Inter-Korean relations are at a low point not seen in decades, fuelled by the North's weapons tests and war talk.
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, the South said, in what was Kim Jong Un's latest show of force in the neighborhood.A Newsweek map, based on geographic data released by Japan, shows the approximated launch trajectory toward the east of the Korean Peninsula.South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff detected several short-range ballistic missiles launched from neighboring capital Pyongyang at 3:01 p.m. local time.
Tokyo said it reached an altitude of about 30 miles and travelled 155 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan, outside of Japan's exclusive economic waters.Minoru Kihara, the Japanese defense minister, ordered the collection and analysis of missile data to be shared with the U.S. and South Korea, the ministry's statement said.Since December, the three allies have jointly monitored North Korean launch events with a new real-time data-sharing mechanism.
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