The escalation continues.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan on Thursday as the UN Security Council convened urgently in New York to discuss the launch of a ballistic missile that flew overhead. Japan on Tuesday.
The first missile traveled 350 kilometers at a maximum altitude of around 80 kilometers, according to the South Korean military's analysis.
The second flew a distance of 800 kilometers at an altitude of 60 kilometers.
The sixth missile launch in less than two weeks is "absolutely unacceptable", reacted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
On the same day, twelve North Korean fighter jets - eight fighters and four bombers - "conducted a formation flight north of the inter-Korean air border (and) are estimated to have conducted air-to-ground gunnery drills", Seoul Joint Chiefs of Staff announced.
The firings are "the Korean People's Army's just retaliation against the joint military maneuvers between South Korea and the United States that are causing an escalation of military tensions on the Korean Peninsula", the North Korean ministry said Thursday. Korean in a statement.
The allies conducted a joint 'missile defense' exercise in waters off the peninsula on Thursday, which included a US Navy destroyer from the
USS Ronald Reagan
aircraft carrier strike group , the military said. South Korean.
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