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1 of 2 | North Korea launched respective short-range ballistic missiles successful nan East Sea connected Monday, South Korea's subject said, nan latest successful a bid of weapons tests that person kept tensions precocious connected nan Korean Peninsula. File Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI
SEOUL, April 22 (UPI) -- North Korea launched aggregate ballistic missiles into nan East Sea connected Monday, South Korea's subject said, days aft it tested a "super-large warhead" for cruise missiles.
Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected respective short-range ballistic missiles launched from nan Pyongyang area conscionable aft 3 p.m. The missiles traveled astir 186 miles earlier splashing down successful nan oversea betwixt Korea and Japan, nan JCS said successful a matter connection to reporters.
"Our subject instantly detected, tracked and monitored nan North Korean rocket launches and intimately shared related accusation pinch nan U.S. and Japan," nan JCS said. "Detailed specifications are being comprehensively analyzed."
The motorboat was nan latest successful a slew of weapons tests and heated rhetoric from Pyongyang that has kept tensions astatine their highest successful years connected nan Korean Peninsula.
North Korea said it test-fired a "super-large warhead" for a strategical cruise rocket and a caller anti-aircraft rocket connected Friday. Earlier this month, Pyongyang launched an intermediate-range solid-fuel ballistic rocket pinch a new hypersonic warhead.
Monday's motorboat came arsenic South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Kim Myung-soo met pinch nan caput of U.S. Space Command, Gen. Stephen Whiting. The friends discussed North Korea's evolving threats successful abstraction and its increasing subject ties pinch Moscow, according to a property merchandise from nan JCS.
North Korea is wide believed to beryllium sending arms and munitions to Russia successful speech for precocious abstraction exertion and help evading U.N. sanctions.
Earlier Monday, South Korea's subject said that nan North appeared to beryllium preparing to motorboat a spy satellite.
"North Korea's preparations for nan motorboat of further subject reconnaissance satellites person been observed, but location are nary imminent signs of a launch," JCS spokesperson Col. Lee Sung-jun said during a regular property briefing. "It's difficult to foretell nan timing, but we're keeping a adjacent oculus connected specified activities."
North Korea successfully placed its first subject spy outer into orbit successful November and has vowed to motorboat respective much this year.
