Television broadcast of North Korean missile launch news in Seoul. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 1North Korea fired two missiles at dawn on Saturday for the third time this week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South Korean military. «North Korea fired two ballistic short-range missiles near the city of Sunan near Pyongyang,» the agency cites data from the South Korean Chiefs of Staff. The South Korean military is trying to establish the range, altitude and flight speed of new missiles. The current launch of North Korean missiles fell on Armed Forces Day celebrated on October 1 in South Korea. On September 28 and 29, North Korea also launched short-range ballistic missiles at a maximum altitude of 30-50 kilometers with a range of 300-350 kilometers. On Sunday, September 25, North Korea also launched a ballistic missile for the first time since June 5 this year. The National Security Council of South Korea held an extraordinary meeting in connection with the DPRK's missile launches, expressing its readiness for new challenges from Pyongyang. The current North Korean missile launches are carried out on the background of the planned anti-submarine exercises of South Korea, the United States and Japan with the participation of the nuclear aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. The United States and the DPRK are formally at war, since the conflict in Korea of 1950-1953 ended with the signing of only a truce between the DPRK on the one hand and the United States, who fought under the UN flag, on the other.
