North Korea fired several cruise missiles early Saturday morning towards the sea west of the Korean Peninsula, according to the South Korean military.
A number of cruise missiles launched since around 4 a.m. Saturday local time (1900 Friday GMT) were detected, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
It’s Pyongyang’s second missile launch this week since the rare arrival of a U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine to South Korea.
It comes as tensions soar on the Korean Peninsula.
On Wednesday, North Korea fired two ballistic missiles, according to Japanese and South Korean militaries, just after the U.S. submarine docked in Busan….