North Korea has made its second projectile launch this week, a senior US official tells CNN
The official said US military intelligence tracked a new launch from North Korea on Friday morning local time . According to the initial assessment, the projectile appeared to be similar to the short range ballistic missiles fired earlier this week, the official said, referring to Wednesday's twin launches from North Korea's east coast. A second US official told CNN that the initial assessment was that North Korea launched two short range ballistic missiles.
"Read More"These are short-range missiles, they're very standard," he said.North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea saysNorth Korea's state run Korean Central News Agency described this week's earlier missile launches as being "guided" by the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The agency said then that the launch was a test fire of a"newly-developed large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system.
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