North Korea launches a ballistic missile toward sea, after end of new US-South Korea-Japan drill

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched at least one short-range ballistic missile off its east coast a day after the North vowed to take “offensive and overwhelming countermeasures” in response to a new U.S. military drill with South Korea and Japan. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the missile was launched from southeastern North Korea at 5:05 a.m. Monday. It says an additional, unidentified ballistic missile launch trajectory was detected 10 minutes later, a suggestion there might have been two missile launches. The launch came two days after South Korea, the U.S. and Japan ended their joint “Freedom Edge” drill that included a U.S. aircraft carrier as well as destroyers, fighter jets and helicopters from the three countries.