North Korea says it carried out its second missile test in two days — and this one was hypersonic. It came as U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited the region.
The JCS said the South Korean military has heightened surveillance for additional launches and maintaining a readiness posture to share info with the U.S. and Japan.
The launch event came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul for talks with South Korean allies over the North Korean nuclear threat and other issues.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a North Korean missile test carried out during his visit to Seoul on Monday was a reminder of the need to deepen Washington's cooperation with South Korea and Japan to deter an emboldened Pyongyang.
North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months. Japan's defence ministry said around noon local time (03:00 GMT) that the projectile had already fallen into the sea.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited South Korea amid political turmoil there following the impeachment of President Yoon. Coinciding with Blinken's visit, North Korea has conducted another missile test.
Pyongyang's first test-fire of 2025 came as Blinken, America's top diplomat, met with South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok. Choi assumed the interim role after the South Korean Parliament voted to impeach a second president in two weeks.
North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the Pacific as leader Kim Jong Un vowed to further expand his collection of nucle
North Korea launched its first missile test since Election Day on Monday, a sign that it does not plan to play nice with President-elect Trump.
According to the South Korean military, North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile on January 6, which traveled more than 1,100 kilometers to the east before falling into the sea. A few hours later,
The South Korean military has retracted its initial assessment that North Korea fired an apparent intermediate-range ballistic missile on Monday.