The projectiles, launched from a site near the northeastern city of Hamhung, flew about 125 miles before landing in waters off North Korea’s east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
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The North is angered by annual ongoing joint U.S.-South Korea military drills.
And it seems North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-Un has taken part of that mantra to heart, as shown in these undated pictures released by the Korean Central News Agency. It fired two missiles into the sea on March 14, followed by two ballistic missiles Friday, Yonhap reported.
The North conducted its fourth nuclear test on January 6 and a month later launched what it said was a space rocket.
The UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to its military activity.
North Korea’s continued efforts to test long range ballistic missiles, in the process, defying the orders of major world powers including United States and NATO allies as well as communist Russian Federation is definitely pushing the envelope to a global nuclear war.
North Korea has responded by dropping its own leaflets over the border, attacking South Korean President Park Geun-Hye.
Meanwhile, Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Tuesday that Japan plans to deploy ground-based missile interceptors at the Defense Ministry compound in Tokyo at all times amid North Korea’s repeated launches of ballistic missiles despite global condemnation.
Military authorities here speculate that they either came from new 300-mm multiple rocket launchers or were a new improved version of the KN-02 missile.
The South Korean government says the activists have a right to carry out leaflet launches, although it has, in the past, used police to block such exercises during moments of heightened inter-Korean tension.
The new resolution states that a 2015 SLBM missile ejection test violated earlier United Nations resolutions aimed at curbing both nuclear and missile programs sponsored by the Pyongyang regime.
North Korea launched two medium-range Rodong missiles this month, one of which landed on the Sea of Japan while the other disappeared from the radar.
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Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said it was on high alert following the DPRK’s latest series of missile launches and urged Pyongyang to exercise restraint.
