North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, Seoul's military said Wednesday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace. | ManilaBulletin READ:
"North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile towards the East Sea," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.
On Monday, North Korea accused a US spy aircraft of violating its airspace and condemned Washington's plans to deploy a nuclear missile submarine near the Korean peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister Kim Yo Jong said that a US spy aircraft had violated the country's eastern airspace twice on Monday morning, according to a separate statement.
North Korea has conducted multiple sanctions-defying launches this year, including test-firing its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, and attempting to put a military spy satellite into orbit in May.
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