North Korea fires ‘unidentified’ ballistic missiles towards East Sea: Seoul

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Experts warned N Korea could motorboat provocative rocket tests earlier oregon during the upcoming APEC acme successful South Korea.

Published On 22 Oct 2025

North Korea has fired multiple, short-range ballistic missiles towards waters disconnected its eastbound coast, South Korea’s subject said, marking its archetypal rocket motorboat successful months.

The motorboat of missiles connected Wednesday greeting comes a week earlier South Korea hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which volition spot Chinese President Xi Jinping, United States President Donald Trump, and different satellite leaders stitchery successful the South Korean metropolis of Gyeongju for talks.

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South Korea’s subject said that it “detected respective projectiles, believed to beryllium short-range ballistic missiles” fired towards the East Sea, which is besides known arsenic the Sea of Japan, the authoritative South Korean Yonhap quality bureau reports.

“Our subject has stepped up monitoring successful mentation for (the anticipation of) further launches and is maintaining a steadfast readiness posture portion sharing applicable accusation with the US and Japan,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, according to Yonhap.

North Korea past fired short-range ballistic and cruise missiles towards the East Sea connected May 8 and May 22 , meaning the latest motorboat is the archetypal nether South Korea’s caller president, Lee Jae Myung, who took bureau successful June, Yonhap said.

Experts had warned that North Korea could motorboat provocative rocket tests earlier oregon during the APEC acme to underscore its committedness to being recognised arsenic a nuclear-armed state, the Associated Press quality bureau reports.

North Korean person Kim Jong Un earlier this period displayed a caller long-range Hwasong-20 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), described arsenic the country’s “most powerful”, during a huge subject parade successful Pyongyang, with apical Chinese, Russian and different leaders successful attendance.

The parade, which marked the 80th day of the founding of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, highlighted Kim’s strengthening diplomatic beingness connected a determination and planetary level and his accordant thrust to physique blase weapons susceptible of delivering atomic payloads.

Pyongyang has agelong rejected planetary bans connected its weapons development, which it says is indispensable to support North Korea from imaginable onslaught by its enemies, the US and South Korea.

Trump met the North Korean person during his archetypal word successful office, and said precocious that helium hopes to conscionable Kim again, perchance this year.

Pyongyang has said that Kim is unfastened to aboriginal talks with Trump, but with the caveat that North Korea volition ne'er hold to relinquish its atomic arsenal.