North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, hours after an American nuclear-armed submarine made its first South Korean port call in decades
The launch comes less than a week after leader Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the firing of the country's newest intercontinental ballistic missile, the solid-fuel Hwasong-18. [Photo: TRT World]
The first missile reached an altitude of 50 km and covered a range of 550 km, while the second one rose as high as 50 km and flew 600 km, Hamada told reporters on Wednesday.The launch comes less than a week after leader Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the firing of the country's newest intercontinental ballistic missile, the solid-fuel Hwasong-18, a launch Pyongyang said was a warning to the United States and other adversaries.
It also came a day after a US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine visited South Korea for the first time since the 1980s.
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