North Korea launches multiple cruise missiles toward west coast: JCS

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North Korea launches multiple cruise missiles toward west coast: JCS

Test comes days after US, ROK and other allies conclude large-scale Ulchi Freedom Shield drills

Shreyas Reddy September 2, 2023

North Korea launches multiple cruise missiles toward west coast: JCS

North Korea launches a cruise missile in Jan. 2022 | Image: KCNA (Jan. 28, 2022)

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. (Last updated at 9:45 a.m. KST on Sept. 2 with additional context on U.S.-ROK drills.)

North Korea launched multiple cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea (West Sea) starting around 4 a.m. KST on Saturday, South Korea’s military has announced.

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Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter.

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