South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says it is on high alert and, together with US intelligence authorities, is analyzing details of the missiles.
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, March 22, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of tests of its weapons as its rivals, South Korea and the United States, conducted joint military exercises.
“We will successfully wrap up our Freedom Shield exercise as planned under firm combined defense posture,” the military said in a statement.Separately on Wednesday, the USS Makin, an amphibious assault ship, docked in South Korea for the allies’ first large-scale amphibious landing exercise in five years, the US military said.
Wednesday’s North Korean missile launches come just three days after North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast. South Korea and the United States deny that, saying instead, they have to prepare to defend against North Korean aggression.news agency said Wednesday’s launches could have involved the North’s strategic cruise missiles. “Strategic” is typically used to describe weapons that have a nuclear capability.
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