YEMEN Press Agency

North Korea tests missiles on-board railway system

SANAA, Sept. 16 (YPA) – The missiles fired by North Korea on Wednesday were a test of a new “railway-borne missile system, South Korea’s state news agency KCNA said Thursday that the

The missiles were launched 800 kilometers before hitting a target at sea off north Korea’s east coast, the agency said.

On Wednesday, the South Korean military announced that North Korea had fired an unidentified missile toward the Sea of Japan.

“The launch of an unspecified object has been observed from the east coast to the sea,” the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

The Japanese Coast Guard said North Korea might have fired a ballistic missile, Kyodo News reported.

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