North Korea launched two short-range missiles on Saturday, the South Korean armed forces reported, in what is the third such weapons test Pyongyang carried out in March.

The shells, believed to have been short-range missiles, fell into the Sea of ​​Japan (called the East Sea on the Korean peninsula) and were fired from somewhere in the North Korean province of North Pyongan , the Joint Chiefs of Staff reported. (JCS) South Korean without offering further details.

"Our militia is monitoring the situation in case there are additional launches," the JCS said in a statement picked up by the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

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