SEOUL — North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast, South Korea’s military said on Monday, as the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un warned of…
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North Korean leader Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, issued a statement and warned against increased presence of U.S. strategic assets on the Korean peninsula. “We are carefully examining the influence it would exert on the security of our state,” she said in the statement. “The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the U.S. forces’ action character.”
The launch comes just two days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea off Japan’s west coast, in what it called a “sudden launching drill.” Monday’s missile launch is the North’s third major weapons test this year after Pyongyang threatened an “unprecedentedly persistent, strong” response as South Korea and the United States geared up for their annual military exercises as part of efforts to fend off the growing nuclear and missile threat that the North poses.
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