North Korea on Monday fired three unidentified projectiles, South Korea's military said, a week after launching two short-range missiles, raising the security threat as South Korea struggles to contain a coronavirus outbreak.
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectiles were fired from a town in North Korea's South Hamgyong province into the Sea of Japan. It said South Korea was maintaining a readiness posture for potential additional launches.
Pyongyang last week fired two short-range missiles off the country’s east coast into the Sea of Japan. In recent days, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised live-fire artillery drills in the country's first weapons test since late November.