korean or other vessels.
Yonhap, the South Korean state news agency, quoted an unnamed government source as saying that the rockets appeared to be Scud missiles with a range of more than 200km, which would be the first such launch for nearly five years.