North Korea fires 'short-range ballistic missiles'
Seoul, Aug 10 (IBNS): In fifth such launch in recent weeks, North Korea has fired two missiles into the sea, media reports said.
North Korea again fired two more projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea's military was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.
The projectiles were fired at 5:32 a.m. and 5:50 a.m. from its eastern coastal city of Hamhung in South Hamgyong Province into the East Sea, and both flew around 400 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 48 km and a top speed of around Mach 6.1, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), reported the news agency.
"We see high chances of additional launches, as North Korea is now carrying out summertime drills and the combined exercise between South Korea and the U.S. is underway," the JCS said in a release.
It was the fifth such launch since July 25.
. The latest launch came just four days after the North fired two projectiles believed to be the newly developed short-range ballistic missiles known as KN-23 into the East Sea, reported Yonhap news agency.
If confirmed, such a test would be a breach of 11 UN security Council resolutions, reported BBC.
The laucnh has been made at a time when the US President Donald Trump claimed he had received a "very beautiful letter" from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
"I think we’ll have another meeting. He really wrote a beautiful, three-page — I mean, right from top to bottom — a really beautiful letter. And maybe I’ll release the results of the letter, but it was a very positive letter," Trump told reporters.
Trump and Kim had met twice in the past.
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