South Korea’s National Security Council meets on North’s projectile

Bloomberg

South Korea convened a National Security Council (NSC) meeting to discuss North Korea’s launch of a short-range projectile, according to the presidential office.
North Korea appears to have fired from its multiple rocket launcher this morning, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said in a text message to reporters. The military has been maintaining defense readiness while closely monitoring related developments, it said.
“The NSC participants will closely analyse the details of the projectile in close cooperation with the US and maintain alert over the recent series of North Korea’s missile launches,” presidential spokeswoman Park Kyung-mi said. “We should also work to prevent a security vacuum during the presidential transition period,” she said.
Concerns have been mounting that North Korea was looking to fire off its first intercontinental ballistic missile in five years after Yonhap News reported this month South Korea and the US have detected signs of an imminent ICBM launch.
North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile from an area near Pyongyang’s international airport.