28 Jan 2024

North Korea fires cruise missiles off east coast, Seoul reports

4:31 pm on 28 January 2024
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 24, 2024. North Korea fired several cruise missiles towards the Yellow Sea on January 24, Seoul's military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state.

A previous North Korean missile launch seen on TV at a railway station in Seoul on 24 January 2024. Photo: AFP

North Korea has fired several cruise missiles in waters off its east coast, South Korea's military says.

In recent months the nuclear-armed communist state has tested missiles repeatedly, raising regional tension.

Sunday's launch took place near the port of Sinpo. Neither the number nor type of missiles is clear yet.

On Wednesday North Korea test fired a new strategic cruise missile called Pulhwasal-3-31, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says.

Reporting the new launch, which took place at 8am local time (23:00 GMT Saturday), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said "our military has been closely coordinating with the United States to monitor additional signs of North Korea's provocations".

- This story was first published by the BBC

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