"The ballistic missiles flight went from 500 km to 600 km, which is a distance far enough to strike all of South Korea including Busan," the South's military said in a statement. In addition to the decision to base a THAAD system in South Korea, the United States recently angered North Korea by blacklisting its leader Kim Jong Un for human rights abuses. North Korea has test-fired a series of ballistic missiles in recent months, in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions, including intermediate-range missiles in June and a submarine-launched missile this month. Busan is a South Korean port city in the south. North Korea conducted its fourth test of a nuclear device in January, and activity at its nuclear test site has increased recently, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan citing government officials, as well as a report by Washington-based North Korea monitoring project 38 North.

Source: Thanhnien News July 19, 2016 00:22 UTC