Live footage of a North Korean ballistic missile launch in Seoul. File photoSEUL, Oct 28North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Friday, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. from Tongcheon district in Gangwon province between 11.59 and 12.18 (05.59 and 06.18 Moscow time), no other details are given. the annual Hoguk army exercises, which took place from October 18 to 28. Since September 25, Pyongyang has already conducted nine missile tests, including a medium-range ballistic missile of the Hwaseong-12 type, which flew over Japan, breaking the record for the DPRK 4.5 thousand kilometers, the flight altitude was 1 thousand kilometers. Also, over the past two weeks, a number of artillery firings, exercises of the Air Force and tactical nuclear units have been held. In total, since the beginning of the year, the DPRK has conducted 28 missile launches, three of them were tests of cruise missiles. The DPRK claims that all military activity is a response to «provocations» from South Korea, which has recently been conducting active military exercises — both independently and and jointly with the United States and Japan.
The IAEA hopes that there will be no nuclear test in the DPRK, Grossi said
