North Korea fired off “several missiles” on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, as Pyongyang continues to test weapons amid an ongoing row with Seoul.
Seoul said its military had “detected several missiles launched from North Korea’s Sondok area toward the East Sea,” referring to the body of water more commonly known as the Sea of Japan.
“South Korea and the United States are conducting a detailed analysis of the exact specifications of the detected North Korean missiles,” it said.
It was not immediately clear if the weapons fired were ballistic missiles.
The Defense Ministry in Tokyo did not issue an alert about any North Korean missile launches, as it usually does with those that could pose a threat to Japan. This appeared to suggest the tested weapons could have been artillery, a shorter-range ballistic missile or something different.
North-South tensions have soared in recent weeks over a landmine explosion along the two Koreas’ heavily fortified border.
Pyongyang has ramped up weapons tests in recent months, including one of a “dispersal warhead of a strategic cruise missile” that it announced Tuesday. That announcement came just days after it said it had fired off cluster-bomb warheads for its tactical ballistic missiles.
The North fired off around a dozen short-range ballistic missiles on Oct. 29, as part of a demonstration during leader Kim Jong Un’s visit to an exhibition on drone technology.
