The South Korean and Japanese militaries said earlier that North Korea’s two short-range ballistic missiles landed inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone but outside its territorial waters. The last time a North Korean missile landed inside that zone was in October 2019. Hours after the latest North Korean launches, South Korea reported its first test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. Moon, while observing Wednesday’s tests, said the South’s growing conventional missile capacities will serve as a “sure deterrence” against North Korean provocation. Kim Dong-yub, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the North Korean photos indicated the rail-fired missiles were a solid-fuel, short-range weapon the North first tested from truck launchers in 2019.

Source: thestar September 15, 2021 23:48 UTC