(Last updated at 12:20 a.m. KST with South Korea’s National Security Council statement)

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday night.

The launch comes just two hours after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris took off from Osan Air Base after visiting the inter-Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and condemned Pyongyang’s human rights violations and “brutal dictatorship,” urging North Korea’s “complete” denuclearization.

“The ROK military detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired into the East Sea from North Korea’s Sunchon region in South Phyongan Province from 8:48 p.m. to 8:57