North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles into East Sea: JCS

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North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles into East Sea: JCS

Missile launches mark the DPRK’s fourth testing event in the past week

Ethan Jewell | Jeongmin Kim October 1, 2022

North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles into East Sea: JCS

A North Korean missile test in Sept. 2019 | Image: KCNA

(Last updated at 3:33 p.m. with Yoon’s speech for Armed Forces Day)

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Saturday morning, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

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Ethan Jewell is a Seoul-based correspondent for NK News focused on sanctions, trade and maritime issues. He previously worked as an investigations and intelligence specialist for Pinkerton Comprehensive Risk Management and as a research intern for the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies.

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Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.

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