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North Korea fired a suspected short-range ballistic missile after the influential sister of the state’s leader threatened the US with severe consequences if it goes ahead with joint military drills with South Korea.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters the missile was fired at around 6:20 pm on Thursday from the western port city of Nampho towards the Yellow Sea. The launch adds to a barrage of rockets Pyongyang has shot off in recent weeks, including an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to deliver a nuclear warhead to the US mainland.
The missile went on a rare path towards waters between the Korean Peninsula and China. Almost all of North Korea’s missiles are fired towards waters off its east coast.
Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of leader Kim Jong Un said North Korea is monitoring the “restless military moves by the US forces†and its South Korean “puppet military,†adding that Pyongyang is “on standby to take appropriate, quick and overwhelming action at any time according to our judgment,†the official Korean Central News Agency said.