FILE - People watch a television screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 25, 2022. A major United Nations meeting on the landmark nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is starting Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, after a long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as Russia’s war in Ukraine has reanimated fears of nuclear confrontation and cranked up the urgency of trying reinforce the 50-year-old treaty. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/
North Korea fired an unspecified ballistic missile toward the east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, marking Pyongyang’s fourth launch in a week as it ratchets up tension in the Korean peninsula, AJMEDIA reports citing Reuters.
The launch comes after the U.S. and South Korea held the Ulchi Freedom Shield, the biggest joint military drill in about five years, and after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Korea this week.
