They flew some 360km, reaching an altitude of 30km and a top speed of Mach 6, they said.
A day later, North Korea carried out a new launch of two ballistic missiles off its eastern coast, according to the South Korean military.
“The South Korean military detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sunchon, South Pyongan province, towards the east coast between 8:48 p.m. and 8:57 p.m.,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
“Amid heightened surveillance, our military remains fully prepared and working closely with the United States,” he added.
The launch came as US Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting South Korea to back the US ally.
On Oct. 4, North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile in an easterly direction, prompting a rare warning from the Japanese government urging residents to take shelter “inside buildings or underground.” According to NHK television, the alarm concerned two northern regions.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s office tweeted that “a projectile that appears to be a North Korean ballistic missile has probably flown over Japan.”
On Thursday, October 6, Pyongyang fired “an unspecified ballistic missile into the East Sea,” also known as the Sea of Japan. The next day, North Korea fired two ballistic missiles on Thursday and said its recent weapons tests are “retaliatory measures” against military exercises by the United States and South Korea.
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea early Sunday, the South Korean military said.
With information from AFP