N. Korea fires short-range missile
Defense
09:39 May 04, 2019
SEOUL, May 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired an unidentified short-range missile in the direction of the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
The North "fired a missile from its east coast town of Wonsan in the eastern direction at 9:06 a.m. today," the JCS said in a release.
South Korean and U.S. authorities "are analyzing details of the missile," it added.
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