Al-Madina News says: According to the South Korean news source “Yonhap,” the US and South Korea both fired four missiles into the Sea of Japan.
According to the South Korean Armed Forces General Staff, the US and South Korean troops fired four ATACMS missiles to demonstrate “the joint forces’ capability to correctly attack hypothetical targets and respond to additional provocations.”
“The South Korean staff claimed that the missile launch was made in retaliation for Tuesday morning’s ballistic missile test by North Korea.
Additionally, in a phone conversation with his South Korean colleague Lee Jong Sob, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed Pyongyang’s missile launch. The two ministers characterised North Korea’s action as a provocative one “a risky escalation
A ballistic missile from North Korea, thought to be a “Hwasong-12,” was launched and made landfall in Japan’s exclusive economic zone in the Pacific Ocean above Japanese territory.
Since the beginning of the year, North Korea has tested 23 missiles, including this one. Since September 2017, this was the first missile to pass over Japan.
Yonhap, the source.
Yonhap: Missiles were fired into the Sea of Japan by the US and South Korea.
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