North Korea Test Fires Two More Missiles After End of US-ROK Joint Exercise

It appears that the North Koreans have yet more features of their new missile systems to test:

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says that North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea Saturday morning from the eastern town of Sondok in South Hamgyong Province.

The JCS said the missiles were fired at 6:45 and 7:02 a.m. and both flew about 380 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 97 kilometers and a top speed of over Mach six-point-five.

The JCS also said it will share information on the latest launches with Japan following Tokyo’s request as the bilateral intelligence-sharing pact of the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA, is still in effect. 

The South Korean military is monitoring the situation in case of additional launches.

According to Japan’s Kyodo news agency, the Tokyo government also announced North Korea appears to have fired a ballistic missile but the projectiles did not reach Japanese waters or its exclusive economic zone.

Saturday’s launch comes eight days after the regime’s last firing on August 16th but it’s the first since a South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise ended this past Tuesday.

KBS World Radio

You can read more at the link, but you have to love the irony of South Korea pushing for a boycott of Japan over a trade dispute while wanting to reopen the Kaesong Industrial Park despite North Korea regularly firing missiles designed to destroy the ROK.