North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Tuesday, according to the South Korean military, in a tit-for-tat for ongoing U.S.-South Korea military drills on the Korean Peninsula.
The launches occurred within minutes of each other. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected North Korea firing a missile from the Jangyon area in South Hwanghae province at around 7.41 a.m. (local time) and another one at 7.51 a.m. (local time).
South Korea did not specify how far the missiles traveled.
The JCS said it would maintain “a full readiness posture” with the United States against the possibility of additional launches from North Korea, Yonhap News Agency (YNA) reported….