North Korea Fires More Ballistic Missiles as It Warns US
- Leader’s sister cautions US over joint drills with allies
- Kim Jong Un’s regime test-fired an ICBM over the weekend
A woman walks past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Feb. 18.
Photographer: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty ImagesNorth Korea fired a barrage of suspected ballistic missiles and issued a warning to the US over joint military exercises, less than two days after Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket designed to hit the American mainland.
South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff said North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles between 7 and 7:11 a.m. on Monday from an area in the southwest part of the country. One missile flew about 400 kilometers (249 miles) and reached an altitude of about 100 km, while the other flew about 350 km and reached an altitude of 50 km, Japan’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement.