South Korea’s military said on Thursday that it would maintain “a full readiness posture” with the United States after detecting North Korea’s launch of a short-range ballistic missile into waters off its western coast.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the missile was launched from North Korea’s western port city of Nampo at around 6.20 p.m. (local time), but it did not specify how far the missile traveled.
“While strengthening its monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States,” the JCS was quoted as saying by Yonhap News Agency….