South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Saturday morning that its northern neighbour fired a ballistic missile from the port city of Wonsan on the eastern shore of the Korean Peninsula and that it flew more than 700 kilometres (435 miles).
Seoul’s presidential national security office convened an emergency meeting to assess the situation after the launch, the president’s office said in a statement.
The South Korean military raised an alert for further launches and said it would share intelligence with the US and Japan.
Japan issued an emergency alert on Saturday, saying: “North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile.”
