North Korea fires cruise missiles towards Yellow Sea: South Korean military
Al JazeeraMissile launches come as South Korean and US forces conclude joint military exercises on Korean Peninsula. North Korea has fired several cruise missiles towards the sea off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s military said. Details of the latest missile launches towards the Yellow Sea at approximately 4am local time on Saturday are being analysed by South Korean and United States intelligence authorities, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. N. Korea fires several cruise missiles into Yellow Sea: JCS https://t.co/0XMjGXky85 — Yonhap News Agency September 1, 2023 North Korea said on Thursday that it had fired two short-range ballistic missiles in a simulated “scorched-earth” nuclear attack scenario against military command centres and airfields in South Korea. At least one US long-range B-1B strategic bomber was flown above the Korean Peninsula during the military exercises, which wrapped up on Friday the same day that South Korea announced sanctions on five North Korean individuals and one company in response to Pyongyang’s launch of what it said was a space rocket last month.