North Korea launches 2 ballistic missiles toward sea in protest of U.S.-South Korea military drills

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Thursday, its neighbors said, in a resumption of weapons tests to protest just-ended South Korean-U.S. live-fire drills that it viewed as an invasion rehearsal.

The launches are the first by North Korea since it failed to put its first spy satellite into orbit in late May.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were launched from North Korea’s capital region and traveled about 480 miles before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan . It called the launches “a grave provocation” […]

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