The South Korean military announced Saturday new launches of four North Korean short-range missiles over the Yellow Sea between China and Korea, the latest in a series of frequent ballistic launches begun this week.
The projectiles traveled a distance of 130 kilometers with an apogee located about 20 kilometers high, according to initial analysis released by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
The missiles departed from Tongrim county, in North Pyongyan province, between 11.32 (05.32 in Spain) and 11.59 (05.59 in Spain), according to the military statement reported by the official South Korean news agency Yonhap.
These new launches join the six missiles launched on Thursday, including at least one intercontinental missile, a day after the launches of at least 25 other missiles into the Sea of Japan, of which one flew over the maritime demarcation line between the two Koreas for the first time since the war.
The launches come amid the first large-scale air exercise in nearly five years between the United States and South Korea, which has mobilized some 240 aircraft, in a drill harshly criticized by North Korean authorities as a show of force and a security threat.
